The fact that they introduced her to drugs along with introducing her to environments that were not appropriate for high school students all contributed to her demise. ... These pressures resulted in her seeking out an alternative life style. ...
In recent years, many school districts have implemented student athlete drug testing programs within their schools. ... A student athlete drug testing case, in an Oregon school district, resulted in a U.S. ... School officials should not violate a student's privacy without reasonable suspicion that they have done something wrong. ... Drug education programs are seen as an alternative to testing. ... Advocates for student athlete drug testing agree with President Clinton that "drug use will not be tolerated in our schools." ...
Recreationally, marijuana could provide a safer alternative to using alcohol or tobacco. ... Morgan of City University of New York Medical School has been studying the marijuana epidemic for approximately 40 years and is considered a prominent medical researcher. ... Kids still get access to alcohol, as they do to pot, but is there an organized international cartel with machine guns, corrupting governments, killing people, selling alcohol to kids in high schools? ...
Experts from the National Institute of Health or NIH have confirmed that marijuana is an effective, safe and inexpensive alternative for treating nausea caused by AIDS medications and cancer treatments and other like ailments as glaucoma, muscle spasms, intractable pain, epilepsy, anorexia, asthma, insomnia, depression, and other disorders. ... Ethan Nadelman, an assistant professor of politics and public affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University has written about several strategies of legalizing the use of marijuana. ...
