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- 341: Marijuana
- ... lowered it's popularity as a medicine as did the introduction of a variety of new and better medicines like aspirin, morpheine (habit forming), chloral, barbituates tranquilizers, and when it got on the list of drugs thought by the world community to require legal restrictions. Our first President, George Washington, grew cannabis on his plantation. The cannabis he grew was more fibrous and is better known as hemp. Hemp was used ... listed as a useful medicine from the year 1870 to 1941. A Pharmacopeia is "a book of directions and requirements for the preparations of medicines, generally published by an authority; a collection or stock of drugs." This tells us the U.S. Pharmacopeia was an authority on the use of drugs for medical purposes, and said that the use of marijuana for said purposes was helpful. The U.S. Pharmacopeia last listed cannabis ("the dried flower tops of the pistillate plants of cannabis sativa") in ...
- 342: Marijuana
- ... use of marijuana, but the outcome has been unsuccessful. Even though Marijuana has possible side effects, it has been very helpful in the medical field with treating ill and sickly patients. Many new and better drugs are needed in today's society to help treat and cure diseases and Marijuana is one of those drugs. Legalizing Marijuana would help treat sick patients and could possibly become a wonder drug used by many doctors. Marijuana, other wise known as cannibis extract, has been used as medicine on sick patients since the ... around 2727 B.C. Marijuana has thousands of uses in medicine, particularly to treat symptoms of cancer, glaucoma, AIDS, multiple sclerosis, and epilepsy. It is known that Marijuana is one of the safest therapeutically active drugs in the world and that no one has ever died or overdosed from the drug. Marijuana can reduce nausea, vomiting, and help with loss of appetite in cancer and AIDS patients. With glaucoma patients, ...
- 343: Tim Leary
- ... religious institutions of the country. Also at Harvard Tim met Aldus Huxley and Allen Ginsburg where they started turning on notable intellectuals such as William Burroughs, Thelonious Monk and Jack Kerouac. Huxley suggested that the drugs should only be used by artists and the elite. Tim believed psychedelics should be shared with everyone and thought that the non-elite would benefit most from its use. Barron went back to Berkeley and ... Albert Hoffman in the 1940's. When Tim took LSD he said it "was something different. It was the most shattering experience of my life." Many of the other professors became uneasy with Tim administering drugs to students. So McClelland called a staff meeting early in1962. It turned into a scalding indictment of Tim's work and they insisted that the drugs be given back to the University’s control and that there be more supervision of his research. More controversy erupted when the Narcotics Bureau got involved and Tim learned that the CIA was aware ...
- 344: Aids
- ... and more highly trained professionals then Africa. The lower quality of medical treatment in Africa has contributed to some of the spread of AIDS in the past.(The AIDS Reader,1991) Unfortunately the cost of drugs to slow down the disease can cost $10,000-$20,000 per year per person. (The AIDS Reader,1991) This keeps most infected HIV patients from getting the needed drugs because they can’t afford them.. This amount of money would cover the annual health care for 200 people in Zimbabwe.(The AIDS Reader,1991) A family in Sub-Saharan Africa might p.2 spend ... getting spread through crimes and forced sexual contact. Older men and women are spreading this disease whether they know they have it or not. At this point and time, AIDS is incurable, although there are drugs that will increase a patients life span.(Aids in Africa,1994) An older AZT treatment mixed with newer drugs called “protease inhibitors” will raise the T-cells in the immune system and help strengthen ...
- 345: The Legalizing of Marijuana
- ... headed bureaucracy. THC is easily removed from the plant and could be administered as medicine in pill form. What a novel idea! No… actually it isn't novel at all. Many other forms of illegal drugs are dispensed as medicine is this manner. Steroids (Cortizone, Prednizone and others) and opiates, namely codeine and morphine, are prescribed regularly to patients for pain relief. Of course the doctors don't dispense poppy seeds ... regulated to prevent most side effects but to still have the medicinal qualities. THC would be just as easy to put in pill form, plus it has an important advantage over many other pain relieving drugs; THC is not adictive. Abuse of Tylenol 3 with Codeine™ is a very rare occurrence, even though it can become addictive. Therefore, the abuse of a doctor prescribed THC pill would be even less common ... suggested before because it doesn't satisfy the ultimate goal of either side of the debate. Those who are for legalization, such as Ethan Nadelman, the director of an institute that promotes deregulation of illicit drugs, are using medicine as an excuse to get marijuana legalized for recreational purposes. Those against legalization know the motives of people like Nadelman and are worried that any relaxation of the law will lead ...
- 346: Power Of The Few Over The Many
- ... repercussions of not being fruitful and multiplying, or of using contraceptive devices were most severe for any man or women, and quite often lead to punishment and extermination. Coupled to the acts of punishment, often drugs and other brainwashing techniques were used on those who did not obey the eleventh commandment. Through control and brainwashing of the masses the church was able to manipulate their society to the point of total ... they were exiled to an island where they were left alone for the rest of their lives. [How? 11th C] While chemical persuasion was prevalent in the Brave New World, the accessibility and usage of drugs, especially contraceptive drugs, was strictly forbidden by the church. While the church enforced their commandments through a strict military totalitarian enforcement agency, people continued to seek contraceptive drugs. While some people were killed for their digressions against ...
- 347: Lung Cancer 2
- ... and cough. Radiotherapy followed by surgery is usually the best treatment for patients with cancer confined high up in the lungs. Another type of treatment for lung cancer is chemotherapy. This is the use of drugs to trat cancer, While drugs ca be used to cure some cancer, only a minority of patients with lung cancer are responsive to drug treatment. There are a number of drugs which are able to shrink tumors at least by half. Although single - drug chemotherapy does cause tumor shrinkage it rarely prolongs life. Several drugs are being used in combninations now. Patients who are feeling ...
- 348: Go Ask Alice 2
- ... the holidays Beth goes on a summer camp for six weeks and Alice stays at her grans. One day she meets Jill Peters and she invites her for a party. Alice doesn t like taking drugs. She wants to stop it and to go home, but her grandpa has a little heart - attack and Alice has to help her grandma. Alice cant tell her parents why she wants to leave her ... she is hardly the same the same person and she met some Jewish jerks, that she s going with. Alice feels lonely but Roger writes her some letters. Alice gets to know Chris Chris takes drugs too and she works in a shop where are the flippiest clothes are sold. Chris has a boyfriend named Ted and Alice gets to know Richie. Alice and Chris want to move to San Francisco ... other often at school but not even one other child wants to have contact to Alice. Everyone knows that Alice was a pusher and so they often attack her, Lane is a boy who takes drugs and he hunts Alice the worst way. But in February Lane gets hit. Alice can t stand it at home and so she leaves home again. She hitch - hikers to Denver and there she ...
- 349: Mary Jane: The Devil Weed
- ... the Louisianna legislature pass a state regulation making use of the drug illegal" (5). Jaffe noted that "since the early 1900s, marifuana has been considered the one drug that might introduce the susceptible to hard drugs." Jaffe pointed out that "since about 1950.... smoking of marijuana has been linked statistically to the use of other illicit drugs....Most observers have concluded that the link is sociological rather than biological and...marijuana is a marker for individuals who are more prone to seek new experiences even when these violate social norms and local ... more research is necessar." In other words, most of the reserach and most of the scientists have indicated that all the answers are not in yet. WORKS CITED Anrews, Matthew. (1972). The Parents Guide to Drugs (Doubleday & Co.). pp. 4-12. Jaffe, Jerome H. (1995). Encylopedia of Drugs & Alcohol (Simon & Schuster). pp. 659-663. O'Brien, R., Cohen, S., Evans, G., and Fine, J., (Eds.). (1992). The Enclopedia of Drug ...
- 350: Drug Trafficking Policies
- ... smuggling had increased. B. Marijuana Act- was passed in 1937 and required those who used marijuana to obtain a special license. C. Narcotic Drug Control Act- was passed in 1956 and was permitted for selling drugs to minors. D. National Program for the Control of Drugs 1995-2000- has an emphasis on the following initiatives: Dismantling the international criminal organizations that operate on Mexican soil. Establishing effective mechanisms to thwart money laundering. Improving the government’s ability to intercept drug shipments ... Contact Group for Drug Control (HLCG)- was established in March of 1996 by Presidents Clinton and Zedillo (of Mexico) to strengthen bilateral cooperation in the fight against drug trafficking and reducing the consumption of illegal drugs. It has the following objectives: Eliminate the illegal use of drugs in both societies, especially among the youth. Increase the security along the common border, while maintaining full respect for each country’s sovereignty. ...
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