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Psilocybin Mushrooms As Hallucinogens
Number of Words: 482 / Number of Pages: 2
... someone takes Psilocybin Mushrooms in a medium size dose (1.25
grams - 4.0 grams), there are effects that are a little more serious than
taking psilocybin in a small amount. These effects are things such as
open-eye visual effects, lights gain auras, star-pattern effects,
rainbowing around lighting, increased peripheral vision, sometimes either
increased or decreased ability to focus, and other "visions". These are
very typical effects of a hallucinogen. These desired effects can sometimes
cause long term brain damage if used to much. At a medium or high dose
level the effects can ...
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Failure Of Gun Control Laws
Number of Words: 1633 / Number of Pages: 6
... States makes firearm ownership legal in this country.
There were good reasons for this freedom, reasons which persist today.
Firearms in the new world were used initially for hunting, and
occasionally for self-defense. However, when the colonists felt that
the burden of British oppression was too much for them to bear, they
picked up their personal firearms and went to war. Standing against
the British armies, these rebels found themselves opposed by the
greatest military force in the world at that time. The 18th century
witnessed ...
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The Death Penalty
Number of Words: 607 / Number of Pages: 3
... capital punishment who are against it feel that
the death penalty is not a deterrent and that it is barbariaertic of the
past. It has no place in a civilized society today. One of the biggest
arguments against capital punishment is people feel that it violates the
eighth amendment which forbids cruel and unusual punishment. People
against Capital Punishment believe the death penalty is absurd and is in
un-christian practice. Further more, they feel society should not"
encourage sentiments of vengenance cater to morbid interest in ritual
execution." Criminologists also built a strong case that the ...
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Capital Punishment
Number of Words: 2571 / Number of Pages: 10
... by behavior that undermines the nature of a
moral community. The essential basis on which community is built requires each
citizen to honor the rightful claims of others. The utter and deliberate denial
of life and opportunity to others forfeits ones own claim to continued
membership in the community, whose standards have been so flagrantly violated.
The preservation of moral community demands that the shattering of the
foundation of its existence must be taken with utmost seriousness. The
preciousness of life in a moral community must be so highly honored that those
who do not honor the life of others ...
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Capital Punishment: Deters Murder, And Is Just Retribution
Number of Words: 1314 / Number of Pages: 5
... whether it will deter the
crime rate. Supporters of the death penalty are in favour of making
examples out of offenders, and that the threat of death will be enough to
deter the crime rate, but the crime rate is irrelevant.
According to Isaac Ehrlich's study, published on April 16, 1976, eight
murders are deterred for each execution that is carried out in the U.S.A.
He goes on to say, "If one execution of a guilty capital murderer deters
the murder of one innocent life, the execution is justified." To most
supporters of the death penalty, like Ehrlich, if even 1 life is saved, for
countless exe ...
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Drug Trafficking In Mexico
Number of Words: 536 / Number of Pages: 2
... were never really implemented," DEA chief Thomas Constantine told Congress last week, blaming the failure on corruption and lack of security. U.S. officials said the Mexican government failed to finance the task forces and that U.S. agencies had borne the full cost of Mexican operations until last September. At that point, U.S. officials said, Mexico said it no longer wanted U.S. funding and that the task force would be paid for with money confiscated from drug traffickers.
The analysis of the effort's failure comes as some members of Congress gear up to try to overturn the Clinton administration's ...
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Crime And The Death Penalty
Number of Words: 534 / Number of Pages: 2
... merciless acts of these
criminals. Think of Susan Smith, how she knowingly drove her car off into
a lake with her two children strapped to the seats. Think of how they must
have felt as the cold water started to fill the cabin of the car, and then
ultimately drown them. Barbaric is exactly the word I would use to
describe her actions. But yet, the jury rejected the death penalty and
chose a life sentence instead. Mr. Smith, the father of the two children,
broken up from the ruling said "Me and my family are disappointed that the
death penalty was not the verdict, but it wasn’t our choice. They returned ...
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Marijuana: A Horticultural Revolution, A Medical And Legal Battle
Number of Words: 640 / Number of Pages: 3
... It
often eases nausea in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, reduces the pain
of AIDS patients and lowers eye pressure in glaucoma sufferers. Cancer and AIDS
patients often lose a lot of weight, either due directly to their illness or
indirectly to the treatment of the illness. Dramatic weight loss puts their
lives in even more danger. Marijuana stimulates the appetite, thus enabling
patients to eat more and gain weight which in turn strengthens the immune system.
So if there are so many benefits, then why is marijuana not legal? Many
states contend that the ban on medical marijuan ...
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Capital Punishment: The Legal Punishment Of A Criminal
Number of Words: 557 / Number of Pages: 3
... In the 18th
century more than two hundred capital crimes were recognized, and as a
result over one thousand people a year were faced with the sentence of
death.
Now at modern time, the death penalty, has been rekindled.
Although, it is not as barbaric as it was. Now the law only
allows itself the use certain types of “disciplining”. In the early 18th
and 19th century the death penalty was inflicted in many ways. Some ways
were, crucifixion, boiling in oil, drawing and quartering, impalement,
beheading, burning alive, crushing, tearing
asunder, stoning and drowning. In the late 19th century the ty ...
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Capital Punishment: Right Or Wrong?
Number of Words: 4209 / Number of Pages: 16
... In addition, with the growing sympathy of modern society, the number of inmates actually put to death is substantially lower than 50 years ago. This fact that it was more safe back then than it is now probably has to due with the fact that in earlier times, where capital punishment was common, the value of life was less, and societies were more barbaric, capital punishment was probably quite acceptable. However, in today's society, which is becoming ever more increasingly humane, and individual rights and due process of justice are held in high accord, the death penalty is becoming an unrealistic f ...
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