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- 201: Cartoons: Land of Imagination
- ... four high-school dropouts, who with their sentient dog ride around the country in their psychedelic love machine, earning their way by selling drugs. Occasionally, they solve a mystery. Shaggy for example, is obviously a marijuana smoker. He constantly has the "munchies." Scooby, on the other hand does not smoke marijuana, but gets his "high" from Scooby-Snacks, which are in fact hash brownies. This is a small glimpse into the counter-culture of the 1960's. Another cartoon that ventures into American lifestyle is the ...
- 202: INTERNET ADDICTION
- ... category of addiction the Internet falls into is another problem. There are no real answers yet because research in this area is at the beginning stages. A few researchers are comparing the Internets effects to marijuana as a psychostimulant. They argue that the chemicals in marijuana activate the same stimuli as the Internet.5 Most researchers to this date do, however, agree that this is some type of behavioral addiction. People can become addicted to activities even when there is no ...
- 203: The Sacred Pipe
- ... Wakan Tanka was a supreme being and had complete power over everything and was part of all that is good. Although, unlike Seventh day Adventist much of there religion and religious rituals consist of smoking marijuana, tobacco, tree bark and other forms of drugs out of a pipe that was referred to as the sacred pipe or as it is better known as the peace pipe. Not everybody in the tribe ... anything that they could fit in a pipe. They had all kinds of different names that they obviously gave to these drugs while they were using them, such as Hokshichankiya which was there name for marijuana. Most drugs however that were used in there religious practices were bitter tasting and had no real affect on the brain. The author spent a lot of time making sure he described the effect and ...
- 204: Magic: I Know the Secret!
- ... because why should you stop at just a one. Teenagers would get plenty of use out of knowing magic. The next time their parents come into their room and they have been smoking or growing marijuana they can instantly say that the smoke is from flash pots and that the plant is actually a self blooming rose. Won't their parents be embarrassed when they see the marijuana plant bloom gorgeous rose buds. Fake ID's will be a simple task for teenagers to make and now they won't have to go to work or get an education because they can make ...
- 205: The Things They Carried By Tim
- ... They Carried is brought out by O'Brien in the form of the soldiers' drug usage. O'Brien wants to convey the idea of negative transitions brought about by the war with a statement about marijuana's public, widespread, carefree use in Vietnam. He includes several anecdotes that illustrate to which degree the substance is abused. A friend of O'Brien's, Ted Lavender, "carried six or seven ounces of premium dope"(4), which indicates not only the soldiers' familiarity with the drug, but their acquired knowledge of the quality of the drug. The discouragement of marijuana, as well as other drugs, was previously the accepted view of Americans; however, according to O'Brien, is has become the norm for Americans in Vietnam. The war has completely reversed their morals. Once they ...
- 206: History of the American Drug War
- ... handle opiates or cocaine. The law contains a provision that nothing in the law would prohibit doctors from prescribing these drugs in the legitimate practice of medicine. The people who wrote the Harrison Act and Marijuana Tax Act in 1937, agreed that a prohibition on what people could put into their bodies was an unconstitutional infringement on personal liberties. Marijuana was outlawed in 1937. The reason for it being outlawed was that the plant had a violent effect on the degenerate races. The American Medical Association testified that they were opposed to the law. The ...
- 207: Cigarette Companies Should Not Be Able To Advertise
- Cigarette Companies Should Not Be Able To Advertise If someone wanted to advertise and promote marijuana, would you approve of that. I doubt it. Now do you approve of cigarette companies advertise and promoting the use of cigarettes, which has nicotine an additive drug, and is known to cause more deaths in America then marijuana does. If cigarette companies are able to advertise they will influence children to smoke, make two much of a prophet on killing people and it is takes up advertising space from honest companies that don ...
- 208: Drug Trafficking Policies
- ... completely banned the sale of substantial doses of opium and coca. Drug trafficking became a problem in the years to follow this act. In 1918 a special committee found that drug 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 ...
- 209: Should Steroids Be Banned From Society?
- ... effects. For some reason a widespread use of these so called "natural drugs" has become apparent among the teenage age group in the last four to five years. They seem to believe such drugs as Marijuana and steroids do not have damaging effects on their bodies because they are natural substances. Just because Marijuana comes from a plant found in nature, or the suddenly popular hallucinogenic mushrooms found in farm pastures that grow naturally, does not mean they are not going to have harmful effects on the body. These ...
- 210: Greed In Sports
- ... money for the league that league that officials felt they could justify their actions. Warren Sapp was one of the best defensive players in the 1995 NFL draft. Sapp had tested positive for drugs mainly marijuana, seven times while playing college football at Miami, including once for cocaine (Wolff 49). In the beginning Sapp called reports, "a total fabrication," but later changed his story and said he did flunk one drug ... the NFL, still wanting to allow him to play so he could make them money, tried to brighten his image by saying that Sapp did not test positive for cocaine, oddly omitting any mention of marijuana (Price 48). In any other workplace, someone who had tested positive for drugs that many times would not have been hired. Dennis Rodman, the National Basketball Associations bad boy, is notorious for getting in ...
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