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Question by Frickin AWESOME: Why are the drugs………?
That are scheduled, in such an odd order. LSD,weed,DMT, and others are schedule 1. Coke is schedule 2.. and some how xanax is schedule 4????
Best answer:
Answer by Wade H
Drugs are “scheduled” according to “potential for abuse”. The lower the schedule number the more likely a drug has been determined to be problematic. In the case of schedule I drugs there is no federal provision for any medical use or proscription.
Schedule II drugs are dependence causal, have a medical use determination but are not deemed as serious a threat for abuse as Schedule III drugs. Schedule IV drugs are determined to be even less a threat but have potential for abuse and do cause addiction as well. Etc.
These are somewhat accepted definitions; but there is “controversy” ~ largely from those dependent on said drugs.
Nobody questions such schedules who has tried to interdict a drug deal working the job of Deputy with the Maine Game Warden’s Service and has thus been shot 8 times (then, after he one is disarmed a minute later shot 3 more times, then hours later 2 more times ~ by 3 different gunmen ~ with 13 hours elapsing before hospital) all this by dope dealers. And should any fellow lay wounded like that for 6 or 7 hours while customers stroll though the area used by the dealers buying, and commenting how uncomfortable dying that way must be ~ but not actually lifting a cell phone to make a call ~ as I did in 1980, it’s would seriously seem unlikely that fellow would contend that marijuana is “not dangerously addicting” or has a lower “potential for abuse”, than it’s current schedule implies.
Anyone who has noted the rather obvious effects of distilled THC on a population competing with the cheat who uses and then employs his demon to remove competition from any contest he might face in life from employment to who gets the girl, would expect only fun and games to come from legalization.
Any competent legal mind would advocate for remote testing of all employees and pedestrians in public places by spectrograph analysis of breath for both smoke and distilled THC residues; because not to do so allows far worse criminal activity than speeding, and that is OK to remote test for by traffic camera ~ so why not THC ?
I’m a sober man. If I’m being doped I want to know it. 45 % of the USA NEVER USES. I suspect when we come up against a doper for a promotion all of that 45% wants to know if the competition is squirting distilled THC or date rape drugs into our drinks from 10 feet away so-as to inhibit our performance (I actually caught a fellow worker doing this in one of the factories I worked in once ~ don’t laugh, it ain’t funny, I’ve been shot through the head, the dope if there was any in that squirt from a 2 once oil bottle could have caused a seizure and killed me ~ if there was any, she claimed she was “just pulling my leg, seeing how paranoid she could make me, and seeing if a person could squirt a drink from ten feet away” ~ ). THC is orderless and colorless.
You can’t do that with liqueur, it isn’t orderless, and it’s highly reactive, changing other flavors.
Caffeine and Nicotine aren’t much of a performance inhibitor, so cheating a fellow out of his rightful job isn’t as likely if the dope uses tobacco or coffee.
So, wise up to the ways of the doper, and he looks more like the lying cheat he naturally must be, to compete against more sober and responsible people.
Augusta teen raises money for orphans
But perhaps what sets the Cony High School freshman apart from many of his peers is the hard driving he does off the track to raise money and awareness for causes that take hold of the young man's heart. It is, his dad Corey Folsom said, the … Late …
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What Is Addiction?
… plague of both desperate poverty and tortured privilege. The abuse of prescription drugs is an even more widespread problem. But what causes the addiction that lets drug abuse flourish? Is addiction a disorder, a matter of human frailty or …
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Professors research causes and solutions to doping in sports
To analyze the pervasiveness of performance enhancing drugs, what causes athletes to use them and what is being done to stop it, a panel of experts gathered Thursday for a symposium titled “How do we prevent drugs in sports?” sponsored by the …
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And the mayoral race is on . . .
Aside from Rob Ford's other obvious failings, he has been the exact opposite of this definition. He thrives on … If Mr. Ford has not made full disclosure about his substance abuse, has he made full disclosure about his expenses and the city budget …
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New ordinance aimed at sober living treatment facilities
The facilities under consideration included sober living and alcohol and drug treatment programs. The changes are designed to amend various land use categories and tables that define county requirements in relation to these facilities. The proposed …
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Clinical trial testing new treatment for marijuana addiction
Behavioral Health Services of Pickens County is accepting marijuana smokers ages 18-50 for the trial funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), according to Margaret K. Garrett, research liaison for the treatment center. “Generally we are …
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Georgia Medical Cannabis Bill Amended, Heads to House Floor
The University of Mississippi, in 1986, contracted with the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the university's lab to grow, harvest, and process cannabis and to ship it to licensed facilities across the country for research. In the bill …
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Home + School Programs Modestly Slow Teen Prescription Drug Abuse
As a result, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has recommended restricting access to painkillers such as Percocet, Oxycontin, and Vicodin. “These drugs are very available, and highly addictive,” said Max Crowley, Ph.D., an NIH Research Fellow at …
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Prevalence of high school seniors' marijuana use is expected to increase with …
The National Institute on Drug Abuse, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, and Monitoring the Future principal investigators, had no role in analysis, interpretation of results, or in the decision to submit the manuscript for …
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Anti-drug success comes in communities pulling together, AG says in Warren
Mandatory drug screening in the schools “will either prevent use or catch it at an early level,” she said. One woman expressed the opinion that lack of jobs is a factor that adds to the incidence of drug addiction in the area. “What I would like to see …
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Businesmman Robert Johnson left prison a changed man
NEW BEDFORD — After sunset once a week, the parents of drug addicts gather at St. Luke's Hospital to share stories, comfort each other and ask: "What should I do with my child?" They ask Robert Johnson, a tall, slender, well-dressed man with …
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Hoffman among thousands of addiction victims
His death, which came after a long period of sobriety that ended last year, "epitomizes the tragedy of drug addiction in our society," said Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. "Here you have an extraordinarily talented …
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Belmont Common Pleas Court accepts drug grant
"Unfortunately, the drug addiction problem around here has really, really exploded recently," he said, adding that opiates are the current drug of choice, with prescription medication and heroin as well. The probate courts commonly see 150-200 eligible …
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Question by Harsh Truth: Could the belief in god be an addiction? Do they need “God Rehab”?
Some Christians think atheists are bitter(which is not true). Just like some alcoholics think sober people are bitter. Could it be because some Christians have to depend on god to be happy? Isn’t that how drug and alcohol addicts are? Alcoholics think they have to depend on alcohol to function. Lots of Christians are the same way about god.
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Answer by Sharkfishrman
What would Jesus say?
Answer by jtuckerndfw
Religion is the opium of the masses. (Karl Marx)
God believers are just like any other drug addict. They are in denial, delusional and prone to violence against anyone who attempts to separate them from their drug.
Kids of jailed parents face challenges
It was kind of like a second family," said Bowyer, now 24. … "If we can match them with a mentor, they can sort of look to their mentor as additional support, and not necessarily as a replacement for their parent." Some groups of children are more …
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Assisted suicide bill debate intensifies
WORCESTER — Many of those people who support an assisted suicide bill on Beacon Hill spent Tuesday lobbying at the Statehouse encouraging legislators to pass the measure. … The problem with the bill, he said, is it is discriminatory. … Mr. Kelly …
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Ex-addicts, others at Rockford hearing tell legislators about heroin's deadly hold
The group also offers grief support and is working on a website. It may consider … About 75 percent of crime in Rockford, which he said is "high," is related to drugs, and a majority are property crimes against families and stores to support a heroin …
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