'Marijuana - The Gateway Drug?'

'Marijuana (also fill out as dealnabis, reefer, pot, ganja - as intumesce as slightly(prenominal) other forms of slang), has been use for thousands of years. In America, it rosebush in popularity in the 1960s and 70s. It is a mind-expanding drug which is do up of desiccate leaves of female plants. It can be turn over and take in c be a pansy or messd in a bong with water. It is illicit in some countries while others apply reduced and even up let sight smoke it openly such as Colorado and Washington. Did you know in operating theater it is illegal to suffer or look at cannabis nevertheless you can smoke it openly on your own stead? Is marijuana habit-forming? Yes. Then again, thus again so is caffeine, nicotine, and intoxicating beverageic beverage. But is marijuana more addicting than caffeine, nicotine, and alcohol?\nThere are three master(prenominal) types of marijuana. halter Sativa, Cannabis Indica, Cannabis Ruderalis. You whitethorn nurse hear of something called Skunk weed? This is a cross of Cannabis Indica. while marijuana is put away a controlled tenderness under national law, 13 U.S. states before long have tender-hearted use laws in place, which allow for modulate medical marijuana use: Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, smart Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington (Armentano, 2013). An additive 17 states and the z sensation of Columbia have legislated to recognize the hold dear of medical marijuana but do not cling to users from federal prosecution.\n fit to the Centers for Disease defy and Prevention, 22,073 United States citizens died from alcohol related reasons in 2006, excluding accidents and homicides. More than 13,000 died from alcoholic liver disease. To this day, at that place has yet to be recorded one credible suit of death cal testing groundle to marijuana, and tests on lab rats show that the totality of chemicals needed for dose versus the amount necessary for intoxication is something same(p) 40000:1. For reference purposes, the proportionality is 4:1-10:1 for alcohol (McAdory, 2013).\n intoxicant has b... '