Question: Is Marijuana a Gateway Drug? My best friend who is a cancer patient left Austin a few years ago but still comes home for the holidays. Her mom found‚ on a recent visit an ashtray full of marijuana roaches under her bed. I’m not too worried about marijuana‚ as it is a soft drug‚ but I’m concerned that it will lead to hard drugs‚ and my friend may become an addict. Is it true that marijuana leads to other drug use? Answer: Marijuana‚ also known as cannabis or weed‚ is the most
Premium Psychoactive drug Drug addiction Cannabis
Issue Analysis: Marijuana Janet Matthews University of Phoenix April 22‚ 2009 Critical Issue Analysis: Marijuana Gfroerer‚ J. W. (2005). Marijuana Is a Gateway Drug First time marijuana use will lead to harder drugs‚ creates health risks including HIV. Earleywine‚ M. (2004). Marijuana Is Not a Gateway to Other Addictive Drugs. Most marijuana users do not touch hard drugs. First time marijuana use does not mean an individual will use harder drugs because people
Premium Drug addiction Addiction
Responsibility Project From: Mr. Nicholas Tan‚ Associate at Social Responsibility Project Re: Environmental risks involved in pipeline construction As we know‚ the recent Northern Gateway Pipeline proposes to build 2 parallel pipelines that stretch across from the oil sands of Alberta to the BC Coast of Kitimat. This Northern Gateway Pipeline has stirred negative controversy lately due to its impact on the local community during its construction. A key stakeholder against the construction of this pipeline
Free Natural environment Environment Environmentalism
Sociology 225 Research Paper Marijuana as a Gateway Drug The gateway theory is a hypothesis which states that the use of gateway drugs (alcohol‚ tobacco and marijuana) lead to the use of more illicit drugs such as heroin and cocaine. According to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)‚ marijuana is a Schedule I substance under the Controlled Substances Act. “Schedule I drugs are classified as having a high potential for abuse‚ no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States
Premium Drug addiction
Tuesday 5:00 pm March 25th‚ 2013 ERSC 1000 Northern Gateway Pipeline Imagine yourself looking across a river‚ filled with birds‚ deer and a beaver. These animals are at peace and you are at peace with the ultimate certainty that all things will be right‚ healthy‚ and indestructible. Until the Northern Gateway Pipeline is built directly through the lake‚ disrupting not only you‚ but the environment‚ habitat and ecosystem. The Northern Gateway Project is a major pipeline proposed to carry crude
Premium Petroleum First Nations British Columbia
Case Overview and Key Issue Grocery Checkout Inc. (GCO)‚ an online grocery delivery service was founded in 2005 by Nathan Felder and his fellow teammates at the University of Western Ontario (Western) as part of their business project. Recently‚ investors of GCO have been pressuring Felder continually for faster growth‚ and he has a number of growth approaches under consideration. As the co-founder and chief executive officer (CEO)‚ Felder wanted to reflect on which option would be the best fit
Premium Retailing Supermarket
The St. Louis Gateway Arch is an elegant monument to westward expansion in the USA. Located on the banks of the Mississippi River in St. Louis‚ Missouri‚ the 630-foot tall stainless steel arch rises above the city skyline. The Jefferson National Expansion Memorial consists of the Gateway Arch‚ the Museum of Westward Expansion‚ and St. Louis’ Old Courthouse. How the design was chosen: There was a nationwide competition in 1947-1948 to design a monument in St. Louis honoring western pioneers. The
Premium Mississippi River
Software Requirements Specification For Organic Grocery Software System Table of Contents Table of Contents 1. Introduction 1 1.1 Intended audience 1 1.2 Brief Specification and Project Scope 1 1.3 Own Assumptions 1-2 2. System Features 3 2.1 Nonfunctional and Functional Requirements 3-6 Appendix A: Analysis Models 7 3. Class Diagram 3.1 Noun Identification………………………………………………………………………….7 3.2. Responsibility Driven Design 8-9 3.3. First Cut Class Diagram
Premium Supermarket Unified Modeling Language User
framework…………………………………………………………..5 CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW 2.0 Introduction………………………………………………………………………6 2.1 Definition of concepts…………………………………………………………….6 2.2 Relationship between service delivery and performance…………………….......6 2.3 Effect of service delivery on performance……………………………………....7 2.4 Forms of services offered by banking institutions……………………………...7 2.5 Research limitations……………………………………………………...……..12 CHAPTER THREE METHODOLOGY 3.0 Introduction……………………………………………………………………
Premium Bank Service system Financial services
Significant experience in a customer facing front line service delivery environment. In my current post I deliver an effective and supportive front line service to Sense families and support staff linked to the Sense charity‚ based at the Woodside Family Centre. This is an aspect of my post that I really enjoy and the challenges that providing an efficient and effective service sometimes presents. I have the ability to communicate with parents or carers and to explain complex information‚ also
Premium Management Customer service Customer