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 nature of sports fosters a strong desire to win, and some athletes will do anything to rise to the top. Every elite athlete wants to get an edge somehow over his or her opponents. Many athletes have turned to supplements to gain this edge and the use of performance enhancing drugs has increased...

Steroids and Sports Talent is shown when an athlete succeeds, on the field, in the water, on the track, winning is on the players mind. This can be such a big deal that athletes turn to steroid. Athletes that take steroids are running a big risk not only of getting caught but they are playing wi...

America's Dependency on Drugs The world with drugs is one of the biggest issues today. The government needs to find ways to stop drug use in our country even if it is probably the hardest thing to do. When an individual is caught with drugs, or being under the influence he/she gets thrown ...

Many different drugs have very serious, complex negative effects on the person who is using that particular drug. Some of these drugs do actually have some positive effects. Drugs make the brain stimulated in certain places more than others, which are not as stimulated while not on any type of drug....

Being African American has never been easy. White America has always been stereotypical of black people, although blacks have shaped American history through inventions, sports, and political science. The way White America has looked at blacks has never changed. No ma...

"Head Rush" A hormone that increases rates of blood circulation, breathing, and carbohydrate metabolism, secreted by the adrenal glands, sound familiar? This is adrenaline the greatest natural high anyone can experience. You can't put a price tag on this intense feeli...

Peru's Coca Reduction Efforts We have reviewed the 1999 Peru coca cultivation survey, and the results of Peru's coca reduction efforts are excellent. Peru achieved a net reduction of 24 percent in total coca cultivation compared to 1998, from 51,000 hectares down to 38,700 hectares. This lower...

Today's society is contradictory. Society says that things like drugs, violence, and wealth are bad yet it promotes them anyway. It claims to do or believe in certain things, while it is doing the opposite. In the song "God Part II" by U2, society's hypocrisy is displayed. U2 expresses th...

Marijuana – Good v Bad "Marijuana prohibition applies to everyone, including the sick and dying" (NORML). Marijuana has been illegal in the United States since 1937. In 1937 the United States of America passed the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937, this made it illegal for anyone t...

Morpheus planted a special purple flower called the lotus. Soon the people of the land smelled the sweet flowers and ate them. They immediately feel into a deep and troubled sleep. From that day on, they awoke only long enough to gather the lotus flowers and sleep again. Eventually they lost their s...

The drug cocaine is classified under a central nervous system stimulant. It is a very powerful drug that has many dangerous effects to people who abuse it. It originated in the leaves of the Erythoxylon coca plant in South America. The traditional method was to chew the leaves to feel the a...

Should marijuana be legalized? There are many advantages and disadvantages of using marijuana with all the issues that have risen up about marijuana. Marijuana should not be legalized; the reasons are for safety for the human society, of the side-effects on human, the cost of rehabilitation programs...

Columbia is located in the Northwest of South America with one coast along the Pacific and the other along the Caribbean Sea. While the population is very diversified, more than half of the people are of Spanish-Indian descent. European ancestry makes up the next biggest percentage, along with the b...