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.

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.

Response to Marijuana: Fact and Fiction

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