DARE Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) is a program designed to discourage drug use and violence among school age children. DARE's origins can be traced to Los Angeles in the early 1980s and a chief of police who helped create a drug education and prevention program he believed was effective...
Black, white, elderly, middle-aged, rich or poor, we all suffer. ... The extent of drug use is at an all time high. ... According to the government's own reports, 80 percent of the country's cocaine users are white and middle class. ... Extremely high usage of marijuana can cause death. ...
More than 83 million Americans (37 percent) age 12 and older have tried marijuana at least once, according to the 2001 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA).2 The major active chemical in marijuana is delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), which causes the mind-altering effects of marijuana intoxication. ... Marijuana is the recreational drug of choice for millions of middle class Americans. ... Marijuana is the third most popular recreational drug of choice for Americans, exceeded only by alcohol and tobacco in popularity.3 Types of Drugs Used by Past Month Illicit Drug Users Aged...
The bong is the biggest and one of the most effective methods to getting high. ... I will also tell what exactly gets the smoker high. ... Playing video games while high is also a popular activity to take part in while high. ... Going to the mall was one of my favorite activities to do while high. ... From 1994 to 1995 the consumption of weed among Americans from the age of 12 jumped from 6 percent of the population to 8.2 percent of the population in 1995. ...
Research indicates that although THC (the psychoactive agents in marijuana) may be found in the blood of some automobile drivers in accidents, also found are high levels of alcohol (Cloud 62 ), making in part, these results inconclusive as to the actual cause. ... Heart rate and blood pressure also raise as high as those who are under a great deal of stress. ...
The social disturbance of the 1960s brought with it a dramatic increase in drug use and some increased social acceptance; by the early 1970s some states and districts had decriminalized or legalized marijuana and lowered drinking ages. ... Drugs also were used: • To see visions or gain insights • To dull the pain of ritual mutilation in initiation ceremonies • To enhance the strength and pain resistance of warriors to prepare them for battle, or to program them to kill • As pain or hunger suppressants • To help cope with thin air at high altitudes &bul...
Yet, it has taken the totalitarian regimes behind the iron curtain, the fascists dictatorships of the middle east and Africa as well as our own swollen welfare state to finally prove them right. ... In our economy that supply did not equal the demand; middle-class Americans could no longer afford their luxuries and materialistic wants in as much the wealthy were satisfied by spending a meager portion of their income. ...
