The Legalizing of Marijuana Recently‚ both California and Arizona took the long needed initiative and approved the use of marijuana for medical purposes. The California bill says that patients may use marijuana with a doctor’s recommendation. It does not‚ however‚ allow doctors to prescribe the drug. Arizona voters passed a bill that swings out even further to the left than California’s. Voters in Arizona think that people should be able to use any illicit drug for bona fide medical purposes
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Yíng Zhèng now known as Qin Shi Huang died today at the age of 49 (February 18‚ 259 BC - September 10‚ 210 BC). The shocking and inconvenient reason for his death is being exposed to Chinese alchemical elixir poisoning. The reason why he had that is because he ingested mercury pills by which he was given on a tour of Eastern China. The pills were supposedly suppose to make him immortal which didn’t happen unfortunately. The Empire knew about the pills because his chemists made the pills for him‚
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Jay Castonguay Comparisons of Opium‚ Opiates‚ and Heroin List the names of the common derivatives of opium. Morphine Codeine ThebaineDiscuss the differences between opium‚ opiates‚ and synthetic opiates. All of these are considered a narcotic; opium is harvested straight from the opium poppy in the form of a sticky tar like substance. Opium produces an analgesic and euphoric effect on the patient taking the drug. Opiates are a derivative of the pure opium drug‚ so in other words they are
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Geography Assessment: Emma Hockley Explain how and why the lives of Abdul and Giles are connected Abdul and Giles are both farmers in their different countries‚ Abdul is from Afghanistan while Giles is from Britain. Out in Afghanistan there is a dry‚ semi-desert climate and with only 372mm of rain every year in Kabul‚ the capital‚ it makes it very difficult to grow crops. London on the other hand has about twice as much rain which makes life a lot easier for Giles‚ he grows barley and wheat
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For “the Religion is the Opium of the People” Religion is a belief of supernaturalism for the individual’s satisfaction. Religion is there to be a shelter for the less fortunate so that they can escape from the world of reality and have supernatural beings to rely on. Opium‚ in comparison to religion‚ is used by the people who want to relieve their pain and anxiety in everyday life through hallucination. This similarity shows that religion is a manipulation used by government to oppress their people
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Before the 1950’s anxiety was mainly treated with barbiturates and meprobamate. However‚ these drugs have disadvantages linked to dependence and abuse. Consequently‚ there was a need for new medication with fewer side effects [1]. In the 1950’s‚ Sternbach‚ a chemist at Roche‚ started looking for a new anxiolytic. He started this process by using benzheptoxdiazines‚ molecules which he had previously worked with. He synthesised new compounds using his key product and secondary amines. After having
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Despite the fact that China gifted numerous valuable inventions to the West‚ such as silk‚ tea‚ the Mariner’s Compass‚ and gunpowder‚ the most important of them all would definitely be paper‚ gunpowder‚ and medicines. These particular goods have shaped our society immensely today and would change the way we lived if they were not created. Defined in basic terms‚ paper is a material that is utilized to write on‚ gunpowder is an explosive‚ and medicines are preventions or treatments of disease. According
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Fentanyl is a potent synthetic opioid that is most commonly used to treat break though pain and post surgery pain. Break through pain is sudden sever pain that lasts for short periods of time and is commonly found in cancer patients. Fentanyl is most commonly administered through an IV. When people develop a higher tolerance for the drug‚ such as cancer patients‚ it can also be given in a patch‚ a pill that dissolves in your mouth‚ or a lolliepop. Fentanyl is similar to morphine‚ but is approximately
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This news story intrigues many. It mostly intrigues Chef’s and the foodies of the world. Truffles have always been a delicacy but with the decline of truffle production it has become an extremely rare delicacy. So much so that there are even people trying to replicate the truffle and make thousands of dollars off of it. The CBS news story covers why truffles are so expensive and also‚ it covers how the Chinese try to replicate these truffles and sell them to Europe and America. They label their product
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1. The Opium Poppy: Although the poppy is a simple flower‚ it has had both a good and a bad influence on the world: Anaesthetising: The extraction of Morphine‚ one of the opiate alkaloids found naturally in opium‚ was revolutionary in the medical world. Even though local anaesthesia is available to us by a completely different plant‚ the Coca‚ general anaesthesia became possible with the Opium poppy. It allowed patients to be knocked out completely for operations they were having‚ which gave
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