Med School Soccer Video, Marijuana, and Vehicle Fumes

It is obnoxious when people sit in class or in small group sessions and use their computers for IM, Mail, News, or other things instead of using them to take notes. You are in class to pay attention. If you are going to inappropriately use your computer during class, then don't come at all.

The war on drugs is not a war against all drugs, it is a war against marijuana. Just look at the commercials on TV. They are not geared toward decreasing the increasing Cocaine use among adolescents, or towards Crystal Meth users; they're geared toward people who smoke marijuana, because Marijuana is the "Gateway Drug".

All medical students, and higher education students for that matter, should be forced to volunteer time to causes of their choice. Giving back to the community and helping those in need is very important, yet the majority of students don't volunteer. NOT COOL. Especially if you are going into medicine, you are choosing a life of helping others, thus, you should want to volunteer and serve those in need.


COOL MEDICAL SCHOOL SOCCER VIDEO




News
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1. Speaking of Marijuana.....Chocolate drugs trio spared jail
"Three people have each been given a nine-month suspended jail term for supplying cannabis-laced chocolate bars to multiple sclerosis (MS) sufferers."

2. Vehicle fumes 'stunt lung growth'
"Living too near a busy road could stunt a child's lung development, US research involving 3,677 children suggests."

3. Kenya's 'cursed' teen mum village
"Mtondia, a small village in Kilifi district on the Kenyan coast is now considered a cursed village as so many of its young girls are either pregnant or have children......."

4. Study Finds Brain Injury Can Permanenly Kill Urge To Smoke
"A study in the journal Science has revealed that "an injury to a specific part of the brain, near the ear, can instantly and permanently break a smoking habit." People who had the injury simply "forgot the urge to smoke."

5. Flesh-Eating Disease Is Making A Comeback
"A virtually eradicated disease that eats through people's skin, cartilage and bones is reappearing in Africa, Asia and South America, the World Health Organization warned Thursday. Yaws, which is triggered by a bacterial infection and can cause debilitating deformations, particularly in children under 15, once affected 50 million people worldwide before a massive treatment program in the 1950s almost succeeded in wiping it out."