to search him finding the 16grams of crack cocaine in his jacket pocket‚ and $516 in his pants pocket. David Lee Moore was convicted of possession of cocaine with the intent to distribute in the Circuit Court of the City of Portsmouth. Moore was originally being stopped for operating a vehicle while having a suspended driver’s license. This would have only been a Class 1 misdemeanor. While being searched the officers found sixteen grams of crack cocaine and five hundred and sixteen dollars. The
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take the drug or they will get very sick or may even die. This means it will be easier to come off the drug because their body will not depend on it. That brings me to my next point. Marijuana is a weak drug compared to other such as P‚ Heroin‚ Cocaine and ecstasy. These dugs overdosed on can put a person in the intensive care unit or even kill them. There are hallucinogens like magic mushrooms and LSD which will make you do things to yourself like cut yourself or commit suicide. Marijuana can
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What is Marijuana? Marijuana is a green or gray mixture of dried‚ shredded flowers and leaves of the hemp plant (Cannabis sativa). It is the most often used illegal drug in this country. All forms of cannabis are mind-altering (psychoactive) drugs; they all contain THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol)‚ the main active chemical in marijuana. There are about 400 chemicals in a cannabis plant‚ but THC is the one that affects the brain the most. There are many different names for marijuana. Slang terms
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grandfather. When he was old enough to drink legally‚ the client would go to the bar everyday after work. Instead of drinking beer‚ the client switched to drinking hard liquor‚ such as whiskey. The client started using cocaine when he was 21 years old. He switched to crack cocaine when he was 41 years old. The client did not feel he had a problem with alcohol or drugs because he could hold down a job. He would tell his family and friends that he could stop drinking and using crack any time he
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Sheila is a 25 year old cocaine addict. She was attending group therapy voluntarily after an intervention from her mother and her church. Sheila explained that she was introduced to cocaine by her boyfriend of four years. Sheila is easily is coerced by her boyfriend because he fills the void left by her father. She has been dealing with her absentee father since childhood. These unresolved issues from childhood initially created turmoil between her and other members of the group and the group leader
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Review Questions 1. What are club drugs? What are some of the factors that support the use of club drugs? 2. What are screening tests? Why are they used? 3. What are color tests? Why are these tests used? 4. What are microcrystalline tests? What information do they provide? 5. What is spectrophotometry? How can this be useful in identifying drugs? Critical Thinking Questions 1. Why are forensic scientists an important part of drug cases? 2. If you were a forensic scientist and you were called
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substances? "The effect of criminalization is to drive people from mild drugs to strong drugs... Crack would never have existed in my opinion if you had not had drug prohibition. It was drug prohibition- why was crack created? Because cocaine was so expensive." [Cocaine was so expensive because of drug prohibition.] But what about the morality of legalization? "It ’s not an economic problem at all. It ’s a moral problem. The economics part of it- I ’m an economist- the economics problem is strictly
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marijuana‚ we will stop the rest of drug abuse". I have several issues with this statement: first‚ the simple fact that many heroin and cocaine users used marijuana first does not conclude that the latter is the result of the first. Correlation is not causality. Bierson’s vehement argument against marijuana alone become suspect‚ as most of these heroin and cocaine abusers had also previously used alcohol and tobacco. According to government surveys‚ a conservative estimate of 80 million American have
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The Truce on Drugs‚ a 2012 article in New York Magazine by Benjamin Wallace-Wells‚ seeks to assess some of the history as well as the aftermath of the infamous war on drugs in the United States. He discusses the point that the real issue with the international and domestic drug trade is the violence associated with it‚ not the drugs or drug trade itself. Granted‚ there are other negative effects of drug use on communities‚ but they are not as pressing as the violence that stems from the trade. Wallace-Wells
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both medical and spiritual purposes. Throughout the years many policies have been created in order to minimize the use of drugs. For example‚ the first anti-opium laws were directed at the Chinese immigrants in the 1870’s. In the 1900’s‚ an anti-cocaine laws were directed in the South at the black men. But it wasn’t until the 60’s where drugs became a big problem to society. Some Presidents have tried to propose and implement what they believed would be beneficial for our nation. Some of those implementations
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