"Pot", "dope", "dank", "doja", and "weed" are a few street terms used for marijuana. Marijuana is a plant that can be ingested or smoked for pleasurable and hallucinogenic effects. This drug is widely used among teenagers and college students. Brent Staples was a college smoker. He is the author of "The Runaway Son". "The Runaway Son" is a personal story that staples wrote about how he ran away from his family to attend college. Staples admitted while he was in college, he experienced with marijuana (330). .
Short-term memory loss, distortion of perception, increased heart rate, and a weaken immune system are some of the negative physical affects. Not only can it affect the user, but the user's family and friends. It destroys trusts, friendship, and relationships. Because of the negative effects of marijuana and its use, the government has regulated and prohibited the use and possession of it for decades now. However, recent studies have revealed that the natural ingredients contained in marijuana can be use to relieve pain of certain illnesses. Illnesses such as glaucoma, epilepsy, and multiple sclerosis. It also relieves pain for patients going through chemotherapy. As a result of these studies, many organizations are formed to take advantage of this new discovery .
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to decriminalize marijuana. I, however wish for the government to continue to regulate this drug as much as possible. .
One reason why marijuana should not be legalize is because it harms the user's health. Impaired coordination, short-term memory, and the ability to .
make the right choices are some of the results of the effects that marijuana has on your brain. Because marijuana impairs judgment, using it can result in risky sexual behavior which could lead to an unplanned pregnancy and/or sexually transmitted diseases including HIV/AIDS. Furthermore, marijuana use increases the heart rate. It can cause chest pain in people who have a poor blood supply to the heart.
The Melting Pot What is a melting pot? A cooking pot in a restaurant? ... No, the melting pot is The United States of America, especially the great sunshine state Florida, even though it rains everyday. ... So why is America the giant melting pot of the world? ... So that is my view on the gargantuous melting pot called America. ...
"Why Pot should be legal" Did you know there is an estimated 300,000,000 pot smoker's world wide? ... Pot has its bad side, but it is nowhere near as bad as alcohol or cigs, then why shouldn't pot be legal? ... Pot has many uses in the medical field. ... No, of course you haven't. No one has ever died from smoking to much pot, unlike Alcohol. ...
Are We a Melting Pot? ... They expected all of the immigrants to jump into the "melting pot" and come out "American"(pg. 8) What they did not understand was that no two cultures will be alike, and we will never be equal in any intercultural encounter. ... The "melting pot" is nothing more than a false fallacy, and rather than try and create one culture we should try to welcome and understand others....
Is America Going To Pot The question of legalizing pot has been an argued issue for a while, running through a variety of issues in order to keep it illegal or to legalize it. ... - informing that there is new politics of pot. ... The answer is no, only a minority support the change, but that may change at anytime. ... This has let a huge opening for pro-pot people to exploit. ... If pot is really a good medication for those problems are still sketchy, and there are many conditions, which need to be known before using pot as medication. ...
The United States is often portrayed as the "great melting pot,"" an idea that was existent even in the early years of colonial settlement. In an essay written c. 1770, the Frenchman Crevecoeur also incorrectly uses the "great melting pot- analogy to describe the racial composition, for the diverse mixture of cultures remained heterogeneous "i.e. although cultural blending existed, each ethnic group retained certain defining characteristics. If viewed as one entity, the colonial society did possess a "strange mixture of blood which [one] will find in no other country,"" but Crevecoeur f...
Traveling from Ireland, the immigrants dreamed of opportunity and freedom, but "Boston was no melting-pot; its Anglo-Saxon culture was old and hard." ... Boston offered much more crowded, cramped housing, forcing endless interaction and virtually no privacy. ...
POT: WHY NOT?... Pot is far less addictive and harmful than its legal counterparts alcohol and tobacco. ... Of these prisoners, 91% are not organizers or leaders or supervisors and 63% have no prior arrests. ... In 1984, nationwide pot use was at 26.4%. ... This makes it evident that little or no penalties for marijuana use do not affect usage. ...
If everyone is equal then there should be the same standards for all applying students and there should be no exceptions. ... Whoever is more qualified and has better credentials should get the job, no matter what their ethnical background is. ... California is truly a melting pot and all of its citizens deserve the same treatment. ...
The United States has always been a merger of cultures, and has undergone periods of discomfort from being the world's melting pot. ... Since the United States is the melting pot of the world, diversity is everywhere. ... In the United States there is no legislation that says it promotes diversity. ...
