There are many drugs in our world today. There is marijuana, crack cocaine, cocaine, acid, X, alcoholism, and prescription drugs just to name a few.
Marijuana, also known as Cannabis, is one well known drug in our society today. If consumed, it can cause psychoactive and physiological effects on different people. Once consumed, it can have effects such as memory loss, dry mouth, reddening of the eyes, and a increased heart rate.
This drug is used for recreational use and medical usage. Since the 20th century, marijuana has been recorded all the way back to the 3rd millennium for usage. Either way, marijuana is illegal drug. Don’t get caught selling it, in possession of it or using it at any time.
In 2004, it was estimated by the United Nations that it is the highest global consumption of any drug in the adult world population that is used annually.
Here recently marijuana has became a drug to help relieve pain in people that have AIDS or muscle spasms.
There are different ways to take in marijuana. You can smoke it, vaporize it, have cannabis tea, or put it into edible food.
The price on the street today is estimated to be around 36 billion in the United States. This is not for just growing it but figuring out a way to smuggle it in for your suppliers.
Marijuana comes from dried flowers and subtending leaves of the female cannabis plant.
Then there is another drug called crack cocaine. It is a freebase of cocaine that can be smoked. It is also known as rock, base , or just crack.
This drug offers a short but intense high for its smokers making them want more and more of it. It appears to white nuggets with jagged edges however the more purer crack resembles a hard brittle plastic. This drug is purchased in a rock form. There are many side effects to this drug. It causes you to be over confident, loss of appetite, insomnia, alertness, increased energy and a craving for more. There are physical effects to this drug also. It makes you have an increased temperature, heart rate to increase rapidly, dilated pupils, blood pressure to increase, some to have violent behavior and muscle twitches.
While you also have crystal meth. This is a form of the drug methamphetamine. People take it by snorting it through the nose is the most common however some do take it orally. This drug creates a false sense of happiness. The rush is a strong feeling of confidence, hyper activeness, and gives you plenty of energy. Crystal meth causes you to have a decrease in appetite. This drug last in your system from six to eight hours but stay as long as twenty four hours. It is considered the “club drug”. People use at rave parties or night clubs.
And the last drug that has effected my family is alcoholism. Some people might not think this is a drug however in my eyes it is. I know they consider drinking too much can be considered a disease. It is also stated that it is hereditary. This is a trait that I hope never to pick...
