Unlike natural marijuana, spice is sprayed with chemicals that can be toxic to the human body. Such toxicity, can produce dangerous side effects like tachycardia, which is an unusually fast resting heart rate (Camp, RN). Other reports have shown additional side effects include excessive sweating, agitation, inability to speak, aggression, and restlessness. These side effects are not the norm when natural marijuana is used (Gupta). Patients treated by medical professionals say that patients experienced short-term loss of consciousness, paranoia, hallucinations, tremors, and even seizures.
Like most other illicit drugs, crack cocaine remains extremely insidious, because even with the possibility of death, drug addicts continue to use without caution. “When entered into the body, crack cocaine takes affect almost immediately.” (Emmit). The feeling of euphoria gained by using crack fades much quicker than the painful after-effects. Short-term effects of using crack cocaine include short bursts of increased energy, decreased appetite, increased temperature, mental anxiety, constricted blood vessels, and increased heart rates. As crack cocaine use continues, the effects felt from the drug continue to get more severe.
Let’s take, for example, the drug OxyContin, lets’ examine what happened to this medication. Just like Marijuana, It was created to help people from pain, but turned out to be a menace to society. Prescriptions being altered, doctors giving excessive amounts of money, addicts breaking into pharmacies and hurting people. The legalization of marijuana will bring more criminal activity because of the lack of impaired judgment associated with the drug. An individual will have impaired judgment and altered decision making if found to be under the influence of
People who usually take Crystal Meth seek the pleasure from the chemical reaction in the brain and a hyper effect on the body systems. People who use Crystal Meth will experience hyper activity and won’t be able to properly sleep and will become lazy. People who take Crystal Meth appear normal, but for many years of taking the drug, the hidden effects build up. Methamphetamine addiction is very damaging to the body and mind. Bad temper and social difficulties are obvious effects.
Marshi Foster 03/29/13 Period #1 Government Marijuana the Everlasting Drug War Marijuana-a harmful and addictive substance that can cause respiratory disease, mental disorders, and other health problems-is a gateway drug that leads to the abuse of other drugs. The government should keep marijuana illegal and strengthen its efforts to prohibit it. Marijuana has many effects on the body. The most psychoactive compound in marijuana is THC. Differences among plants cause the potency of pot to vary widely; meaning different types have different effects.
Dr. Herbert Kleber, Psychiartist, Ny State Psychiatric Institute, says that marijuana in an inhibitor of good feelings to the psychiatric mind. It creates a tingly and cloudy sensation. Kleber ends with most simple of remarks, “people smoke weed because it feels good.”(Taboo Television show, 05/03/2011) Also future side effects can be real sever sometimes, such as schizophrenia. Alcohol also alters the consumer, but in far different ways than marijuana. Alcohol when consumed is metabolized by the liver, when fully consumed and digested the users feels disorientated.
Many people were also accused and given false labels during both of these times, innocent people were accused of being witches, and given the label a witch, and during the aids hysteria people were considered gay or a drug user if you had aids, even if you weren’t. Both events caused fingers to be pointed and began religious and sexual prejudice. The paranoia caused death and led to people making rash decisions. At the start of the 1980’s several reports were appearing in California and New York of a small number of men who had been detected of having rare forms of cancer and pneumonia. The cancer Kaposi ’s sarcoma, usually only happened to elderly men from the Jewish heritage and young African men.
Even though stats say something else, the media automatically portrays the teenagers as the bad guy. Eighty five percent of the murders are done by adults. With titles such as “children having sex” and “killer kids” it is clearly shows why such abuses are the key factors in violence, pregnancy, drug abuse and suicide among teenagers. ) This shows that what people assume to be reality, may in fact be incorrect. But these assumptions again are based off of what society
Venezuela Economy in Comparison to Great Depression The American Economy has undergone a lot of controversial issues in the past couple years that has affected other economies in the world as well. When an economic crisis occurs in any given country, it is a common assumption that the country is at that stage due to financial problems. When we think about economic stages, most individuals relate it to the Great Depression. The Great Depression was the biggest economic downfall in history for America due to problems with politics, wages, and the nations capital being an issue during that era. However, can other countries have an economic crisis that could affect a country like America or is there a country out there that shows a Great Depression of their own?
A few of these chemicals are cadium, a highly poisonous metal that is also used to make batteries, formaldehyde which is used to preserve dead bodies, and lead which is a highly toxic metal. Some studies say that the nicotine in cigarettes is as addictive as cocaine and heroin, which leads to the theory of why it is so hard for addicts to stop. With all these deadly chemicals, why would someone even think of smoking cigarettes? These 4,000 deadly chemicals are more than enough evidence to make cigarettes illegal in Canada. Cigarettes are bad for anyone who smokes them.