Breann Mullins Mrs. Rofe Advance Composition 10-21-14 Cocaine The real question is, “when will people understand that doing cocaine isn't a joke”? Cocaine is a powerfully addictive stimulant drug made from the leaves of the coca plant native to South America. It was first isolated (extracted from coca leaves) in 1859 by German chemist Albert Neimann. It was not until the 1880's that it started to be popularized in the medical community. Native Peruvians chewed coca leaves only during religious ceremonies.
Cocaine was pioneered by Sigmun Freud, a neuropathologist, that used this as a treatment for postnatal depression. Later he discovered the experiments using cocaine were discontinued due to the unwanted addictive side effects. Most coca is grown in Peru, Boliva, and Columbia. The farmers harvest and dry the leaves,
Psilocybin and Its Therapeutic Effects With ritual use dating back several thousand years, psilocybin, the hallucinogenic compound found in a variety of mushrooms, has recently been looked at for its therapeutic effects. Psilocybin was first looked at in the 1960s for its effects on mental disorders, but this research was halted in 1970 when it was classed as a schedule I drug in the United States. A revival in the 1990s had paved the way for researchers and clinicians to once again study the effects of psilocybin. Recent studies have focused on the therapeutic properties of the compound in regards to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder, Addiction, Anxiety, its use as a brain model for schizophrenia and its positive effects on spirituality. Psilocybin is one of the most widely used hallucinogenic compounds in human clinical trials and studies due to its relative safety and absent risk of addiction.
Anti-drug legislation analysis Denise Walker CJA/354 December 5, 2011 Professor Lora Terrill Anti-drug legislation analysis The drug that will be discussed in this paper would be marijuana. Marijuana is a drug that a lot of individual use or sell. Marijuana is a drug that is against federal and state regulation. Federal and state are against the anti-drug legislation. According to Criminal Law today, “By the 1930s, government attention came to be riveted on marijuana”.
70% of Emily’s brain is now considered dead. Synthetic marijuana is an herbal mixture sprayed with chemicals that are meant to create a high similar to smoking marijuana, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Effects from the synthetic marijuana
Weed was pretty much made illegal to try to prosecute Mexicans that came over in our country many years ago before when Mexicans were the main users of the stuff. There is a lot more to this story, but that’s a whole other paper that I could write. Did you know that the primary crop on George Washington’s plantation was hemp (marijuana plant.) He was not the only president either. Oh and that reminds me, what were the declaration of independence and the constitution originally written on?
The Legalization of Marijuana in the United States The Legalization of Marijuana in the United States has been an ongoing debate since its prohibition seventy five years ago. The Marijuana Tax Act was passed in 1937; making the use of Marijuana illegal. In present day, more than 100 Million individuals in the United States of America have experimented with Marijuana. There are many pros and cons regarding this subject, but the legalization of Marijuana would benefit the United States of America. Legalizing Marijuana in the United States of America would present a Multi-Billion dollar business for the U.S. with the taxation of the herb.
My article’s full citation is: Krista M. Soria & Sarah Linder (2014). Parental Divorce and First-Year College Students’ Persistence and Academic Achievement, Journal of Divorce & Remarriage, 55:2, 103-116. The article’s purpose was to see if having divorced parents would affect a first year college student’s GPA and whether or not it would affect their continuance of education into a second year. The researchers used quantitative studies in order to gain a conclusion to their test. They began by issuing a Cooperative Institutional Research Program survey to all college freshmen at a public university.
The book starts off stating that America is one of the few industrialized countries to still criminalize marijuana. It then goes on to show the perspectives of two differing viewpoints on a single topic, in this case that of medicinal uses. “In recent years thousands of patients with AIDS, multiple sclerosis, and a variety of other disabling diseases have begun to smoke marijuana illegally in the firm belief that it makes their symptoms better, despite the relative paucity of medical evidence to substantiate such belief.” (Iversen 2) Iversen goes into depth with some of the most common ailments described by those who use cannabis for medicinal purposes, and how they help, hinder, or show no effect. The author also includes many graphs comparing cigarette smoke and marijuana smoke, and they show that cigarettes are substantially more harmful to the body long
Medical marijuana and marijuana have had a long, lengthy history of repeated use in the United States. First, from 1900 to 1940, marijuana, including opium and cocaine were considered part of everyday drugs. As time went on, the U.S. cracked down on crack and opium, eventually outlawing them but continued to be very “loose” with the use of marijuana. Eventually, as time continued to roll on, the use of marijuana became “frowned upon.” Marijuana was illegal and the U.S. government became strict with the cannabis laws. This began around the 1980s and then started to become increasingly worse.