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Marijuana: A mind Altering Drug
Title: Marijuana: A mind Altering Drug
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 2267 | Pages: 9.6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Marijuana: A mind Altering Drug
Marijuana: A Mind Altering Drug
When Olympic officials decided to give snowboarder Ross Rebagliati his gold
medal back, the cheers drowned out the boos. It was a minor scandal
involving a minor sport, but it spoke volumes about the world's shifting
relationship with its favorite illicit drug, marijuana. A decade ago,
Rebagliati would have been ostracized regardless of whether cannabis was on
the list of his sport's banned substances. What's changed today is that our
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The status of marijuana in 1970 was 11% of high school seniors said they
were using marijuana every day. In 1975, about 27% said they had used
marijuana sometime in the previous month. Three years later in 1978, the
monthly users grew up to 37% and then in 1986, it rose again to 54% (Massing
20). As seen by these statistics, the usage of this innocuous drug is
steadily rising. What does that tell you? You make up your mind.
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