Com 172 - Drugs Case

Drugs and there History

Richard Fonville

COM/172

March 14, 2012

Jennifer Haines

There are many different drugs in the world today that are used on a daily basis. Even though some drugs are used medically, drugs should be banned because it is corrupting the generation of the youth today and too many people have died. As you read on you will see why I feel the way I do concerning drugs and the corruption behind them.

Drugs are a major problem in American society today. But not a new problem! It all started when Christopher Columbus was handed some tobacco as a gift from the Taino Indians. Which would go on to become (for better, or worse) the most important drug in history!

Everyone knows that drugs are bad, and that in the long run they end up destroying people's lives. Marijuana turns regular people into zombie pot smokers. However, marijuana being smoked at moderate levels does not harm the lungs but actually improves the airflow and your lung capacity. Why do you think that we, as people, are fighting a war on drugs? We are fighting a war not for us, but to protect our kids and the youth in society today. It is not just marijuana that is causing our youth to travel down the wrong path in life. It is also meth labs! Meth labs are another growing problem in the United States. Many try drugs for the first time because of their curiosity, to have fun, because they just want to fit in with their friends, or in an effort to improve athletic skills, or ease another problem such as stress, depression, or typical problems with school or family. Drug usage does not always lead to abuse, and there is no actual level of drug usage which causes it to go from casual to problematic.

The most basic explanation for the wide popularity of drugs throughout American history of both the "Big Three" legal drugs and the multitude of less prevalent illegal drugs--is that people simply like drugs. Since human beings first discovered, in ancient times, that they could alter their consciousnesses via chemical means, they've had a hard time stopping themselves from doing it. Drugs, by messing around with the internal chemistry of the brain, can temporarily make sad people feel happy; sick people feel well; tired people feel spry; weak people feel strong; shy people feel brave; ugly people feel sexy. Drugs don't really solve any of those problems, of course, but drugs can mask them for as long as the high lasts. And that's enough to keep millions of Americans coming back for more. And that truth didn't begin with the meth epidemic of the early twenty-first century, or the crack cocaine crisis of the 1980s, or the pot-smoking