In addition to the immediate effects of heroin, there are also many serious long-term effects that can come with using heroin. ... Withdrawal symptoms do no occur only when a user is trying to quit using heroin. ... No matter how heroin is administered, it is an extremely addictive drug. ... Medication treatment can help ease the craving for heroin when a user is having withdrawal symptoms. ... Just because we do not live in a urban city does not mean there is no access to drugs, and parents need to realize that their children can have the ability to get these drugs with ease. ...

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The Government proclaims there is no therapeutic value in the medicinal use of marijuana, but they do not have hard evidence to prove it (Grinspoon 46). ... Marijuana has eased the pain of chemotherapy, severe muscle spasms caused by multiple sclerosis, weight-loss due to the AIDS virus, and other problems (www.abcnews.go.com/medmj990317.html). ... The National Institute of Medicine shows us that the benefits from cannabis short term use doesn't hinder the possible hazards of its long-term use (Rosenthal 58). ...

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The Government proclaims there is no therapeutic value in the medicinal use of marijuana, but they do not have hard evidence to prove it. ... Marijuana has eased the pain of chemotherapy, severe muscle spasms caused by multiple sclerosis, weight-loss due to the AIDS virus, and other problems . ... The National Institute of Medicine shows us that the benefits from cannabis short term use doesn't hinder the possible hazards of its long-term use . ...

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Marijuana usage may have been common 20-30 years ago, but it really isn't any longer. ... No one thinks we have legalized cocaine because we let surgeon or anesthesiologists use it. ... Nevertheless, there has not been a single death by overdose (Foreman 4).2 As an enlightened society, we must reconsider the legalization of marijuana for medical use only as it eases pain and suffering of many illnesses. ... No one knows how many violent crimes these inmates commented without ever being caught. ... Although this system helps to avoid expensive trails and provides evidence for futur...

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African mine workers have used it to ease the drudgery of their work and many Jamaicans use it at the end of the day to relieve fatigue. ... Marijuana dealers usually don't care about how old the buyer is as long as they have money. ... There is no doubt that that heavy marijuana use has negative health consequences, the most important one being respiratory damage. ... It is also hotter when it contacts the lungs and is typically inhaled more deeply and held in the lungs longer than tobacco smoke. Long-term marijuana smoking has been linked with bronchitis. ...

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The effects of drugs can be long term or short term, yet both have a big impact on the user's mind and body. ... While the long term effects are nerve damage, liver damage, and cancer of the mouth and throat. ... The long-term effects include loss of memory and intellectual performance, depression, and respiratory illness. ... During this time the addict would have no access to electronics, or entertainment. ... Although this solution is not perfect the slight problems could be solved with ease. ...

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Legalizing Marijuana Marijuana, pot, bud, weed, or cannabis Sativa, no matter how it is referred to it is still illegal to have, use, or prescribe in the United States. ... There are two sides to every issue, and this issue is no exception. ... This "wasting" is when the person loses dramatic amounts of weight, to the point where there is no excess fat or muscle on the patient, all that is left is the bare minimum. Marijuana assists in the alleviation of these side effects by easing the nausea that many AIDS patients suffer from, and also by increasing their appetite; so that once the nause...

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One question that has haunted Americans for a long time is "Should the use of marijuana be legalized?" Some say, "Yes", while others say, "No". ... Many people out there have no idea what it is like to be "high" so to speak. ... In 1996, voters in California approved a law that eases regulations on medical marijuana. ... There are husbands and wives that spend all of their money on alcohol then end up having no money to pay the bills. ...

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The audience is no longer a passive spectator but an active participant, as we are reluctantly absorbed in to the dark world of addiction. ... The memory of his childhood seems to haunt him and the sound of the children playing, while he is having sex shows that his mind is not at ease. ... In this film, however, we have no time to judge as we are thrown head first into the characters' minds and addictions Other ECUs occur mainly with Sara, because her hyperactive mind and body becomes sensitive to everything. ...

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The audience is no longer a passive spectator but an active participant, as we are reluctantly absorbed in to the dark world of addiction. ... The memory of his childhood seems to haunt him and the sound of the children playing, while he is having sex shows that his mind is not at ease. ... In this film, however, we have no time to judge as we are thrown head first into the characters' minds and addictions Other ECUs occur mainly with Sara, because her hyperactive mind and body becomes sensitive to everything. ...

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Marijuana, long outlawed by federal legislation, is making major advances toward legalization in the United States. ... For example, marijuana eases the nausea, vomiting, and the loss of appetite experienced by many AIDS and chemotherapy patients. ... marijuana in their jeans simply makes no sense - the kindest way to put it."" ... They also say that by making drugs legal, the people who have never tried drugs for fear of being caught by the law will have no reason to be afraid anymore and will become users (Legalization of Marijuana). ...

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When the law was passed there was virtually no opposition against it and there were no surveys or scientific studies that aided this decision made by congress. ... The vast majority of these people are regular, law-abiding citizens that otherwise would have no confrontations with the law. ... And since marijuana is one of the least harmful addictive substances, it could be applied to ease the withdrawals from addictions such as alcoholism (Dr. ... Long-term studies show that use of other illicit drugs among youth almost never occurs unless they have first used marijuana (Kane, Yacoubian). ...

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Scientific and clinical studies indicate that CBD is effective in easing symptoms of a wide range of conditions, including: arthritis, Asperger's, diabetes, epilepsy and alcoholism. ... "If legalisation permits sale to people suffering from a condition diagnosed by a doctor and scheduled in legalisation, there should be no problem with provision of cannabis by this route without waiting for completion of a clinical trial"[ CITATION Tom15 l 3081 ]. ...

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Rights, Motherhood, and the Problem of Prenatal Drug Exposure", there are currently no laws prohibiting pregnant women from using nicotine or consuming alcohol in the United States. ... Furthermore, there are no specific laws against a pregnant woman exposing her fetus to harmful drugs such as cocaine, methamphetamine, or MDMA (better known as Ecstasy). ... This woman's charges were a special case because there were, and still are, no official laws against prenatal drug exposure in the United States (Zivi 237). ... Despite all of those cases, there have been no official laws created ...

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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. ... The Bill of Rights was a revolutionary measure in that it guaranteed that our federal government could never lawfully advance outside it's authorized bounds and encroach upon the natural born rights of man to act as he chooses as long as the rights of others are not violated in the process. ... Libertarianism is the political philosophy rooted in the belief that people should be allowed to l...

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Original Reasons for using: Home remedies As time went by, "home remedies" were discovered and used to alleviate or ease aches, pains and other ailments or illnesses. ... No refinement or enhancement had occurred, and isolation of specific compounds (drugs) had not taken place. ...

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