Salome D. Uy Drug A drug is a substance which may have medicinal‚ intoxicating‚ performance enhancing or other effects when taken or put into a human body or the body of another animal and is not considered a food or exclusively a food. What is considered a drug rather than a food varies between cultures‚ and distinctions between drugs and foods and between kinds of drug are enshrined in laws which vary between jurisdictions and aim to restrict or prevent drug use. Even within a jurisdiction
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grows $13.8 billion worth of cannabis annually (Glaister). Drug laws have successfully reduced the flow of marijuana into the US. This success is the main reason for the colossal amount of cannabis produced here. Large amounts of marijuana are now grown on U.S. soil because of the risks involved in transporting it across borders. If prohibition were effective‚ it would not force marijuana to be the nation’s leading cash crop (Nadelmann “Drug Prohibition in the United States”). When marijuana is made
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increase aggressive behavior‚ and that drunk individuals may pose a threat to the public. The study-based site “Drug War Facts” claims that “rather than inducing violent or aggressive behavior . . . marihuana was usually found to inhibit the expression of aggressive impulses . . . generally producing states of drowsiness‚ lethargy‚ timidity and passivity.”17 A concern regarding many drugs is that they induce dangerous behavior‚ extending the threat of harm from themselves to others. Marijuana does
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shifting as the positive aspects of enacting laws allowing its use come to the public’s attention. Illegal importation of drugs into the United States is a multi-billion dollar industry with all of the profits going to criminal drug dealers. The black market for marijuana would be eliminated if marijuana were legalized as well as the expense of waging war on this drug (legalize.org‚ 2005). Serious illness related to or stemming from marijuana use is negligible compared to its legal counterparts‚ alcohol
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How far we ’ve come: How Drugs are even in Advertisements As governments fight against the production and consumption of drugs‚ some companies are using them as advertisements to sell their product and make it look as if it was normal. In fact‚ almost fifteen percent of the population in United States with the age of fourteen and older is consuming drugs (Borden). There are dangers of using drugs in advertisements directed toward the youth culture‚ such as the one illustrated by an SISLEY print
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Legalize It! Many feel today we are losing the war on drugs. When a battle goes to the point where there is no winner there needs to be a re-evaluation of how to solve the problem. In the case of the war against drugs‚ years of fighting have caused increased crime‚ overcrowding of prisons and the wasted use of money and resources with no results. It is now time to look at alternative methods to solving the nation ’s drug problem. I will be looking at one of these methods that deals with the
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The war on drugs is one of the longest‚ seemingly non-progressive issues the US has ever faced. The fact that the government has been prolonging the end of this war‚ is an issue in itself. The documentary The House I Live In‚ directed by Eugene Jarecki in 2012‚ is an informative and important film for the advancement of the war on drugs. In the film‚ the complete history of the war on drugs is picked apart and essentially‚ it is determined and expressed that the war on drugs is a counterproductive
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Medical Cannabis: The Legalization The use of marijuana in human civilization dates back to 6000 B.C. In this era‚ China found that cannabis seeds are edible and later discovered a greater use as textiles. From that time period‚ humanity has made significant advancement‚ and has discovered further uses for the marijuana plant. Today‚ marijuana can be used as medical cannabis to treat ailments that other medication cannot possibly treat. Although medical cannabis has some great benefits‚ in the
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have tried marijuana at one point in their lives. Though occasional use isn’t usually harmful‚ pot can affect your body and mind any time it gets into your system. Marijuana brings millions of people relief from the pain they feel from a day to day basis. Medical marijuana use is legal with a doctor’s prescription in 10 states‚ though this has not stopped the Drug Enforcement Agency from arresting brain cancer patients who use marijuana to ease their pain. Studies show marijuana can be therapeutic
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it Would keeping drugs illegal and following the same failed drug polices that our government implemented decades ago help solve our problems? Did Prohibition end the use of alcohol among American’s in the 1920s? No‚ in fact it made things much worse for America by the rise in illegal‚ wide-scale distribution of alcohol‚ creating bigger problems like organized crime and the American mafia. In todays society we have a prohibition of drugs‚ which we call “the war on drugs‚” and it has created
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