By decriminalizing the use of drugs crime rates would increase. ... Szasz neglects to look at the fact that legalizing drugs would increase the crime rate. ... While alcohol's addiction rate is ten percent, cocaine's addiction rate is seventy-five percent. ... This doesn't seem very economical to me. ... The city's 7,000 addicts are blamed for eighty percent of all property crime and Amsterdam's rate of burglary is now twice that of Newark, New Jersey. ...

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THC affects the brain's short-term memory and coordination, increases heart rate, and anxiety. ... Marijuana is helping me to save my eyesight.? ... he states,It helped me to gain weight that the cancer had ate away.? ... Schmoke also states, that by legalizing marijuana, the crime rate will decrease in the United States. ...

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Only Canada comes close to our rates, using half, per capita, the amounts we do.... Later Fumento talks about how when the success rate of children medicated for ADHD was studied scientists found that seventy five to Ninety percent was effective for treating the disorder. ... The story about the boy named Bobby made me think that kids that young should not be taking that amount o...

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This study also returned the results that showed that among 10th graders, use rates in rural areas exceeded those in large urban areas for every drug except marijuana, and ecstasy. Among 12th graders, use rates in rural America exceeded those in large urban areas for cocaine, crack, amphetamines, inhalants, alcohol, cigarettes, and smokeless tobacco. ... They say very early, "That's not me." ...

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Well let me ask you a question; which did you try first marijuana or alcohol? ... They researched the that usage rates among high school seniors in the decriminalized states compared to the rates in the rest of the states where the criminal penalties remained in effect, the results from this research prove that decriminalization of marijuana has had no effect on either the marijuana usage or the attitudes and beliefs about marijuana use among the American young people. ...

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Using the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) to assessment this patient, allows me to determine if the patient has any significant signs of a co-occurring mental health issue that may need immediate attention by our on-site mental health clinician. Using various measurement methods, previous studies estimated a wide range of prevalence for depression in substance users, suggesting rates from 16% to as high as 56% (Regier et al., 1990; Miller et al., 1996, 1997; Coelho et al., 2000; Roeloffs et al., 2002, as cited in Joosen, Garrity, Staton-Tindall, Hiller, Leukefeld, & Webster, 2005). ... The BSI...

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The short-term effects of marijuana include problems with memory and learning, distorted perception, loss of coordination, increased heart rate and anxiety. ... Drugs bring me to my next issue which is why some people think that alcohol and tobacco should be illegal. Let me start by saying that millions of lives would be safe if smoking and drinking was illegal. ...

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A big problem in today's world is the habitual drug use by teens and young adults. A 2010 survey shows that by the time kids are in eighth grade about thirty-six percent of them have used alcohol at least once in their life. This number increased to seventy-one percent by the time the teens reached ...

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Bradley Cooper has always been just a screen comedian for me, because of such films as The Hangover. ... I was also charmed by Cooper's energizer who typed on the computer at a rate of many knots. ...

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Are Drugs Bad? The use, sale, manufacture, or possession of illegal drugs has some pretty stiff penalties in the United States. In many cases drug offenders get more punishment than rapists and murderers. Every law-abiding citizen in the United States with the gift of common sense would agree that...

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The Drug Enforcement Administration The topic that I was assigned to write about was Federal Agency. Of the many agencies available to write about I chose the Drug Enforcement Administration, (DEA) which enforces controlled substance laws. Throughout this paper I will discuss some interesting par...

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Knowledge, Your Anti Propaganda Currently, drugs remain high on the lists of concerns of Americans and are considered one of the major problems facing our country today. We see stories on the news about people being killed on the street every day over drugs. To many people drugs are only an inne...

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