... and pressure to achieve and please. When such expectations are not reached these could result into depression or rebellion. The individual may find an easy escape through alcohol or drugs. Plant, (1975:81), based his assumptions for drug taking as an escape from, or a reaction to, problems; a sign of social or psychological sickness or unhappiness. This family domain with ... family includes regular alcohol or tobacco use, this may set a pattern that will be learned and imitated. Parents who use legal drugs may influence their children's use of illegal ones (Plant, 1975). iii. On the oth...

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Since the 1960s the plant species Cannabis sativa L., also known as marijuana, has been the topic of much controversy, being illegal, in its medicinal and recreational implementations. The reasons for its illegality, however, are just ... , are not available to people who may want or need them. If all the negative side effects of marijuana are listed, it would be apparent they are similar to the characteristics of negative side effects of alcohol, legal opiates and cigarettes (all legal), which makes it hypocritical to condemn one substance, but endorse and tax the others when they are equall...

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