Which of these is the most common illicit drug used in the U.S.cocaine, speed, marijuana, amphetamines.?
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People think that meth is the most widely used drug, but it's not.  Meth is only the biggest problem.  Meth hurts and kills people so it's a big deal cause it's a huge epidemic.  BUT the most widely used drug in the US is weed!  You would be really surprised if you really knew who all smokes weed.  Doctors, lawyers, judges, cops...  Lots of professionals, not to mention non professionals.  I knew a guy a long time ago who sold it.  Half of his clients were UW professors.  My friends mom, who is very anti-weed, works at UW hospital and was telling me the other day that after 25 years there she just found out that over half the staff smokes weed!  Including doctors and nurses.  So you see, it is widely used, most people just don't see it.
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USA - To smoke some weed, grass, ganja, pot, bud, Buddha, beasters (pot from BC, Canada), Mary Jane, green.  To roll a joint, blunt, spliff, j.  I'm sure there's more, I'm not that educated...It has "medical" names, too, you know.  Trainwreck, Purple Kush, Alaskan Thunderf*ck, Maui Wowi...
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Meth is a much, much stronger drug than cocaine. They both excite the nervous system. Meth is just more powerful
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Cocaine is the principal alkaloid in the leaves of Erythroxylon coca, a shrub indigenous to the Andean region of South America. Cocaine is an ester of benzoic acid and methylecgonine. Ecgonine, an amino alcohol, is structurally similar to atropine and some local anesthetics.
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Speed is a slang word for amphetamines.  On the street crystal meth refers to a highly refined meth-amphetamine, where as "crank" is usually dirty and gross.  Real crystal meth looks like broken glass, where as "crank" is a white or yellowish (sometimes even brownish) powder.\n\nThis is the worst drug in the history of man, stop using it now.  Very very bad stuff, all of it from crystal to the yucky brown stuff!\n\nHow could you use this drug for 4 years and not know the difference, or what you were doing?
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marijuana - weed, herb, ganj, purple, chronic\ncocaine - ice, powder, coke, crack (type of cocaine)
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The answer depends entirely upon where a person lives in the United States and what drug and what quantity and what purpose (and probably other factors as well).  Ask a lawyer.
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I found these websites for you:\n\nhttp://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/drugfact/cocaine/\n\nhttp://www.erowid.org/chemicals/cocaine/cocaine.shtml\n\n\nhttp://www.nida.nih.gov/DrugPages/Cocaine.html\n\nhttp://www.well.com/user/woa/fscoke.htm
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CRYSTAL METH   #1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!\nCOCAINE               #2~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!\nNow get moving
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yeah I would have to say meth...get whoever it is some help.
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alot of marijuana.  excuse me, weed...also, believe it or not, but it's spelled J-A-M-A-I-C-A....
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Yes, only the ones wich arent bad for me. And only every once in a blue moon. But theres nothing wrong with a little mushroom or peyote, despite what they might have you believe. Speed and other uppers are terrible stuff, I would strongly advise against it. And pot is just in the same group as alchohol with me, only every once in a while. Its killed far less people than alchohol, even far less than asperin. People are just cattle sometimes, follow the propaganda and not thinking for themselves. Thats the only reason good drugs get a bad rap. I will say some people shouldnt do certain drugs though, not everyone knows how to handle themelves. But at the same time those people shouldnt do alot of other perfectly legal things either, like driving a car or having children. Oh well I guess, I mind my own business with it and dont harm a single soul.
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Only if you have an addictive personality like sthorsen919. I started with hard drugs, speed & heroin. I Mainlined drugs my vein to my brain. Would never recomend hard drugs cocain heroin or methedrine. I did this over 30 years ago and got out guess I was lucky. However pot is not a gateway drug nor is it really addictive. I'm 55 years old now and still enjoy a good buzz on good weed. It may be illegal but it's much healthier than booze which is legal. If we replaced alchohal with pot we would have a lot less problems in society today. Check out normal .com or put marijuana.in your search engine and look at the facts.
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http://www.nida.nih.gov/DrugPages/Cocaine.html                every thing you need to know about it
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Alcohol, they say that marijuanna is the gateway drug but truly many more teens drink first and that leads to the drugs.  and not to mention the a**hole alcholics of the world...
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Ironically, the drug that stays in the system longest is the most innocuous, marijuana. Ice (methamphetamine), cocaine, heroin will only test positive for a couple days after the last time they were taken. Marijuana can last up to 6 weeks. These times vary somewhat based on dosage and frequency of use before the test and the metabolism and body chemistry of the test subject.\n\nPS: Ice is an incredibly addictive drug that can cause permanent changes in brain structure with very limited use. It is still rising in popularity and is already causing more problems than heroin and cocaine combined. Just stay away from it. And I say this as a person who is generally pro-legalization when it comes to drugs. Meth makes cocaine seem like icing sugar.
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Im 18\nmarijuana is the most commonly uses illegal substance in the United States. it is used by many people, most of which aren't your stereotypical "druggie", with no life agead of them. Many of them hapen to be very successful, good people. Think about it almost if not every person who reads this paper will know (even if they don't realize it) at least one if not several regular users of marijuana. Its often made out to be much more harmful htan it really is, unfortunatly not every one realizes this. \n\nWhat many people don't realize is marijuana is much less harmful than alcohol or tobacco. Yet it's the one of the three that gets a bad rap and is illegal. Marijuana isn't even physicaly addicting. You certanly don't see meetings for marijuana like you do with alcohol and AA. Unfortunatly due to American culture the less harmful of the three is illegal.\n\nThe most common reason why marijuana can be harmful is that people can often come across laced marijuana without realizing it. Marijuana can easily be mixed with other more harmful drugs with out the buyer realizing it, until they have already used it. This is a dangerous thing that causes many people to do more harmful, hard core drugs without realizing it. If it were to be legalized the government could provide guide lines, like it does with alchol  to insure that people knew what they were putting into their bodies.\n\nMarijuana actually has many helpful benefits toward diseases / sicknesses. Marijuana can reduce nausea, vomiting, and loss of appetite caused by AIDS. It can Reduce interlobular pressure, which alleviates the pain and slowing and sometimes even stopping the progress of glaucoma. Common side effects of chemotherapy are nausea, loss of appetite, and vomiting, all of which marijuana would help. It can limit muscle pain and relieve tremor nad unsteadiness of gait for multiple sclerosis patients. Marijuana can help prevent epileptic seizures in some patients. It can also alleviate chronic, often debilitating pain caused by myriad disorders and injuries. Each one of these applications have been deemed legitimate by at least one United States court, legislature, and/or government agency.\n\nDue to these reasons and many others many people are going to jail/prison on a daily basis due to simply smoking a little pot These aren't dangerous criminals that would kill or rape someone. Many of them are teachers, lawyers and respected members of their communities. But yet we still pay thousands of dollars of tax payers money to lock up non dangerous "criminals" yearly even though most aren't going to stop after they get out of jail. Don't you think the money spent here is a waste? Couldn't it be going to more useful things such as hospitals, disease research, or better schools? These are the things that would benifit the people of this country. Certanily you would rather benefit the people more than throwing a non violent pot head in jail who was only trying to smoke a joint and relax after a long days work in jail. There is up to forty million regular (note thats just the regular not occasional users) drug users in the United states. If we were to throw all of them in jail it would cost $500,000 per million people, plus the cost and space of building many more prisons. Couldm't that money be spent on building hospitals? There's already about 1.5 million people tax payers are paying to keep in jail over drugs. From 1990 to 2003, nearly 5.9 million people had been arrested for smoking marijuana. Thats a greater number than the entire population of Alaska, Delaware, The District of Columbia, Montania, North and South Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming combined. This country simply can't afford to put 40 million more in jail.\n\nMarijuana should be legalized. It has many uses such as helping sick patients. People are going to smoke it no matter what the government sais, and with out govenment guidelines thi