... smoked on form of loosely rolled cigarettes called joints or hollowed out commercial cigars called blunts (Nation 5)." Marijuana is put into these forms because they look like ordinary cigarettes or cigars. It's like a disguise. The street names for marijuana are pot, grass, weed, Mary Jane, Acapulco gold and reefer. According ... to some interviews, many teens smoke marijuana to "Get away from it all (interviews)." For many teens, marijuana is a solution to there problems. It's a high that takes them to another level. Other teens smoke pot because they are curious or because of ... pee...

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... causes no deaths per year whereas aspirin causes two thousand deaths per year (Rosenthal 56). Pot, another name for marijuana, is a drug made from the dried leaves and flowering tops of hemp plants. It has many psychological and physical effects. It is usually smoked as cigarettes ... 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. Ross Rebagliati, from Whistler, British Columbia, won the men's giant slalom snowboarding gold medal, with a time of two minutes and 3.96 seconds. Following his victory, he failed the preliminary urine test and a second conforming test that medalists undergo ... cannabi...

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... THC content. Marijuana is usually smoked in the form of loosely rolled cigarettes called "joints" or hollowed out commercial cigars called "blunts." Joints and blunts are sometimes laced with a number of adulterants including phencyclidine (PCP), substantially altering the effects and toxicity of these products. Street names for marijuana include pot, grass, weed, Mary Jane, Acapulco Gold, and reefer. Although marijuana grown in the U.S. was once ... considered inferior because of a low concentration of THC, advancements in plant selection and cultivation have resulted in highly potent ...

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