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- 251: Drug Abuse In America
- ... help in the healing process of muscular tissue by first injuring them, then the muscles heal quicker adding more fiber increasing their bulk. Many athletes turn to steroids more often because they're cheaper then marijuana or cocaine. A ten week cycle of testosterone cypinate and methandrostone costs only about one hundred dollars. Steroids are also very hard to trace because of their water base composition. They can pass through the ...
- 252: Coffee Break
- ... I got close to 80. I began to realize that what I was drinking all along was a drug. What a queer drug it is. Caffeine is related to other drugs such as tobacco, and marijuana, in that it grows readily in nature and uses its affect as protection from predators. To animals munching on its leaves it is poison. To us they are just great. This is most likely why ...
- 253: American Drug Laws- Do They He
- ... opium regulatory laws were enacted in San Francisco in response to Asian immigrants entertaining married white women in opium dens (Hamowy). The American and European tolerance for tobacco and alcohol use while fearing "counter-culture" marijuana, cocaine, and heroin is a strong prejudice based on ignorance of the comparative human misery caused by the inevitable misuse of mind-altering substances. Alcohol and tobacco cause more illness and death each year than ...
- 254: The United States Government
- ... George Herbert Walker Bush and independent Ross H. Perot. During the campaign, Bill met with some difficulty when the media discovered that he had dodged the Vietnam draft, been unfaithful to his spouse, and smoked marijuana while attending Oxford. Bill placated the liberal-biased media by saying that he didn’t believe in the war, and he “didn’t inhale.” Opposition mounted when reporters discovered that Clinton and his wife, Hillary ...
- 255: Drug Legalization
- ... did in the 1920’s (516). Lastly, Hamill’s proposal for legalization gives a reasonable amount of hope for his plan to succeed. The author’s plan calls for a ten year experiment in which marijuana, not a hard drug, would be the first drug to be legalized and sold in liquor stores (517). As the years go on, more drugs, harder drugs, would be legalized, and it is estimated that ...
- 256: Us Presidents 30-42
- ... the nomination of Robert Bork after the Judiciary Committee found him insufficiently inclined to protect individual rights and liberties. A second judge, Douglas Ginsburg, withdrew from consideration after it became known that he had smoked marijuana while teaching at Harvard. Reagan's third choice for the vacancy, Judge Anthony M. Kennedy, was approved. 41. President - George Herbert Walker Bush Term - January 20, 1989 to January 20, 1993 Inaugurated as president on ...
- 257: King William I
- ... his infidelity? Of course not. We even reelected him. Want to know why? Because he is Bill Clinton, the most powerful man in the universe. A fine example of his moral ambiguity is the whole marijuana thing. This was before we even elected him. He admittedly smoked an illegal substance. Was he punished? No, because he is Bill Clinton, the most powerful man in the universe. Some might say to impeach ...
- 258: Allen Ginsburg In America
- ... obsessed with drugs, crime, sex and literature. Eventually, Allen got suspended from Columbia for various small offenses. He began hanging around with Times Square junkies and thieves (mostly friends of Burroughs), experimenting with Benzedrine and marijuana, and cruising gay bars in Greenwich Village. At this point in Ginsberg life he and Kerouac thought they were working towards some kind of great poetic vision, which they called the “New Vision.” Ginsburg’s ...
- 259: Walking The Tight Rope
- ... saw how easy it was for him to let a raised middle finger lead him through the world. Whether he was proclaiming to me in an interview that he stays perpetually strapped and high on marijuana, or spiritedly waving a bottle of malt liquor for the camera on the "California Love, Part II" video, his most consistent image was that of a man doing as he pleased, living life by his ...
- 260: Young Voters Showing Apathy
- During the 60's, young adults made their presence felt not just by their use of marijuana or weird clothes and hairstyles, but more so because they were intent to make a difference. They protested rallied and marched to any cause they deemed worthy. Furthermore, young adults also realized the importance of ...
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