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Marijuana: The Untold Story
<view this essay>.... properties as well as a mind altering chemical called tetrahydrocannabinol or THC. This chemical when consumed gives the feeling of a mild euphoria, which some call a ‘high’. Though this plant may be the to blame for millions of people for getting high and having fun, should it really be blacklisted from the society? Alcohol has continues to be used greatly, giving similar but not as good effects as marijuana, however with less other advantages.
In 1942 the American government asked farmers to grow marijuana in a 14-minute propaganda piece entitled Hemp for Victory. The campaign was born because their main hemp suppliers The Philippine and East India wer .....
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Why I Think They Should Legalize Pot
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college. The guy who did it got community service time, and a year without his
liscense. This is not justice, and changes need to be made. We can't throw
every little pot head in jail just because they like grass. After all, it's not
like it's cocaine or something, which should still be illegal.
Second, marijuana is not even as bad as some of the stuff that's legal.
You are more in control of your senses than when trashed, and not nearly as
violent. Nobody has ever died directly from getting stoned. Smoking a joint is
not as likely to cause cancer as a cigarette, and weed isn't addictive. In fact,
there are very little bad sides to .....
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Robert Mapplethorpe And Obscenity Charges
<view this essay>.... Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C. The director of the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, was subsequently acquitted of obscenity charges brought against him for presenting the same exhibition.
LAW: Defining censorship
When it rules on an ''indecent art'' case, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether not subsidizing an activity is censorship.
The National Endowment for the Arts has been giving tax money to artists since the Johnson presidency. Some of its decisions have been controversial. For example, it subsidized an exhibit of menstrual blood, clothing made of condoms, and a depiction of Jesus Christ as a drug addict and sex object.
In .....
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The Legalization Of Marijuana: Pros And Cons
<view this essay>.... who have used marijuana
said it has prevented them from going blind, and cancer patients for whom
it alleviates the severe nausea that is often accompanies chemotherapy and
sometimes makes lifesaving treatment impossible.
Due to all these lobbying groups which show substantial evidence that
marijuana can be used as a prescribed drug. Also many advocates who are pro
marijuana complain that morphine and cocaine are legal and are very
dangerous drugs, that brings up the question why not legalize marijuana as
medical drug which is proven to be less dangerous than cocaine and morphine.
Lobbying groups in a San Diego, California , council committee un .....
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Serial Killers
<view this essay>.... flaw.
They are in touch with reality, and know right from wrong. They know killing is
wrong, they just don't care (1994, Serial Killers, Time Life Books). You cannot
pick a sociopath out in a crowd because they look just like everybody else.
Actually, they act just like everybody else. You could have a neighbor that's a
serial killer and not even know it. Psychopaths are everyday people with
everyday lives, but they just have one problem, they have a need to kill.
What does a serial killer do? Serial killers usually have reasons for
killing, they just don't go out and kill anyone (the majority). A serial killer
will plan out where, when, why, and ho .....
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Law Does Not Drive Us, Reason Does
<view this essay>.... Germany. What King said in his letter has to
make a person think that not all laws are good for the group in society and
morality is a justifiable excuse in breaking the law.
Those who oppose my view on this question may be quick to ask me how
come we go by law and not morality in society. Last year at St. Louis
University I had a roommate with the complete opposite view on this question.
He explained himself this way:
Human nature consists of three basic components. These are to
live,
propagate, and to dominate. If humanity was left without any
other
parameters, this natural state of existence would govern its
behavior. Fortun .....
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Legalization Of Drugs
<view this essay>.... a decrease in
deaths related to drug deals would occur and also the price would lessen
because bigger businesses could produce drugs at a cheaper price. Thus,
reducing crimes that are committed to support a drug habit. Another drug
that has played a major role in American society is nicotine. For hundreds
of years, cigarettes have been a popular legal drug within the United
States. Only through legalization and education has the popularity and the
use of cigarettes declined within the past ten years. Physically, the
actual consequences of using illicit drugs is much less than of using drugs
like alcohol or cigarettes and the consequences will be diminishe .....
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"Speed": Methylamphetamine
<view this essay>.... study habits or
during depressing moments of school. On Speed, users never want to eat because
the drug shrivels up their stomach that causes massive weight loss. One of the
reasons' women use the drug is to lose weight, which is an extremely unhealthy
way of doing it. What Speed does is it effects the middle nervous system, and
stimulates the brain. The drug causes insomnia, restlessness, and a fake sense
of acting normal. People either snort the drug up the nose or smoke it through
the mouth. After staying up for days on Speed the drug where's off and a person
will sleep for days, there is a larger fatigue and one will be so damn depressed.
I stopp .....
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