... drivers? Teen drivers have the popular upward trend in America and it is growing in vast numbers. The teen driver's experience is all about getting your first car and learning all the rules to driving. The reason why teens like driving is because it gives them freedom to be wherever, whenever they want without asking permission ... shopping and returning books to the library. Teens may join a fun extra circular activity that is far across town and will need the assistance of a car to get there. Due to the multitude of daily appointment times that teens are required to be present for on ...

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... pulled me over early in the morning for having a "suspicious vehicle. " The officer claimed he smelled marijuana and took me out of my vehicle and put me in another officer's car and ransacked through my vehicle, damaging several of my personal belongings. After subsequently pulling me over for nothing, damaging my personal items ($300 glass aquarium among one of the items ... my fitness center in an area that was surrounded by businesses and parking lots. I have zero criminal record, do not smoke marijuana, and had gotten my car detailed the day before, putting in five "new car " scent...

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... system works. A man was set up and surveyed buying a twenty-dollar sack of pot. After the transaction was made, police swarmed around the man's car and, screaming at him told him, to get out of the car and put his hands up. His person and vehicle were searched and nothing other than the bag was found. This man was probably in his ... pain. The policemen asked the man how long he had been smoking and he responded saying, "just since the cancer treatment". They took him away wearing handcuffs in the squad car to the station and charged him with possession. Is this sick man our enemy? A mi...

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... the War on Drugs. There are many habits much worse than marijuana, one example being cigarette smoking. "Tobacco smoking kills more people each year than AIDS, heroin, crack, cocaine, alcohol, car accidents, fire and murder combined. Tobacco smoking is the number one cause of preventable death in the US. Tobacco smokers have 10 times the lung cancer of nonsmokers, twice the ... ,000, while the ratio for alcohol fluctuates between 1 to 4 and 1 to 10. Not only do many people die each year from alcohol poisoning, but alcohol has caused thousands of fatal car accidents. Although, marijuana, ...

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... . To me, I just think of a drug dealer as being a pharmacist, giving their customer what makes them feel good. You never have heard of someone being killed in a car accident, the leading causes of car accident are caused by drunk drivers, and they has still keep alcohol as being legal. More people die because of people who have consume alcohol and done stupid ... things like getting be hide the wheel of a car. You can kill your self and other that are around. Because of all of my points that I have made I feel that marijuana should be legal. ...

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... system, it causes lung disease, it causes birth defects, it causes brain damage, it is addictive, it decreases the drive to excel and succeed, and it is a main cause of car accidents. WELL I HATE TO TELL YOU THIS BUT MOST OF THESE ARE FALSE MYTHS. In a paper written by Lynn Zimmer, an Associate Professor of Sociology at Queens College and John ... field of medicine is the biggest debate of this topic. Marijuana has many medical benefits. It eases nausea, helps control pain such as muscle spasms and spine injuries resulting from car crashes or sports, stimulates appetite, helps prevent s...

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... adolescents was, at first, virtually unrecognised by the general public. However, a tragic event in early 1999 called national attention to this severe problem. Five high school girls were killed in a car accident outside Philadelphia, and the coroner's report showed that four of the five, including the driver, had ingested "significant" amounts of a computer keyboard cleaner. Since this event, there has been ... of LSD, the ability to make sensible judgements and see common dangers is impaired, making the user susceptible to personal injury. He may also injure others by attempting to d...

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... to lose if someone engages in criminal activity and is caught. One example of a sense of commitment is a classic car. If a person has invested a lot of time and money into restoring a classic "73 Nova, that individual has make a commitment to the car in terms of hours spent working on it. In my life several of my commitments involve the time spent these ... ...

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... as: cancer, AIDS, glaucoma and arthritis. Many newspapers that were misinformed about marijuana began running stories accusing marijuana as being an "Assassin of Youth." Marijuana was also associated with horrible car crashes in which teens had perished. As history has taught us, the 1930's were not a racially tolerant time. Sadly, marijuana was also cited as "causing white women to associate with ... exists that anyone has ever died of a marijuana overdoses". While there are many alcohol overdoses each year, nearly 5,000, and an average of 17,000 alcohol related deaths, such as car acc...

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... could be seen, as marijuana would be used as a kind of substitute for alcohol, and is not so much the social drug as alcohol is. The number of violent crimes, car accidents involving serious injury or death would decrease as a result of people substituting alcohol for marijuana. Rather than people showing aggressive behavior as occurs when intoxicated by alcohol, people would ... become much more passive toward fighting and aggressive behavior. Because marijuana actual heightens sense perception, people are better drivers when stoned than when drunk, so the number of car accidents attri...

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... own job. If you are constantly getting high, you are less likely to have the motivation to get these things done. Most jobs that allow you to support a family - have a car, a house, television, electricity "require a college degree." One risk for drug use can be personality factors. The authors of the article "Five-Factor Model Personality Profiles of Drug Users " wrote ... ...

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... could become uncoordinated. Marijuana also affects a persons driving ability by slowing their reaction time. Driving while under the influence of marijuana it is just as likely to be involved in a car accident as driving while under the influence of alcohol. I don't think marijuana should be legalized for any purpose. Or at least not the smoking of marijuana. They already have a pill ... ...

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... away in fields of corn. Tobacco causes 400,000 deaths per year between lung cancer, house fires, second hand smoke and Emphazema. Alcohol causes 40,000 deaths per year between car accidents, liver cancer, alcohol poisoning, bar fights and simple acts of stupidity. Marijuana has caused hardly any deaths. It doesn't really make sense that tobacco and alcohol is legal (and ... ...

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... that he was put on to control it. The vomiting was so severe that every morning on his way to school he would have to have his mother pull the car to the side of the road so that he could throw up. He often would miss months of school at a time because he was immensely sick. That was before he ... ...

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... has 460 different chemicals in it which make it very hard to make an alternative that does exactly the same thing, or even close (Rogers). For Jamie Muller, a victim in a car accident, "smoking pot helped the pain go away and brought back my appetite" He has stopped smoking pot in fear of the legal trouble that faced him. If marijuana were ... ...

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... . The effects of marijuana are it leaves a person "high". Some senses don't function as well, it has about the same effects as alcohol but it is not known to cause car accidents and other felonies. Section 38 of Article 4 of the constitution of Nevada states that "The use or possession of three ounces or less of marijuana by a person who has ... ...

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... have been recalled in order for alterations. In the August 1995 issue of consumer reports, twenty- four products were recalled because of possible dangers to the consumer. These products included a car that may lose a wheel while in motion, a hair dryer that poses a fire hazard, and cookies that can cause an allergic reaction. (Consumer Reports, 500) Yet, the sale of cigarettes, known ... ...

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... have been recalled in order for alterations. In the August 1995 issue of consumer reports, twenty-four products were recalled because of possible dangers to the consumer. These products included a car that may lose a wheel while in motion, a hair dryer that poses a fire hazard, and cookies that can cause an allergic reaction. (Consumer Reports, 500) Yet, the sale of cigarettes, known ... ...

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... hot dry areas produce more THC. Marijuana is extremely dangerous to society for many reasons. Marijuana, like alcohol, impairs the user's motor skills. Marijuana affects an individual's ability to operate a car in two ways. First, it alters the individual's concept of time. This makes them feel they have been driving for a long time when in actuality, they have been driving for ... ...

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... is actual high on marijuana. Marijuana causes a distortion of time and space to the brain and therefore becomes very dangerous when a person high on marijuana gets behind the wheel of a car.(Godfrey 34) They have now not only put their life in danger but also the lives of others. Despite the misconception by many that marijuana does not effect a persons driving ... ...

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... each year from liver cancer due to the abundance of alcohol used during the span of their lives. Even more people die from lung cancer than there are fatalities in car accidents, shootings, and suicides each year due to the drug nicotine. These drugs have been legal ever since this great country has been here. When the government presented prohibition to ... ...

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... is an underground web of users that have developed a unique smoker's dialect, a common set of rules, and a strong influence on art, cinema, history, and technology. For instance, Henry Ford's first car, the model T, was fueled by hemp oil, a product of the Cannabis plant. The original copy of The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper. Famous bands and musicians frequently ... ...

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... in number. Little kids will have access to it, where before they would not know where to find marijuana. If the usage of marijuana becomes legal, then the amount of car accidents will also increase as there will be more drug users on the streets. The government of the United States should not legalize marijuana. Marijuana use and its consequences are ... ...

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... was patenting a new sulfuric acid process for producing wood-pulp paper.32 The companies own records state that wood-pulp products accounted for more than 80% of all DuPont's railway car loadings.33 Harry Anslinger would be the man that DuPont used to help in his anti-hemp campaign. Harry Anslinger was appointed to the FBN by Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon ... ...

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... usually cancers such as lung and throat cancer. Alcohol claims a surprising 110,640 lives (CDC) with drastic health effects as liver disease. These deaths are not including those involved in car accidents. In fact in 1997 there where 41,967 fatalities due to automobile accident. Thirty nine percent of the fatalities where alcohol related (Alcohol Epidemic Data System). Moreover nicotine presents ... ...

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