... for drug-dealers? The amount of money that our nation is spent on trying to get a zero-tolerance for illegal drugs is absurd. Study after study, has shown us that regular usage among people is increasing; and even the federal government admits that approximately 26 million Americans use marijuana daily'(Leshner ... drugs are cheaper, purer and easier to get than ever before."" (http://www.drugpolicy.org/ 1) Law enforcements spend most of their energy so they don't have time for real crimes. The drug war lasted about 12 years; just imagine how many crimes had just slipped away without hav...

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... be using inhalants monthly, and 19.7 percent will have used inhalants at least once in their lifetime, according to statistics from the 1999 Monitoring the Future study. Inhalants are readily available, inexpensive, and easy to conceal. Therefore, they are increasingly popular with young people and are, for many, one of the ... brain that transmit serotonin, an important biochemical involved in a variety of critical functions including learning, sleep, and integration of emotion. The results of the study indicate that recreational MDMA users may be at risk of developing permanent brain ...

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... to marijuana In Hawaii, we know marijuana as "Maui Wowie or Pakalolo." While people in Hawaii continue to have fun using this drug, they don't know the other potential side effects of what this harmful drug can do to their body. Former Hawaii Governor, Benjamin Cayetano signed a bill on ... marijuana are up to 266 times while adults who use such drugs are up to 323 times are more likely to use cocaine than those who don't use gateway drugs. Children who used all three drugs are 77 times and adults are 104 times more likely to use cocaine. Joseph A. Califano, ... subsequent use of marij...

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... I would like to know what causes divorce, that way I can try my best to prevent it from happening. The author conducted a longitudinal study over 9 years with 634 newlywed couples. The average age of the males was 28 and the average age for the females was 26. The method used ... groups of people. The reason is because I feel like it would be difficult to apply it to groups that don't fit the certain criteria. The author thoroughly describes how he did the study and everything made sense to me. In the results discrepant heavy drinkers, were at a higher risk of divorce ... your partner. ...

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... in a variety of locations such as a college campus, a law firm, a grocery store and a gym in order to make sure i got a well rounded study group. My research findings will focus mainly on my qualitative responses because the answer to those questions give a more in depth view as to whether or not people believe ... if it was legal. Of the 14 out of 30 that said they would smoke it if legal 10 stated that the reason they don't smoke is not because they don't enjoy it but because they're scared of losing their jobs due to a drug test, if marijuana was made legal however this ... but to c...

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... and 4 to 16 percent of fatally injured drivers had tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, in their bloodstream, Dr. Heishman said. One study showed that 32 percent of drivers in a shock trauma unit in Baltimore had marijuana in their bloodstream, he noted. However, in most of these ... effect of higher doses of marijuana on driving as well as the combined effect of marijuana and alcohol on driving, he concluded. In another study, Dr. Wayne Lehman of Texas Christian University looked at how marijuana affects job performance. A series of surveys he conducted a...

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... little evidence that the drug is physically addicting. There is nothing in marijuana itself that causes people to use other drugs. No definitive neurological study of humans has turned up evidence of marijuana-related permanent brain damage, and there is no direct evidence that marijuana causes cancer in humans ... U.S. Studies from the 1970's show a negative correlation between the use of marijuana and the abuse of alcohol. In 1993, the Rand corporation did a study of U.S. states that had somewhat decriminalized marijuana use; in these states, hard drug use decreased. Over the years, ma...

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... used for several medicinal purposes. Marijuana is effective for treating AIDS-related wasting and the nausea from cancer chemotherapy.20 Other prescribed drugs are used but are often expensive and don't always work. The drugs also have harmful side effects. Many of them cause hives, impotence, difficulty in breathing, tremors and rigidity and leukopenia.21 Marijuana isn't free of risks - it ... . Beta-blocker eye drops, a more conventional treatment for glaucoma, can cause sluggishness and sometimes activates asthma attacks.23 There are still too many skeptics who doubt marijuana's abili...

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... age children. Try to make the teenagers understand the damages one can have because of taking drugs. If your child shows the desire to take drugs, don't come down too hard on him or her as it might actually increase their desire to have it. Parents need to develop openness and trust with ... for the kid to start taking drugs is when they just enter there teens, these are mostly the eighth graders. According to a 1995 Monitoring the Future Study, an annual survey of 50,000 students conducted by the University of Michigan revealed that the use of marijuana has doubled among the eighth grad...

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... age children. Try to make the teenagers understand the damages one can have because of taking drugs. If your child shows the desire to take drugs, don't come down too hard on him or her as it might actually increase their desire to have it. Parents need to develop openness and trust with ... for the kid to start taking drugs is when they just enter there teens, these are mostly the eighth graders. According to a 1995 Monitoring the Future Study, an annual survey of 50,000 students conducted by the University of Michigan revealed that the use of marijuana has doubled among the eighth grad...

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... a multistage random sampling procedure. Geographic areas were selected, then schools within those geographic areas were selected, and then students within those schools were chosen. The students chosen for the study had reported life time use of alcohol or marijuana. Then they were asked to indicate whether they experienced various adverse psychological outcomes resulting from use of each substance. Race and ... ethnicity was taken into consideration. This study had a diverse group consisting of males, females, Caucasians, African Americans, and Hispanics. The participants were given a ...

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... , it is apparent that the use of marijuana is having a growing acceptance in the U.S., especially in regards to its potential economic and health benefits (Schedule I). It was found in a recent study conducted by the Drug Policy Alliance that about 42% of people in the U.S. have used marijuana at least one point in their lives, clearing indicating that our current federal laws ... that once people of the baby boomer generation hit the age where heart disease is the leading cause of illness, there will be a significant increase in marijuana-associated heart attacks (Study Finds). This may...

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... not big when compared to normal cognitive variability in normal individuals. These impairments would not cause a heavy smoker to "stand out from the crowd." This does not mean that they don't have some sort of significance; theoretically speaking, they could still have detrimental effects on a students academic performance. Even though alcohol is legal and marijuana is illegal, Wayne Hall and Nadia ... , making it unclear if they are really important for functioning in everyday life. In 2003, Igor Grant, a UCSD professor of psychiatry and the study's leading author, published an article ...

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... effects of their use. Marijuana is not hard to come by these days, and the use of it is increasing. Drinking alcohol is also very common, and many young people don't even realize the many effects of doing so. Both marijuana and alcohol have many short-term physiological effects on the human body. The effects of marijuana use are not very ... these physiological indicators can affect the way a person presents himself or herself. The effects that marijuana has on a persons social presentation are much less significant than those caused by alcohol. A study done at the University of Sydney ...

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... from ingesting Xanax than all the illegal drugs listed combined. Therefore, the illegal drugs listed should not be illegalized because they cause less deaths annually and can be used medicinally. A study conducted at the University of John Hopkins supported that hallucinogenic drugs like Psilocybin and LSD helped people find an inner oneness with themselves, the Earth, and the Universe. They did ... to the fluorine used. They also did brain studies and concluded that Prozac, LSD, and Psilocybin travel through similar neural pathways to give the same effects. Except, Psilocybin and LSD d...

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... "One in every three adult American adults to having tried the herb", according to The Economist Sept. 28th 2002. 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 ... and alcohol are widely used and are legal to persons that are 21 years or above. Just like prohibition with alcohol, marijuana has divided groups of opinions on the matter. A study done to help people recognize people that have used mar...

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... , amount of vomiting, muscle biofeedback, blood samples, and patient observation" (SDHS). The results were compared to see which treatment patients preferred. Marijuana was the prevalent choice over a THC pill. "The study found that [m]ore than [90] percent of the patients who received marijuana . . . reported significant or total relief from nausea and vomiting the data accumulated over all five years of the ... program's operation do show that marijuana smoked resulted in a higher percentage of success than does THC ingested" (SDHS). In California, the study was strictly designed and d...

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... . Treatment programs are the best way to curb abuse of drugs. These programs cost less then paying for law enforcement efforts to fight the drug war. The RAND Corporation conducted a study that found that additional law enforcement efforts cost 15 times as much as treatment to achieve the same reduction in societal costs. Societal costs include the costs of imprisonment, court ... care. This is another expense that the taxpayers will have to pick up. However, it is ironic that these very same women receive health care through state Medicaid programs that don't provide drug-treatment serv...

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... , 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 about a study that was performed: "Participants were part of the Epidemiologic Catchment Area (ECA) program in Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America. The sample was drawn from a community with a wide range of ... insight into the analysis of drug use. They also wanted to find the significance of putting public health interventions into effect. The study came to the conclusion, "In addition to confirming...

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... the extra money to improve drug rehabilitation programs for people who have uncontrollable drug problems with more dangerous drugs such as heroin and cocaine and provide money for the continuous study on harmful drug usage. The legalization of marijuana will also lead to a drop in drug related crimes. There will be fewer people in jail for smuggling marijuana from other countries ... drug use. The legalization of marijuana and the war on drugs are two fights that are going to be fought for a long time. Although many are fighting for its legalization, I don't think that marijuana will ev...

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... marijuana for recreational use will be on the doorstep and then we"ll be the ones who have to say no." (Freeze) Many doctors are against prescribing marijuana because they don't want to have to make that final call. For many patients there will be no proof that supports the prescription of marijuana. How can the government put so much stress ... the doctors to make the right decisions on who needs drugs and who doesn't; they are trained to do this. Many doctors are willing to prescribe marijuana, back in 1991 a study was done and 48% said that they would prescribe it, this was back in 1...

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... of glaucoma, 3) treatment for AIDS, and 4) treatment for multiple sclerosis. The THC in smoking marijuana can decrease the intraocular pressure in the eye and reduce the chance of going blind. A study had shown that 40% of cancer specialist had recommended marijuana to help the side effects of chemotherapy, which includes sickness and vomiting. Also people who are going through chemotherapy sessions ... don't feel like eating a lot of the time, and believe it or not, the munchies can help them get the desire to eat back. This drug is also used to relieve ... ...

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... is in anything but the case. Because of people's ignorance and gullibility, marijuana has become illegal for all the wrong reasons and should highly be reconsidered for legalization. People today don't understand that for centuries marijuana has been used by different nationalities of people for religious, recreational, and medical use. Marijuana has been legalized in such European countries as Holland and ... used it as an anesthetic. Greeks, Persians, and Romans also used the drug to control muscle spasms, reduce pain, and treat indigestion (www.innerbody.com ). On March 15, 2002 a re...

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... ? I think that most people would have thought not, but after reading this, you should at least be ready to question prohibition's sanctity. One thing that I must make clear is that I don't think that legalizing will eliminate all problems associated with marijuana, but it "will eliminate most of the profit and corruption from the drug trade. Ending prohibition almost immediately cleaned up ... 's existence. Regardless of how you feel about marijuana, it is relatively irrefutable that prohibition has not had a huge effect on supply or demand of marijuana. The University of Michigan conduct...

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... different views on the same controversial issue. One of the most controversial issues receiving a lot of heat moment is the legalization of medicinal marijuana. Before I go any further in this study, I would like to express the fact that I am not trying to condemn medicinal marijuana, nor endorse it; I am simply trying to take a look at two different views on the same ... , as well, have a very professional look to them. Most people would not believe that this is possible; given the subject matter, people usually jump to the stereotype of a "stoner-, and don't even consider the fact that...

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