Introduction

Hey everyone!

My name is Shaina and I'm currently a senior at the University of Florida graduating this May. I'm an Anthropology major with a minor in religion and also pre-med. I hope to one day become a doctor specializing in emergency room medicine. I decided to take this course as an elective and also because I'm really interested in learning more about the topic.

I have known people from high school who have gotten caught up in drugs and eventually wound up in Drug court. I personally don't have any first hand experience with the subject matter but on my last trip to Colorado I did check out one of the marijuana dispensaries just to see what it was like. Definitely a different expereience being able to go up and ask questions about marajuana as if the salesmen were pharmacists! I think the most intersting part of that trip was seeing soda infused with THC being sold in the store. With that being said though, I do not really have any strong opinions on the legalization and politics behind it.

I do believe alcohol is a dug just like any other substance and can be abused so I look forward to learning more about that in this course. I've also noticed an increasing hype with e-cigs, which contain high levels of nicotine yet regulations on this new fad are very minimal currently. I'm curious to learn about that and how the regulation of this new obsession my change as it becomes more popular and widespread.

That's all I got for now!

Tootles~~