Answer the 5 questions below, in 100 words or more.

1. Have you ever had conversation with a drunk, a person who is high on marijuana, alcohol or other street drugs? What was it like? Describe your experience. Please DO NOT mention anyone by name regardless of your relationship with that person, past or present.

2. Aside from medical and scientific explanations of how the human brain works and its functionality, what do you think of people who are perceived crazy when high on drugs or because of drugs? Are they using more of their brain than most of us?

3. When people call the police to domestic disturbance where the suspect is obviously high on drugs, do you believe they want a law enforcement agent or a social worker to make peace, especially in a situation where lethal force had to be taken?

4. If the purpose of taking illicit drugs is to get “high” for the sake of enjoying personal life, then how did we, as society, come to accept doing drugs as an means to reach the pinnacle of life enjoyment? In order words, how did we or some people come to accept getting high as a way of enjoying life? And after you reach that high, then what? What do you think?

5. When people do drugs, they don’t think about losing their mind; however, some do as abnormal chemical reactions to the body alter their brain and reasoning. If drugs alter human mind and brain, do you think it is okay for people to do drugs – why or why not?