Millions of people watch sports contests such as baseball, basketball, and football every day. None of those millions want to see an unfair game. Letting athletes take the easy way out and not making them work hard to reach their peak performance is hurting the athlete and letting those who watch th...

The United States of America¹s war on drugs today is very similar to America¹s Prohibition of Alcohol in the 1920s. These two major issues of their time may not seem like they can be logically compared, but statistics for usage and a correlating rise in crime for both eras show a strong relationsh...

Generally people associate raves(Underground Techno parties) with designer drugs like Ecstasy(MDMA), Speed(amphetamine) and other acids like LSD. These drugs are called the Techno Drugs for that reason and most of the time have uplifting and sensatory effects. To understand more clearly the relat...

Drugs are a rising problem with today's teens. "New" and "hip" drugs are especially on the rise. One of these up and coming substances is Ecstasy. Properly known as MDMA (methyldioxymethamphetamine), Ecstasy is most commonly used at dance clubs, raves, and atmospheres ...

Many people believe that drug use in professional athletics is not a serious problem, however it is more widespread and serious than people think. In professional athletics the use of drugs is looked upon as somewhat of a serious problem, but is also very discrete and low key. Every once in a whi...

Issue 1: If drugs were legalized, would drug use increase or decrease? Would crime and additional drug-related problems worsen or not? If illegal drugs were decriminalized, the same people who use drugs now would probably continue to use them. However, they wouldn't have to steal to supp...

Introduction Approaching and addressing international drug issues in 1999 is not a simple task due to numerous contradictions that involve the inherent nature of economics, politics, culture, and individual ideologies. The normal attributes of drugs, as well as the changing characteristics of ...

The legalization of drugs in the U.S has been a very examined issue in the past century. Within the past decade, marijuana has become decriminalized in 12 states. Although there are negative consequences that would come along with the legalization of marijuana, there are also positives. The main foc...

Marijuana Is Illegal And Should Stay Illegal. Marijuana is a green, brown, or gray mixture of dried, shredded flowers and leaves of the hemp plant (Cannabis sativa). You may hear marijuana called by street names such as pot, herb, weed, boom, Mary Jane, gangster, or chronic. Marijuana has not been...

Drug Abuse Like perscription drugs, illegal drugs are powerfull substances. People use drugs for mind altering reasons. Illegal drugs can change the way the brain normally works. When some who uses drugs there judgement,thinking,feelings and actions change along with there app...

Why Not Pot? Marijuana is one of the most widely used illegal drugs in the country today. The amount of people that smoke pot is on the rise and not showing any signs of slowing down. The government is spending billions of dollars trying to stop society from smoking marijuana yet is having no ...

The main feature of any of the substances labeled psychedelic is the enhancement of experience. Psychedelics have even been described as "instant experience." These drugs seem to raise the level of respond to fine gradations of stimulus input, to enhance response to stimulation at the upp...

One of the great controversies in sports within the last few years has been over the issue of illegal substances. These substances ranging from marijuana to steroids are readily available for many professional athletes due to their fame. Illegal substances have become one of the most commonly used ...

ECSTASY Ecstasy or MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine) is a synthetic analogue of 3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDA), a psychoactive drug-possessing stimulant and hallucinogenic properties. First synthesized in 1912, by a German company possibly to be used as an appetite suppressa...

ENERGY DRINKS – BOOST or BUST How many of us have looked for or used something to boost our energy. Most of us have turned to energy drinks for this problem. Most of us never even realize what is in them or how it could effect us. So do they work are not? Let's find out. Energy ...

The Truth about Marijuana Many people say that marijuana is a gateway drug that can cause dangerous effects to the health and society. But research shows that the myths about marijuana may not be all true. Many believe that marijuana is a menace to the society. Some believe that it...

Throughout recent history, there has been much debate over the issue of the government's war on drugs. Some people feel that drugs should be legalized, while others believe that the punishments should be even harsher than they are today. In between these two opinions are the others who feel ...

The Legalization of Marijuana The legalization of marijuana is a very controversial topic. This subject has been debated numerous times over the past few years. The issues surrounding marijuana are both varied and complex. There are many people in the world who have their own personal views a...

Drug Legalization and Reagan Man, as a creature, is inherently bored. Since the dawn of time, it has been the natural instinct of man to find alternative methods to enhance his being. The many means by which man has turned to include sex, gambling, and the consumption of substances beyond the r...

I believe that the State and Federal governments should legalize hard drugs. The legalization of hard drugs will benefit many people for many reasons. First of all, there will no longer be a black market for illegal drugs, which will minimize the nation's crime scene significantly. Second, the lega...

The legalization of marijuana is a very controversial topic. This subject has been debated numerous times over the past few years. The issues surrounding marijuana are both varied and complex. There are many people in the world who have their own personal views and beliefs on this topic. Some people...

Drug Use By Airline Personnel Many things about our health and safety are uncontrollable such as temperature extremes, illness, noise, and weather. We do have control in actions we do to ourselves that we don't have to do but that could affect out performance. Our safety is compromised as ...

Ecstasy is becoming one of the most widely used drugs in America. In fact, 35% of teenagers say that Ecstasy is "easy to get"(1, Drug Dangers). In a 1998 MTF study, 5.1% of 10th graders and 5.8% of 12th graders had used ecstasy at least once within the past year(2, Drug Dangers). Bac...

DRUGS Drugs, they are everywhere. They are in the cities, and the suburbs, clubs, even on college campuses just like C.W. Post. Just say no? That is not exactly the philosophy that the vast majority of the United States population tends to follow. Drugs have become a routine aspect of eve...

In 1968, when American soldiers came home from the Vietnam War addicted to heroin, President Richard Nixon initiated the War on Drugs. More than a decade later, President Ronald Reagan launches the South Florida Drug Task force, headed by then Vice-President George Bush, in response to the city of M...