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Legalization Of Marijuana
Number of Words: 1174 / Number of Pages: 5
... by only a ticket, and possible probation. Possession of four
ounces or more can result in jail time.
One argument in favor of legalizing marijuana is its potential use
as medicine. Many of the effects marijuana has on the mind and body are
helpful in fighting several diseases. Marijuana has often been used to
help cancer patients ease the pain of chemotherapy. It is also used
against AIDS. Many AIDS patients have very little appetite. The effect
marijuana has on people's hunger, commonly known as the “munchies”, helps
these people to keep eating, so that their bodies stay stronger, and don ...
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Marijuana
Number of Words: 579 / Number of Pages: 3
... can be easily solved if the
government would legalize marijuana again. When you take marijuana, it doesn't
make you violent, in fact it leads to non-violence.
There has never been a case that a person died from smoking marijuana.
THC is one of the few chemicals that has no known toxic amount. This is amazing,
since tobacco(which is legal) has 340,000 plus deaths in a typical year,
compared to marijuana, which has 0 deaths.
The government states that over 20 million Americans still smoke
marijuana. You can say that marijuana affects your health, but marijuana is
less dangerous than tobacco and ...
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Capital Punishment And The Death Penalty
Number of Words: 1753 / Number of Pages: 7
... in combination with a chemical
paralytic agent in a quantity sufficient to cause death." Prior to the lethal
injection, the person shall be sedated by a licensed physician, registered nurse,
or other qualified personnel, by either oral tablet or capsule or an
intramuscular injection of a narcotic or barbiturate such as morphine, cocaine,
or demerol. In the provisions of the N.J.S. 2C: 49-3, it says that the
Commissioner of the Department of Corrections determines the substances and
procedure to be used in execution. The Commissioner shall also designate
persons who are qualified to administe ...
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Capital Punishment
Number of Words: 1009 / Number of Pages: 4
... penalty have a higher crime rate than those that do not, and therefore it is not effective and somewhat contributes to the problem. I must point out though that states that have the death penalty are usually highly urbanized areas that most likely will have high crime rates because of the large population. Rather, in rural states there is no need for the death penalty because the population is most likely low and scattered throughout the region. States that practice do so because of high crime rates, not vice versa. Abolitionists also state that the death penalty is a racist punishment, and only gi ...
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Law Does Not Drive Us, Reason Does
Number of Words: 884 / Number of Pages: 4
... propagate, and to dominate. If humanity was left without any
other
parameters, this natural state of existence would govern its
behavior. Fortunately there are parameters, and they are laws.
(Mosier)
What this basically says is that laws are made up to maintain order, monitor
actions, and work for the best interest of society as a whole. If their were no
laws chaos and anarchy would be widespread. This is why society has set up
governments. To maintain order and to gives us safety.
All of the above sounds good to me; however I have written a term paper
on interna ...
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The Death Penalty: To Be Or Not To Be...
Number of Words: 1750 / Number of Pages: 7
... ?
" 68 % replied " almost every day ".
Although the media have played an important role in raising the
public's awareness of lawlessness, crime in America is far from a media -
created phenomenon. Government statistics support the image of a nation
which has overwhelmingly lost the war against crime. For instance, in 1960
there were 161 reported violent crimes per 100,000 people By 1992, the
figure had jumped to 758 per 100,000 -- a rise of over 350 %.
More and more people today are starting to think that something is
terribly wrong when a modern, civilized nation must confront ...
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Pedophilia: Causes And Typologies
Number of Words: 1667 / Number of Pages: 7
... insisting that their behavior is not wrong or immoral.
Organizations dedicated to the social acceptance of sex with children are not
new, yet have had a large upstart in membership since the early 1970's(Charon,
1979).
Because of the extreme sensitivity of the subject, research in this
field is quite underdeveloped. Researchers have even had trouble in agreeing
what to call the phenomenon. Much research on the victims has dubbed the act as
child sexual abuse, most research on the offenders has labeled it as child
molesting or pedophilia. The term pedophilia has some utility since it suggests
a pred ...
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Prostitution Should Be Legalized
Number of Words: 700 / Number of Pages: 3
... is immoral. Yet in one way or another, all people who work "sell" one or more parts of their body in order to complete their jobs. Athletes, bus drivers, and construction workers all "sell" their bodies to perform physical work. These people would find themselves out of work were it not for their freedom to "sell" their bodies. Norma Jean Almodovar, a former police officer turned prostitute, concurs. "In a free country, people should be able to engage in behavior that others find immoral or objectionable as long as no force or fraud is involved.
As an adult, I feel confident that I can make my own ...
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The Pros & Cons Of The Death Penalty
Number of Words: 424 / Number of Pages: 2
... There is also the "eye for an eye" argument. Make them feel
what their victims felt. The punishment for murder right now is three square
meals a day, a roof over their heads, a bed to sleep in, very often activities
to do. That include Tennis, Weightlifting, or even Prostitutes. Lets change
the penalty for murder from country club to Death.
The Cons:
"What if the man is innocent?" That is the flip-side. Sure it is easy
for us to say If they murder, kill them too. But what if the man is wrongly
accused and convicted of murder. What if the man was sitting at home alone, and
therefore ...
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Capital Punishment Is Murder
Number of Words: 1285 / Number of Pages: 5
... really no other way to say it. A murder is a murder, there are no two ways to look at it. When one human loses their life due entirely to another human, what would it be called beyond murder? Capital Punishment does just that.
These people that are on death row in the United States are criminals. There is no disputing that fact. They have been tried an convicted. It is not what they have done that is up for discussion so much as how they are to be punished. The way that these criminals are executed is morally incorrect. There is actually a choice on how the convicted criminal is t ...
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