What is it?
- Ectstasy is a drug that's normally taken orally as a capsule or a tablet. It's a man-made drug and simiular to stimulants and hallucinogens. And it transmits serotonine to your brain causing a whole bunch of problems.
Effects:
- It causes a chemical change in your brain, that effect your mood, appetite and sleep. Also you could get hypothermia, which you don't feel pain, and you could also loose your sence of touch.
Risks:
- Confusion, depression, sleep-loss, severe anxiety, muscle tension, teeth clenching, blurred vision, fainting, withdrawel from the drug, chills and sweating.
Slang Terms:
- MDMA, Ecstasy, XTC, E, X, Beans, Adams, Hug Drug, Disco Biscuit, Go, and Love Drug.
Which Obviously all these effects can harm your future because with the effects of this drug, poeple could choose not to be around you or near you. Which causes you to loose people your love in your future.
Monday, December 14, 2009
Monday, November 9, 2009
The Effects of Crack and Cocaine on Crime.
- cocaine is the most used drug at night when causing crime and when someone is ever busted for drugs at night.
- cocaine is a white powder that come from the leaves of a South American Coca plant. It's a powerful stimulant that effects your whole nervous system, and gets very addictive quite quickly. It's inhaled from the nose, which causes a feeling of euphoria (another word for high) by telling something in your brain called dopamine.
- crack is cocaine that has been processed into little tiny rocks that can be smoked. Crack is 10 times for addictive than cocaine because it reaches the brain faster, and the "high" isn't as long. If you're addicted to either one and you just stop using you do get withdrawal symptoms. Such as having trouble sleeping, loss of appetite, depression and anxiety, and craving more crack or cocaine and having the willingness to do anything for it.
- People that do the drug most likely create a violent or non violent crime. Because they have the willingness to do anything for the drug. Which in most cases is way bad.
- cocaine is a white powder that come from the leaves of a South American Coca plant. It's a powerful stimulant that effects your whole nervous system, and gets very addictive quite quickly. It's inhaled from the nose, which causes a feeling of euphoria (another word for high) by telling something in your brain called dopamine.
- crack is cocaine that has been processed into little tiny rocks that can be smoked. Crack is 10 times for addictive than cocaine because it reaches the brain faster, and the "high" isn't as long. If you're addicted to either one and you just stop using you do get withdrawal symptoms. Such as having trouble sleeping, loss of appetite, depression and anxiety, and craving more crack or cocaine and having the willingness to do anything for it.
- People that do the drug most likely create a violent or non violent crime. Because they have the willingness to do anything for the drug. Which in most cases is way bad.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Response to Your Top 10 Questions About Pot
I thought the information in this article was very fascinating and useful. I found every question in the article helpful, because it answered them in a good knowledgeable way. Every article about weed tends to keep saying the same thing that it's not healthy. So I learn things I already knew, and things I didn't already know. It doesn't really change my thinking, and I didn't think of new questions to ask from it.
Your Top 10 Questions About Pot
Is Marijuana Addictive?
- Some people say it is, and some people say it isn't. So I guess it's different for everyone. But 224,000 people nationwide are in treatment programs for marijuana, with most of them under the age of 20. Other people say pot isn't physically addictive, because stopping using it doesn't lead to withdrawel symptoms (as in vomitting and the shakes).
Does Pot Lead to Harder Drugs?
- If you opened up to smoking marijuana the you could open up a gateway to trying harder drugs. Marijuana smokers are five times more likely to move onto harder drugs, but the Drug Policy Research Center says it's your friends, environment, and general living style is what makes you want to try harder drugs. So i'd say no it doesn't that it's really up to you on what you do with drugs.
What are Marijuana's Specific Effects on Mind and Body?
- Pot can do a lot of different things to your body as in, put you in a happy ''chill'' zone mood, or make you edgy or paraniod, more social and outgoing, or just quiet and non-social. It's different for everyone. But one thing it does to everyone is it increases your heart rate and ruins your lungs over time. Also users who started smoking it before the age of 17 have smaller brains than the ones who started smoking it after the age of 17.
Does Marijuana Make Guys Impotent?
- It doesn't fully, but it does decrease the sperm count. Because cannabiniods make it hard for sperm when they're looking for an egg. Also another important thing is if a guy stops smoking for 3-5 months everything can go back to normal.
Is it Okay to Drive High?
- It's such a bad idea to drive under the influence. 10-22 percent of car accidents per year are because of drivers under the influence says The National Highway Traffic Safety.
How Come People get "Munchies" When They're High?
- It's all in your head when you think you have the muchies. Because in your brain there's a hypothalamus which tells your body when you're thirsty, hungry or other things like movement. And there's something in marijuana that stimulates the hypothalamus and it tells the brain your hungry.
Is Marijuana an Actual Medical Treatment or do People use it Just Because?
- Marijuana is an actual medical treatment people use. Because in 1999 an Institute of Medicines study found that marijuana can make you hungry, decrease nausea, reduce pain and lessen anxiety.
- Some people say it is, and some people say it isn't. So I guess it's different for everyone. But 224,000 people nationwide are in treatment programs for marijuana, with most of them under the age of 20. Other people say pot isn't physically addictive, because stopping using it doesn't lead to withdrawel symptoms (as in vomitting and the shakes).
Does Pot Lead to Harder Drugs?
- If you opened up to smoking marijuana the you could open up a gateway to trying harder drugs. Marijuana smokers are five times more likely to move onto harder drugs, but the Drug Policy Research Center says it's your friends, environment, and general living style is what makes you want to try harder drugs. So i'd say no it doesn't that it's really up to you on what you do with drugs.
What are Marijuana's Specific Effects on Mind and Body?
- Pot can do a lot of different things to your body as in, put you in a happy ''chill'' zone mood, or make you edgy or paraniod, more social and outgoing, or just quiet and non-social. It's different for everyone. But one thing it does to everyone is it increases your heart rate and ruins your lungs over time. Also users who started smoking it before the age of 17 have smaller brains than the ones who started smoking it after the age of 17.
Does Marijuana Make Guys Impotent?
- It doesn't fully, but it does decrease the sperm count. Because cannabiniods make it hard for sperm when they're looking for an egg. Also another important thing is if a guy stops smoking for 3-5 months everything can go back to normal.
Is it Okay to Drive High?
- It's such a bad idea to drive under the influence. 10-22 percent of car accidents per year are because of drivers under the influence says The National Highway Traffic Safety.
How Come People get "Munchies" When They're High?
- It's all in your head when you think you have the muchies. Because in your brain there's a hypothalamus which tells your body when you're thirsty, hungry or other things like movement. And there's something in marijuana that stimulates the hypothalamus and it tells the brain your hungry.
Is Marijuana an Actual Medical Treatment or do People use it Just Because?
- Marijuana is an actual medical treatment people use. Because in 1999 an Institute of Medicines study found that marijuana can make you hungry, decrease nausea, reduce pain and lessen anxiety.
Response to Marijuana: Fact and Fiction
I thought all of this information was extremely helpful and information I am going to use. What I found really helpful was towards the end when it said using drugs does have a negative long effect to your future. Because my topic is Drugs in Your Future. The adding information would be that I already knew would be it's healthier than ciggarettes when it's really not. I knew that mostly every teen in present day has atleast heard of or tried marijuana. It introduces new ideas for me ask, like What's the precentage of kids who have tried marijuana at the age of 12 in different states? I wouldn't say I needed background information to help me with my topic, because I already have a lot of information in articles I haven't taken notes on yet.
Friday, October 30, 2009
Marijuana: Fact and Fiction
- Kids when they're talking about marijuana call it grass, weed, mary jane, pot, dope, cannabis, reefer, sinsemilla, bud, and many other things.
- Weed is not safer than ciggarettes, like most people think it is. Because many of the harmful chemicals that are found in ciggs are found in weed as well. Weed contains 3-5 tar and carbon monoxide as ciggarette smoke does. It also could lead to respiratory problems, including bronchitis, high blood pressure which could cause heart disease. And many other things along those lines. Also because it's usually inhaled much deeper into the lungs and held 4-5 times longer than ciggarette smoke is.
- Researchers said that people who have been using marijuana for a long time could not even pay attention to information long enough to learn it. Young people that spend their life time high don't learn the skills they need to to be successful in life, which usually has a long-lasting effect on their lives.
- The more the years go by from people using it, the more addictive it gets. It's more potent today than it was back in the 1960's. So therefore today that makes it way more addictive. 120,000 people in the United States get treatment to fix their marijuana addict problem.
- People think that trying marijuana is the normal way to grow up. That's true, in the United States marijuana is the most commonly illegal used drug. 33% of americans over the age of 12 said having tried marijuana at least once in their lives. So 67% have not.
- Weed is not safer than ciggarettes, like most people think it is. Because many of the harmful chemicals that are found in ciggs are found in weed as well. Weed contains 3-5 tar and carbon monoxide as ciggarette smoke does. It also could lead to respiratory problems, including bronchitis, high blood pressure which could cause heart disease. And many other things along those lines. Also because it's usually inhaled much deeper into the lungs and held 4-5 times longer than ciggarette smoke is.
- Researchers said that people who have been using marijuana for a long time could not even pay attention to information long enough to learn it. Young people that spend their life time high don't learn the skills they need to to be successful in life, which usually has a long-lasting effect on their lives.
- The more the years go by from people using it, the more addictive it gets. It's more potent today than it was back in the 1960's. So therefore today that makes it way more addictive. 120,000 people in the United States get treatment to fix their marijuana addict problem.
- People think that trying marijuana is the normal way to grow up. That's true, in the United States marijuana is the most commonly illegal used drug. 33% of americans over the age of 12 said having tried marijuana at least once in their lives. So 67% have not.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
This topic has much interest to me personally because I think it’s very important for young teens to know what drugs can do to their future if they’re abusing drugs. This topic will interest me for 5-6 months because there is so much information out there about it in magazines, the news, internet, books, and other places. There’s always people getting busted with drugs, and getting sent to jail. Or people using drugs because they can and ruin what they have going for them. And if you look it up yourself there will be tons of things about why their bad and should be illegal. This topic will have an impact in my future and present day now because I’m learning about all the bad side effects so hopefully further down the road in my life I’ll know that drugs aren’t the way to go and play it smart. How many teens who have got busted for having drugs by the cops have gotten into a good college? What are the pros and cons of marijuana? What are the long-term and short-term effects of doing drugs? What’s the percentage of kids who use drugs in high school compared the kids who use drugs in middle school?
What I found out was happening with drugs is it’s effecting peoples future immensely. There’s almost a million different types of drugs out there in the world, and ‘club drugs’ are one of the most common ones heard of on the news and internet and places like that. Club drugs are mostly Ecstasy, Ketamine, Rohypnol, Speed, and GHB. They can lead to date rape, permanent brain damage, and chronic depression. Three articles I read about drugs were Better Not Ask, Phychology from the Students Resource Center. Another was Club Drugs: Little Pills, Big Dangers from Weekly Reader Publications. One more was The Effects of Crack and Cocaine from Get Smart About Drugs article. To summarize all three articles the main gist of the three was to send a message about the negatives and what could happen to you if you chose to do drugs. They were all from this year, 2009.
Places where I could go to find information on my topic is pretty much anywhere. As in the internet, news, magazines, books, and people, because drugs is a huge issue and everyone knows a little something about them. I think it’s going to be really easy to find new information and facts about my topic from all of those resources because like I said before it’s a huge issue. I took out two books from the library called The Truth about Drugs and Subtances Use and Abuse. From what I’ve read of them they both are very knowlegdeable and helpful with my topic. The first book The Truth About Drugs, just tells you how bad they are, what theyre used for and information like that. So that book should be a big help with all the little detailed background information that I need to gather.The other is more of the same thing, just with different drugs that you can shoot up, or more towards pills.
The first article Better Not Ask. Phycology Today was dated 2009. The second article Club Drugs: Little Pills, Big Dangers was dated 2008. The third article The Effects of Crack and Cocaine was dated 2009. So all of those articles are pretty up to date. In my own predictions of what I think might progress or change over the next couple of months is nothing, I think it’s going to be the same old same old. People getting busted for drugs, people dieing from drugs, and people having a lack of education because of drugs. I’d like to find out the percentage of kids who have a good education who don’t do drugs compared to the ones who do drugs then go back to get an education and succeed. My topic will eventually change over time because new things come up and happen with drugs. New drugs are made just little things like that.
Five things I could force my myself to think about and learn more about this topic is to research the questions I asked in the first paragraph. I don’t know If I could interveiw anyone yet, maybe I could interveiw someone who has had an experience with drugs and has had the future they always wanted, or the other way around. They’d be a great source of knowledge because they’ve experienced, they knew what happened and they’d be telling me straight up what the result was. I could visit a hospital or something related to one and just ask questions about how many people come in here because of drugs or something like that. I cannot observe anyone with the topic I chose. Because drugs are illegal and that wouldn’t be the smartest choice on my part anyways.
What I found out was happening with drugs is it’s effecting peoples future immensely. There’s almost a million different types of drugs out there in the world, and ‘club drugs’ are one of the most common ones heard of on the news and internet and places like that. Club drugs are mostly Ecstasy, Ketamine, Rohypnol, Speed, and GHB. They can lead to date rape, permanent brain damage, and chronic depression. Three articles I read about drugs were Better Not Ask, Phychology from the Students Resource Center. Another was Club Drugs: Little Pills, Big Dangers from Weekly Reader Publications. One more was The Effects of Crack and Cocaine from Get Smart About Drugs article. To summarize all three articles the main gist of the three was to send a message about the negatives and what could happen to you if you chose to do drugs. They were all from this year, 2009.
Places where I could go to find information on my topic is pretty much anywhere. As in the internet, news, magazines, books, and people, because drugs is a huge issue and everyone knows a little something about them. I think it’s going to be really easy to find new information and facts about my topic from all of those resources because like I said before it’s a huge issue. I took out two books from the library called The Truth about Drugs and Subtances Use and Abuse. From what I’ve read of them they both are very knowlegdeable and helpful with my topic. The first book The Truth About Drugs, just tells you how bad they are, what theyre used for and information like that. So that book should be a big help with all the little detailed background information that I need to gather.The other is more of the same thing, just with different drugs that you can shoot up, or more towards pills.
The first article Better Not Ask. Phycology Today was dated 2009. The second article Club Drugs: Little Pills, Big Dangers was dated 2008. The third article The Effects of Crack and Cocaine was dated 2009. So all of those articles are pretty up to date. In my own predictions of what I think might progress or change over the next couple of months is nothing, I think it’s going to be the same old same old. People getting busted for drugs, people dieing from drugs, and people having a lack of education because of drugs. I’d like to find out the percentage of kids who have a good education who don’t do drugs compared to the ones who do drugs then go back to get an education and succeed. My topic will eventually change over time because new things come up and happen with drugs. New drugs are made just little things like that.
Five things I could force my myself to think about and learn more about this topic is to research the questions I asked in the first paragraph. I don’t know If I could interveiw anyone yet, maybe I could interveiw someone who has had an experience with drugs and has had the future they always wanted, or the other way around. They’d be a great source of knowledge because they’ve experienced, they knew what happened and they’d be telling me straight up what the result was. I could visit a hospital or something related to one and just ask questions about how many people come in here because of drugs or something like that. I cannot observe anyone with the topic I chose. Because drugs are illegal and that wouldn’t be the smartest choice on my part anyways.
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