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Marijuana: The Drug That Could Help Stop The Pain
Number of Words: 1174 / Number of Pages: 5
... medical use. Doctors are forced to illegally prescribe the drug to cancer patients. Marijuana could be the drug to help cure the pain and status of patients well being if the government would allow prescription of this drug.
"Marijuana " is defined as the dried leaves and flowering tops of the pistillate hemp plant that people smoke in cigarettes for their intoxicating affect. U.S. laws define "marihuana" as all parts of the cannabis plant; it's resin, seeds, or anything produced from them (excluding certain non-drug products) (1, pg. 2). However scientifically marijuana is noted as cannabis of a comp ...
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What To Do When You're A Crime Victim
Number of Words: 900 / Number of Pages: 4
... you find anything that is not yours that may have been left behind by the burglar such as tools, clothing, etc. (Driver's licenses and other identification have been left behind by burglars before!)
Be prepared to provide the police with serial numbers and a complete description of all missing property. Tell the police if you have engraved any of the items with your driver's license or other personalized number.
ROBBERY
You've heard it before and now here it is again: Never resist if you are the victim of a robbery. Do exactly as you are told to do in order to minimize your chances of being injure ...
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International Law
Number of Words: 1660 / Number of Pages: 7
... expression of raison d'etat, the
"interests of the state", and aims to serve the state, as well as protect
the state by giving its rights and duties. This is done through treaties
and other consensual engagements which are legally binding.
The case-law of the ICJ is an important aspect of the UN's
contribution to the development of international law. It's judgements and
advisory opinions permeates into the international legal community not only
through its decisions as such but through the wider implications of its
methodology and reasoning.
The successful resolution of the border disp ...
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The Increasing Use Of Street Drugs
Number of Words: 784 / Number of Pages: 3
... and body can get when just trying drugs. A common way that drug dealers rope in young people is by giving them drugs to try. It is after they like the drugs they come back to get more, only now they are charged for them. Now the drugs are no longer free and the dealers now have one more customer.
At a party or just with a friend, drugs can be found. Trying drugs to be cool is just how this addiction begins. Once, twice and before one realizes it, they're depending on these narcotics to complete a day. Addiction keeps drugs on a supply and demand basis. Thirty percent out of a hundred people th ...
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Drink Up - Drunk Driving Should Be Legalized
Number of Words: 359 / Number of Pages: 2
... drinking are
legally required to use some form of transportation other than them operating a
motor vehicle. This requires them to hang around where they are and get a ride
with someone else or wait or some public transportation. With the legalization
of driving while drunk the non-drinking population would not need to be bothered
by drunk people that do not have rides. Finally, this would help stimulate the
economy which may be in dire trouble. For example, with the removal of
restrictions on alcohol, many more alcoholic beverages would be sold because a
new group of possible customers would be ...
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Capital Punishment: Against
Number of Words: 969 / Number of Pages: 4
... would
let him be judged by a group of his peers. Upon the verdict of guilt in
taking the other human being's life the group of peers will now have to
decide that person's fate or future. These people deciding the aggressor's
future do not have the right to take the aggressor's life for it is
unrealistic to justify one murder with another murder just for the sake of
an eye for an eye.
The ideal human would sentence this aggressive human being to a
sentence of servitude to try and repay society for the life in which he
took unjustly and so that some good may become of this tragedy. The ideal
hu ...
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The Death Penalty
Number of Words: 982 / Number of Pages: 4
... public. It
was the English punishment for treason. It is called hanging, drawing and
countering. First you would be dragged to the place of execution on a hurdle.
This is a type of sled that was attached to the back of a horse. You would be
hanged to the brink of death before being cut down. The third stage of the
execution is that the persons gentiles would be cut off and burned in front of
the body before it was cut from the going to the chest and the intestines would
be taken out and also burned, after the body would be cut into four pieces and
the head would be displayed for the public. In on ...
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Decriminalization Vs. Prohibition
Number of Words: 1177 / Number of Pages: 5
... and
drugs were definitely not going to get in the way. I promised myself I would
not end up like Jimi Hendrix, or Janis Joplin, both found dead after overdoses,
because I had the power to say no. I had read stories and seen news flashes
about the side effects of some drugs. I had read newspaper articles about
people in Rome, which is just a few minutes away, dying of heroin overdoses. I
had seen people on TV that were alive, but were not conscious of their
surroundings, because of drug use. Their lives were basically over. I had
listened to speakers preach that drugs were one of the Devil's tools ...
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Child Abuse
Number of Words: 1820 / Number of Pages: 7
... of is the shaking child syndrome. This is when you shake the baby forcefully usually by the shoulders causing the blood vessels that bridge the brain and skull to tear. This could lead to seizures, lethargy, vomiting and irritability and eye injuries, extreme cases could lead to coma or even death. You don’t have to be a bad mother to do this to your child just one day you could be feed up with the child and when it won’t stop crying you can’t control your self and you start shaking the child. To help prevent this situation you should when feeling frustrated or overwhelmed place the child down in ...
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Is The Illegalization Of Marijuana Valid?
Number of Words: 1537 / Number of Pages: 6
... of Narcotics (FBN), and many other influential industrial leaders such as
William Randolph Hearst and Andrew Mellon. Herer notes that the Marijuana Tax
Act, which passed in 1937, coincidentally occurred just as the decoricator
machine was invented. With this invention, hemp would have been able to take
over competing industries almost instantaneously. According to Popular Mechanics,
"10,000 acres devoted to hemp will produce as much paper as 40,000 acres of
average [forest] pulp land." William Hearst owned enormous timber acreage so his
interest in preventing the growth of hemp can be easi ...
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