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- 2091: Marijuana Should Be Legal For Medicinal Reasons Only
- ... already stated conditions, marijuana has also been proven effective on the symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis. Along with spasticity, people with MS have reported that marijuana has offered temporary relief of urinary incontinence, sleeping difficulties, and sexual dysfunction (14, p.3). Furthermore, the ability to control the dosage of marijuana also makes it more of a reason to legalize it. People can also regulate their dosage better through smoking; taking a puff ...
- 2092: Legalizing Same Sex Marriages
- ... opposition, largely from conservatives and religious groups, same-sex marriages may soon become commonplace. The harm in this situation is that the idea of discrimination becomes OK. Although eight states presently prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation, nowhere in the United States are lesbians and gay marriages legally recognized. Many defend the discrimination against homosexuals with the rationale that marriage is traditionally a union between a woman and a man for ...
- 2093: Internet Censorship Laws
- ... those kind of lows the pornography won't be stopped. Also I don't believe that pornography does as much harm as most people think. There are still a lot of movies out there with sexual scenes in them, and there are all those magazines, which are all over most of the grocery stores. So the Internet is not the only source of the pornography, even though it is the easiest ...
- 2094: Prostitution Should Be Legalized
- Prostitution Should Be Legalized On city streets across the United States, hundreds of prostitutes begin their work when the sun sets. Not only do these women face a night of providing sexual services to patrons, they also face the fear of abuse from clients and police and attacks by men who target prostitutes. These and other acts of violence against sex workers go unreported because law enforcement ...
- 2095: Juvenile Justice System In America
- ... courts also hears status offense cases that involve noncriminal misbehavior by children, such as truancy; cases that involve children who are not receiving proper parental care; and child abuse cases that involve intentional injury or sexual abuse of a child.3 Juvenile offender cases usually come to the courts attention through police apprehension of a delinquent. At other times, a school official, parent, or guardian may refer a problem to ...
- 2096: Capital Punishment: Right or Wrong?
- ... have been over 10 men found innocent of murders that they commited since 1982. Why is this? Because they had reason to. One reason is self defense, and the second is finding your spouse in sexual contact with another person. These are both reasons why people have been let off the hook for murder. However, in some cases, these people werent let off the hook, and were executed. Why should ...
- 2097: Robert Mapplethorpe And Obscenity Charges
- ... at the age of forty-two, he was considered one of the most important photographers of his time. His elegant and sometimes shocking nudes, the black-and-white portraits, flower still lifes, and images of sexual sadomasochism had been exhibited widely and were the subject of serious critical attention in Europe and America. A few months after his death, Mapplethorpe became the focus of an acrimonious debate over federal funding of ...
- 2098: Thesis: More should be done to reform the United States Prison System
- ... other court costs. Instead, those costs are passed on to the taxpayers. Many of the frivolous lawsuits filed by prisoners deal with the prison food. For example, in 1992, Lawrence Bittaker, a lifer for the sexual assault, torture and mutilation deaths of five teenage girls, filed a lawsuit because he was served soggy sandwiches and broken cookies in his sack lunches. He thought that qualified as cruel and unusual punishment. (Van ...
- 2099: Crimes
- ... states persons convicted of felonies are sent to state prisons, while those quilty of misdemeanors serve their sentence in city or county jails or houses of correction. Crimes against people include assault, kidnapping, murder, and sexual attacks. Such crimes usually bring severe punishments. Crimes against property include arson, automobile theft, burglary, embezzlement, forgery, fraud, larceny, and vandalism. In most cases, these crimes carry lighter penalties than do crimes against persons. Robbery ...
- 2100: Capital Punishment
- ... which is becoming almost universal in America and is also used in the Philippines, China and Guatemala. Electrocution and the gas chamber are used only in America and seem to be disappearing rapidly. Stoning for sexual offences including adultery occurs in some Islamic countries. China with a quarter of the world's population carries out the most executions (by shooting) for a wide variety of offences. (During 1998, along with Guatemala ...
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