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Legalization Of Marijuana
<view this essay>.... argue that marijuana should not be legalized. These agencies believed that marijuana should not be legalized because if marijuana is to be legal then thousands more patients would be using marijuana. They claim twenty years of research have produced no documents of reliable scientific proof that marijuana has medical value. The Drug Enforcement Agency along with police departments all over the United States believe, with the legislation of drugs, crime will result in an increase in drug-related crimes.
Meanwhile, the black market would disappear overnight. Some arrangement would be made to license the production of marijuana cigarettes. The untold multitu .....
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Cannabis Hemp. . .Marijuana!
<view this essay>.... textiles; meet all
of the world's transportation, home and industrial energy needs, and clean
the atmosphere-- all at the same time--our old standby that did it all
before: Cannabis Hemp. . .Marijuana!
The industrial revolution moved hemp to a place of lesser importance in
world commerce due to the lack of mechanized harvesting and breaking
technology needed for mass production. But this natural resource was far
too valuable to be relegated to the back burner of history forever.
In 1916, a U.S. Department of Agriculture bulletin predicted that once a
docortication and harvesting machine was developed, cannabis would again
become America's largest agr .....
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Letter Regarding Young Offenders And Threat Of Public Exposure
<view this essay>.... secretary,
Michael Howard , who chalenges one of the fundamental principles of the
English law,and suggests that young offenders' names should be puplished in
magasines and newspapers to be known by the public.In other words he
suggests that these young troublemakers should be exposed and shamed. And I
agree with him 100%. The threat of public exposure will encourage young
offenders to face up to the effects of their crimes.This will also have,
hopefully, some effect on the parents too, who will be forced to be more
strict and control their children because, as the ministers believe,
parents are the key to reforming youngsters' behaviour.And that has to be
don .....
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Is The US Policy On Drug Prohibition Effective?
<view this essay>.... both financially and otherwise, while being ineffective, if not, at times, counterproductive. Today, we can see the unforeseen costs of the "Drug Prohibition," and we should consider these costs before expanding the "War on Drugs."
First, among the costs of the "War on Drugs," the most obvious is monetary cost. The direct cost of purchasing drugs for private use is $100 billion a year. The federal government spends at least $10 billion a year on drug enforcement programs and spends many billions more on drug-related crimes and punishment. The estimated cost to the United States for the "War on Drugs" is $200 billion a year or an outstanding $770 per perso .....
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Gun Control
<view this essay>.... the registration of guns and gun owners is
necessary because of the homicide rate involving guns and the violence by
criminals using guns.
Many people feel that gun control violates the right of the people
given in the second amendment the right "to bear arms". Opponents of gun
control, including the National Rifle Association, better known as the NRA,
argue that the "right To bear arms" is guaranteed in the second amendment
of the Constitution of the United States of America and licensing
restrictions penalize law-abiding citizens while in no way preventing
criminal use of handguns. It is also argued that by making it difficult
for guns to be bough .....
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Legalization Of Marijuana
<view this essay>.... Americans. During the 1900's the United
Stated has committed itself to and unprecedented war on marijuana that is costly,
unjustified and impossible to win.
The topic of Marijuana is quite broad. It encompasses history,
legislation, and the benefits as well as the harms of the plant itself.
Marijuana is the name of the plant known to botanists as Cannabis Sativa.
Other names for the plant exist throughout the world. In Africa, Marijuana is
known as "dagga", in China as "ma", in Northern Europe as "hemp" and in the
United States as either "pot", "buds", "reefer", "weed" or the more direct,
"smoke". Marijuana goes back over five thousand years. It is .....
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Legalization Of Drugs
<view this essay>.... and his views on . Drugs have become a serious threat to the stability of our society, and legalization is one step in the right direction towards curing this seemingly unbeatable disease.
How does legalizing one of the most deadly substances known to man actually eliminate it? It sounds ironical, but in fact, it makes perfect sense. First, by making drugs legal, you eliminate all source of profit made by dealers in illegal trading. Destroying that aspect of society will reduce the amount of drug related crime. Then that money will be used to set up treatment centers and rehabilitation clinics across America to help the already addicts. Keep in mind, is .....
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Persuasive Essay On Capital Punishment
<view this essay>.... harder consequences to face. Capital punishment also helps avoid over-crowding in prisons. Sadly enough, vicious criminals who have been sentenced to life imprisonment have been set free due to this ever-increasing problem. If capital punishment was used as an alternative to life imprisonment more often, the freeing of convicted criminals could be prevented (Rodriguez). Capital punishment is also cheaper than life imprisonment because it is less expensive to execute a prisoner than to keep him in an institution. Every year, valuable tax dollars go towards keeping prisoners in jail however, if the death penalty was used more often, some of this money could go to .....
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