Psychoactive drug

Marijuana Drug Marijuana is dried leaves, flowers, stems, and seeds that come from a plant called a cannabis plant. The plant becomes a drug due to, it has a chemical called tetrahydrocannabinol and other compounds. Marijuana is the most common drug used in the United States. Most people that use marijuana are young. According to studies the number of people that think marijuana is dangerous has declined because the amount of younger adults and kids using marijuana has increased over the…

Argumentative paragraph one: Cocaine is a drug which found on the leaves of plants. As well as it is a strong central nervous system drug which causes changes in behaviour by altering the power of connection between neurons. It causes desirable and undesirable behaviour on users (health, 2013). Desirable behaviour which include, rush, elevation of mood, self-confidence, increased energy, alertness, sexual excitement and decreased need for food. Undesirable behaviour on users which include crash,…

hate the person, hate the behaviour. If it’s hard to watch it, imagine how hard it must be to live it.” Many individuals have an addiction to alcohol, gambling, tobacco, and shopping. Despite the fact, people still think that marijuana is not a drug and just a leaf from God, according to doctors and their clients. Meanwhile, Canadian doctors are concerned about marijuana becoming legalized, due to addiction, mental illness, driving while high and the developing brain. People don’t truly…

in literature and artistic circles of the years leading up to 1900 must be noted. Cocaine, while being a drug pharmacologically different from the choice recreational pharmaceuticals of the past, most notably opium and hashish, occupies a niche within the greater domain of drug culture among the Avant-Garde and the production of drug literature in particular. “The role of psychoactive drugs in European-and later also North American- literature of the Christian Era remained peripheral until the…

Under the controlled substance act (CSA), drugs are listed under schedules that are based off how likely a person is the abuse the drug and if a person will become physically or psychologically dependent on this drug. As the schedule number increases the abuse rate and dependency on this drug decreases. Some examples of schedule 1 drugs are heroin, LSD, ecstasy, methaqualone which are known as Quaaludes, peyote which is a cactus that is a hallucinogen, and marijuana. Yes, you read that correctly…

Throughout history the US media has unfairly portrayed psychedelic drugs, the counterculture, and philosophies behind them. Psychedelic drugs have been not only misportrayed and lied about, but the work of many successful scientists has been ignored because of the bad stigma behind psychedelic drugs. We will explore how psychedelic drugs can benefit society and help many people. Only until the psychedelic renaissance, present day, has some of the media started seeing psychedelic culture for what…

supporters of marijuana legalization. For instance, he describes how marijuana significantly differs from alcohol because marijuana advocates argue that marijuana is a soft drug like alcohol and it 's very different from hard drugs like cocaine or heroin. Stimson opposes the statement by saying that marijuana is more similar to the hard drugs than to alcohol. In the essay he states that “According to the British Lung Foundation, “smoking three or four marijuana joints is as bad for your lungs as…

extremely addictive drug. It is estimated that at least 15 percent of people in America have tried cocaine. Cocaine is a stimulant drug that causes the user to experience an intense feeling of euphoria. That is why many people become addicted to cocaine after they only intended to use it one time. People who have a cocaine addiction have a compulsive urge to use the drug. Once a person has developed a cocaine addiction, he or she feels as though it is impossible to function without the drug. It…

directly affects the brain. Cocaine speeds up the messages traveling between the brain and the rest of the body. The drug introduces a sense of exhilaration in the user, primarily by blocking the reuptake of the neurotransmitter dopamine in the midbrain (Ericson). The initial surge of euphoria is followed by a crash. The crash creates the need for more and the body becomes dependent on the drug. The effects appear almost immediately after a single dose. Cocaine makes the person feel energetic,…

exntensive history with cocain use, often reprort that the pleausre that they receive by utlzing the drug gradually eceasees, even though their addictive behavior towards the drug, gradually intensifies. A recent study that documented the effects that cocaine had on the nuerons in the ward system of mice, sheds some light as to why this may be the case for that of cocaiine users and other illicit drug abusers as well. The study dmeonstarted that their was a concain induced imblance, in the…