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- 5921: Q/A: Legalization of Marijuana
- ... Sources: Encyclopaedia Brittanica, federal documents and historical records. 2. Coptic Christians, Rhastafarnians, Shintos, Hindus, Buddhists, Sufis, Essenes, Zoroastrians, Bantus and many other sects have traditions that consider the plant to have religious value. 3. Their personal correspondence and records reveal that U.S. Presidents Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and others smoked hashish, as did Benjamin Franklin and Mary Todd Lincoln. President John F. Kennedy is also reported to have smoked marijuana to ...
- 5922: History of the American Drug War
- ... the legitimate practice of medicine. The people who wrote the Harrison Act and Marijuana Tax Act in 1937, agreed that a prohibition on what people could put into their bodies was an unconstitutional infringement on personal liberties. Marijuana was outlawed in 1937. The reason for it being outlawed was that the plant had a violent effect on the degenerate races. The American Medical Association testified that they were opposed to the ...
- 5923: Effects of Television Violence
- ... Prairie" managed to do so in his programs. His goal was to put moral lessons in his show in an attempt to teach while entertaining. On the program "Hill Street Blues" the conflicts are usually personal and political matters among the characters. Although some violence does occur, the theme is not the action, but rather its consequences (Cheyney 49). Perhaps the most important way to prevent children from watching television violence ...
- 5924: The Policies of My Way
- ... reluctant leader that herdsmen of Canadian journalism insist he is. In secular life Trudeau is no trinitarian; he has chosen his oneness because, from the earliest politics, oneness worked for him so spectacular. Trudeau's personal handling of the constriction crisis was a "my way" all the way. Trudeau, the self-proclaimed socialist prophet of his people, waxed ever so eloquently against the sins of conscription, and yet Trudeau seemingly could ...
- 5925: As For Me And My House and Surfacing: Heros
- ... bread and butter' depends on his role as minister. He must preach to the town against his beliefs, providing instead: "stalwart, four-square, Christian sermon[s]" (Ross 7). The tension between the Bentley's own personal beliefs, and what they must publicly declare is articulated by Mrs. Bentley when she compares towns that use false fronted stores and her own feelings about her situation: "Three little false-fronted towns before this ...
- 5926: Princess Diana
- ... decided to expose the truth about her relationship with Prince Charles to the public. She secretly collaborated with author Andrew Morton on his book Diana, Her True Story. The princess's direct involvement in the writing of the book was not revealed to the public until after her death. The separation of the Prince and Princess of Wales was announced on December 9, 1992. The divorce became official August 28, 1996 ...
- 5927: Legalization of Drugs
- ... sick people that need marijuana to ease their suffering. These are a few of the reasons why I believe that the legalization of marijuana would not only improve society, but the economy as well. Before writing this paper, I was under the impression that all drugs and anything that has to do with them are bad. However, as my research deepened, I found that there are more positives than negatives that ...
- 5928: Can Machines Think On Alan Turing’s Computer Machinery And I
- ... to accept that it is actually thinking is also invalidated by Turing. The correlation made between a human’s reactions and scientific induction is well founded in psychology, as is the delineation of behaviour into personal “laws of conduct”. The imperfection of human thought is only an issue in the confines of the “imitation game” and can be installed as part of a computers program. Outside of the game the human ...
- 5929: Articles of Confederation
- ... dislike and distrust which had existed between the colonies since they were first established. After this period of eight years, the "Critical Period", the light at the end of the tunnel arrived with Thomas Jefferson writing the Constitution. It delegated the power, at the discretion of the people. It was designed to be amended; the great minds who designed it realized that they themselves were not infallible, and could make mistakes ...
- 5930: Capital Punishment: Deters murder, and is just Retribution
- ... year the death penalty was abolished in Canada, threats of death, were being made to Members of Parliament and their immediate families from pro death penalty advocates. Most members of parliament, voted on their own personal feelings, as opposed to the views of their voters.2 The same was the case in British Colombia, where accepting of the death penalty, if it was reinstated 1987 , by the federal government was discussed ...
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