Previous animal studies have shown that cocaine occupies or blocks dopamine, and it prevents dopamine from returning, as it normally would, to the brain cells that release it. ... Methamphetamine, or speed, produces a similar effect, dramatically boosting the supply of dopamine at brain synapses, this therefore giving adolescents a nice feeling of relaxation which is much the same sort of feeling you get after a few nights on the brewski's, but the difference with drinking is that it is accepted by society. ... Life is boring enough for adolescents with all the fun and exciting acti...

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When people are smoking marijuana together, its easier for them to bond and find things in common, just as when people are drinking men find it easier to talk to women and dance with them. ... In fact, according to animal testing, forty thousand times as much THC as you need to get high would have to be consumed to overdose. ... Whereas ingesting marijuana is a common practice in the Middle East as with the drink "bhang", or even when people bake the drug into their food, one has a safe alternative to smoking with marijuana. ... When you consider that one-hundred and eighteen million Americans...

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While the scientific community has yet to achieve full consensus on this matter, the majority of epidemiological and animal data demonstrate that the reinforcing properties of marijuana in humans is low in comparison to other drugs of abuse, including alcohol and nicotine. ...

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Ecstasy It is estimated that 94.1 million Americans of the age 12 or older has used an illicit drug at least once in their lifetimes, one of those drugs being Ecstasy. Ecstasy (a.k.a. E's, New Yorkers, White Doves, Disco Burgers, Love Doves and Dennis the Menace) was invented in 1914 as a prescri...

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