... groups, including professional athletes. It is certainly quite common to hear about or read about athletes and drug use. Although drugs have a lengthy history of use by athletes, they have varied effects on the body and different preventions. Much of the world's supply of cocaine is produced in ... an emotional crutch, exhibiting "behavior dependence." Users usually have low self -esteem and suffer spells of depression. This has been demonstrated in laboratory tests where monkeys starved themselves to death so as to keep getting cocaine (Worsnop 50). For a time, most athletes were drawn t...

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... groups, including professional athletes. It is certainly quite common to hear about or read about athletes and drug use. Although drugs have a lengthy history of use by athletes, they have varied effects on the body and different preventions. Much of the world's supply of cocaine is produced in ... an emotional crutch, exhibiting "behavior dependence." Users usually have low self -esteem and suffer spells of depression. This has been demonstrated in laboratory tests where monkeys starved themselves to death so as to keep getting cocaine (Worsnop 50). For a time, most athletes were drawn t...

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... , including professional athletes. It is certainly quite common to hear about or read about athletes and drug use. Although drugs have a lengthy history of use by athletes, they have varied effects on the body and different preventions. Much of the world's supply of cocaine is produced in ... an emotional crutch, exhibiting "behavior dependence." Users usually have low self -esteem and suffer spells of depression. This has been demonstrated in laboratory tests where monkeys starved themselves to death so as to keep getting cocaine (Worsnop 50). For a time, most athletes were drawn to coca...

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... have a long-term negative impact of global intelligence- (Branswell 1). Dumbness caused from pot ends when the pot smoker stops smoking pot. Tests of current users who wanted to quit smoking pot showed that the longer a person smoked pot, the affects of memory and attention span worsened. The ... certainty of the tests is unknown as Dr. Harrison Pope notes, "These long-term users may have been worse off in the first place, before they ever ... prohibition of alcohol, the crime rates increased; criminal gangs were supported and respect for the law weakened. The citizens of the U.S. can ...

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... have a long-term negative impact of global intelligence- (Branswell 1). Dumbness caused from pot ends when the pot smoker stops smoking pot. Tests of current users who wanted to quit smoking pot showed that the longer a person smoked pot, the affects of memory and attention span worsened. The ... certainty of the tests is unknown as Dr. Harrison Pope notes, "These long-term users may have been worse off in the first place, before they ever ... prohibition of alcohol, the crime rates increased; criminal gangs were supported and respect for the law weakened. The citizens of the U.S. can ...

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... fluid searches". Many more people use marijuana than other illicit drugs and is a drug that can be detected after days and weeks after the initial ingestion (134). Even with drug tests and harsh punishments marijuana is still in the high amounts and the drug of choice. One government surveys about eighty-five percent of high school seniors say it is "very ... it was risky and unreliable (57). The other myths have been said to be true because of scientific test. However these tests were not performed on humans and test performed on humans has been to show different results then tests per...

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... primarily found in fat tissues. The body, in its attempt to rid itself of the foreign chemical, chemically transforms the THC into metabolites. Urine tests can detect THC metabolites for up to a week after people have smoked marijuana. Tests involving radioactively labeled THC have traced these metabolites in animals for up to a month. (National Institute on Drug Abuse, 1984.) There are 3 types ... they individually abuse. Most hospitals have both of these programs. These are the steps that most programs include; • Psychosocial assessment and medical evaluation • Current alcohol and...

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... smokers in a government cage, seize their property and in many other ways ruin the lives of those doing something that has been a normal and natural part of human life throughout history.   Several people that are pro-legalization say legalize it, tax it and use that money for social security or one of the many other social programs whose funding is being ... caused by the use of tobacco or alcohol, such as major addiction, cancer, heart problems, birth defects, and liver damage.   Death from a marijuana overdose is impossible, in all of world history, there has never been a single de...

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... the user and their unborn child. The story of marijuana dates back to the early settlers in America. The cultivation of the marijuana plant, Cannabis sativa, can be seen in history as early as the mid 1500s. Marijuana can be grown in both tropical and temperate climates. Its ability to alter mood, and use of its fiber for making linen, canvas ... drinking it. Marijuana is found in America as early as 1545, it was grown in Virginia around 1607 by the Jamestown settlers, and introduced into England about a decade later. Throughout history, marijuana has been used to treat a variety of hum...

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... of marijuana in the paper dated June 1994, "Issue 8 Should Marijuana Be Legalized as a Medication?" A web search reveals that Grinspoon is an emeritus professor of psychiatry at Harvard with a long history of pro-drug publications. A search on Voth reveals that he has had a number of positions with anti-drug organizations and causes, as well as a similarly long ... history of anti-drug publications. An interesting side note is that it appears that St. Francis Hospital in Topeka, Kansas (Voth's employer at the time this paper was published) no longer ... and for those who administer it...

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... Cancer, Glaucoma, Alcoholism, Epilepsy, AIDS, and Multiple Sclerosis. Medicinal use of marijuana dates back to the ancient Chinese Emperor Chen Nung, over 5000 years ago (Grinspoon 3). Until recently in history have civilizations considered marijuana use unacceptable and an act of intolerable proportions. The benefits of marijuana in the pharmaceutical aspect is tremendous, one affordable herb could easily replace numerous overpriced ... chemical component is THC or tetrahydrocannabinol. There are also a little over 400 other natural chemicals that make up cannabis sativa (Mechoulam 7). ...

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... of lawbreakers. Current legal drugs such as alcohol and tobacco have a far worse effect on the body than marijuana. No evidence exists that anyone has ever died of a marijuana overdose. Tests performed on mice have shown that the ratio of cannabinoids (the chemicals in marijuana that make you stoned) necessary for overdose to the amount necessary for intoxication is 40,000 ... 5.4% were for marijuana sale/manufacturing and 39.9% were for possession. There were more than 700,000 marijuana arrests in the United States in 1997. This was the largest number in U.S. history. Of these arrests,...

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... adopted statutes that decriminalized use of marijuana, although most all of them re-criminalized marijuana use in the 1980s and 1990s."(Joy,17) Now that we have gone over a brief history of marijuana in the US we can get to the matter at hand. The most widely accepted argument for the legalization of marijuana is the medical use argument. Pain is ... here: The drug war mandates marijuana treatment, then its advocates point to the fact of that treatment to justify the drug war. Also, people who test positive in employment urine tests often have to get treatment to keep their jobs, and pa...

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... marijuana had any effect on the cognitive functioning of the human body. The results concluded that none of the ten subjects suffered any impairment of their mental abilities. In fact, I.Q. tests were given to the subjects while the subjects were using marijuana and tested normal or higher range of cognitive activity (Shaeffer 2). Many of the original studies of how marijuana is ... smoker is arrested every 52 seconds in the United States! In 1997, there were more than 700,000 people arrested for marijuana alone, which was the most in our nation's history. Of those 700,000 arrests, 87% ...

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... that were misinformed about marijuana began running stories accusing marijuana as being an "Assassin of Youth." Marijuana was also associated with horrible car crashes in which teens had perished. As history has taught us, the 1930's were not a racially tolerant time. Sadly, marijuana was also cited as "causing white women to associate with black men." There were many such accusations during ... actually does show is that "a large number of heroin or cocaine users have used marijuana, not the reverse". Dr. Coleman then proceeded to try and remind me that there were tests to show all of ...

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Throughout history marijuana has been used to serve many purposes in many different cultures. The purposes have changed over time as the culture changed. Marijuana, whose scientific name is Cannabis sativa, was ... for glaucoma. A person with glaucoma has too much pressure in the eye. Greunwald says, "Reduced intraoccular pressure was discovered accidentally during trial on the affect of inhaling high doses. During tests intraoccular pressure dropped 45%." It seems that marijuana is the "jack of all trades" when it comes to medicine. However, abuse of the drug causes a prejudice against its ...

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... , industrial, and restricted recreational use. When marijuana was banned in 1937, one of the main arguing points for its illegality was "Marijuana is the most violence causing drug in the history of mankind. Most marijuana smokers are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations ... . Marijuana is a significant cause of emergency room admissions o The government counts an emergency room admission as marijuana-related if marijuana is found anywhere on the patient ...

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