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Question by : Is weed healthy to smoke the day before playing sports?
I’m considering smoking marijuana but I don’t know If it will effect me physically should I do it?

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Answer by Rainbow Flower
You know what? Weed just isn’t healthy to smoke any day. It’s not going to help you be better at sports. Go ahead try it, I’ll guarantee you bad effects. So DON’T even consider smoking.

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Iowa Latino league to hire legislative lobbyists
Filed under: substance abuse journal

“Knowing the truth about the potentially destructive power of substance abuse can lead to healthy choices, just as half-truths or falsehoods can be dangerous,” said Lukan, director of the Governor's Office of Drug Control Policy. “Drug Facts Week is a …
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Energy Drinks Pose Risks to Teens, Study Finds
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Masbate employees may have to return fat bonuses
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Masbate, being a first-class province, has a 14-member legislative body: the vice governor, as presiding officer, and 13 provincial board members—10 elected and three ex-officio members represented by the presidents of the provincial Liga ng mga …
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Criminal Justice Reform One Step From Final Passage
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But supporters of the legislation say that only a small fraction of the cases are thrown out because there isn't enough evidence and the elimination of preliminary hearings in Class 1 Misdemeanor cases free up resources for the alternative substance …
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Couple sentenced on sex charges
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The court also recommended that upon release she participate in the sex offender and substance abuse programs. The charges stem from an incident that occurred in 2009 when the victim was 14 years old. According to court records, Grace was charged with …
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Group wants private prisons to rehab Fla. inmates
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TALLAHASSEE (AP) — A group with strong business ties urged Florida lawmakers to divert nonviolent felons into privately operated prisons for substance abuse and mental health treatment to cut costs and help prevent them from returning to crime when …
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Will States Lead the Way to Legalizing Marijuana Nationwide?
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Meanwhile, the DEA still classifies marijuana as a “schedule 1” drug under the federal Controlled Substances Act of 1970 – a classification for drugs that have no accepted medical use. Americans for Safe …. I want a civil war, not a clean slate for I …
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New lingo for consumers: health overhaul glossary
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Veterans court unveiled, focuses on those who served
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BEAVER — Veterans who find themselves in the Beaver County judicial system can now enter a “veterans court” that offers a chance at redemption through mentoring, mental health counseling and substance abuse treatment. “We can't just forget them just …
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Drug dealers could face homicide charges under new legislation
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The successful measures against prescription drug abuse in recent years has led to addicts turning toward the cheaper and more available heroin in the past two years, law enforcement and drug treatment center officials have said. Some call for tougher …
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Probationer gets chance at rehab to avoid prison
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Question by : Help me!!please im confused i dont know how to live!?
Help me im scared of life i cant get terapy or go to the doctor because they struggle to pay bills and my brother is in college
so here are my problems i told my friend these she said i was not normal

-ive attempted suicide
-i really want to die
-i keep dieting but then i binge so i purge
-i cant stop cutting
-i try to be happy or pretent but ive gotton so depressed that i cant even fake smile
-at times when im alone i laugh uncontrollably
-i here voices in my head saying horrible stuff about me
-i talk to my self not out loud but i worried that i do sometimes think on loud without noticing some times
-i get parranoid allot
-im exreamly shy i cant even tell my mom how i feel
-i hate myself and i think every one hates me
-i feel some of my friends ditched me due to my deppression fatness and uglyness
-im so f****** retarded seriouly im so slow
-i get worried easily
-i get annoyed easily i try my best to hide it
-ive overdoes medication tried to hang myself but im too fat and the rope snapped
-brother said today i look like a zombie the way i act and walk ect    Read more...

END THE WAR ON DRUGS FACTS AND STATISTICS

The Federal Government spends over billion dollars per year in the War on Drugs — almost 0 every second — and we have lost. The reason for this failure is that we are fighting the war on the wrong front. We have focused the battle on stopping the flow of illegal drugs, thinking that our enemy is the drug dealer or the addict. Law enforcement agencies make drug busts — big and small — taking product off the streets and putting dealers and addicts in jail. This doesn’t work because the addict still wants product there is always another drug dealer or pain clinic around the corner. The only true solution is to reduce demand — which means spending the money on Addiction Treatment. Scare tactics like the DEA report (www.usdoj.gov said that “Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations represent the greatest organized crime threat to the United States” and that “intelligence estimates indicate a vast majority of the cocaine available in US drug markets is smuggled by Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations across the US– Mexico border.” This type of report fuels the fire and encourages spending more and more money on drug interception — which doesn’t work — rather than substance abuse education, intervention and treatment — which has a much larger impact on demand. The same report also cited a 2007 study that “nearly 7 million Americans are abusing prescription drugs — more than the number who are abusing cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens, Ecstasy, and inhalants, combined …    Read more...