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- 171: The Inequality Of American Jus
- ... can also be shown in the evolution of laws. When laws begin to affect large numbers of white middle- and upper-class people, the laws begin to change. An example would involve the spread of marijuana use. Strict laws of the early and middle part of this century prohibiting the use of marijuana were imposed because the majority of users were lower-class minorities. But during the 1960s and 1970s, the use of marijuana spread though the youth of white middle- and upper-class America (Cole 152). This spurred changes in the judicial system to ease the laws affecting marijuana use. Cole summarizes the situation: "When the effects ...
- 172: “To legalize or Not to Legalize”
- ... Drugs are also a way to provide personal insight and self-knowledge. They also are a way of teaching new modes of consciousness. One expert says that “Alcohol has been called a teacher of truth, Marijuana has been praised as an instructor on the realm of senses, bodily self-awareness, sexuality, music, and dancing. Drugs also have had a religious impact on society in religions such as Sufism, Hinduism, tantriac Buddhism ... could have their daily dose of their drug of choice? These are all questiond wich cannot go unanswered. The public needs to now how things are going to be dealt with if they are legalized. Marijuana is the drug that most people say would be the most benifical if legalized, but if marijuana were to become legalized what would hold the government back from legalizing other drugs as well. Someone may say that heroin helps the pain go away faster just as well as marijuana so if ...
- 173: The Evolution Of Inequality In
- ... in the evolution of laws in more resent times. When laws begin to affect large numbers of white middle- and upper-class people, the laws begin to change. An example would involve the spread of marijuana use. Strict laws of the early and middle part of this century prohibiting the use of marijuana were imposed because the majority of users were lower-class minorities. But during the 1960s and 1970s, the use of marijuana spread though the youth of white middle- and upper-class America (Cole 152). This spurred changes in the judicial system to ease the laws affecting marijuana use. Cole summarizes the situation: "When the effects ...
- 174: Teen Drug Use in the United States
- ... available on the streets of our nation can really depend on personal circumstances. There are so many drugs with so many different effects that are used by America’s youth across the country. Anything from Marijuana to cocaine, and many more. These drugs have certain psychoactive effects on the brain, which is one key factor towards addiction. No matter what type of drug an adolescent may use, depending on the drug ... different and unique ways. Depressants for instance, as well as stimulants, effect the central nervous system and the brain by blocking the nervous tissue. Some common depressants include any type of sleeping medication, anti-depressants, marijuana, and inhalants. These drugs are known to relax you. They put you in a mild comfortable stage of euphoria. Stimulants may include anything from cocaine to any sort of amphetamines; and to a much lesser ... both types of drugs alter your physical and mental condition. Cannabis for example, is the most common and widely used drug in the United States by teens. The drug is most commonly referred to as marijuana. This is most definitely the most common depressant used by teens. Marijuana’s main psychoactive effect is caused by THC, the chemical in the plant that has been smoked by native Americans for many ...
- 175: The Hippie Culture
- ... they are known for today. “Eve of destruction; no satisfaction…and a third motif went rippling through the baby-boom culture: adhesive love” (Gitlin 200). The freedom they found came with the help of drugs. Marijuana evolved from its “black and Hispanic, jazz-minded enclaves to the outlying zones of the white middle class young” (Gitlin 200). This new drug allowed a person to open their mind to new understandings and philosophies. But it wasn’t just marijuana that opened the minds of the youth; a new drug known as LSD came into existence: Depending on who was doing the talking, [LSD] is an intellectual tool to explore psychic ‘inner space,’ a new ... service of a new age” (Gitlin 214). It wasn’t just the youth in America who was using these drugs. A statistic from 1967 states that “more American troops in Vietnam were arrested for smoking marijuana than for any other major crime” (Steinbeck 97). The amazing statistic wasn’t the amount of soldiers smoking marijuana; it was the amount of soldiers America was sending over to fight a war that ...
- 176: Drugs And Teenagers
- ... personal example of drug use from a teenager, " When I started using, was only on weekends, at parties. I used drugs 'recreationally' and therefore thought I had no addiction problem. I used drugs like nicotine, marijuana or LSD to be happy or to have fun. I needed drugs. I kept using drugs; I used drugs like marijuana to fit socially. I had problems in my life, emotionally, that drugs only seemed to solve. Drugs made my problems worse. I started snorting cocaine. I injected heroin into my veins. I almost died. I ... The consequences of taking LSD are severe, physical side effects include inducing violent and hazardous behavior, also LSD develops tolerant quickly, so frequent users has to eventually increase dosage. The other most popular thing is marijuana, or weed. It's usually imported from Africa, Asia, South America and Caribbean, but homegrown weed is getting more and more popular because of the sophistication of growing equipment. The most common effects are ...
- 177: Illegal Drugs
- ... tobacco in them. *The drug Caffeine can be found in many everyday items, like soda candy bars. Think of how many cops we would need if caffeine products were illegal. Why are drugs like cocaine,marijuana and heroin illegal? Cocaine, marijuana and heroin are illegal because most people think that these controlled substances are simply to dangerous for anyone to use. They the effects of thes substances ruin the body and mind so badly and quickly ... destroy missions and helicopter surveillance. Sounds like americans at war, well this goes on every day on our own home soil and the battle fields are our national parks and forests and the enemy is marijuana. Marijuana is the most common used illegal drug in the U.S. * Over 65 million people have tryed it. *More than 25 million people have used it in the last year. *Over 11 million ...
- 178: History Of The Counterculture
- ... they are known for today. “Eve of destruction; no satisfaction…and a third motif went rippling through the baby-boom culture: adhesive love” (Gitlin,200). The freedom they found came with the help of drugs. Marijuana evolved from its “black and Hispanic, jazz-minded enclaves to the outlying zones of the white middle class young” (Gitlin 200). This new drug allowed a person to open their mind to new understandings and philosophies. But it wasn’t just marijuana that opened the minds of the youth; a new drug known as LSD came into existence: Depending on who was doing the talking, [LSD] is an intellectual tool to explore psychic ‘inner space,’ a new ... service of a new age” (Gitlin 214). It wasn’t just the youth in America who was using these drugs. A statistic from 1967 states that “more American troops in Vietnam were arrested for smoking marijuana than for any other major crime” (Steinbeck 97). The amazing statistic wasn’t the amount of soldiers smoking marijuana; it was the amount of soldiers America was sending over to fight a war that ...
- 179: Drug Smuggling
- ... rate of drug smuggling. In Illinois there is a program called “Operation Cash Crop” or the OCC. This is a combine of the ISP and the DEA. It's goal is to locate places where marijuana is grown then destroy all of it's gardens. During the span of 1983-88 these “OCC” led to 442 arrest and destroyed over 2 million marijuana plants. And in 1984 there was 64,300 plants destroyed along. There is also a program called Operation Valkritre or O.V., this program arrested 633 suspected drug smugglers and seized nearly 3,000 Kilograms of marijuana and 2,000 kilograms of crack that was being brought into Illinois. More then 3 quarters of these arrest were in 1988 alone. Some of the thing that the government are trying to do ...
- 180: Hippies
- ... their youth together(Stern 103). One of the basic foundations of the Hippie movement was the flagrant use of illegal drugs. There were many drugs that the Hippies used but none was more used then marijuana. From 1960 to 1970 the number of Americans who had tried marijuana had increased from a few hundred thousand to 8,000,000. The majority of these new users were from 12 years old to college seniors(This Fabulous Century 84). To some Hippies, drugs and music ... meaningful lyrics are what made him so popular and successful. Many Hippies considered Dylan as a spokesman for their beliefs. Drugs were also themes in many bands songs. Jimmy Hendrix's "Purple Haze" is about marijuana. "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," is a Beatles song about LSD. The Grateful Dead also took part in the fad with their song "Casey Jones," with lyrics such as "High on Cocaine" and " ...
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