Minimum Drinking Age - 1998
.... on licensed premises. 3
* A former New Zealand Police Commissioner claims that moves to lower
the legal drinking age to 18 would create more than 100,000 extra
legal drinkers, having an "immediate impact" on law and order. 4
* Research evidence suggests that the younger the age when drinking
begins, and the greater the amount of drinking done in early years,
the greater the amount of alcohol-related problems later on. 5
* Young people experience the highest rate of health and social problems
associated with alcohol. Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause
of deaths for teen .....
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Legalizing Same Sex Marriages
.... marriages may soon become commonplace.
The harm in this situation is that the idea of discrimination becomes “OK.” Although eight states presently prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation, nowhere in the United States are lesbians and gay marriages legally recognized. Many defend the discrimination against homosexuals with the rationale that marriage is traditionally a union between a woman and a man for the sake of procreation.
The case against same-gender marriage is that people are unaccustomed to it. Bigotry and prejudice still exist in our evolving society, and traditionally people fear what is strange an .....
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Legalization Of Marijuana
.... marijuana plus most of the dealers receive a welfare check. The welfare check, alone is not enough to support their lifestyle. This would require dealers to get jobs. This would boost the economy by having more workers. Once these people got jobs, they would have sufficient income to be taken off of welfare. This would save tax money to be used elsewhere. The unemployment rate would drop greatly and much of the money unaccounted for in the economy would show up once again. Also, by having the dealers in a workplace environment and off the street, violent crimes most importantly would decline.
When marijuana is legalized I feel .....
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Mexico's Drug Trade
.... By examining the institution of drug trafficking in regard to bilateral relations between the United States and Mexico, one can clearly trace these same repercussions and the difficulty in creating successful policy to combat them.
Economic Background of Drugs and the Drug Trade
Since the beginning of human existence, societies have attempted to regulate mind-altering substances, prohibit them, or establish some sort of moral control over their use, possession, and distribution. Man has always used them for diverse purposes including magic, religion, aphrodisiacs, medicine, and war (Del Olmo 1). These mind-altering s .....
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Marijuana Legalization
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The importance of the issue for the legalization of marijuana is gaining importance as the use of marijuana increases. In the 1970’s, America faced a significant drug problem. Through education, law enforcement and treatment, illicit drug use was reduced in the 1980’s by fifty percent. Teenagers graduating in 1992 were fifty percent less likely to use drugs than were those who graduated in 1979. (“Marijuana as a Medicine,” California Narcotic Officers Association, www.cnoa.org/marijuana.) In 1993, after twelve years of decline, illicit drug use began to rise and it continues its upward trend. In my opinion, acceptance of .....
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Child Abuse
.... not submitted within 24 hours, so they couldn't do anything. We had another case that we reported just two weeks ago to Child Protective Services. Another five- year old was involved. The teacher noticed a bite mark on his cheek. She asked him what happened, and he responded "my dad bit me." The teacher asked him if his dad was mad when he bit him and he said he was very mad. We reported this to CPS, but were told they couldn't do anything because the skin was not broken. These instances really make me question the system we rely on to protect our children. The question is are we doing enough to protect our children? I feel that no .....
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Capital Punishment
.... life is lessened under certain circumstances such as the life of a murderer, what is stopping others from creating their own circumstances for the value of one's life such as race, class, religion, and economics. Immanual Kant, a great philosopher of ethics, came up with the Categorical Imperative, which is a universal command or rule that states that society and individuals "must act in such a way that you can will that your actions become a universal law for all to follow" (Palmer 265). There must be some set of moral and ethical standards that even the government can not supersede, otherwise how can the state expect its .....
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Drug Prohibition
.... "War on Drugs" is $200 billion a year or an outstanding $770 per person per year, and that figure does not include the money spent by state and local government in this "war" (Evans and Berent, eds. xvii).
The second cost of this "war" is something economists call opportunity costs. Here, we have two limited resources: prison cells and law enforcement. When more drug crimes take up law enforcement's time and when more drug criminals take up cells, less ability to fight other crime exists. This becomes significant when an estimated 35-40 million Americans use drugs per year. In 1994, law enforcement arrested some 750,000 peop .....
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Teenagers And Alcohol Do Not Mix
.... that I myself have surcumbed to on a few occasions. I am not quite sure how many exactly but enough to present myself as a credibly witness to testify to the fact at hand. There are also a lot of things that I didn’t know about alcohol that I learned from research.
I would like to start with a very simple question with a very complicated answer. Why do teenagers choose to drink? Well there are many reasons, one of which being just simply because everyone does it. In other words widespread indoctrination. Which is when for instance a teenager sees a person they look up to drinking such as a parent, teacher, or .....
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Gun Control: More Or Less?
.... against the Toyota and Jack Daniels Corporations when someone becomes intoxicated and kills another in a drunk driving accident. Why not sue McDonalds when somebody eats too many Big Macs and becomes extremely overweight?
Still some extremists call for an outright ban on all firearms. Not only is it extreme, it is also a step in the wrong direction. Criminals would still find ways to purchase firearms. It is similar to the prohibition of alcohol in the 1920s. People still found ways to drink, and the consumption of alcohol actually rose when prohibition was enacted.
One logical solution with actual evidence that proves effec .....
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Drugs In Sports
.... a moral one. Unfortunately John Mcewick believed that sport was something that tested the combination of natural ability, training and determination and not the determination to do anything to win, even if it meant abusing their own bodies. What am I talking about, well John Mcewick was encouraged by people in the sport including his trainer to take substances such as steroids to improve his performances and to keep up with the majority of shot putters. When he refused to risk damaging his body with the possible effects of such illegal substances, John Mcewick found himself in a terrible position. He simply couldn't compete wi .....
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The Death Penalty
.... person, we are eliminating some individuals' chance for salvation. Human life has intrinsic value, even if a person has murdered another. Nobody should ever be killed, even by the state.
Moreover, human beings such as the poor, males, and racial minorities are over-represented among those executed. A study of over 2 dozen convicted criminals on death row found that all had been so seriously abused during childhood that they probably all suffered from brain damage. To further this subject, women convicted of murder are almost never executed. For instance, in March 1998 Judy Beenano aged 54 in Florida, was called the "Black W .....
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