Drug Use Book Reviews Samples For Students

Marijuana is a native Indian drug which is extracted from Cannabis sativa shrub. This shrub hardly grows beyond ten feet in height. The shrub is used in extraction of two other drugs alongside marijuana. The drugs all contain a stimulant which is a complex organic compound simply abbreviated as SHM. This compound usually affects the nervous system and the brain.

The concentration of SHM in marijuana varies according to the place the plant is found. The confirmed range of concentration is 1 – 16 % depending on the location on the globe (Inciardi 2009). The original use of marijuana and the other cannabis based ...

Michael Moore believes that while it maybe morally wrong to ingest drugs, that a general principle of liberty should allow free citizens the political liberty to ingest them for recreational purposes. He believes this because he believes the freedom to harm oneself (using recreational drugs) is of a higher order than politically restricting that liberty to do so. He shows historically how t a general principle of liberty is elusive since “Anything that could be called a general right to liberty has proved elusive to the considerable number of philosophers who have pursue it” (Moore, 82). Moore distinguishes between legal rights that should ...

In their book, The American Drug Scene: An Anthology, published in 2009, writers J. Inciardi and K. McElrath discuss the question of drug use and abuse in the United States. They discuss, among other things, the evolution of drug taking in America, why people take drugs, types of drug users, sociological theory of addiction, social impact of drugs and the war on drugs.

They contend that drug users fall in four different categories – experimenters, social-recreational users, involved users and dysfunctional users - and that the drug problem, in the context that we know it today, is relatively new – about ...