Say No to Drugs Essay

addictive drug that is not illegal and it makes people do stupid things weed should be legalized if you smoke weed you probably just sit on the couch and watch TV while eating, but if u get drunk u could get in a wreck or kill someone else and it will kill your liver. People say weed is very dangerous, but if you calculate how many people die from weed it's dramatically less than people who die from alcohol, cocaine, acid and pills. You will see that weed is healthier for you than any other…

Drug addiction in the United States not only destroys the lives of the user, but the lives of their family and friends as well. Kristina is a troubled drug addict mother with five children who do not even know who their mother is. Her addiction to meth causes her to become a teenage mother to her first born Hunter, and the young mother of five some short years to come. Her children are all put up for adoption as they are born, because Kristina cannot take care of them due to her drug addiction.…

others say, child soldiers should be given amnesty because it wasn’t their fault or that they have suffered and gone through many horrible moments in their life. Child soldiers should be given amnesty because it wasn’t their fault and had didn’t have the choice to. For example, the child soldiers were brainwashed and were taught to do violent things. According to the book, A Long Way Gone, they were abducted and were taken away to learn to kill others to stay alive in a war zone. It says, “My…

community are many, like selling drugs and guns, having territory and make sure there's nothing they don't want in their territory, and bribing local law enforcement into looking away from the crime they’re creating. They also bribe politicians to secretly help them when they are doing business. Gang initiations are usually a crime or some sort of brotherhood saying. There are many types of gangs in the world and they do all kinds of bad things. Gangs sell drugs to their community to make money…

Ever since the early 1900’s, marijuana has been shrouded in a cloak of mystery and the potential for danger. Scientists dismissed it as nothing more than a simple narcotic, until now. Modern science has been able to peel back a layer from what medical marijuana could do the medical field. Medical marijuana is becoming more and more accepted across america as evidence for it usefulness and potential become more apparent. Since the beginning of recorded history mankind has been cultivating the…

and in 1984 the law was passed. This took away the safe, controlled places for younger people to drink. College fraternity parties became the normal place to go, and dangerous situations and drugs arose for those who chose to drink. The statistics Gholipour uses in his article are true, but Camille Paglia says the drinking age caused more harm than…

Melbourne gangland wars. I guess drugs have always been a part of my life. Growing up, members of my family were always on the news for something drug related. I never really understood all the trouble that drugs had caused for my family. Every time a major drug find occured in Melbourne, you could guarantee my cousins had something to do with it. During the 80’s and 90’s, my uncle Victor was involved in the manufacture, distribution and supply of many drugs including LSD. I can’t remember…

the medical drug know as steroids in political anabolic steroids. This drug has many good uses but it can also be used in bad ways by bad people but not all are bad some have just lost there way like the baseball star Alex Rodriguez. He was not the only one to be found with drugs in his system in fact over 104 people where found but only Mr Rodriguez confessed which helped him lose jail time. So now that you now one of the famous sports stars that have fallen thanks to this medical drug, it…

marijuana. You would have never expected that your son would do drugs, but it’s the reality. Many people today are becoming addicted to marijuana, leading them to do worse harmful drugs. This is only a few reasons why recreational marijuana wouldn’t benefit us. I know that people want to have their own rights , but if everyone decided to do what do what they wanted, our nation wouldn’t be where it is today. This is why legalizing this drug would lead to more addicts in our country, uneducated…

(Loewit-Phillips and Golbas 32). Some say that behavioral drugs impair a child’s mind making them less curious and adventurous, impeding their development like normal children. In today’s society, there is a stronger push for behavioral drugs in children by teachers and caregivers. It seems as if they believe that because some of the children may be high-strung and difficult to manage and these adults believe that medication is the way out. Those against children taking medication say that it…