... the existence, use, and effect of marijuana. The history of the Cannabis plant and the outcomes associated with the use and abuse of marijuana is the major focus of this paper. Is Marijuana? Marijuana is a drug obtained from dried and crumpled parts of the hemp plant Cannabis. Cannabis is botanically classified as a member of the family Cannabaceae and the genus ... other hand, will last a lifetime. Initially, within a few minutes of inhaling marijuana smoke, users likely experience dry mouth, rapid heartbeat, some loss of coordination, a decreased sense of balance, and slower reaction...

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... again for several minutes or less until the LSD wears off. Cannabis has been one of the most controversial drugs in our society. Used for a number of things including clothing, paper, fuel, food, and medicine, marijuana seems to be a potential cash crop. However in 1937 due to some of its medical and chemical properties, U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Marijuana ... produce respiratory depression. Chronic use of flunitrazepam can result in physical dependence and the appearance of withdrawal syndrome when the drug is discontinued. Flunitrazepam impairs cognitive and psy...

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"Marijuana oh, what to say about marijuana."" I hope you learn the dangers of marijuana by reading my research paper. Marijuana is derived from a plant grown in moderate climates in many areas throughout the world. It is considered a drug, which can be used for medicinal or recreational purposes. The ingestion ... to legal drinking. By the time Prohibition was repealed in 1933 and liquor once again became readily available, it was too late to stop the spread of the drug. Public reaction led to efforts to restrict marijuana's accessibility. And it had become illegal in forty-six states by 193...

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... , injection, and smoking. Snorting is the most popular. The user cuts the cocaine into lines and snorts it through one or both nostrils using a straw or a rolled up piece of paper. Others inject it directly into the blood stream. Crack is another type of cocaine. It is a hardened, very addictive form that may be smoked directly. Cocaine is very expensive. A single ... . This constitutes the testing substance, which is then combined with a sample of the urine from an athlete to be tested. If the urine contains a banned drug, an immediate and visible reaction occurs. Because the body respon...

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... Zag 1.5's, every smoker has smoked out of these at some point in there life because it is tradition. In the recent years the blunt, which is the outside leaf or paper that a cigar is wrapped in, has become very popular. This product takes more time to prepare but allows the smoker to pack more weed into one serving. In rolling a blunt ... a high person feel goofy and at times uncoordinated. Driving under the influence of weed is possible but is hazardous because the drug affects the senses of sight and also slows reaction time. The traditional after effects of being high are sleepiness ...

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... , injection, and smoking. Snorting is the most popular. The user cuts the cocaine into lines and snorts it through one or both nostrils using a straw or a rolled up piece of paper. Others inject it directly into the blood stream. Crack is another type of cocaine. It is a hardened, very addictive form that may be smoked directly. Cocaine is very expensive. A single ... . This constitutes the testing substance, which is then combined with a sample of the urine from an athlete to be tested. If the urine contains a banned drug, an immediate and visible reaction occurs. Because the body respon...

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... , injection, and smoking. Snorting is the most popular. The user cuts the cocaine into lines and snorts it through one or both nostrils using a straw or a rolled up piece of paper. Others inject it directly into the blood stream. Crack is another type of cocaine. It is a hardened, very addictive form that may be smoked directly. Cocaine is very expensive. A single ... constitutes the testing substance, which is then combined with a sample of the urine from an athlete to be tested. If the urine contains a banned drug, an immed! iate and visible reaction occurs. Because the body responds w...

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... is a relatively "safe drug", and those who are anti marijuana. These two factions have been fighting on this issue on the halls of justice for years. The purpose of this paper is to discuss marijuana and compare both sides of the issue of legalizing marijuana. Marijuana should be legalized According to the proponents of marijuana legalization, it's time to put to ... into other chemicals. One of these, the 11-hydroxy metabolite, is four to five times more potent than THC and greatly increases the likelihood of a patient experiencing an adverse psychological reaction. In contrast, inhale...

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... , is weight for weight 5,000 times as potent as the hallucinogenic drug mescaline and 200 times as potent as psilocybin. LSD is usually taken orally from little squares of blotter paper, gelatin "windowpanes,"" or tiny tablets called microdots. The period of its effects, or "trip,"" is usually 8 to 12 hours. Unexpected reappearances of the hallucinations, called "flashbacks,"" can occur months after ... out of codependent cycles. Some treatment programs use medicines that neutralize the effects of the drug. Antabuse is a medicine used in the treatment of alcoholism. It causes severe and ...

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... , (bast), and pulp, (hurd), of the hemp plant can be used to make paper. Fiber paper was the first kind of paper, and the first batch was made out of hemp in ancient China. Fiber paper is thin, tough, brittle, and a bit rough. Pulp paper is not as strong as fiber paper, but it is easier to make, softer, thicker, and preferable for most everyday purposes ... do th! eir best to clean these chemicals up. Hemp offers us an opportunity to make affordable and environmentally safe paper for all of our needs, since it does not need much chemical treatment. Because of the chemicals in today's pap...

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... education. Industrial hemp could also create revenue as well, for one acre of hemp a farmer can earn up to 600 dollars, and one hemp paper processing plant could potentially create 800 full-time jobs (Ecological Agriculture Project, 1996). American consumers are eager to buy products that are not only biodegradable ... durable and strong hemp products are, all one has to do is look at the first Guttenberg Bible, as it was written on hemp paper over 600 years ago, and is to this day still in good condition. Another example would be Henry Ford's use of hemp in 1941 ... the world's rainfore...

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... education. Industrial hemp could also create revenue as well, for one acre of hemp a farmer can earn up to 600 dollars, and one hemp paper processing plant could potentially create 800 full-time jobs (Ecological Agriculture Project, 1996). American consumers are eager to buy products that are not only biodegradable ... durable and strong hemp products are, all one has to do is look at the first Guttenberg Bible, as it was written on hemp paper over 600 years ago, and is to this day still in good condition. Another example would be Henry Ford's use of hemp in 1941 ... the world's rainfore...

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... help with our overcrowding prison problem. It can also help provide us a cleaner environment because of what hemp can replace. Hemp can be used to make paper rather that cutting down rain forest trees to make paper. Enforcing marijuana laws only prevents our society from obtaining benefits in the aspects of: socially, economically, industrially, and medically. Marijuana laws also violate people's Constitutional ... ). Hemp is beneficial to our environment because it can help produce a more non toxic environment as Rosenthal and Kubby points out that hemp can be used to make acid free pap...

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... . Legalizing hemp based products could create a whole new industry. Fuels can be made by extracting oils from seeds and the hemp fiber could be used to make ropes, clothing, or paper of a higher quality because of the strength of the fibers.1 Marijuana is the most widely used illegal drug in Canada. Four million Canadians have used marijuana, including 1.4 million teenagers.2 The ... would have been able to take over competing industries quite rapidly. It would have strangled competing industries because 10,000 acres of land devoted to hemp would produce as much paper as 40,000 acres of ...

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... from their containers. A liquid solvent may also be poured or sprayed on an absorbent material, such as a sock or rag, or a roll of toilet paper. Abusers often try to concentrate the fumes by putting the solvent in a paper or plastic bag or a rubber balloon, and then holding the open end over the mouth and nose and sniff/inhale. The capsules containing amyl ... nitrite are crushed and held beneath the nose. Butyl nitrite may be inhaled in its container, or, like organic solvents, applied to absorbent cloth or paper. How do Inhalants Harm You? Because the immediate side-affects are usual...

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... to opiate exposure, opiate dependence is a brain-related disorder with the requisite characteristics of a medical illness."" There are a few different methods of treatment, but for the sake of simplicity, this paper will cover methadone and narcotic antagonists. Methadone is a synthetic narcotic analgesic that was developed in Germany during World War II due to the lack of opiate based pain medication. Methadone ... fight drugs, it will always lose. Government's solution is spending more money, imprison more people but that does not keep people from using drugs. In this final part of th...

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... of the oldest crops not grown for food, the marijuana plant began its life in China where the tissues of the hemp stalk were used to weave clothing, rope, and paper; seeds were pressed to make oil for paints and varnish; and dried seeds were used as food for canaries and other songbirds. Cultivation of the crop began thousands of years ... to the fact that those cool climates lessened the psycho-active material (Stwertka 16). Thomas Jefferson also grew the crop, and the Declaration of Independence was even written on hemp paper. This plant was also widely used to make sails and rigging ...

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... and positive health effects of smoking marijuana are shown in the 2002, issue of Time magazine. In the brain, marijuana may cause change in brain chemistry, helping to cause a slow reaction time. However, it also increases the sense of euphoria, which helps minimize the pain of migraine headaches, and help prevent the spread of cancer. Pot also leads to difficulty in ... ...

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... to opiate exposure, opiate dependence is a brain-related disorder with the requisite characteristics of a medical illness." There are a few different methods of treatment, but for the sake of simplicity, this paper will cover methadone and narcotic antagonists. Methadone is a synthetic narcotic analgesic that was developed in Germany during World War II due to the lack of opiate based pain medication. Methadone ... fight drugs, it will always lose. Government's solution is spending more money, imprison more people but that does not keep people from using drugs. In this final part of the...

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... grown more easily, in all fifty states, being frost tolerant, and not needing any pesticides or fertilizers. One acre of hemp can produce as much paper as two to four acres of trees, the quality of paper is better, can be recycled more, and requires less toxic chemicals in the manufacturing process. The same pattern is applied to fiberboard, and can be ... ...

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... becomes involved with the lucrative drug trade. Although hereditary physical and psychological traits are generally ruled out as independent causes of crime, psychological states are believed to determine an individual's reaction to his environment. The arguable value of the consumption of marijuana is due to its anti-depressant properties. Moreover, psychologists consider crime to result from emotional disorders stemming from childhood ... ...

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... to opiate exposure, opiate dependence is a brain-related disorder with the requisite characteristics of a medical illness." There are a few different methods of treatment, but for the sake of simplicity, this paper will cover methadone and narcotic antagonists. Methadone is a synthetic narcotic analgesic that was developed in Germany during World War II due to the lack of opiate based pain medication. Methadone ... fight drugs, it will always lose. Government's solution is spending more money, imprison more people but that does not keep people from using drugs. In this final part of the...

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... for America? My own view is that in the case of a medical necessity, possibly, if there are no other alternatives, but in the case of recreational use absolutely not. This paper will weigh the pros and cons on each side of this debate and show that although there may be some benefit to legalization, the negative repercussions far outweigh those benefits ... ...

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... expansion of medicinal purposes and the industrial use of marijuana would give the economy a much needed boost. Marijuana which is also known as hemp can be a perfect source of food, paper, medicine, oil, fuel, building materials, and fiber for rope and fabric (Sullum 1993). It is important to point out the benefits the legalization of marijuana would have in terms of ... ...

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... and stalk crop which is used as a rotation crop to supplement wheat, corn and soybeans (Cowan 5). Grown as fiber, hemp's uses vary from clothing, bags, carpeting, upholstery and rope to paper, teabags, construction materials, fiberglass and plastic. Seeds from hemp marijuana create food products such as bagels, salad dressing and dietary supplements. Skin-lotion and shampoo also created from hemp seeds ... ...

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