Drugs in American SocietyThis edition probes the drug phenomenon in all its social, cultural and legal complexity. It covers the full range of psychoactive drug use, from legal medical and prescription use to criminal, recreational use, from casual use to addiction. |
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Page 40
... smoking crack cocaine , but with IV administration , this takes 12 to 14 seconds . The difference is even more exaggerated when we compare the effects of smoking with those of other methods of taking drugs . For instance , smoking ...
... smoking crack cocaine , but with IV administration , this takes 12 to 14 seconds . The difference is even more exaggerated when we compare the effects of smoking with those of other methods of taking drugs . For instance , smoking ...
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... smoking was published , until the early 1990s , none of the damning evidence about smoking seemed to make much of a difference . True , a number of jurisdictions banned on- premises smoking : restaurants in certain cities , domestic ...
... smoking was published , until the early 1990s , none of the damning evidence about smoking seemed to make much of a difference . True , a number of jurisdictions banned on- premises smoking : restaurants in certain cities , domestic ...
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... smoking pot . It used to be that whenever someone on the floor made a buy , we smoked according to how they wanted to get high . But now , we all had our own bags of dope so that we could smoke when- ever we wanted . We never smoked ...
... smoking pot . It used to be that whenever someone on the floor made a buy , we smoked according to how they wanted to get high . But now , we all had our own bags of dope so that we could smoke when- ever we wanted . We never smoked ...
Contents
Prologue | 1 |
POTENTIAL VERSUS REALLIFE EFFECTS | 7 |
A DOZEN PRINCIPLES OF CLEAR THINKING ABOUT DRUGS | 13 |
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