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- 3001: The Need To Legalize Pot
- ... medical use of marijuana. Even though the majority (56%) voted to pass 215, opponents plan to continue to fight the measure. It was also so in Arizona, where Proposition 200, the Drug Medicalization, Prevention, and Control Act, won 65% of the vote. It says that Arizona's doctors can prescribe marijuana, heroin, and LSD for patients when there is "medicinal value" (California 62). The passing of these two propositions has also ... patients' right group, says as many as five-million sick Americans might benefit from the legal access to marijuana. Marijuana has been found to: relieve nausea and stimulate appetite in people with cancer and AIDS, control muscle spasms among people with multiple sclerosis and other neurological disorder, reduce eye pressure among people with glaucoma, and some say it also controls seizures, eases chronic pain, and relieves depression. Dr. Ernest Rosenbaum, a ...
- 3002: The Book Of Matthew
- ... weapons available to us today: the Word of God, the power of the Spirit, and prayer. The Sermon on the Mount presents a picture of the truly righteous person and shows the spiritual principles that control his or her life. Jesus defined what sin is (5:21-48) and what real righteousness is in the areas of worship (6:1-18) and wealth (6:19-34). We lay up treasures in ... His righteousness and advance His kingdom (Matt. 6:33). It means much more than merely giving offerings to God, although that is important. It means total stewardship of life so that God is in complete control and our one desire is to glorify Him. This is the secret of a unified life (Matt. 6:24) free of worry. It is important because it deals with internal attitudes as well as outward ...
- 3003: Noise Reduction In Hearing Aids
- ... essence, the device uses our current anatomy as a fully functioning directional microphone. Although the system is currently being tested on animals with favorable results, human testing will be necessary. The human subject, with a control module, can adjust the aid to reduce undesired sounds and produce maximum benefit. With the advent of miniature computer chips, the magnetic aid allows for an adjustable frequency / intensity analyzer to be implanted in the ... to another. In some cases, this will defeat the purpose of directivity. Thankfully, manufacturers have responded to these complaints by offering the ability to switch the sound focusing on or off, sometimes with a remote control. (Phonak 1997) Automatic signal processing in hearing aids is also a valuable advantage for noise reduction. By determining which frequencies are responsible for noise at different intensities, BILL, TILL, or PILL circuits can compress or ...
- 3004: The Advantages of Being Legal
- ... AIDS. By reducing intraocular pressure, marijuana helps slow or halt the gradual increasing eye pressure suffered by glaucoma patients. Marijuana reduces the muscle pain and spastically caused by multiple sclerosis. It also helps some patients control their bladders. With some epileptic patients, marijuana prevents seizures. Marijuana is also a very effective pain reliever. Hemp, a plant mainly grown for its use as a fiber source, is from the same plant that ... closet. I felt as though I did not commit a crime, but as though I was the victim. As former president Lincoln said, Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and a makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.
- 3005: "Speed": Methylamphetamine
- ... The next thing you know he was trying to fight me in the middle of the whole mall. My other friends had to hold him down on the ground because he was so out of control. Till that day I have always thought that people exaggerated on how addicting and nerve wrecking the drug could be. Apparently for me to realize how addicting the drug could be was I had to ... about this whole issue and I wish the drug would be demolished off the face of this world. After all the trauma people in this society go through some people let a yellowish powder substance control their lives. I feel drugs in our society is a big issue and people need to pull together to stay drug free. In my opinion the war on drugs is the war on people. Drugs ...
- 3006: Psychodelic Drugs
- ... the symptoms get repeated over a longer period of time: 1.Alcohol is consumed in greater quantities or for longer periods of time than the person intended; 2.The individual has a persistent desire to control or eliminate drinking, or has made one or more unsuccessful efforts to do this (for example, there are resolutions to "cut down," but these efforts disappear after a period of time); 3.Considerable time is ... disorders. Marijuana smoke contains more cancer-causing agents than tobacco smoke. Laboratory studies have shown pre-cancerous cellular changes in the lung tissue of long term users. Warning Signals Signs That The Chemical Has Taken Control The following symptoms and behaviors, when related to chemical use (including alcohol, of course), indicate that a person has seriously overindulged. Beyond this, these symptoms could indicate a more serious problem or addiction: MEDICAL Accidents ...
- 3007: Violence on Television
- ... example, in "A modest proposal" by Jonathan Swift which I believe was a very ironic letter used to put emphasis on the problem of famine that plagued Ireland in the 17th century because of English control over the country. In the story Jonathan Swift wrote about an ironic idea. This idea dealt with people raising their young like cattle for about two years or until fatten and then sell them to ... One can only be ignorant if one chooses a side because they have not been provided with factual information or just choose not to use it. I believe that the day we put to much control on our freedom on speech, we will jump back to the days of the dark ages in Europe, where we would be like sheep being lead by a greedy and ignorant shepherd. One last thing ...
- 3008: The Monkeys
- ... After about five days of not being cleaned of their fleas, the monkeys got very mangy and visitors of the monkey house started talking about how nasty the monkeys had been getting and how little control Gus and Barbara had over them. Gus and Barbara decided to put a full time zoo keeper in the monkey house at all times which was very disturbing to the monkeys. One day, all the monkeys gathered around the new zoo keeper and started slapping his legs and trying to knock him down onto the ground. The new zoo keeper got so mad that he lost control and started kicking the monkeys and he wounded many of the monkeys one of which almost died. Gus and Barbara felt little bad about the incident because of all the complaining the monkeys had been ...
- 3009: Phencyclidine: The Dawn of a New Age
- ... Souza, 1993). On the other hand, the extent of channel activation is controlled by glycine through the use of NMDA agonists (Souza, 1993). Some polyamines have also recently been shown to use some sites to control glycine binding (Haberstadt, 1995). In addition, the NMDA and glycine receptors have been shown to exist in both antagonist and agonist conformations, depending on the relative concentrations of glutamate, glycine, and polyamine compounds (Haberstadt, 1995 ... phencyclidine-glutamate model of schizophrenia. Clinical Neuropharmacology. (Vol. 18) 237-249. Nintey Fifth Congress. (1978). Abuse of dangerous and illicit drugs - psychotropics, phencyclidine (PCP), and talwin; Hearings before the select committee on narcotics abuse and control house of representatives. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office. Okuyama, Shigeru. (1994). NE-100, a novel sigma receptor ligand: Effect on phencyclidine-induced behaviors in rats, dogs, and monkeys. Life Sciences. (Vol. 55) PL133-138 ...
- 3010: Pass The Weed
- ... nerves in the brain and the spinal cord. The common agonizing symptoms include tingling, numbness, impaired weakness, difficulty in speaking, painful muscle spasms, loss of coordination and balance, fatigue, weakness or paralysis, loss of bladder control, urinary tract infections, constipation, skin ulcers, and severe depression. Cannabis , because of its relaxing qualities has a startling and profound effect on the symptoms of multiple sclerosis. For the sufferers it stops muscle spasms, reduces tremors, restores balance, restores bladder control, and restores speech and eyesight. Many wheelchair-bound MS patients report that after smoking marijuana they can walk. Those who oppose the medical usage of marijuana argue that the American Health Association neither accepts nor ...
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