... and they will not return to normal or may even get worse over time. ("Department Of Veterans' Affairs: What Is PTSD?" 2007). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says depression is described by a lack of interest in activities which used to stimulate pleasure, inappropriate guilt, fatigue, a depressed or sad mood, weight gain or loss, difficulties concentrating, psychomotor agitation ... with heart disease, pregnant women or pregnant women. Physicians are continuously searching for alternative medications to help treat their patients and although they are not approved to treat ...

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... ;Claims that prohibition didn't work overlook the fact that most historians agree that national prohibition succeeded both in lowering consumption and in retaining political support until the onset of the Great Depression radically changed voters priorities. Repeal resulted more from this contextual shift than from characteristics of prohibition itself." It is interesting that the ... blamed for a change in voter's priorities. I've heard more than once from our current President and his administration that we are in the midst of the worst economy since the Great Depression. Could voters ...

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... food, sleep, sex, family, and survival. The behavior is limited only by the high cost of the drug and its limited availability. Abstinence after a cocaine binge leads to crashing (anxiety, depression, suspiciousness, sleep craving) and withdrawal (absence of pleasure in all things, lack of motivation, and boredom). Many users take other drugs ( alcohol , marijuana , heroin ) to attenuate these ... is a hallucinogenic drug that intensifies sense perceptions and produces hallucinations, mood changes, and changes in the sense of time. It also can cause restlessness, acute anxiety, and, occa...

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... alcohol and tobacco (the legal drugs) provide insights into the possible consequences of legalizing marijuana. Voth suggests that the violence and hardships during Prohibition were actually the result of the Great Depression and not related to Prohibition. He also asserts that drug lobbies will prevent taxes from being levied on marijuana and that lower prices due to legalization will not be sufficient ... ". More importantly, in several of his arguments Voth leaves himself vulnerable to question his veracity. He states that while Prohibition was a violent time, the violence is attributa...

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... marijuana is a very flexible drug, cheap, and has fewer critically damaging side effects than prescription drugs. It can help cancer patients with many different things like nausea, loss of appetite, depression, and it could even help restore healthy cells and kill off the cancer cells and many other toxins in the body. In 1998, two states (Alaska & Washington) enacted laws to ... contain any other concerns that could deem hazard to the person and people of the US. If controlled and regulated the drug can create a great revenue for our economy might even get us out of debt. It has great...

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... the different strands that reflect the sellers' beliefs of the range of experiences cultivated through consumption. For instance, Purple Kush is commonly known to cultivate "soothing feelings of relaxation and great for sleep, pain, stress and nausea ". Sour Diesel, is another strand which is said to provide "elevating and visual experiences " that cultivate a "good mood and appetite "; commonly known as getting ... directly associated with what anti-drug campaigners cautioned against: the "Marijuana Menace," and terrible crimes that were attributed to marijuana and the Mexicans who use...

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... 1960's up to today's time period, marijuana usage has been an entertainment bandstand throughout the years, and has taken peoples minds to unseen worlds. With all the talk about how great this fantasy drug is, the majority of people do not realize the history that it has, with the ways it affects us, and the medical uses that it provides for ... , and constipation. Later on, these Chinese solutions spread to Middle East, Central Asia, Greece, and Rome. In 1621, cannabis was recommended by an English clergyman, named Robert Burton, to treat depression. Coming upon the turn of the 19th cen...

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... disagree when it comes to marijuana, its safe and its harmless with positive results and highly recognized in medicine to relieve pain from most permanent symptoms it also helps with depression, so I think it's a great Idea to legalize medical marijuana especially if it's an alternative to reducing pain....

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... drugs and incarcerating cannabis violators the federal and state government spends over 32 billion dollars a year (Drug Sense, 2013). America is in one of the worst economic crisis since The Great Depression, and this type of spending has helped put this once proud financial juggernaut on its knees. To help turn this failing economy and prison system around, marijuana should be decriminalized ... ...

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... drugs and incarcerating cannabis violators the federal and state government spends over 32 billion dollars a year (Drug Sense, 2013). America is in one of the worst economic crisis since The Great Depression, and this type of spending has helped put this once proud financial juggernaut on its knees. To help turn this failing economy and prison system around, marijuana should be decriminalized ... ...

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... of patients use medical marijuana as a last resort for pain relief associated with spastic disorder, glaucoma, and chemotherapy (cancer and AIDS). Patients with these diseases using marijuana seem to get great therapeutic benefits. Chemotherapy patients get help from marijuana by the fact that it reduces vomiting and nausea, but it also is an appetite stimulus to AIDS patients who are wasting ... sad consequences when smoking marijuana that include premature cancer, addiction, coordination and perception impairment. These are only some physical consequences to smoking marijuana but ther...

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... . Marijuana indeed is a forbidden medicine because it is illegal. There are countless benefits with the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes. It alleviates symptoms of cancer, chemotherapy, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, depression, as well as symptoms of such less common disorders as Crohn's disease, diabetic gastro paresis, post-traumatic stress disorder, insomnia, schizophrenia, and many others. In the past, several decades" chemotherapy ... applied to the federal portion of budged deficit. In order for these issues to become realities, it takes legalization to make them possible. T...

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... marijuana -- such as an arrest or jail time -- are the result of the prohibition of cannabis, not the use of marijuana itself." Marijuana should not be legalized Scientists have learned a great deal about how THC acts in the brain to produce its many effects. When someone smokes marijuana, THC rapidly passes from the lungs into the bloodstream, which carries the chemical ... or her usual risk. The researchers suggest that a heart attack might occur, in part, because marijuana raises blood pressure and heart rate and reduces the oxygen-carrying capacity of blood.1 Depression, anxiety, an...

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... just a sampling of the medicinal properties this plant has to offer. Many patients also report that marijuana is useful for treating arthritis, migraine, menstrual cramps, alcohol and opiate addiction, and depression and other debilitating mood disorders. Hemp also produces an oil seed that contains between 25 - 35 % oil by weight. High in essential fatty acids, hemp seed offers exceptional nutritional value ... ; as a result, hemp paper recycles many more times. The wood- like core fiber or "Hurd" can be used for animal bedding, garden mulch, fuel and an assortment of building materials...

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... 137). The assortment of medicinal uses is widespread; such conditions that can be aided through the use of marijuana include: Anorexia, Pain, Glaucoma, Migraine, Hypertension, Anxiety, Asthma, Peptic Ulcer, Alcoholism, Depression, Insomnia, Inflammation, Nausea, and Cancer (Cohen 36). When the benefits are so grand and the risks are so few we are left to wonder why its use is suppressed in ... . Missouri has gone out on a limb and petitioned the federal government, requesting a lift on the ban of marijuana(http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9702/weed.wars/facts/state.chart/states). A great point ...

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