Essays Tagged: "Narcotic"

Marijuana

g. 'Marijuana' refers to the dried leaves and flowers of the cannabis plant, which contains the non-narcotic chemical THC at various potencies. It is smoked or eaten to produce the feeling of being 'h ...

(3 pages) 101 1 3.8 Mar/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Marajuana: effects and after affects

ant it legalized, other people don't. In this essay, I hope to display the facts about this illegal narcotic, and explain many vieMarijuana has many different names such as 'kif' in Morocco, 'doggo' i ...

(2 pages) 88 1 3.7 Nov/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Marijuana...

st of all, marijuana refers to the dried leaves and flowers of the cannabis plant,which contain the narcotic chemical THC at various potencies. It is smoked or eaten toproduce the feeling of being 'hi ...

(2 pages) 127 2 5.0 Feb/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Drug education

A major problem that exists within Canadian society is the abuse of mind-altering substances. Such narcotics cause not only health problems, but also violent and potentially criminal acts. A mind-alt ... narcotic can be defined as both the legal and illegal type. The four main categories of drugs are: narcotics, CNS depressants, CNS stimulants, and hallucinogens. Most of these drugs are highly addict ...

(3 pages) 116 0 3.8 Jan/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Essay on the paper: "Mary Jane: The Devil Weed?"

This paper was written for a football coach who taught health. Evidently I am a social user of this narcotic and am not a believer in the research indicated.ABSTRACT: This paper, entitled 'Mary Jane: ...

(3 pages) 90 1 3.9 Nov/1995

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Discusses Willy Loman as a tragic hero in Arthur Miller's play "Death of a Salesman"

ntentionally or not, to happier times were problems were scarce. He usesthis escape as if it were a narcotic, and as the play progresses, the readerlearns that it can be a dangerous drug, because of i ... of the drug spent, what next?The comparison between Willy's voyages into the past and the use of a narcoticis so perceptible because of it's verity. When Willy's feeling down, orlife seems just too t ...

(4 pages) 137 0 4.0 Feb/1997

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

Danger in the air... Speaks of dangers in local school systems

ing. Carbon dioxide is an odorless gas which can cause discomfort at lower levels and act as a mild narcotic at higher concentrations. According to the Dec. 9 report, "If carbon dioxide levels exceed ...

(2 pages) 34 0 3.0 Feb/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

The Crimes of the Infamous Cali Drug Cartel

Colombian government. The first acts the brothers made werebribing congressmen to vote against anti-narcotic laws, and running their drugsyndicate using faxes and cellular phones all while they were i ...

(3 pages) 71 0 4.1 Jan/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues

Cocaine

oday this problem threatens all of our society. One of the most deadly of these abused drugs is the narcotic cocaine. This report will talk about what cocaine is, what it does to the human body, and t ...

(3 pages) 109 3 4.2 Nov/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

Narcotic Manipulation Of Our Nation.

What exactly is the definition of a narcotic? A narcotic is a habit forming drug that dulls the senses, relieves pain, or induces sleep. ...

(4 pages) 69 1 3.8 Aug/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Persuasive Essay on the Harmful effects Marijuana has on the Human Body.

ogical, physical and behavioural effects on to those who consume it.Immediately after consuming the narcotic one may experience harmful effects from marijuana use such as hallucinations, paranoia, psy ...

(3 pages) 331 4 4.8 Oct/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

The socail control mechanisms used in Huxkey's Brave New World verses Orwells 1984.

by their pursuit for pleasure; this is chiefly achieved by a drug called soma. Soma is a "euphoric, narcotic, a holiday from reality." Soma is a perfect pleasure drug. Event though if does make you hi ... escapism which allows people to be accepting and comfortable with their lack of freedom. Soma is a narcotic that raises an impenetrable wall between the actual world they live in and their minds. 198 ...

(7 pages) 59 0 5.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Legalize marijuana use

Forget Making it Legal, Make it MandatoryMarijuana is a narcotic that is grown from the cannabis plant. Marijuana has many street names including; pot, gras ... ou'll have a longer, healthier, and less stressful life. Who wouldn't want that?The definition of a narcotic is a drug that produces numbness; often taken for pleasure or to reduce pain. By marijuana ... in. The black market will decrease in size and not have the power it has today.Marijuana is still a narcotic that has ruined many people's lives. Today there is constantly a commercial about how cigar ...

(7 pages) 86 0 4.6 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Marijuana and Alcohol This essay contrasts the historical backround of marijuana and alcohol in relation to sociology.

workers introduced the drug into mainstream society that the American culture got a glimpse of the narcotic. Alcohol, however, had been brought to America by the widely accepted European culture and ...

(1 pages) 65 1 2.7 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Flirting With Disaster: The OxyContin Epidemic In The U.S.

oved for prescription by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1995. OxyContin is a Schedule II narcotic used for pain relief in cancer patients and chronic pain sufferers (1). The Controlled Subs ... close review by the FDA and other government agencies for their campaigns to market the schedule II narcotic. According to a Congressional Report on OxyContin Abuse, [the] "DEA has expressed concern t ...

(9 pages) 95 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

This report explain what is marijuana and how people think of it. It also explain how it is a drug use for many years and smuggle here to U.S.

s in the past, including medicine, hemp rope, crude cloth and enjoyment. Now it is mainly used as a narcotic. Marijuana is an illegal weed that grows up to eighteen feet tall with little or no cultiva ...

(4 pages) 18 0 0.0 Oct/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Write a sustained close analysis of 'Kubla Khan' paying attention to both the form and content of the poem.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's visionary Kubla Khan (1797-8) arose out of a narcotic induced dream. According to the poet's preface, he had consumed an effective amount of laud ...

(8 pages) 99 1 4.2 Apr/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

The Mediocrity of Marijuana.

s society as a whole. Marijuana is an anomalously concealed drug because of its classification as a narcotic, impact on history throughout mankind, and the sensations presented to the user.Marijuana i ... are cannabinoids and substances found no where else in nature (Shaw 16). Though marijuana is not a narcotic, medically speaking, it is usually treated as one under federal law and the laws of the all ...

(9 pages) 53 0 5.0 Oct/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Medicalweed

ana has been around for thousands of years. Everyone in the world maythink that marijuana is just a narcotic or a substance that brings a person's mind toeuphoria but there is more to it. Marijuana or ... eone might suffer from. It should be made clear that marijuana is a medicine too,other than being a narcotic. Many people just understand the bad affects of usingmarijuana when there are good uses too ...

(7 pages) 18 0 5.0 Oct/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

Comparitive Essay On Drug Use Over History

Over the last forty years, each decade has played host to a new form of popular, illegal narcotic. These drugs came into mass popularity based on the political, social, and economic factors ...

(5 pages) 30 0 0.0 Apr/2001

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol