J Elders says that marijuana helps by easing pain in people who are suffering from arthritis, migraines, joint pains, MS and other pain inducing diseases (procon.org). ... They are too nauseous to even sit up, but they need to eat to keep their strength up. ... Anorexia is an eating disorder where the person suffering from the disease forces themselves not to eat. By using marijuana, it gives the person the "munchies" and then they want to eat. ... Some believe that people would abuse the system by buying marijuana from the government and sell it tax-free. ...

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Often, people fail to remember that celebrities are just humans like everyone else. ... Celebrity obsession can cause a young admirer to make negative behavior decisions such as drug abuse or developing an eating disorder. ... Drug abuse alters people's behavior and attitude in society. ... The pressure of society to be skinny can often lead to eating disorders. ... However, developing the need to look like the celebrities in magazine can result in having a much higher chance of forming an eating disorder that can develop over time (Ata et al. 1025). ...

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Even people who are in great physical and mental shape are not safe from drug addiction (Peck 14-15). ... Just think back to the day when athletes used to eat wheaties for enhancement and energy. Now it has gone from eating wheaties to snorting cocaine or shots of steroids. ... Steroids, which are used for muscle building, are obtained illegally by well over a million people. Tens of thousands of these people who use them are males who graduate out of high school. ...

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Image how much legalization would help these people in relaxing their symptoms and causing the side effect of hunger allows them to eat when their body still tells them "no". ... Outlawing marijuana is a problem because of the amount of people who use it. 1. ... The estimated number of Americans living with AIDS is about 1 million people. 2. ... Patience suffer immense pain and have problems eating and often lose sever amounts of weight. ... It is also proven that it has medical benefits that can help millions of people every year. ...

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Three primary ways that a person can administer a drug into the body are through Intravenous (IV) injection, inhalation, and by eating or drinking. ... Finally the longest and gentler of the three forms of administering a drug into the body is by eating. ... Therefore, while eating or drinking a drug may take longer to reach the bloodstream, the effects it can have on the brain can still be extensive and irreversible. ... The hippocampus is what was affected in the longitudal study done in New Zealand where the people that were heavily smoking marijuana had a significant IQ decline. ... Peop...

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There are many problems with the government thinking it can protect people from themselves, and their own choices. ... "Well," he explains, "high cholesterol kills thousands of people each year from related diseases, and you were eating this junk, and your family had access to it as well. ... Do people not know there cholesterol is rising with each burger, leading them closer and closer to death? Of course they do, but in their minds eye the satisfaction of eating the burger outweighs the potential for poor future health. ... I began to wonder where the people were that I learned about in D.A....

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Freedom to choose what to eat and drink, how to raise our children, what religion to belong to- if any- and how we choose to live our lives. ... Just as the government can not force Americans to not eat too much cholesterol because it leads to heart disease, the government should not hold a drug control policy over Americans as well. ... What it doesn't tell you is that hysterical drug enforcers are burning down and permanently destroying the precious and sacred Coca plants of the Columbian people. ... However, because what ever alcohol was being sold on the black markets, the people w...

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Drugs are how families get torn apart; it's how people lose all of their money and all of their material possessions. ... Even when my mother took us kids out to eat we had to be careful. ... So my mother took me, my sister, and my two brothers to Golden Corral to eat. ... He was yelling, and cussing, and everything, and all at school where people were walking in and out of the office getting things, people I knew. ... But at least things did not get worse than what they were because sometimes drugs can do a lot more harm, like killing people. ...

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Many people take drugs such as Xanax, Prozac, Risperdal and Ritalin for these disorders. ... In addition, girls are more susceptible to substance abuse if they have an eating disorder, such as bulimia or anorexia, or if they have experienced early onset of puberty" (Gordon). ... The more often parents eat with their children, the less likely it is that their children will smoke, drink or use other drugs.... "(Fumento) He later talks about how boys are generally loud and obnoxious and the diagnosis of ADHD being higher in males is simply because people are just trying to come the boys...

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There are many people with addictions that may not even realize it. ... On the other hand, people can become addicted to not working. ... Yes, it is possible and people are now becoming negaholics. ... People can become addicted, obsessed and dependent on anything. ... What if someone couldn't stop eating chocolate no matter how sick it made them, or what if they slept for days at a time? ...

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When cocaine users discontinue use, many complain of sleep and eating disorders, depression, and anxiety, and the craving for the drug often drives them to use again. ... People who frequently use cocaine fall victim to the physical and psychological effects of the drug. ... Placing the same people in jail time after time has had little effect on the cocaine epidemic. ... In teaching people the necessary skills to hold a job, and in providing food and shelter for those who cannot afford it, we will help people help themselves. ... In doing these things, people will have a greater respect f...

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In the following I will talk about the stages of addiction, people I know and how they react to addiction, personal experiences as well as different treatment plans and how people react to them. ... In general people just act on impulse instead of thinking through they"re actions first. ... It puts people in a great mood. ... Behavior like this can also lead to eating disorders. ... People also just do it all themselves too probably the hardest way of going about it. ...

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Why do we keep increasing prison sentences, inflating punitive measures, and torturing sick people; people who are already tortured from within? ... Eating a poor diet is stupid, but certainly not illegal. ... We have to teach people if we want to help them. ... We cannot punish people because they are sick. We cannot blame people because they are addicted. ...

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Why do we keep increasing prison sentences, inflating punitive measures, and torturing sick people; people who are already tortured from within? ... Eating a poor diet is stupid, but certainly not illegal. ... We have to teach people if we want to help them. ... We cannot punish people because they are sick. We cannot blame people because they are addicted. ...

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First off, people say that marijuana is an addictive drug. ... Also, people say that marijuana is a big crime contributor. ... Both of which are legal drugs to people of age" (Goldburg 2). ... Many people also believe that marijuana is a gateway drug. ... Let's stop throwing non-violent marijuana offenders in prison for doing a drug that is less harmful than some foods we eat. ...

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In America, it's estimated that one hundred people die daily from prescription drug overdose. ... Today, many people, especially the older generation, are visiting multiple doctors for medical conditions in which they suffer - or believe they suffer. ... In the older population, many people suffer from medical conditions in which cause them to remember which can lead to accidental overdoses. ... These people, while they are very independent, they need someone to control their prescription drugs and ensure that they take them as they are prescribed. ... Our children should be taught the ne...

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Laws that protect people from being harmed exist under an assumption called the Harm Principle. ... Unlike violent crimes, the pleasure of consuming drugs never violates the pursuit of happiness for any separate individual which puts cannabis into the same category as alcoholism, sex addiction, binge eating disorders, and so on. ...

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Many times people only see the surface of what the drug does to you. ... Upon telling people they should not smoke, their response is often, "Why? ... Then there are the people that are going to school. ... After multiple bad grades, people tend to quit. ... Basically, they are saying that marijuana for medical use is very helpful and allows the patients to fight the disease a little harder because they still are able to eat. ...

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In the United States there's people from all over the world from different cultures and traditions. ... I don't think so, tobacco is legal and people don't get tired of smoking, so if they legalized these drugs more and more people will get addicted. ... The pancreas also has a role in digesting the food we eat. ... Many people who have never smoked once develop cancer faster than a regular smoker. ... In the absence of love, people seek intimacy through porn and sex. ...

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Throughout all of the debate surrounding this issue, one thing remains, while people are sitting around debating whether ill people should use marijuana to help them feel better, there are sick people sitting around making themselves feel better illegally through the use of marijuana. ... With the legalization of marijuana comes the increased risk of people abusing the drug. ... Marijuana assists in the alleviation of these side effects by easing the nausea that many AIDS patients suffer from, and also by increasing their appetite; so that once the nausea subsides they also have a desire to...

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Some of the most common activities that ecstasy users engage in and reasons why people take MDMA are as follows: 1.) ... People who wish to spend the 'experience' or the high thinking about their personal problems also use ecstasy. Many psychotherapists know MDMA as a very effective way to for people to deal with personal issues and 'open up' and effectively discuss their personal issues with others. 3.) ... When on MDMA, everyday activities, such as touching, hugging, kissing, sexual activity, eating, drinking, and etc, become intensely pleasurable and unusually fu...

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By telling her - she had to help Grandma so we both could eat- (Dash, 32), the little girl thought that this is a way of earning money for food. ... At this point I can understand people getting angry at families like Rosa Lee`s, because they see how their tax money is being spent on crack and heroin instead of on food, clothes and medicine. ... She also stole change out of the pockets from people in church. ... All those people are trapped in a vicious circle and hardly find a way to get out of it. ...

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When a child feels like they cannot offer the help and support they often blame their self, this can cause a higher chance of depression, anxiety, eating disorders and suicide attempts among children of abusers than amongst their peers. ... Adding more people to the government assistance program and once they lose their job the drugs could potentially become a bigger problem being they have much more time. ...

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