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- 541: Gun Control
- ... confiscated and turned over to local police. E. Block grants will be given to the states and localities in order to hire and necessary law inforcement personnel required for plan implementaion Plan Plank 3. The proposal shall be funded by a simplification of the tax code, which will raise $250 billion over the next 5 years. Plan Plank 4. Enforcement will be through normal means Plan Plank 5. The Aff. claims ...
- 542: Legalization of Marijana: For
- ... marijuana offenses; i.e., that penalties be removed for personal use and possession. Following that report, eleven American states adopted modified versions of decriminalization, led by Oregon in 1973. Each of these states retained a modest civil fine for minor marijuana offenses, but eliminated arrest and jail, substituting a citation, similar to a traffic ticket. The advantage of this approach to the marijuana smoker is obvious: the individual is spared the ...
- 543: Legalization of Drugs
- ... and burglary, as well as drug dealing, prostitution, and many others, to earn enough money to purchase the relatively high-priced illicit drugs. "Unlike the millions of alcoholics who can support their habits for relatively modest amounts, many cocaine and heroin addicts spend hundreds and even thousands of dollars a week" (Lindsmith Center). If the drugs to which they are addicted were much cheaper- which would be the case if they ...
- 544: Legalize It!
- ... drug using mothers and children. Actually, the legalization of drugs will put money which is used for law enforcement into the construction of better rehabilitation and education programs. Education is an essential part in this proposal because through this method the problem is solved not mearly covered up with jail bars. Economically, for every dollar spent on drug treatment there is a $7 return due to decreased criminal activity(Cotton 992 ...
- 545: The Human Genome Project
- ... humans have approached. Ultimately, it is true that powerful tools are subject to great abuse. Knowledge of genetics is a powerful tool, and could be abused by a government, which is a central reason this proposal is limited to voluntary individual choice. Many tools are powerful in our modern society. Genetics, particularly of a large population, cannot be quickly changed. Tyrants, like Hitler, Stalin, or Mao, may be interested in genetics ...
- 546: Exotic Diseases And The Treat To Humanity
- ... t because they were in huge debt already. Thus, this project failed, but the WHO organization will approach this again in the new millennium. (Garrett, P.607, 1995) Later in that year CDC launched a proposal identical to WHO. The entire system would cost $150 million a year to operate. The USA government again turned it down. Henderson, head of the CDC stated, “Can we afford to invest in such a ...
- 547: Rural Healthcare
- ... and loans available to help small towns attract and retain physicians (Lee, Estes, and Ramsay, 1984). The foundation determined, after about twenty years of effort, that the program was to be liquidated due to only modest results. There were still other approaches such as foundation and state government fellowship programs to cover the expenses of a medical education for qualified young people from rural areas. These programs were started with the ...
- 548: Alzheimer’s Special Care Units
- ... Care Units.” Online. http://www2.cybercities.com/a/alzheimers/4-03.htm (13 December 1998). Foote, Jennifer. “Final Indignities: The Care of Elders With Dementia.” Inteliingencer Journal May 1995: 36-38. Johnson, Christopher Jay. “A Proposal for Minimum Standards for ‘Low Stimulus Alzheimer’s Wings’ in Nursing Homes.” Illness, Crises, & Loss Summer 1992: 7-12. Shapiro, Joseph P. “Comfort and Care: Nursing Homes Find New Ways to Help Those With Alzheimer ...
- 549: The Human Immunodeficiency Virus And Mutations
- ... HIV’s great evolutionary potential in mind, Nowak and his colleagues conceived a scenario they thought could explain how the virus resists complete eradication and thus causes AIDS, usually after a long time span. Their proposal assumed that constant mutation in viral genes would lead to continuous production of viral variants able to evade the immune defenses operating at any given time. Those variants would emerge when genetic mutations led to ...
- 550: Assisted Suicide: An Easier Way Out
- ... clearly would cause many more problems than it would do good. Last, there are many ways that using terminally ill patients that can benefit science and the medical fields. Doctor Kevorkian has been advancing a proposal to allow condemned criminals and terminally ill patients to perform tests on their brains while they are still alive and willingly know they will die soon afterward. Kevorkian claims that these human experiments allow us ...
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