Kristine Lewis Research Paper

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Alaska, California, Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina; they’re all doing it. Marijuana abuse has increased in the United States. 24 million Americans are frequent abusers of the class I drug.
22 year- old, Kristine Lewis, is one among the millions of marijuana users in the U.S. She uses the drug as a stress reliever. “I smoke weed because I am often stressed out and after I smoke a blunt or two most of my negative thoughts leave me,” said Lewis. Lewis’s smoking habit began habit as a 17-year-old junior in high school after relocating to Atlanta, GA with her family. “When I first moved to Georgia, there were many drug dealers and weed abusers attending the high school I was enrolled. I kind of just fell into the lifestyle.”
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