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Psychodelic Drugs
Number of Words: 3290 / Number of Pages: 12
... understand in dealing with alcohol use and abuse are
impairment and tolerance. They are both problems in themselves and signals of
possible additional difficulties.
IMPAIRMENT refers to the deficits in performance, judgment, memory, and
motor skills which occur because of alcohol consumption. Impairment becomes
noticeable at blood levels of 0.05%, which can occur when as few as two drinks
are consumed in an hour by a 160 pound person. The deceptive part about
impairment is that, by definition, impaired judgment cannot recognize its own
impairment. The individual thinks he or she is functioning well, ...
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Hemp: A Help Or A Hindrance?
Number of Words: 2117 / Number of Pages: 8
... 18). In North America, hemp was
planted near Jamestown in 1611 for use in making rope. In order to keep a
constant supply of hemp available, a law was passed in Massachusetts in 1639,
requiring every household to plant hemp seed. In Maryland, Virginia, and
Pennsylvania, hemp was even used as a monetary unit. Thomas Jefferson's draft of
the Declaration of Independence, released by the Continental Congress on July 4,
1776, was written on paper made from hemp (Whole Earth Review 46). And the
49ers washed gold from California creeks in Levi's made from hemp. In 1937, the
United States governme ...
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Defending A Killer
Number of Words: 829 / Number of Pages: 4
... a crime they did not commit. Where and how could such a rule be put
into place that would make it totally acceptable for an innocent person to
be put to death for a crime that they did not commit? Try to vision if you
can, a family member accused of murder, tried, convicted, and sentenced to
death for a crime they did not commit. How much faith would you now have in
that family member or friend telling you that he or she is innocent. Now
picture a lawyer, knowing that your spouse, son, or close friend are
innocent. This lawyer knows that your family member or friend is going to
be executed for a crime ...
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Gun Control
Number of Words: 585 / Number of Pages: 3
... crime. You can hire all the police you want. They do not stop crime while it is happening. Armed citizens can stop the crime before it ever even happens. How many times have you read about someone walking into a public place and opening fire? Sometimes the person even stops and reloads. What would you do if you were there? Hide and wait to be shot? Or would you hope that someone else is armed? After all, one-armed citizen could stop the shooting! Criminals don't wait for you to call the police! Why should you have to wait on the police to come to your rescue? Don't you have the right to defend you ...
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R.I.C.O
Number of Words: 1807 / Number of Pages: 7
... Organized Crime Control Act. The purpose of the act was to curb the apparently increasing entry of organized crime into the legitimate business world. (Miller and Jentz 1998).
G.R. Blakley (1980) who helped draft RICO, takes the position that while broad usage may or may not have been Congress’ intent (he believes it was), certainly it was his. RICO was not created to apply “only to organized crime in the classic ‘mobster’ sense”. In it’s deliberations Congress recognized that it would be difficult if not constitutionally impossible to narrowly limit RICO to traditional crime such as the La Cosa Nostra ...
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Capital Punishment
Number of Words: 662 / Number of Pages: 3
... cases that underlie the support for , for it is certainly the only way to deal with the cruelty of crime that has infected our society.
Some people say it is barbaric to take someone's life through electric chairs or gas chambers. They now have lethal injection where the person doesn't feel any pain. They also say it is religiously wrong to take another persons life. But the Bible calls for a penalty of death for more than thirty different crimes. The Bible states, "Whosoever sheds man's blood, by man his blood be shed" (Genesis (9:6).
Defenders of the death penalty insist that since taking an offend ...
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Marijuana
Number of Words: 1438 / Number of Pages: 6
... any climate, spreading like milkweed of thistle, crowding out neighboring grasses and reaching heights of three to twenty feet at full growth. has been cultivated for at least 5,000 years; it is one of the oldest agricultural commodities not grown for food. The stalks of the plant contain fibers that have been woven for years to make rope, canvas, and paper. Cannabis is dioecious, spawning male and female plants at an equal rate. The flowering buds of the female secrete a sticky yellow resin rich with cannabinoids, the more than sixty compounds unique to . Several of the chemicals are psychoa ...
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Crime
Number of Words: 2089 / Number of Pages: 8
... The
first group includes such major crimes as arson, assault, breach of the peace,
burglary, kidnapping, larceny, murder, rape, and robbery. The second group
includes crimes of a “rapidly growing urban society.” These crimes include
violations of income tax laws, liquor control regulations, pure food and drug
laws, and traffic laws. Crimes in the first group usually involve severe
punishments while crimes in the second group are generally punished by fines,
notices to follow the court's orders, or other relatively light penalties.
Crimes are frequently classified according to their seriousne ...
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Efficiency And Effectiveness Of Our Criminal Court System
Number of Words: 855 / Number of Pages: 4
... in the Provincial Courtrooms were
general loose and calm. The people, lawyers, judge, clerk and recorder
seem to know each other very well. They joked openly, even while the court
was in session, the defence lawyer asked if he could persuade the judge
into a lighter sentence after the judge had already made a decision in a
very easy and friendly tone of voice, something seemly unprofessional that
caused chuckles throughout the courtroom. Where in the Ontario Supreme
Court the atmosphere was much more serious, professional, strict and at
times high in tension.
Our current bail system, in e ...
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Date Rape
Number of Words: 756 / Number of Pages: 3
... and get loaded. Typically, a man will coerce a woman back to his apartment or dorm. This is dangerous for both parties. The man may think that the woman is leading him on, that if she agrees to go with him that it is an invitation to have sex. If the female seems to be enjoying kissing or fooling around with the guy, he may think she is teasing him if she decides to stop. The man may feel angry or rejected if this happens, and may want sexual gratification anyway. The result can be rape.
If only the woman is drunk, the man may see this as an opportunity to take advantage of her because she will most ...
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