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- 141: Friday The Movie
- ... California, in what could be called a high class ghetto. The main theme of the movie is about a young black man who looses his job and is influenced by his best friend to smoke marijuana. The movie also shows the relationships of his family and other members of his neighborhood. With a zany cast of characters and a hilarious script this movie touches on everything from gang violence to the use of drugs, crime, guns, relationships, sex and life in the ghetto. Because of all these issues, I found this an interesting movie with a wide variety of topics to address. Marijuana has been around for a long time. It's use is once again becoming popular. Although it's not legal, many people use it socially and for medicinal purposes. The Hollywood elite smoke it. Musicians such as Dr. Dre and the Black Crows celebrate it's use. Television shows like Saturday Night Live and Kids In the Hall depict it as harmless fun. Marijuana fashion has grown into a ten million dollar industry, with the seven branch marijuana leaf showing up on caps, T-shirts, earrings and tattoos. Studies show that after a decade of declining drug use, ...
- 142: Legalizing Idustrial Hemp
- ... Industrial hemp means those parts of the Cannabis sativa plant which contain less than 1.00% tetrahydrocannabinols (THC). THC is the psychoactive chemical found in Cannabis sativa. Industrial hemp is not to be confused with marijuana. Marijuana comes from the flowers of the Cannabis sativa plant and contains more than 1.00% THC (Mississippi Potency). Industrial hemp has no psychoactive properties. Industrial hemp can be grown as a profitable, high-quality fiber crop without producing marijuana. Registered seed varieties that produce hemp containing less than 0.3% THC even in the flowers are available throughout Europe (British Farmers). Farmers in the European Community have been growing hemp for over 20 ...
- 143: Drug Abuse
- ... year due to drunk driving. Other physical effects of drinking are vomiting, passing out and sometimes, if enough alcohol is consumed over a long enough period of time, or if mixed with other drugs, death. Marijuana is a popular, and illegal, drug. Its largest consumers are young adults. Marijuana is smoked in a pipe or rolled in a cigarette. Thirty-seven percent of people between ages 12-17 have tried marijuana. Marijuana gives a slight buzzing feeling of light-headedness. Experimentation with marijuana is dangerous because studies show that 60% of people who smoke marijuana on a regular basis move on to try harder drugs ...
- 144: Drug Abuse
- ... year due to drunk driving. Other physical effects of drinking are vomiting, passing out and sometimes, if enough alcohol is consumed over a long enough period of time, or if mixed with other drugs, death. Marijuana is a popular, and illegal, drug. Its largest consumers are young adults. Marijuana is smoked in a pipe or rolled in a cigarette. Thirty-seven percent of people between the ages twelve and seventeen have tried marijuana. Marijuana gives a slight buzzing feeling of light-headedness. Experimentation with marijuana is dangerous because studies show that sixty percent of people who smoke marijuana on a regular basis move on to try harder ...
- 145: Cannabis
- ... body. They can damage nerves at are use for thinking. According to the "Nation Institutes of Health"(NIH), cannabis is one of the most popular used drugs in America ranking third after tobacco and alcohol. Marijuana (the most common form used in America), is made of the dried leaves and flowers of the cannabis sativa plant, and looks like oregano. It is usually smoked in a pipe or in hand-rolled ... flowers and leaves of the plant. It is sold in chunks and cubes, and its color range from light brown to black. Hashish is often blended with tobacco and smoked. It is more potent than marijuana because it contains a higher concentration THC (abbreviation for delta-nine-tetrahydrocannabinol). THC is the main psychoactive ingredient in all cannabis preparations (NIH). The more THC cannabis contains, the stronger it is. The effect of ... be harmful for young people, who are still making choices about the future. Once a person stops using cannabis, symptoms tend to disappear gradually, but problems with concentration and memory can persist (NIH). When smoking marijuana, the tar is stronger than tobacco brands. The tar from cannabis has larger amounts of certain known cancer-causing substances. Two or three marijuana joints per day may carry the same risk of lung ...
- 146: Drugs and High School Life
- ... going to stick with the basics. Some of these sensations would include: alertness; optimism; happiness; exhilaration; euphoria; relaxation; energy; hungriness; hallucinations and others. The fields of psychotropic drugs are: Depressants; Stimulants; Inhalants; Hallucinogens; and the Marijuana Family. The Depressant field is the largest and includes prescription drugs(such as Valiums, percasephs, and many others), narcotics(such as any drug derived from opium and Synthetic narcotics), Sedatives(alcohol and Barbiturates). The Stimulants ... Spray, Gasoline, Dustoff, Glue, Nail-polish remover, and Paint thinner’s. The Hallucinogens field would include LSD(lysergic acid diethylamide), Mescaline, PCP(also referred to as “angel dust”), and Psilocybin(psychedelic mushrooms). The last field, Marijuana Field, consists of just Marijuana and Hashish. Psychotropic drugs is an interest to me because it is fascinating to learn about how in life there are ways to change your conscious experience. There are drugs that are legal, and ...
- 147: Marijuana
- Morality of Advanced Directives Abstract This paper presents an in-depth discussion about the issues involved in honoring a patient's advance directive. Ethical considerations surrounding the issue as they relate to the nursing profession are addressed. The ...
- 148: Drug Legalization
- ... substances that not only affect their own behavior and health, but also endanger innocent people. Experience has already shown a link between illegal drug use and crime; that even the so called " victimless " use of marijuana can cause a disproportionate amount of serious accidents; and other countries , such as South Korea and Taiwan , learned that tolerating drug abuse only allowed it to grow out of hand. Those who do not learn ... bound to repeat it. We cannot afford to do this with the drug problem. There are the lives of innocent people at stake in our generation and the next generation . Let's be realistic, legalizing marijuana is a terrible idea which would have serious negative side effects. Those in favor of legalization are making false arguments that may sound good , but are often simplistic and short sighted. Legalization may lessen the ... violence surrounding drug dealing , but the real problem is violence resulting from drug use, and this must be addressed with strong law enforcement , substance abuse treatment, prevention and a commitment to change. Anyone who uses marijuana and thinks that "pot" is not harmful is fooling themselves. The active ingredient THC , is addictive , and users can get just as addicted as they can with nicotine ( cigarettes and chewing tobacco) or alcohol ...
- 149: The Drug War in America
- ... from the scourge of addition” this law took it out of the physician’s hand and put it in the hand of the criminals, similar to what prohibition did to alcohol. (Gray) In 1937 the Marijuana Tax Act made the use and sale of marijuana a felony. William Randolph Hearst’s newspaper empire was a chief vehicle for the spread of racial tales about marijuana- intoxicated blacks and Mexicans with superhuman strength and extraordinary and violent sex desires. Hearst newspapers were responsible for popularizing the term “marijuana”. Few realized that this was hemp, a product that provided many essential ...
- 150: Legalization of Drugs
- ... 1988 toll of drug-caused deaths in 27 U.S. cities, the best available measure of the nation's "drug problems" was, for cocaine products, 3,308; for heroin and morphine, 2,480; course, for marijuana, zero. "Emergency-room mentions" for cocaine in the same cities totaled only 62,141. For comparison, smoking killed 390,000 last year and alcohol killed at least 100,000. Alcohol is responsible for more fetal ... get tarred as a drug, the more the connection is going to be prominent. You're going to have tens of millions of Americans beginning to identify more and more with the heroin, cocaine and marijuana users. At the same time, you're going to have these arguments about individual rights and the freedom to use drugs in your own home.(Reason, July 1994 p.43) The personal rights and freedoms ... or an exterminatory witchhunt. In the Netherlands, the focus is pragmatically centered on minimizing the harm that addict population does to itself and the rest of society. The record speaks for itself: American adolescents use marijuana at about twice the rate of their counterparts in Holland, where marijuana and hashish have been freely available for more than 17 years. The only drug that causes traffic fatalities and violence in Holland ...
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