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Our textbook covers numerous different views on drug and alcohol regulations, as well as decriminalization and over criminalization. We attempt to regulate drugs by criminalization and harsher penalties, nevertheless that doesn’t stop the group of people who want them. I believe over criminalization doesn’t stop the problem, a few laws are just unenforceable. On the other hand decriminalization refers to lessening the penalties for certain crimes. For instance, looking the other way when…

This video entitled “why we need end the war on drugs” by Ethan Nadelman is very interesting and controversial. Personally, I disagree with the speaker Ethan when he mentioned that we have to learn how to live drugs, and that, if illegal drugs are legalized, violence, crimes, and corruptions will be abated. I have no experience with drugs, because I grew up in a strict family where illegal drugs are seen as dangerous substances, but I do believe that legalize illegal drugs will rather increase…

Unfortunately, even today with medications there is a risk of dependency and a chance that a person will become addicted to certain medications. Just the same in the 1900’s just when the promise of medical advances was happening, so was the concerns that individuals were becoming dependent on the drugs they were given. Consequently, two contributing factors caused a movement towards drug regulation in the twentieth century. First, was the abuse of patent medicines, and the second was the…

1 Charlie According to the great state of Nebraska I am a marijuana addict. Despite the fact that I was caught with a little less than an ounce of weed and in order to actually become a marijuana addict you'd need to smoke enough weed every day to kill Tommy Chong. But at least now the Government doesn't care. After the war and 30 years of regression socially, the U.S. Government managed to convince the public again that public enemy #1 was 'dangerous' drugs. Needless to say I am now a proud…

In the few moments before you die, your body will release a drug that is called DMT. Dimethyltryptamine (DM) is a psychedelic entheogen that lets your consciousness come across some of the most unbelievable experiences, visions, thoughts, and dimensions imaginable. DMT is what makes you dream. It’s almost like every night you are on a psychedelic trip. Although illegal, this drug is in plants and every living animal. Some people actually extract this drug from plants and smoke it or take it…

Male Extraversion is Correlated with Psychostimulant, Alcohol, and Marijuana Use The accuracy of substance abuse behavior is a long-debated issue in personality traits. This study examines whether drug abuse behavior increases or decreases extraversion. Significant evidence suggests that personality traits have been associated with substance abuse behaviors (Grana, Munoz, and Navas, 2009). One of the most studied drug related behavioral changes is related to alcohol. Individuals suffering from…

Schedule I and Schedule II substances according to the drug classification system established in the The Comprehensive Drug and Abuse Prevent and Control Act of 1970 represents drugs with the highest abuse potential. As stated in our text and this article, marijuana is classified as a Schedule I drug and Schedule I drugs are viewed as having no acceptable medical use in addition to having high potential of addiction. Schedule I drugs are not legally available on either a prescription, which…

Medical marijuana has many good uses, it could possibly cure cancer, or cure epilepsy, it could also decrease the number of painkiller overdoses. But it has much more bad side effects, such as apathy, irritation to the throat and lungs, likelihood of pneumonia, lost productivity, and psychosis. In my opinion, I think that doctors should not prescribe medical marijuana to anyone. There is safe medicine that works better than marijuana, and it has a lack of consistent, repeatable scientific data.…

All of us need something to help us unwind at the end of the day. We may have a glass of wine, a pack of cigarette, a friend to talk to, and sometimes, drugs. Many people think that marijuana can only destroy our lives. That it can only make us lose ourselves. But they don’t know that like others, marijuana can also have its benefits. Marijuana is a name for cannabis plant. It is also a drug that is created from dried leaves, stems, seeds and flowers of a hemp plant. Many…

Created in 1970 in the Controlled Substance Act, drug schedule was used to classify all drugs into specific categories. All drugs, as well as the chemical used to make the drugs, and drug substances are divided into 5 different categories. These categories are each distinguished based on the drug’s use medically, and the potential for abuse or dependency. However, according to the Office of Diversion Control and the Drug Enforcement Administration, “Since then, approximately 160 substances have…