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- 491: The Higher Education Act Is Unfair To Students
- ... aid for college. No other criminal offenses deny students the right to receive aid for their education. Congress is using this law directed at non-violent drug offenders to show that congress is tough on drugs. This must mean congress supports murderers, rapist and thieves right to receive financial aid. On December 15th, 1998 James Wolf was convicted of possession of less than one gram of marijuana. This conviction caused the ... now. Now I ask you, " Does this law seem fair?" I do not think so. Now is the time to let congress know being tough on students is not the way to look tough on drugs. Just because a student is caught with or uses drugs should in no way determine their financial aid status. Next thing you know congress will be taking away financial aid for underage drinking. By stating your opinion of this law's unfairness in no ...
- 492: Drug Dogs
- ... types of personalities. The first of this category would be the aggressive dog. This dog is the one that tends to be forceful and damaging. The aggressive dog will tear things apart when searching for drugs. This dog takes his or her job serious. You can compare these animals to human beings when it comes to work. Some human beings take their work serious as well. Most of the time an ... in that they are friendlier than an aggressive dog. Compulsive dogs make great pets after they are no longer used for drug searches. Many times the compulsive dog will lead you to believe there is drugs hidden in an area where there is none. This tends to create suspense to a search. It keeps you on your toes as to the level of threat to your self, especially when the person ... aggressive dogs. Most of the dogs that are used for drug searches usually perform more than one task in their careers. Some dogs will be trained to search for bodies, weapons, bombs, as well as drugs. Agencies are starting to obtain search dogs that are dedicated to one area of expertise. The reason being due to the availability of many kinds of dogs and the fact that there are plenty ...
- 493: Hacking Crime Or Craft
- ... is a leading group in the hacking industry; another leader that has fun with what they do. (Vegetable 1). They are a notorious group of hackers who have a couple problems; one of which is drugs. At a convention that the cDc holds for "some of the most notorious hackers from around the world" (Vegetable 1), one of the members of cDc said "Drugs and hacking go hand-in-hand" (qtd in Vegetable 3). Deth Vegetable said "Taking Drugs is like hacking your brain" (qtd in Vegetable 3). This is the way hackers are, they have fun in hacking, and the more they hack, the more fun they have. "If hacking is taking ...
- 494: Treating Diabetes with Transplanted Cells
- ... method managed to isolate 400,000 islets from the pancreas. It would take just the amount they estimated to maintain the blood sugar level. In 1986 the first experiment started. A lot of immune-suppresent drugs are needed so the foreign tissue would not be rejected. These drugs are risky, though, so the experiment was performed on patients who have had kidney transplants and are already on these drugs. They decided that the best place to place the islets was into the portal vein leading to the pancreas. This would give the islets nourishment from the beginning and would be less risky than ...
- 495: Alternative Medicine
- ... pocket for all physicians’ services in the United States($23.5 billion)”(nemj,1991). From this one may infer that society has become fed up with inadequate results or side effects associated with surgery and drugs which accompany the treatment of modern medicine. So, in an effort to cope with the inadequate treatment patients are receiving from conventional medicine, they are seeking alternatives such as chiropractic for chronic illness and pain ... past twelve months(nejm,1991). Body of Paper The American Chiropractic Association defines chiropractic as follows: “Chiropractic is a health care discipline which emphasizes the inherent recuperative power of the body to heal itself without drugs or surgery.” “The practice of Chiropractic focuses on the relationship between structure, (primarily the spine), and function, (as coordinated by the nervous system), and how that relationship affects the preservation and restoration of health. In ... billion for lung cancer. If spinal manipulation could ease even a fraction of that financial burden, remaining skeptics might be forced to stifle their misgivings or get cracking themselves”(Purvis,1991). In almost all cases, drugs are discouraged so that drug reactions and addictions are never an issue as a result of treatment. It is recognized in almost all medical circles that many illnesses are generated by the mind. “A ...
- 496: The Bill of Rights
- ... by police officers. Sherman Jones, also 15, was accosted with a police officer's hands around his neck after putting the last bit of pizza crust into his mouth. The police suspected him of hiding drugs. PETITION FOR REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES: Rounding out the attacks on the first amendment, there is a sword hanging over the right to petition for redress of grievances. House Resolution 4079, the National Drug and Crime ... secure from seizure. Entire stores of books or videotapes have been confiscated based upon the presence of some sexually explicit items. Bars, restaurants, or houses are taken from the owners because employees or tenants sold drugs. In Volusia County, Florida, Sheriff Robert Vogel and his officers stop automobiles for contrived violations. If large amounts of cash are found, the police confiscate it on the PRESUMPTION that it is drug money -- even ... raid, they will list weapons as things to be searched for and seized. This is done not because the police know of any weapons and can particularly describe them, but because they allege people with drugs often have weapons. Both of the above apply to the warrant the Hudson, New Hampshire, police used when they broke down Bruce Lavoie's door at 5 a.m. with guns drawn and shot ...
- 497: Creative Writing: The Murder Case
- ... the office, Jack was holding the plastic bag and turning it around in his hand. "Herion, this guy must be a druggie," Jack was saying to himself. "The Coroner's report doesn't reveal any drugs in the victim's blood," Wally said, "he might be some kind of dealer." "He didn't have any large quanities of the stuff and there wasn't any indication that he had any large amounts of cash in the apartment," argued Jack. "Maybe the killer left the drugs behind when he left the scene," said Wally. "Let's call it a day and check out this West Coast Importing tomorrow," suggested Jack. Jack awoke the next day with a sour taste in his ... parked in the airport lot. When his back was turned, I choked him with my purse handle, loaded him into my car and took him home where I staged the burglary scene. Then I planted drugs in Hugh's office, hoping that he would still get arrested and charged with Reid's murder." "You almost had us fooled, until we saw you go to the house in Malibu," Jack said. " ...
- 498: Gangs
- ... need to start off by saying that a lot of the stuff I'm about to say, I think is bull shit. I think this because I am in a gang and do, or did drugs. I also have to disagree with some of, no actually a lot of the stuff I am about to say. Before I babble on about gangs I have to say one thing. Not all gangs ... call themselves CFH, (Cowboys From Hell) and the other one is the Martians. A lot of the gang members come from broken homes, or something is wrong. So the kids end up in gangs doing drugs, drinking, smoking, committing crimes, and getting into violence. Some of us consider our gang "family." Some of the gangs actually do have real families in them. There's the problem of joining gangs. I got ... to leave. To close and end off my report, I'd just like to say that my gang had been more of a family to me then my own family. I will admite that the drugs and drinking I did was the bad part. But I do not regret joining my gang. Infact I have to say I love One Eighty Seven. This is my "family" and they have always ...
- 499: Marijuana
- ... mostly of young and relatively powerless Americans (American Heritage, pg 47). Alcohol prohibition was repealed and marijuana prohibition was retained, not because scientists had proved that alcohol was the less dangerous of the various psychoactive drugs, but because of the prejudices and preferences of most Americans (American Heritage, pg 47). In 1937 the government issued the Marijuana Tax Act, which levied a dollar an ounce tax on marijuana, coupled with fines ... used marijuana as an escape from war to peace. It was easy at this time to depict marijuana as a beneficial and completely harmless substance whose effects were far less harmful than those of legal drugs such as alcohol and nicotine because there was not enough scientific research done during the 60's (Grolier Wellness Encyclopedia, pg 54). Another cause may have been the discovery of the psychoactive component of marijuana ... that marijuana has been around for a great deal of time and has served multiple purposes throughout history. Karen Sipes Dana Pentoney Jeni Roane Sources Grolier Electronic Encylopedia, Electronic Publishing, Inc., 1995 Grolier Wellness Encyclopedia, Drugs, Society & Behavior. Vol. 3, 1992. Ethan A. Nadelmann, American Heritage Magazine, Feb-Mar, 1993. Medical Marijuana, http://www.lec.org/Drug_Watch/ Public/Documents/Med_Marijuana_Paper.htm, 1995.
- 500: Government Regulation
- ... regulation. He found that the new drug laws were costing far more than the benefits achieved. In Britain more lives were being saved than in the U.S. due to the fewer restrictions on new drugs unlike the U.S. which have conservative policies towards new drugs. Regulation interferes with production and halts innovation and risk taking resulting in declining employment. This is to say, because of regulation costs, the businesses do not have enough money to invest in taking risks with ... will go down. As you can see, the objectives of safety, health, and productivity will be better achieved in the absence of government regulation. With less regulation businesses will offer more and better technology, improved drugs to care for the sick, and allow a greater employment rate. In government regulation the costs do not out weigh the benefits and unfortionatly do more harm than good.
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