SUMMARY OF ALLEGATIONS On 08/05/2017 the hotline received a report indicating that the mother did not pick up Alesia from La Amistad Behavioral Center. It was found that after the mother has been arrested for DUI on 8/4/2017. It was said that the mother has displayed a couple of times slurred speech, disorganization, and bizarre behavior in the facility. It was once noted that the mother's behavior was due to a "medical condition.…
No one does drug and she drinks wine sometime. She stated Gaven (DOB: 06/12/12) is her only child. Ms. Lorenzi stated Gaven's father is Juan Conterras.…
Audra'a UA (urine analysis) and newborn baby (Amberleigh) UA came back positives for marijuana and amphetamine (meth). Amberleigh was born on 8-30-17. Audra admits to being an IV drug user. Audra also admits that she smokes marijuana throughout her whole pregnancy. Audra stated that: She smokes marijuana due her being sick doing her pregnancy.…
Per Reporter: Baby Ashley Hannah's urine tested positive for crystal meth. Baby Ashley Hannah's mom (Ashley), delivery on 12-15-17 at St. Dominic Hospital at thirty-four weeks and four days. Ashley admitted to using crystal meth. Ashley stated that: "She did not found out she was pregnant until thirty-five weeks.…
Lilly said to her understanding Sha’nick was pregnant by Nick and Ayanna was aware of the situation. Lilly also mentioned that Sha’nick told her Nick never stopped sexually abusing her. Lilly said she took Sha’nick to have a physical done after being in CPS’s custody and found out the child had an STD. It is unknown if the child was ever examined for sexual abuse or where the child got the STD from. However, Lilly said when Ayanna found out Sha’nick told her what Nick was doing to her…
At thirty four years old, she is still “crying because her mother caught her smoking,” reinstating just how immature she is(71 Mason). Only a kid would cry over her mother’s disappointment which…
HOOK Stephanie Watson, a freelance writer and editor with a Bachelor’s Degree in Mass COmmunications, suggests that “Smoking marijuana [can] change the way the brain and [the] economy works.” The human brain can be effected in a good way and a bad way from marijuana. There are long term effects and short term effect that this drug brings. Some long terms effects permanently damage the brain while other short term effects can damage the brain as easily.…
Hanna Tarbell Professor Branca Final Essay December 7, 2015 Weed Chronicles What comes to your mind when I say the words: marijuana, weed, bud? Do you think about the positives and how it helps people get through the day or do you just think about the “stoners” or the “abusers”? Way back in 1820’s marijuana had become mainstream in the medical world. A researcher found it cured headaches, and increased appetite, and helped some people to sleep. But nowadays it is close to becoming one of the go to medicines for the health world.…
23 Apr. 2015. The University of Washington Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute’s Factsheet What is Cannabis? makes science-based information about the cannabis sativa plant available for the public. The Factsheet informs the reader about the composition of cannabis and how it is produced into its three most common forms: marijuana, hashish and hash oil, as well as the drugs long term and short term effects. The Factsheet also uses information from the 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health giving the reader not only a good idea of how many people in the united states use a form of cannabis regularly, but also the average ages of when these people first started to use the drug. The factsheet also mentions concerns “...about the link between cannabis use and…
Should Medical Marijuana be Federally Legalized: An Annotated Bibliography David C. Peters II. “Patients and Caregivers Report Using Medical Marijuana to Decrease Prescription Narcotics Use.” Humboldt Journal of Social Relations, vol. 35, 2013, pp. 24–40. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/humjsocrel.35.24.…
Now’s the Time to Legalize Medical Marijuana! In society today, there are many ways that a patient can relieve pain. One being going to the local pharmacy and get an over the counter pain reliever or going to their primary care physician and receive a prescription for something a little more stronger. But what about those patients who don’t like all those unknown chemicals in their body or those patients who are just tired of spending millions on medications that the prices are continuing to go up making their prescriptions unpurchaseable.…
Medical Marijuana’s Benefits Medical marijuana (cannabis oil) is today’s hidden jewel for the treatment of side effects caused by chemotherapy, which is commonly used as a main treatment for cancer patients. Research has shown its effectiveness in combating the side effects of chemotherapies used to treat various cancers. A common side effect experienced while being subjected to chemotherapy is nausea and vomiting. In a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine, “Anecdotal accounts suggested that smoking marihuana decreases the nausea and vomiting associated with cancer chemotherapeutic agents” ( N Engl J Med 293). Furthermore, loss of appetite is an additional side effect of chemotherapy generally dealt with by cancer patients.…
Most medications come with a lengthy list of unpleasant side effects. Opioids, for example, can make you drowsy or nauseous. It won’t surprise you to learn medical marijuana has side effects too. While some of them aren’t exactly pleasant, others are actually beneficial!…
On the fateful day of April 22nd, 2015, I was unfortunately carrying marijuana and a small pipe on me and then was caught by police. I now have to pay many hefty fines and preform many hours of community service. What I regret most about smoking marijuana is all of the time I wasted while being high and just not being able to be productive like I would have been sober. Instead I spent my time playing video games mindlessly, dazing into the television, or just sleeping instead of possibly studying or being active. I can recall instances where I needed to read or study for a test or quiz and instead I would smoke then not be able to study because I could not concentrate.…
Thesis Statement: Medical marijuana has many medical benefits warranting its legalization, which include eliminating visual haloes produced by glaucoma, controlling intraocular pressure, cough suppression, as well as the treatment of asthma, depression, pain, nausea, vomiting, anorexia, peripheral neuropathy and muscle spasticity in conditions such as multiple sclerosis. AIDS, and cancer. I. Background Information- Cannabis sativa, or marijuana as we have come know, has been around for five millennia and used medically throughout the world to treat many medical ailments, which include pain, whooping cough, asthma and anxiety. A.…