Marijuana - The Gateway Drug?

Marijuana (also turn inn as apprizenabis, reefer, pot, ganja - as well up as many around other forms of slang), has been pulmonary tuberculosisd for thousands of years. In America, it flush in popularity in the 1960s and 70s. It is a psychoactive drug which is do up of dried leaves of womanly plants. It can be rolled and smoked alike a cigarette or smoked in a echo with water. It is abominable in some countries while others agree cut down and even let state smoke it openly much(prenominal) as Colorado and Washington. Did you know in Oregon it is illegal to possess or deal out hemp plainly you can smoke it openly on your own property? Is marijuana addictive? Yes. Then again, thus again so is caffeine, nicotine, and intoxicant. provided is marijuana more addicting than caffeine, nicotine, and alcohol?\nThere are 3 main types of marijuana. hangmans rope Sativa, marijuana Indica, Cannabis Ruderalis. You may have heard of something called Skunk heater? This is a hybrid of Cannabis Indica. While marijuana is belowstood a controlled substance under federal law, 13 U.S. states before long have compassionate example laws in place, which allow for set medical marijuana use: Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington (Armentano, 2013). An excess 17 states and the District of capital of South Carolina have legislated to recognize the appreciate of medical marijuana but do not nurture users from federal prosecution.\nAccording to the Centers for infirmity Control and Prevention, 22,073 United States citizens died from alcohol related reasons in 2006, excluding accidents and homicides. more than than 13,000 died from alcoholic liver disease. To this day, in that respect has yet to be put down one credible slip of death due to marijuana, and tests on lab rats show that the add of chemicals necessary for overdose versus the bill necessary for intoxication i s something like 40000:1. For reference purposes, the ratio is 4:1-10:1 for alcohol (McAdory, 2013).\n alcohol has b...