... crime, you need to decrease drug use. Marijuana laws went into effect. These laws were used to lock up people that the police didn't want on the street instead of rather than to make an impact on stopping the use of drugs. Blacks, hippies, and teens were targeted. Nixon felt that drugs are bad, ... Drugs are still produced and distributed everywhere, and are taken by many. The reasons people use drugs still exist. Arresting people for drugs does not kill their desire to use them. Punishing those who have committed crimes does not eliminate the reason they were committed. Addressing drug o...

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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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... left to cover the bill. We the taxpayer has to pay for housing, health care, attorney fees, courts costs, and other expenses just to try to keep marijuana off the street, and that is impossible to do. Instead of wasting money trying to lock up the one that are do no harm to no one, the government could make billions of ... . 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 alcoho...

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... makes the drinker feel he or she is more confident. The drinker thinks they are in control, even if a little high, and they might get behind the wheel of their car and go for a drive. Drunk driving is deadly. Hundreds of thousands of people get killed every year due to drunk driving. Other physical effects of drinking are vomiting, passing out ... after. Marijuana tends to diminish the ambition and motivation in the user. In the long run, it may cause lung cancer and other breathing problems. Cocaine is another popular, illegal, street drug. Cocaine is snorted or smoked as "crack". Coca...

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... . Long term users of marijuana develop the amotivational syndrome in other words they become losers. They don't care what the look like, they don't care what happens, they have no desire to work and do not care about bettering themselves. Marijuana also effects short term memory. In athletes it could cause their performance to decrease and cause their timing to be ... 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 wh...

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... back. Cannabis is also useful in treating muscle spasms. Spasms are caused by strokes, cerebral abnormalities, and multiple sclerosis. It can also be caused by spinal cord damage from athletics, car accidents, and other dangerous activity. Millions of Americans suffer from this condition, and yet, there is not a single legal drug that effectively works for this problem. Even surgery can't help ... . The main goal of the "War on Drugs" is to get to the source of the business; if the government distributed marijuana to U.S. retailers at a considerably less price than current street rates, ...

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Say "NO!" To Pot "Pot", "dope", "dank", "doja", and "weed" are a few street terms used for marijuana. Marijuana is a plant that can be ingested or smoked for pleasurable and hallucinogenic effects. This drug is widely used among teenagers and college students. Brent Staples ... with government regulations and prohibitions. Marijuana should remain illegal to lower dangerous risks such as having unprotected sex that can lead sexually transmitted diseases or driving impaired and getting into car accidents. America should rid of any factors that can be a great risk to society, not heighten the r...

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... The biggest profit comes from the wholesale of pot. B. The bulk sale of weed next in line with profit gains. C. The lowest profit gain is by the street sale of green. III. Weed smokers have different types of mediums to smoke out of. A. Cigarette papers are the original holders of weed. B. The blunt has ... . This is necessary because the distributor has sales representatives in every part of the city that is coming to him for there supply of marijuana. These "street hustlers" as Rahsaan Young calls himself are on the bottom of the cooperate ladder of drug sales they usually buy anywhere...

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... of other white, powdery substances. These include procaine and lidocaine, sugars like lactose and dextrose, stimulants such as dexedrine and caffeine, and other substances including cornstarch, talcum powder, and flour. Street cocaine today contains only 12 to 50 percent cocaine hydrochloride. About 100,000 pounds of cocaine are brought into this county each year. Eighty thousand tons of coca leaf will ... , very addictive form that may be smoked directly. Cocaine is very expensive. A single dose may be as little as a quarter of a gram, but it can easily cost $25 on the street. There are...

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... of other white, powdery substances. These include procaine and lidocaine, sugars like lactose and dextrose, stimulants such as dexedrine and caffeine, and other substances including cornstarch, talcum powder, and flour. Street cocaine today contains only 12 to 50 percent cocaine hydrochloride. About 100,000 pounds of cocaine are brought into this county each year. Eighty thousand tons of coca leaf will ... , very addictive form that may be smoked directly. Cocaine is very expensive. A single dose may be as little as a quarter of a gram, but it can easily cost $25 on the street. There are...

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... of other white, powdery substances. These include procaine and lidocaine, sugars like lactose and dextrose, stimulants such as dexedrine and caffeine, and other substances including cornstarch, talcum powder, and flour. Street cocaine today contains only 12 to 50 percent cocaine hydrochloride. About 100,000 pounds of cocaine are brought into this county each year. Eighty thousand tons of coca leaf will ... , very addictive form that may be smoked directly. Cocaine is very expensive. A single dose may be as little as a quarter of a gram, but it can easily cost $25 on the street. There are...

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... and limited sense of smell. Fluid in the lungs, aggravation of asthma and other lung disorders, and not being able to breath correctly. HEROIN What is Heroin? Known on the street as horse, junk, smack, H, or scag, heroin is the most common drug used by narcotics. Pure heroin is a white powder with a bitter taste ... . When the drug appears as dark brown or black it is known as "black tar-. "Black tar- is available in the western part of the U.S.A. Street heroin is rarely pure. One dose, may contain 50 milligrams of powder. In the past, very few of those milligrams were likely to be heroi...

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... decrease, and the War on Terror can be won if marijuana is legalized. Many opposers to legalization argue that if marijuana was legal then crime rate will increase, much more car accidents would occur, marijuana use would lead to more harsher drug use, and that marijuana has no medicinal value. Most of these arguments are myths and have never been scientifically ... will decrease. Current marijuana laws now do the opposite of lowering crime rates. In fact it might raise them. Gangs are using the prohibition of marijuana to attract people who desire them to fund their own group. It is a ...

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... of, or made with the use of industrial hemp. Things like "paper, insulation, lubricants, plastic, footwear, cooking oils, toiletries, clothing, fuel, varnish, bedding, concrete, car moldings, preservatives, canvasses, paint, laundry detergent, shampoo and conditioner, and even a substitute for some dairy products" (Russell n.p.). Even our forefathers such as Thomas Jefferson were ... kind of crop throughout U.S. history has had such a reputation that it has been used for legal tender? Before the prohibition of cannabis, even car companies had high hopes for this crop. Henry Ford dreamed ...

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... . The best way to rid this drug is to inform young people about how marijuana can be harmful. Cocaine and Heroin are two more street drugs that endanger our society. They are one of the most dangerous drugs on the street today. In 1995, over 500,000 emergency room accidents were cocaine-related (Belenko). Heroin is the most addictive drug on the ... street today. Drug abuse leads to all sorts of other crimes. Addicts need money to support their habits, and will do just about anything to get it. Drug users often commit ... ...

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... was first identified and labeled by a French psychiatrist around the turn of the century. He was named Ludovic Degas.(About Depersonalization. ) B. Drug Induced D.D. Street drugs can induce or make the user more susceptible to mental disorders including D.D. These street drugs can range from what is considered the less potent, i.e. marijuana, to the more dangerous and toxic, i.e. PCP. This could be induced as ... influence of DMT(dimethyltryptamine), an hallucinogenic, 60% reported depersonalization. (American Journal of Psychiatry. Gillin; Kaplan; Stillman; Wyatt. Vol. 133 No. 2, Feb. ...

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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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... the lists of concerns of Americans and are considered one of the major problems facing our country today. We see stories on the news about people being killed on the street every day over drugs. To many people drugs are only an inner-city problem, but in reality they affect all of us - users and non-users. I believe that the negative ... reduced if the United States adopted a policy towards the total decriminalization of marijuana. The current drug policy of our government is obviously failing. Drug laws have created corruption, violence, increased street crime, and disrespect for the c...

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... that drug arrests are unfairly targeted at minorities, but this is a legitimate and important campaign in the war on drugs. The inescapable truth is that getting drug traffickers off the street protects neighborhoods against criminals, violent crime and social ills attendant with drug use. Mark Kleiman, University of California at Los Angeles, has made the statement that: "Locking up a burglar does ... the money spent on the war on drugs, all the man power thrown at it, and all the public information campaigns that it is no harder to go on the street and buy drugs. A war with no victori...

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... that the #5 cash crop in the state of Michigan in the year 1997 was marijuana. According to NORML, in 1997 roughly 61 units of marijuana were produced in Michigan. The street price for marijuana that year was $2,544 per unit. This brings in an income of $154,802 on that marijuana alone. To put this into perspective, the biggest cash crop ... to be $671,288. If one does the math, if as many units of marijuana were produced in Michigan as were units of corn, sold for even half of the street retail price this would show a total income of $334,854,000. The government could easily grow marij...

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... it to me, it was not what I had expected. It was in a little plastic bag, called a "dime" (10 dollars worth), and was a sticky darkish brown with little red hairs. The street name for this sub-specie of Cannabis was "Skunk". Being as interested in Anarchy, bombs, and basically anything that's illegal, I know quite a lot about marijuana. I know that there are male ... more prized for their higher THC content. I also know that there is a different species of Cannabis other then Cannabis Sativa. One popular one is Cannabis Indica. I also know of the street name of the many sub species of M...

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... . Much like in the lottery and state liquor and cigarette stores, marijuana could be sold in packs with minimal markup and could still beat out any possible competition on the street (Time Magazine, Month year, page #). With all the business within the government, more farmers could be employed by the government to provide for the new crop programs. Even price ranges ... could be stablished much like on the street where a pack of marijuana cigarettes could be marked with a strength range depending on the strength of the plant matter. With marijuana a lesser problem, law enforcement could...

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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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... 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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... 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 their teenage children and chances are, that if at any ... stage they had the desire to try drugs they may come and ask their parents about it and it would become easier for the parents to make them understand the worst effects that can happen ... ...

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