Type your essay in which you answer the following questions in the box provided: What stresses you? Think of three things and describe what makes these situations stressful? How do they make you feel? (anxious, worried, depressed, sleepy, irritable, hyper, avoidant?) How do you currently deal with your stresses to these three situations? Do you react the same way to each? Are your methods of coping with stress effective? Explain why or why not. What do people close to you think of your reactions to stress and coping methods? (Go ask a parent or close friend if you don't know the answer to this question.) How can you improve your reactions and methods of dealing with stress?

Summarize the neurobiology of addiction section in 3-4 sentences. summarize the evolutionary history of cravings in 3-4 sentences. then explain how the "science of getting hooked" article, and these issues, relate to your own life. then connect this discussion to recreational marijuana. new york state is getting very close to legalizing recreational marijuana, which is why they carried out the above study on potential impact of regulation. what are the potential health impacts cited in the above study if marijuana were to be regulated in ny? how do you think addiction would be impacted by regulated marijuana? considering what you now know about the brain, body and addiction, what are your thoughts on legalization of recreational marijuana in new york state?