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…, but others as well. Marijuana is also a gateway drug which means users will use marijuana as a stepping-stone to more harder drugs (http://www.acde.org/common/Marijana.htm,1996). The National Institute of Drug Abuse surveyed that pot users have a thirty-three…

…of men and 50 percent of women arrested for property crimes (burglary, larceny, and robbery) in 1990, who were voluntarily tested, tested positive for illicit drug use. In 1987, 64 percent of all reported child abuse and neglect cases in New York City were…

…. Marijuana is considered to be a schedule one drug. That means that it has a high potential for abuse and lacks an acceptance for legal medical use, as it is clearly stated under the controlled substance act. However there're many pros and cons to whether…

…York: St. Martin's Paperbacks. Kuhn, C., Swartzwelder, S., & Wilson W. (1998). Buzzed: The straight facts about the most used and abused drugs from alcohol to ecstasy. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. Smyth, A (1991). Seasonal affective…

…this, a number of people, especially in Colombia, see the U.S. only escalating the human rights abuses committed by paramilitary groups, and punishing the people of Colombia, all in the name of the “War On Drugs”. Through all of this, you start to raise more…

…reported marijuana as their primary drug of abuse, showing they needed help to stop using””(Middleton A5). A withdrawal syndrome occurs, consisting of "anxiety, depression, sleep, and appetite disturbances, irritability, tremors, diaphoresis, nausea, muscle…

…York. During several days of music, sex, and drugs were abused heavily, almost to the point of complete stupor. But even though it may have seemed like Mayhem, it was one of the greatest moments of the 60s. The monumentum of the previous decade’s civil…

…disease but they hit the strongest in the brain. Heavy users are slow and spaced out for years after abusing hallucinogenic drugs. Although hallucinogens are very dangerous and scary drugs they have good uses to. In smaller doses they can be used…

…Congress passed the Controlled Substance Act, which assigned drugs to certain schedules based on the drug's potential for abuse and level of medical use. Schedule I drugs were considered to have no medical use and the high abuse potential. Marijuana…

…abusing the drug. When taking this harmful drug, people may become very aggressive and depressed at times (Meer 69). A person will notice severe acne and swelling of the feet and lower legs occurring on the body, as well as the possibility of baldness…