This excerpt demonstrates that the more a person smokes the more addicted he is going to get. ... Maybe it's the idea of kicking back, smoking some opium, and then relaxing with your friends, but whatever it is, there is something about the drug that made the addiction rate in China increase exponentially. ...
This threat motivates her to do whatever she can to save her family. ... Because of one abrupt change in her life, she feels the need to go to extreme efforts to save her image. ... Because of her unique addiction to living an upper-class lifestyle, Helena goes to extravagant lengths to resume the life she had before her husband's arrest. ...
Among them are AIDS victims who find that marijuana stimulates their appetites so they can fight off dangerous emaciation; glaucoma sufferers who have used marijuana said it has prevented them from going blind, and cancer patients for whom it alleviates the severe nausea that is often accompanies chemotherapy and sometimes makes lifesaving treatment impossible. ... The bottom line is, whatever the money is used for, it will be coming from the marijuana market which currently provides 0 dollars to the communities it is found in. ... I think those are apt metaphors for what will happen if Ameri...
Introduction Heroin is a derivative of morphine synthesized by a simple aceylation reaction of the parent compound in a manner almost identically to aspirin. It was originally intended to wean morphine addicts from the drug, but has since become a much bigger problem than morphine. The...
Whatever way crime is measured, whether through self-reporting or through being officially recorded offending, offenders are generally less intelligent, on average, than non-offenders (Blumstein, et al 1986). ... Since procedures, which help school attainments are really not going to cause much effect on intelligence, this proposes that school performance does make a small effect on delinquency. ...
LIBERTARIANISM Two hundred and twelve years ago thirty nine signatures spoke, gracing its delicate spaceless yet palatial surface with the ease and wave of a single downy bowed quill. Seventeen hundred and eighty seven was the year that the most momentous document in the United States history as well as posterity was created, approved and just two years later instituted as the foundation for a fledging yet promising nation destined for greatness. It was a great concept envisioned by extraordinary men, a system in which the people of the land reign, governing through democratically ...
