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Should cannabis be legalised?
... common. But recent research has shown that cannabis could cause up to 30 000 deaths each year. The Imperial College School of Medicine team claimed cannabis smoking was linked to bronchitis, emphysema, lung cancer and mental illnesses. Researcher Professor John Henry said: "Cannabis ...
Marijuana...
... Madison, Monroe, and many others. John F. Kennedy smoked it to relieve his back pain. Also, many of America's great leaders were hemp farmers. This includes good ol' George Washington. Archeologists believe that cannabis was possibly the first plant farmed by humans. Many people think that marijuana ...
The Legalization of Marijuana.
... Marijuana being one of today's most commonly used drug, its legalization would cause serious damage to the economy of the United States. Although there are several benefits, I believe that mostly chaos would come from the acceptance of these demands. Those for the legalization of marijuana feel that ...
Marijuana
... of most Americans (American Heritage, pg 47). In 1937 the government issued the Marijuana Tax Act, which levied a dollar an ounce tax on marijuana, coupled with fines of $2,000 for drug posession and jail sentences for evasion of the tax. For this reason marijuana use in the United States ...
Ephedra: Keep it or Say goodbye to it?
... legal in the U.S. It would be a travesty to keep this substance legal for distribution in the United States , how many more lives have to be lost before actions are taken. In the United States today we are dealing with many problems from illegal substances and I realize that ephedra may not be of ...
Pete Hamil talks about how TV and drugs are related
... smoking cocaine her children would be watching television. When he compared this to the many other situations he observed as a reporter, he noticed that they all the same common trait, television. He supported his thesis, by introducing the amount of televisions sold in a particular year ...
Drinking makes you impotent
... of the effects that alcohol can have on hormones. Alcohol also causes cancer and heart disease, and it wreaks havoc on the liver. In fact, tens of thousands of people die every year from cirrhosis and alcohol-related diseases. While it's clear that ...
This is a reaction to Douglas N. Husak's argument that drunk driving is not a serious offense.
... in determining how serious drunk driving really is. He dismisses the risk of drunk driving as being serious for a number of reasons. He first states that many drunk driving accidents would have also happened had the driver been sober. Husak also estimates that eleven thousand people ...
Alcholism A Disease Or Not A Disease?
... wide variety of substances. Many people see others get addicted to things like coke or weed and its never heard to call this addiction cokeism/weedism or even classify it as a disease. Therefore being addicted to something does not indicate that one has acquired a "disease". One of ...
Marijuana Being legalized for Medicinal Purposes
... Many people still feel that legalization of marijuana is ridiculous and they are disgusted with the court for deciding that marijuana offers any benefit to the chronically ill. Meghan McCrossen who wrote the article Pot for Pain? What're you smoking? couldn't believe that an illegal drug ...