Case For Legalizing Marijuana What
.... smoke marijuana feel no effects; others feel relaxed and sociable, tend to laugh a great deal, and have a profound loss of the sense of time. Characteristically, those under the influence of marijuana show incoordination and impaired ability to perform skilled acts. Still others experience a wide range of emotions including feelings of perception, fear, insanity, happiness, love and anger. Although marijuana is not addicting, it may be habituating. The individual may become psychologically rather than physically dependent on the drug.
Legalization Of Marijuana Those who urge the legalization of marijuana maintain the drug is .....
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Telecommunications Act Of 1996
.... TCI and Jones Inter-cable) are permitted to offer local telephone service. The "baby Bells" or Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOC) (also called Local Exchange Carriers (LEC) such as BellSouth and Ameritech were permitted to offer long distance telephone services and cable TV services. The RBOC were also permitted to manufacture their own equipment and to offer online information services and electronic publishing (but under tight controls until 2000). Incidentally, electric utility companies, another traditionally highly regulated industry, were permitted to enter the local telephone market.
I believe that the Act made the .....
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The Death Penalty: Why We Should Have Capital Punishment?
.... include the populations, number of cities, and yes, the crime rates. Strongly urbanized states are more likely to have higher crime rates than states that are more rural, such as those that lack capital punishment. The states that have capital punishment have it because of their high crime rate, not the other way around.
In the 1920’s and 30’s, death penalty advocates were known to refer to England as a means of proving capital punishment's deterrent effect. Back then, at least 120 murderers were executed every year in the US and sometimes the number reached 200. Even then, England used the death penalty far more consistently .....
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The Insanity Defense
.... The major difficulty with a theory such as mental illness is that it is just that, a theory. To scientists theories are a way of life, but applied to the concept of law theories become somewhat dangerous. By applying a loose theory such as mental illness to law we are in essence throwing the monkey wrench into the wheels of justice.
According to the laws of insanity, a person is basically insane if he or she is unable to distinguish between right and wrong as a result of some mental disability. Criticism of the M'Naghten Rule has come from both legal and medical professions. Many criticize that the test is unso .....
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The Death Penalty
.... Lethal injection is more humane because is less painful than others. A Leuther from FRED A. LEUTHER ASSOCIATES INC. who is specialized in the manufacture and restoration of electric chairs, gallows, gas chambers, and lethal injection system, said that in the future he would produce microwave helmets. It would destroy brain and all brain functions. It would shut down both the automatic and conscious nervous system. Within a second the executee’s brain would be cooked from the inside out.
While executions are being abolished in most parts of the world (except Iran, Iraq, China, Yemen and some former Soviet states), Ameri .....
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The Drinking Age In Ontario
.... ( at which a large number is not of legal age drinking) which involve much drinking of alcohol. Liquor is also obtained at home where an open bar is accessible without parents even having the knowledge. Others may go for drastic measures to purchase alcohol, such as acquiring a fake ID card. This is a concern for Americans where te drinking age is 21 for most of the states, "Raising the drinking age from 18 to 21 in the 1980s merely triggered a boom in the business of creating fake ID cards." Besides, it is believed that young people tend to drink because it is not permitted, the nature impulse to go against what is wron .....
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Gun Control
.... 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 your own life? Does the constitution offer protection for private individual .....
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The Rodney King Case
.... followed the trial shows how much differently people think when it comes to justice. In her article Karen Garner states that Rodney King and two friends were stopped and detained by the California Highway Patrol for allegedly speeding and evading law officers. Within minutes backup was there to assist the other officers with the suspects. Mr. King friends were “quickly subdued and handcuffed,” but “their encounter with Rodney King, however, caused a controversy with far- reaching legal and social consequences” (447). Jennifer Eastman claims, “television viewers” were not aware that Mr. King was drunk, and “on parole at the time and .....
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Capital Punishment
.... and William the Conqueror (1066-1087) was the death penalty not used, although the results of interrogation and torture were often fatal (Kronenwetter 12). Later, Britain reinstated the death penalty and brought it to its American colonies.
Although the death was widely accepted throughout the early United States, not everyone approved of it. In the late-eighteen century, opposition to the death penalty gathered enough strength to lead to important restrictions on the use of the death penalty in several northern states, while in the United States, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Rhode Island abandoned the practice altogethe .....
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Gun Control And Why People Think It Is Unfair
.... It is also argued that by making it difficult for guns to be bought and registered for the American public there is a threat to the personal safety of American families everywhere.
However controlling the sale and distribution of firearms is necessary because of the homicide rate involving guns. In 1988 there were 9000 handgun related murders in America. Metropolitan centers and some suburban communities of America are setting new records for homicides by handguns. Larger Metropolitan centers have ten times the murder rate of all Western Europe. For example in Washington,D.C. there was an estimated 400 homicides including g .....
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Violent Crimes Involving Guns
.... available evidence, based on at least eight national surveys of the general adult population, indicates that guns are used about as often for defensive as for criminal purposes.6
The experience of other nations also provides little support for the notion that guns cause crime.(7)
Switzerland has one of the lowest murder rates in the world, and it requires all able-bodied males between the ages of 20 and 50 to have a military-issued automatic weapon, ammunition and other equipment in their dwellings. (8) Israel, which has an extremely low crime rate but is vulnerable to enemies including terrorists, depends on the defensive .....
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Referendum Reaction
.... be the only effective therapy for some medical illnesses. Even though the amount of ill who would benefit from medical marijuana might be small, Mainers would help improve the quality of their lives.
In conclusion, medical marijuana should be legalized. It would benefit Maine’s economy, and it has also shown success in other states. Most importantly it would greatly ease the suffering of ill individuals. The only reason we pass any law is to improve the quality of life for Mainers, and this referendum would do just that.
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