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    (cover page) The Story Of Aid & War in Modern Times Taniya Uddin :p (fix it) The Effects of War and Peace on Foreign Aid War comes with many costs‚ and Foreign Aid is one among the many. Infact‚ in many a cases the biggest that a nation had to pay. In International relations‚ overseas aid or foreign aid is provided in the form of a voluntary transfer of resources from a developed country‚ such as the United States of America to developing

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    marijuana is concerned‚ there has been no substantial evidence that its prohibition has had any conclusive effect at all. The current drug policy on marijuana is not only ineffective but harmful to not only yourselves‚ but society as a whole. The criminalization of marijuana is not the solution; it ’s part of the problem. First of all‚ the current laws prohibiting the use and possession of marijuana do not stop anyone from using or possessing it. It has been found that Marijuana use remains consistent

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    The Criminalization of Marijuana Corry Countryman ENG 210 Mrs. Rippard November 18‚ 2010 The issue of criminalization of marijuana in the United States is becoming a big one. Marijuana was first federally prohibited in 1937‚ when very few Americans had even heard of what it was. To this day‚ there are between 95 to 100 million Americans admitting that they have tried using marijuana before. Out of these‚ 15 million of them said that they have used within the last month. In addition

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    decline.” It was an attempt that could have been applied to other harder drugs‚ but instead the United States took a different path. In 1973 the Rockefeller Drug Laws were passed by New York legislature starting a snowball effect of narcotic criminalization(We

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    CRIMINALIZATION OF THE HOMELESS COMMUNITY Many individuals experience homelessness do not have certain needs‚ including affordable housing‚ adequate income and health care. Some homeless persons may need additional services such as mental health or drug treatment in order to be securely housed. This research paper will discuss what homeless means‚ various ways in which individuals become homeless‚ trends‚ laws that effect the homeless ‚ and do decriminalization of the homeless community help

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    The criminalization of marijuana disregards all logic‚ yet nonetheless‚ the United Sates government found a means to outlaw this valuable plant through fear and hate. The Western region of America sought to scape-goat Mexican immigrants‚ while the Eastern region attacked African Americans. The criminalization of marijuana was essential to the government’s economic campaign to keep the minorities from gaining any advantage. Government wars on cannabis planted the seed of fear in Americans from the

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    Pervasive Criminalization: No matter what they do these poverty-stricken drug users will always be seen as criminals. Even if they are trying to get themselves clean with the help of clinics people will call them criminals and the cops will be present “just in case.” Personal possessions‚ like vehicles‚ are seized and damaged during drug searches. Often‚ they end up in in jail due to the free medical attention and warm beds there. Punitive Medicalization: Treatment for this disease requires medicines

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    Canada is amongst the many countries that have HIV specific criminal law that persecute people for transmitting the disease. In Canada‚ it is illegal to engage in sexual activities without disclosing seropositive status unless there is a use of condoms and a low viral load is present. Criminal law as prevention for the transmission of HIV seems reasonable‚ but upon examining a bit further in the topic‚ it appears that it is ineffective and might actually do more harm than good to those whom

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    Crisis of Over-Criminalization What is over-criminalization? Over-criminalization generally insinuates that laws regulating public decency and morality is a distraction of sorts to law enforcement officials who could be spending time solving more important crimes rather than dealing in an individual’s personal fixation. Unnecessary reliance upon law enforcement officials to execute task for which it is ill suited has formed serious problems for the administration of criminal justice. (Kadish‚ 1967)

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    United States’ government has not followed the constitutional bill of rights and has failed to separate religious views with the law’s implemented over one hundred years ago that are still being practiced. The specific injustice referred to is the criminalization of polygamous marriage in all 50 states to this day‚ even after proclaiming “equal marriage rights” to the citizens of the United States. While the rights to marriage have been granted to the homosexual community‚ it is still deprived from the

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