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- 1301: Legalization of Marijana: For
- ... that works. For centuries, it has been used as an analgesic and is considered by many to be the best approach to migraine. It is also useful to some patients for the symptomatic treatment of depression, menstrual cramps, asthma and pruritus. Many seriously ill patients in this country are already using marijuana to reduce their pain and suffering, even though it means they and their families must risk arrest. Informal buyers ...
- 1302: Marijuana
- ... to have gone into decline in the late 30's (Grolier Wellness Encyclopedia, pg 54). Then marijuana was outlawed in 1937 as a repressive measure against Mexican workers who crossed the border seekingjobs during the Depression. The specific reason given for the outlawing of the hemp plant was it's supposed violent "effect on the degenerate races" (Schaffer, pg. 86). Beginning in the 60's marijuana use saw a resurgence which ...
- 1303: Legalization of Marijuana
- ... failure. Legalization would also be very dangerous to the economy. The United States economy is a rather shaky one. The introduction of such a huge industry would be enough to crash our country into a depression. The market for marijuana would be very extensive. Between the marketing of marijuana and profit from taxes would generate would be too much for the United States to endure in. The fact that marijuana would ...
- 1304: Is The Illegalization of Marijuana Valid?
- ... one of the most useful substances in the entire world. If we took action and our government legalized it today, we would immediately see benefits from this decision. People suffering from illnesses ranging from manic depression to Multiple Sclerosis would be able to experience relief. The government could make billions of dollars off of the taxes it could impose on its sale, and its implementation into the industrial world would create ...
- 1305: Hitler 2
- ... use legal means to assume power. Released as a result of a general amnesty in December 1924, he rebuilt his party without interference from those whose government he had tried to overthrow. When the Great Depression struck in 1929, he explained it as a Jewish-Communist plot, an explanation accepted by many Germans. Promising a strong Germany, jobs, and national glory, he attracted millions of voters. Nazi representation in the Reichstag ...
- 1306: Multiple Personality Disorder
- ... and work on reducing self-damaging behavior. Another treatment is hypnosis. Hypnosis might be able to help the person from switching personalities. The majority of the people who suffer from this might also suffer from depression as well. These people may also benefit from antidepressant medication as well. Saying What It Means to Me As I was researching this topic, I realized how bad someones life is if they have ...
- 1307: Hofstadter
- ... his close friendship with Hofstadter and Hofstadter's first wife, Felice Swados, a writer and editor, who died at age twenty-nine. Kazin remembered most of all Hofstadter's riotous sense of humor. During the Depression, Kazin wrote, Felice seriously tried to get Dick work in a nightclub as a stand-up comic. We all howled when he did his imitation of FDR and of the Ozark farmer whose daughter had ...
- 1308: The Awakening
- ... struggles, Edna came to understand her means to happiness. She realized that an abundance of material things as were in her husbands home did not please her and in fact added to her continually deepening depression so she moved to the more cozy pigeon-house. Edna also discovered that simplicity made her happy as well and thus often embarked on quiet walks, lounged in the gardens of the coffeehouse, and relaxed ...
- 1309: Influences Of Virginia Woolf
- ... her writing, and kept her sane for extended periods of time. He "experienced vicarious gratification from Virginia's writing" (Bond 96). When Leonard criticized Virginia's writing, as with her mother, she fell back into depression and psychosis. Virginia's inability to function with out Leonard's support ultimately contributed to her suicide. Despite Virginia's marriage to Leonard he was not her true love. The love of Virginia's life ...
- 1310: Jack London 2
- ... ex-slave, Virginia Prentiss (Memmie Jennie). London dropped out of school at the age of fourteen, and worked at a series of low-paying sweatshops until he was sixteen. In 1894, during America's worst depression of his time, London traveled across the United States and Canada on railroads. He was arrested in 1894 in Niagara Falls and jailed for vagrancy. As an adolescent, he worked at various hard labor jobs ...
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