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- 6701: Cannabis
- ... and to soothe restlessness. We have very little definite knowledge of the effects of therapeutic quantities, but in some persons it appears to produce a euphoria and will often relieve migrainic headaches. One of the great hindrances to the wider use of this drug is the great variability and the potency of different samples of Cannabis which renders it impossible to approximate the proper dose of any individual smaple except by clinical trial. Because of occasional unpleasant symptoms from unusually potent preparations ...
- 6702: Censorship In The United States
- ... the responsibility or even the job of the FCC or any other wacky Right Wing philanthropist group to tell me I can see, hear, and read. That is my job. They are only performing a great disservice to the humble people of this country. To me personally it is a great insult. Someone has decided that I am no where near intelligent enough to decide what I should be feasting my mind on and what I should not be. It is my own choice to do ...
- 6703: Child Abuse
- ... of the child. When the child grows up to an adult it will still take affect in their everyday life. In Adult women who survived childhood sexual abuse are more likely than others to experience depression, self-destruction behavior, poor self-esteem, substance abuse, anxiety, an feelings of isolation and stigma. So a abused child need someone and as they get older they also need people still their for them even ... when their younger and let them get what happened out and known that their not the one that did something wrong. When you let them get all their emotions out the chances of them having depression or any other disorder in the future, is much less then a person who doesnt talk to anybody about it. One type of child abuse is the shaking child syndrome. This is when you ...
- 6704: Make Drugs Legal
- ... an option that hasn't recieved a chance but should be given one. Although many people feel that legalizing marijuana would increase the amount of use, marijuana should be legalized because it will reduce the great amounts of money spent on enforcement and it will increase our countrys revenue. There are also many benefits that can be uncovered to help people if legalization of marijuana is given a chance. Alcohol ... no poisons or adulterants. Sterile hypodermic needles will be readily available at corner drug stores. These could be taxed heavily because the users will be assured of "clean drugs." Making drugs legal will reduce the great amounts of money spent on enforcement every year. Drug dealers and users are one step ahead on the enforcement process. If one drug lord is caught, another one will show up somewhere else. We cannot ...
- 6705: Marijuana
- ... marijuana. This would make marijuana a cash crop. A cash crop used for exportation as well as internal use. The prices could be as severe as the cigarettes' prices now are. This would cause a great boost in the economy. The legalization of Marijuana would also help save the environment. People could stop cutting down trees in search of paper and rope because hemp, the stem or trunk of a marijuana ... simple. If examined, the facts about Marijuana's potential beneficial possibilities to American society become apparent. The social, intellectual, economical, commercial, medical, and environmental benefits it would create if legalized are enormous and potentially a great help to our country. The supporters of the legalization of marijuana can not fathom how or why America as a country is denying our citizens the benefits of this helpful drug.. Supporters believe that the ...
- 6706: The Positive And Negative Effects of DNA Profiling
- ... crime. However, when used for discriminatory purposes, this tool becomes a crime in itself. The ability to compare and contrast a person's genetic code with another should not be taken lightly, for with this great knowledge comes great responsibility. If not used wisely, this ability of the few... will develop into a disability for the many. ENDNOTES L.R., "One Worked; The Other Didn't," Science 5 Jan. 1990: 18. William C. Thompson ...
- 6707: Why the Penal Laws Failed
- ... people would no longer accept the religion of Catholicism. However this was not so. This law did not work as originally planned, and the catholic religion still flourished. This upset the Protestants in parliament to great degrees, they quickly tr ies to create and implement more penal laws that they hoped would be more effective, long lasting and impressionable then the first laws set in place. However these laws were thought ... law restricted all Catholics from owning a horse that was worth more then five pounds. The rational behind this law was that the Irish parliament did not want the Catholics to own possessions of any great value. During this time horses were extremely valuable and well sought after. Horses were key to farmers and families that depended on them for an efficient means of plowing as well as transportation to and ...
- 6708: Death Penalty in the United States
- ... 100,000 people ("Deterrence"). Furthermore, the United States has the highest crime and murder rates of any of the other major democratic nations, all of which have abandoned the death penalty (Hauss 53). In 1965, Great Britain called for a five-year moratorium on executions following a recent decline in the imposition of the death penalty and growing anti- death penalty sentiments in the country. In 1969, the government abolished the ... time that he had spent on death row constituted cruel and unusual punishment. This appeal was overturned in 1995 (Winters 108). Scheidegger and many other supporters of the death penalty feel that this was a great abuse of the system, and a waste of millions of dollars of taxpayer money. Death penalty supporters also feel that the likelihood of an innocent person being put to death is very low due to ...
- 6709: Drug Abuse
- ... mucus membranes. Heroin is the most addictive dangerous illegal drug on the streets. You'll become a so- called "junkie" if you use it. It affects the hygiene and personal appearance of the user a great deal, because nothing is as important to the user anymore as where that next hit will come from. Heroin is injected and sometimes snorted. It causes great euphoria, but also nausea an vomiting. Like any street drug, its user does not know what potency he is getting from batch to batch. Therefore, there is always the risk that he will overdose and ...
- 6710: Jury Nullification and Its Effects on Black America
- ... that maybe Butler's goals should not be limited to criminal justice reform, but also other areas. Second, despite Butler's claims as to the fairness of his plan, there would no doubt be a great deal of controversy, and white backlash would be difficult to avoid. It is even possible that the plan would backfire by causing prosecutors to almost completely reject Black jurors in cases with Black defendants. It ... jobs to win cases, and if jury nullification gained much momentum, it would be doubtful if prosecutors would take the chance that Black jurors had not heard of the plan. There might also be a great deal of white nullification. In short, there would probably be many negative ramifications to the implementation of such a potentially unpopular plan. The question, then, is how can progress be made? One significant omission on ...
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