... personal use as severely as large scale traffickers. For instance, medical marijuana user William Foster of Oklahoma was sentenced to 93 years in jail in January 1997 for growing 10 marijuana plants and 56 clones. Foster maintains that he grew to alleviate the pain of rheumatoid arthritis ... be obtained, the greater the chances they will experiment with harder drugs.6 Marijuana legalization proponents use the example of the Netherlands in their favor. In Holland, where politicians decided over 25 years ago to separate marijuana from the illicit drug market by permitting coffee shops all ...

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... include anxiety, backache, joint pain, weakness, abdominal cramps, insomnia, nausea, anorexia, vomiting, diarrhea, or an increase in blood pressure, respiratory rate and heart rate ("OxyContin,"" 2539). Overdoses on the drug can be manifested by respiratory depression, somnolence progressing to stupor or coma, cold and clammy skin, hypotension, bradycardia and death ("OxyContin,"" 2540). Meiosis or pinpoint pupils are also a sign of ... opioid overdose but are not pathognomic ("OxyContin,"" 2537). Death from fatal respiratory depression can happen, but some of the more common reasons abu...

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