... athletes are currently using, or have at some time used, some type of performance-enhancing drug, only a handful have ever been caught and punished (Bamberger and Yaeger, 1997). This again points to the inefficiency and futility of the IOC's efforts to diminish the prevalence of drugs in Olympic competition. Due to the lack of success that the IOC has had in ... the belief is that nobody loves a loser. How many people know who came fourth in any race? Although it is hard to lay blame on the public, they are responsible for placing tremendous pressure on athletes to win, and exposing sta...

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... controls nausea and vomiting in chemotherapy patients, some of whom are not helped by standard anti-emetics. Lester Grinspoon, leading activist for medicinal marijuana, argues that ten out of twenty migraine sufferers are not helped by normally prescribed medicines but are relieved with the use ... breathing, Grinspoon recommends the drug as a means of easing childbirth. A California study showed that smoking marijuana reduced the damaging pressure inside the eye caused by glaucoma. A pharmacologist for the U.S. FDA, Denis Petro's 1981 study showed that oral THC reduced spasticity in peo...

• Word Count: 3551
• Approx Pages: 14
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate