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- 211: Substance Abuse Increasing in Inner-City Minorities
- ... Increasing in Inner-City Minorities Substance abuse is an ever increasing epidemic facing America's inner- city minorities. There are several different drugs that are gaining popularity amongst inner-city youths 1. Juice, that is marijuana soaked in embalming fluid is starting to show up in more and more inner east coast cities 2. Crack or rock cocaine is by far one of the most addicting drugs out there, it's been engulfing America's inner-cities since the early 80's 3. Heroin, is also making a comeback 4. Alcohol and marijuana are still very popular in the lower and upper classes 5. There are some very distinctive differences in the substance abuse seen in the less fortunate classes and the abuse in the middle and upper ...
- 212: The Wonderful War On Drugs
- ... fight amongst themselves”(Torr39). No real decrease in drug use among citizens has been seen as a result of police action anyway. Increasing numbers of teens are turning to a life of drugs in America. “Marijuana use among teens has doubled in the last three years”, while at the same time “Americans are spending $20 billion annually on drug related medical costs”(McCaffery4). For this battle to be fought, it must ... on the television or radio, and you will see drugs are as much a part of the American society as baseball and apple pie. Even Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich have admitted to experimenting with marijuana. With drug abusers climbing higher on the ranks of society daily, it only makes for a more corruptible system. No matter how much is spent on ads and prevention campaigns the drug problem will never ...
- 213: In Contempt by Christopher Darden: A Review
- ... Los Angeles in 1981. Chapters two and three mostly consist of stories of him and his brother, Michael, stealing from local stores or his brothers drug deals. When Michael hit his mid-teens hestarted selling marijuana off the front porch of the house and Chris was his lookout. In return, he was told that he would be cut in on the action (but never was). No matter what, Michael always told ... tells of the time when his brother was smoking a joint in their bedroom when their father came bursting into the room. Thinking quickly, Chris' brother swallowed the still lit joint. His father smelled the marijuana but never found any evidence of the joint. As he tells about his childhood, he remembers how his grandmother would ask him what he wanted to be when he grew up and as far back ...
- 214: “The Night”
- ... pitch black, roughed up road. We turned up the pot hole filled driveway, I started thinking of what might happen at this so-called party. Would I drink alcohol? Would I smoke cigarettes? Or even marijuana. I thought to myself that I would go with the flow, and make smart decisions. We got to the front door and rang the loud door bell. Emily answered the door and said “Come on ... ran through my mind, but I decided that I was going to go for it. It was only this one time, it’s not like I would become addicted to it. As I put the marijuana up to my lips I started to inhale and one of them shouted “Inhale it deep and it will hit you harder.” I puffed on this joint a couple of times and then passed it ...
- 215: Louis Armstrong’s Influential Career
- ... to California, in July of 1930, where he starred in his first film, Flame. Only after he had been in California for a few weeks he was arrested at a nightclub for the possession of marijuana. The incident obviously caused a lot of controversy across the world. The sentence, six months in prison, was suspended after only three days. Mainly due to Armstrong’s addiction to marijuana, Lil separated from him and they no longer worked together (Boujut 33). In 1932 the Hot Five split up. Armstrong remained in California and starred in Rhapsody in Black and Blue and You Rascal You ...
- 216: Jerry Garcia and The Grateful Dead
- ... story. Certainly this wasn't the first time drugs had been used in music for artistic expression or had found their way into an American cultural movement. Many jazz and blues artists had been smoking marijuana and using various narcotics to intensify their music making for several decades, and in the Fifties the Beats had extolled marijuana as an assertion of their non- conformism. But the drugs that began cropping up in the youth and music scenes in the mid-Sixties were of a much different. more exotic type. Veterans Hospital near ...
- 217: Bob Marley
- ... movement which opposed the unrestrained and potentially corrupting power of the Elders. Dreadlocks continued to be worn as a symbol of ritual practices of the “voudon-like” religion of the jamaican peasantry. The use of marijuana is also a characteristic of the Rastas. Contrary to popular belief, Rastas do not smoke marijuana recreationally, and some do not use it at all. Most Rastafarian teachers advocate the controlled ritual smoking of “wisdomweed” both privately as an aid to meditation and communally from “chalice” pipes as an “incense pleasing ...
- 218: John Savage Desires What Makes
- ... they take soma instead of worrying about their troubles. The soma takes the user on a ‘holiday’ which causes them to forget all their woes and miseries. A current example of such a drug is marijuana. Users take this drug in order to lift themselves out of depression, or just for entertainment. The difference between Soma and marijuana is that soma is given out as a free daily ration. There are many people in our society that spend large amounts of money in purchasing these types of narcotics that are very dangerous and ...
- 219: 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 ...
- 220: New Jersey Vs. T.L.O.
- ... lavatory. Mr. Choplick then asked to search the girl’s purse. He found a pack of cigarettes. Upon pulling the pack of cigarettes out Mr. Choplick discovered cigarette rolling papers, which is closely associated with marijuana. He proceeded to search the purse to find a small amount of marijuana, a pipe, small empty plastic bags, a substantial amount of money all in one dollar bills, and two letters that implies that she is a dealer. Mr. Choplick notified her mother and the police and ...
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