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In America, alcohol use is legal. What is it that causes recreational use of marijuana to be deemed illegal by our government? George Washington and Thomas Jefferson both grew marijuana for recreational use. Are the harmful effects that marijuana has on your body worse than those of alcohol? Is it the state of mind that marijuana's active ingredient, THC, induces that causes our government to keep marijuana illegal and keep alcohol legal? Is marijuana's addictive nature more harmful to an individual than alcohol's addictive nature? Are marijuana's harmful affects more destructive to our society than alcohol's harmful effects?
Is marijuana so detrimental to the good health of America's population that it should be illegal? Doctors say that smoking one joint or marijuana cigarette is as harmful to an individual's lungs as smoking seven cigarettes. Cigarettes are legal. It is legal in America for an individual to smoke seven cigarettes at once. According to doctors, there is no other physical harm caused to an individual due to smoking weed other than the affect on their lungs. Alcohol can cause liver disease, obesity, death, and many other health problems; however, it is legal. Marijuana doesn't cause more harmful affects to an individual than alcohol or tobacco does. Even so, marijuana's recreational use is still illegal in America.
No Limit rapper Snoop Dogg says in a recent interview with "High Times," If the government was to legalize marijuana, the crime rate would go down. People would just wanna chill." Snoop goes on to say, "Alcohol does more to harm society than weed could ever do. If that is legal, then marijuana should be too. It would balance out that aggression." Doctors say that marijuana doesn't heighten urges to commit crime. It does, however, heighten your sense of awareness. A heightened sense of awareness is good ...
It's late at night, and you're home all alone. You double checked to make sure all of the doors were locked and made sure all of the windows were closed. It's been a quiet night, but for some odd reason you cannot sleep. During your restless night, you hear a bump in the kitchen. At first you dismiss it as the wind. But there it is again, and i...
My essay is on "Drinking and Driving Offences". In my essa y I will tell you the various kinds of drinking and driving offences, the penalties, and the defences you can make if you are caught drinking and drivi ng. Let me tell you about the different offences. There are si x offences in drinking and driving. They are "driving while impaired", "Havi...
Crime refers to many types of misconduct forbidden by law. include such things as murder, stealing a car, resisting arrest, possessing or selling illegal drugs, appearing nude on a public street, drunken driving, and bank robbery. The list of acts considered is constantly changing. For example, at one time, people were charged with witchcraft, bu...
In Japan, the murder rate is almost 1 per 100,000. In the U.S., there are about 3.2 murders per 100,000 people each year by weapons other than firearms. This means that even if firearms in the U.S. could be eliminated, we would still have three times the murder rate of the Japanese. Japan's murder rate may be low, but its suicide rate is over 20 pe...
Alcohol, according to some, is the root of most drinking problems. However, lowering actually could and most likely would solve most of the problem. Some researchers the effectiveness of a federally imposed drinking age. A lot of 'underage' adults are kept out of some social activities because alcoholic beverages are being are questioning serv...
Teenage drinking is not only a burden on teenagers but on society as a whole. 'In 1997, 26 percent of 16-20 year old passenger vehicle drivers fatally injured in crashes had high blood concentrations (0.10 percent or more).' Teenage drivers that have BACs in the 0.05-0.10 range are a 18 times more likely (for males), and 54 times more likely...
has been a subject of much altercation ever since the dawning of the twentieth century. In this paper I will tell you why it should be abolished from the United States and give you facts to fully support my arguments. Fact # 1: Recent studies show that the crime rate in states with is no lower than in the states that don't allow it. The United S...
Everyone agrees that something must be done about the tremendous physical and emotional health problems that drug abuse causes. Concern about the abuse of drugs is so widespread that recent polls indicate it to be one of the most serious problems in today's world, threatening the security and freedom of whole nations. Politicians, health experts a...
I strongly feel that is essential in our legal system, as well as everyday life. Just as a toddler needs to be disciplined when he or she has a tantrum, a murderer needs to be punished for his or her actions. The death penalty solves many problems. It is a threat to any conspiring criminal-murderer. It promises the inescapable condition. It frees...
Americans are faced with an ever-growing problem of violence. Our streets have become a battleground where the elderly are beaten for their social security checks, where terrified women are viciously attacked and raped, where teen-age gangsters shoot it out for a patch of turf to sell their...
The topic of gun control is one that many people feel strongly about, on both the pro side and the con side. It is not difficult to understand why so many citizens of this country are pulling for these laws. Violent crimes in the United States have been an increasingly serious problem over the last few decades. Guns have been a major factor in t...
Civil Profile 2 Draft a 1-page profile on any civil area of practice of your choosing. The civil area of practice that I choose was family, family law is an area of the law that deals with family-related matters and domestic relations which includes marriage, civil unions, and domestic partnerships, adoption and surrogacy, child abuse and child a...
"GOOD MORNING! My name is investigator Holmes. Do you mind answering a few simple questions?" If you open your door one day and are greeted with those words, STOP AND THINK! Whether it is the local police or the FBI at your door, you have certain legal rights of which you ought to be aware before you proceed any further. In the first place,...
The United States Immigration Laws should be revised in order to make citizenship become more difficult and decrease the number of immigrants migrating to the United States. The above resolution that seems to be constantly floating around in congress has become extremely sensitive since President Clinton has been in office. President Clinton has...
