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    Medical Marijuana Marijuana has been used around the world for thousands of years to treat a wide variety of ailments. Chinese emperor Shen Nung was the first to record marijuana as a medical drug in 2737 B.C. He documented the drug’s effectiveness in treating the pains associated with rheumatism and gout. The legalization of medical marijuana has long been debated within American society and Government. Marijuana was a legal source for medicines in the U.S. until the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937

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    American Drug Policy AKA The War on Drugs The American Drug Policy is a social issue with many pros and cons. So many different areas are impacted daily by the laws of this policy when one tries to separate the issues and wade through the muck and mire of what‚ who‚ where‚ why and when‚ all sense of truth and reality becomes a confusing unreachable goal. Both sides of the debate have their own set of statistics that support their argument. I suppose in order to analyze this policy; one will have

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    Should We End Marijuana Prohibition? Paula J. Telisczak March 4‚ 2012 Introduction to Ethics and Social Responsibility Safiyyah- Al Amin The subject of legalizing marijuana or keeping illegal has been an ongoing debate for some 40 years. America is getting closer to having the ban on the “devil weed” lifted‚ with approximately eight states now allowing marijuana for medicinal purposes. While the use of marijuana has been connected to a rise in criminal activity in some communities

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    During a time when it was legal: Sociological analysis of Marijuana Mia Mogavero Sociology 442 Professor Poole Intro: Before the age of technology‚ World War I‚ The Constitution and the Pyramids there was Marijuana or also known as Cannabis or Hemp. This resourceful‚ medicinal‚ and overall popular plant has been used as far back as 2900 BC by the ancient Chinese and later by Egyptians and survived more than 4‚913 years to continue to be one of the longest and most profitable crop in history

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    What is meant by the Sixties Revolution? In the 1960s Britain started developing into a more permissive society. A permissive society is a tolerant and lenient society regarding various aspects of culture or interests. It is a term that reminds people today of the type of society that has existed in most of Europe‚ Australia and North America since the 1960s‚ in which there was and still is a great amount of freedom in all aspects of people’s daily lives as well as a rapid change in morals. In

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    html Prostitution in the United States - The Statistics-- Prostitutes Education Network. (n.d.)Retrieved from http://www.bayswan.org/stats.html Richards-David-AJ. (1979). Commercial sex and the rights of the person: a moral argument for the decriminalization of prostitution. University of Pennsylvania Law Review‚ 127(5)‚ 1195-1287. retrieved from EBSCOhost Sommer‚ J. (2009‚ January 11) Legalize Prostitution. Retrieved from http://www.humanismbyjoe.com/prostitution.htm Top Ten Pros and Cons

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    Large-scale investment inflow in the real sector of the economy is one of the defining conditions of forced industrial-innovative development of Kazakhstan. Given that currently the supply of domestic investors is not always able to meet the growing domestic demand for investment resources. Importance of foreign direct investment (FDI) takes place in this case. Decline in FDI flows is noticed in almost all groups of countries‚ but especially notable losses are in the advanced economies. According

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    Topic: Prostitution Brinda S Prostitution is often regarded as the world’s oldest profession. It has existed since time immemorial and probably will continue to do so. Indian culture with its vast diversities is no exception. On one hand it has condemned prostitutes by ostracizing them and on the other hand it has accommodated it as in the case of the devadasi system. It was in this backdrop that I developed an interest to study this inherent contradiction. There are two other reasons for choosing

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    DE-CRIMINALIZATION OF BESTIALITY IN INDIA ABSTRACT This paper aims to recognize bestiality as an acceptable physical act evolved through the concept of zoophilia and not a crime against nature as stated under the Article 377 of the Indian Penal Code‚ for all acts against human nature. The paper shall ponder upon the age-old question‚ of admissibility of bestiality as a sexual act by the society‚ which can be contended on the grounds of pre-historic practices derived from ancient Indian traditions

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    The Ongoing Historical Debate Of Euthanasia The word euthanasia originates from two Greek words‚ meaning “good death”. In the most natural state‚ euthanasia defines a death positively sought after for mankind‚ in the act of dying and ultimately death. Unfortunately‚ the term historically and currently leads to debate and manipulation to insinuate a criminal act. World civilizations must remember the crimes of the past‚ and fear misplaced power as currently occurring in Darfur‚ however‚ the horror

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