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- 2331: Alcohol and Driving While Intoxicated
- ... from this report remember this: driving drunk is unsafe to you, and everyone else around you. The driver's of other cars, pedestrians, etc
Driving drunk can also be very, very costly: insurance surcharges, insurance rates, tickets, fines. You should understand what alcohol does to you before we go on. Alcohol is a depressant, and often enhances your mood. If your angry, after a couple drinks you may be quite possibly ...
- 2332: Should Steroids Be Banned From Society?
- ... more. For him to simply drop his addiction cold turkey, and go back to being second best, is not even an option anymore. These addictions, as with most addictions, will cause the user to lose interest in friends and family, concentrating only on enhancements to his physique and athletic performance(Hemme, pg 58). Even worse, the drug can cause will known "roid rages" (Voy, pg. 223). This involves the spontaneous acts ...
- 2333: Proposition 215: Should Marijuana Be Legalized?
- ... 30 to $40 - at least 100 times the price of marijuana. According to a 1995 poll conducted by the American Civil Liberties Union, 85 percent of Americans think marijuana should be available as a medicine. Interest in medical marijuana is becoming so great that physicians in California and elsewhere may soon be asked to assume responsibilities for which they are unprepared. Nineteenth-century doctors were more sophisticated about marijuana than contemporary ...
- 2334: Phencyclidine: The Dawn of a New Age
- ... price and availability (Peterson, 1978). There were many casualties.not because of the drug, but because of its effects. Hospitals also noticed a sudden increase in paranoid schizophrenic admissions (Peterson, 1978), which naturally sparked more interest in this enigma of a drug, and raised many questions: Why were people addicted to a drug which seldom generated "good trips"? Why (and more importantly, how) was this drug causing episodes of paranoid schizophrenia ...
- 2335: Marijuana: A Horticultural Revolution, A Medical and Legal Battle
- ... Many states contend that the ban on medical marijuana is necessary to prevent drug abuse and the availability of illicit drugs and to control the purity of medicinal drug products. These states have no compelling interest in intervening to needlessly prolong terminal patients' suffering. States should allow the medical use of marijuana under strict regulations, rather than uphold an outdated drug classification scheme. While federal agencies adamantly maintain marijuana has no ...
- 2336: Legalization of Marijana: For
- ... of Americans live in states which have now had a 15-20 year real-world experience with marijuana decriminalization, and the experience has been overwhelmingly favorable. Contrary to the fears expressed by some, marijuana usage rates (both the percentage reporting having ever used marijuana, and the frequency of use by those who do smoke) are the same in states that have decriminalized and in states where marijuana smokers are still arrested ...
- 2337: Legalization of Marijuana
- ... to take part in. Not only would it destroy families, but would also lead to the fall of our economy. Pro-legalization organization argue the fact that legalization would result in the decrease of crime rates in our cities and towns, but in actuality almost eighty-two percent of all violent crime that involves drugs don't involve marijuana. The fact remains that crime would still inhabit the streets if marijuana ...
- 2338: Hemp: A Help or a Hindrance?
- ... for more. This is seriously going to impact many tobacco companies and hard times are in the future. Marijuana has also been found to be valuable in its medicinal uses. Beginning in the 1980s, renewed interest in the therapeutic qualities of marijuana prompted many medical researchers to study the possible effects of its use as an antibiotic. The only authorized medical use of marijuana by the Food and Drug Administration arises ...
- 2339: Multiple Personality Disorder
- ... MPD. Ive always wondered what went on in someones head that would have this disease. I once saw a 20/20 show when they were talking about multiple personality disorders. It sparked my interest immediately and I have always wanted to continue to find out about this disease. The one thing that shocked me was the fact that the main reason that someone develops MPD was by being abused ...
- 2340: Cocaine
- Cocaine Why use cocaine? This is a question that perplexes many doctors of medicine and psychology. As an ex user, I feel that this topic is one that I have a personal interest in. I will start by defining what cocaine is. Cocaine is a colorless or white crystalline powder extracted from coca leaves, occasionally used in medicine as a local anesthetic especially for the eyes, nose, or ...
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