Sentences with phrase «as a recreational drug»

The slightly pungent scent of marijuana drifts in from a room off the kitchen, where joints are passed among a dozen people, some of them old enough to have been smoking marijuana as a recreational drug since the 1960s.
Millions of Americans use cocaine as a recreational drug and suffer no lasting ill effects from occasional use.
Originally developed as a potential pharmaceutical stimulant by Boehringer Ingelheim chemists in the 1960s, MDPV re-emerged as a recreational drug within the past decade.
In an attempt to avoid having to deliberate on each individual compound as it appears, the ACMD is likely to advise the UK government to control not just mephedrone but a whole group of synthetic cathinones, including those such as methylone and butylone, which are already emerging as recreational drugs, and others not yet in widespread use.
While the effects of some substances that have become popular as recreational drugs in recent years have previously been studied for their potential medical use, such as ketamine and GHB, there are practically no published studies on mephedrone — just user surveys and anecdotal accounts.
And is the July 1, 2018 deadline for bringing marijuana into the market as a recreational drug realistic?
As of November 2014, four states had approved the use of marijuana as a recreational drug, and it appears that marijuana is becoming more widely accepted across the nation.
Scientists have clearly shown that hemp and marijuana are two distinct plants (the DEA disagrees) and thus growing industrial hemp «has absolutely no use as a recreational drug
They've been around for thousands of years in one form or another, both as recreational drugs and as painkillers, like morphine or codeine.
And a small group of students use stimulants themselves as a recreational drug.
Lucy is on the run from the mysterious Mr. Jang (Min - sik Choi from the original Oldboy), who had planned to use her to transport CPH4 into Europe, where it would be sold (in small quantities, mind you) as a recreational drug.
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