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Lysergic Acid Diethlamide (LSD)
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 416.... 30 to 60 minutes to fully onset
and the effects last anywhere from six hours to four days, depending on the
dosage. If taken in large enough amounts, one can die of an overdose of LSD.
Psychologically, LSD has a tremendous effect on a person. LSD is an
unpredictable drug in which the effects are different each time it is ingested.
A person under the influence of LSD ifs flooded with visual experience, as much
when the eyes are closed as when open. Light is greatly intensified; colors are
vivid and seem to glow; images are numerous and persistent, yielding a wide .....
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Steroids
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 539.... turn to steroids
more often because they're cheaper then marijuana or cocaine. A ten week
cycle of testosterone cypinate and methandrostone costs only about one
hundred dollars. Steroids are also very hard to trace because of their
water base composition. They can pass through the body within two days. All
these benefits of steroids help an athletes become more competitive and
increase their chance of being a winner. Of course everybody wants better
biceps and triceps but when using steroids to achieve this goal there is a
large price to pay.
However, steroids should rem .....
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Capital Punishment
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1317.... 4)
In relation to the times in the French Revolution where murderers and thieves heads were thrown into the guillotine, our society today is at a much higher level of thinking. Why should we bring ourselves to the level of thinking that was used almost two hundred years ago? The executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, has stated that
"…people are increasingly realizing that the more we resort to killing as a legitimate response to our frustration and anger with violence, the more violent our society becomes…We could execute all three thousand people on death ro .....
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Decriminalization Vs. Prohibition
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1177.... I was not going to be
dodging the law my whole life. I was going to be everything I wanted to be, and
drugs were definitely not going to get in the way. I promised myself I would
not end up like Jimi Hendrix, or Janis Joplin, both found dead after overdoses,
because I had the power to say no. I had read stories and seen news flashes
about the side effects of some drugs. I had read newspaper articles about
people in Rome, which is just a few minutes away, dying of heroin overdoses. I
had seen people on TV that were alive, but were not conscious of their
surroundings, becau .....
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THe Use Of Marijuana
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 589.... smoking weed other than the affect on their lungs. Alcohol can cause liver disease, obesity, death, and many other health problems; however, it is legal. Marijuana doesn't cause more harmful affects to an individual than alcohol or tobacco does. Even so, marijuana's recreational use is still illegal in America.
No Limit rapper Snoop Dogg says in a recent interview with "High Times," If the government was to legalize marijuana, the crime rate would go down. People would just wanna chill." Snoop goes on to say, "Alcohol does more to harm society than weed could ever do. If .....
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Marijuana: The Untold Story
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 764.... as marijuana, however with less other advantages.
In 1942 the American government asked farmers to grow marijuana in a 14-minute propaganda piece entitled Hemp for Victory. The campaign was born because their main hemp suppliers The Philippine and East India were taken over by Japan. The military had many uses for hemp such as; parachutes, uniforms, and tents. The fabric canvas’s name was derived from cannabis, the main fiber that is used to manufacture canvas. The fibers from the bark of marijuana plants are used to make a great variety of textile products, including co .....
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Capital Punishment
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 2103.... of crimes. The most famous people to be executed are Socrates and Jesus. Only in England, during the reigns of King Canute (1016-1035) and William the Conqueror (1066-1087) was the death penalty not used, although the results of interrogation and torture were often fatal (Kronenwetter 12). Later, Britain reinstated the death penalty and brought it to its American colonies.
Although the death was widely accepted throughout the early United States, not everyone approved of it. In the late-eighteen century, opposition to the death penalty gathered enough strength to lead to .....
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Crimes In Schools Lower Academic Levels
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 449.... crimes are happening everyday. That is mainly because I would never know when such a crime like that would happen in my school or somewhere nearby.
After reading many articles there was this one article that grabbed my attention right away. The title of the article was “Violence against U.S. kids is common”. Just imagine how many students must have read that heading and felt unsecure about themselves. When a person reads such articles they do not sit there and worry about what is going to be discussed in class that day but they think of how they can protect themselves .....
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