Marijuana Marijuana is a dangerous drug known throughout the world; it is not to be trifled with. Marijuana is also called "grass‚" "pot‚" "reefer‚" "joint‚" "hashish‚" "cannabis‚" "weed‚" and "Mary Jane" across the globe. It’s been sold for medical reasons as well as other purposes. It’s a typical herbal form of cannabis consists of the flowers and subtending leaves and stalks of mature pistillate of female plants. The resinous form of the drug is known as hashish‚ or merely as hash‚ a drug
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Medical Cannabis: The Legalization The use of marijuana in human civilization dates back to 6000 B.C. In this era‚ China found that cannabis seeds are edible and later discovered a greater use as textiles. From that time period‚ humanity has made significant advancement‚ and has discovered further uses for the marijuana plant. Today‚ marijuana can be used as medical cannabis to treat ailments that other medication cannot possibly treat. Although medical cannabis has some great benefits‚ in the
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Marijuana is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known. No one has ever died from an overdose‚ and it has a wide variety of therapeutic applications‚ including: • Relief from nausea and appetite loss; • Reduction of intraocular (within the eye) pressure; • Reduction of muscle spasms; and • Relief from chronic pain. Marijuana is frequently beneficial in the treatment of the following conditions: AIDS. Marijuana can reduce the nausea‚ vomiting‚ and loss of appetite
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Melisse Valeton American History 1 8 November 2012 Antebellum Reform The antebellum period was a time of many reforms throughout the US. A change in the society and ones views on the US. During this period there were movements that a plethora of reformers used to change the US into a more democratic place. Reformers looked at the US as it having many evils that needed to be eliminated‚ such as slavery‚ alcohol‚ women rights and jails. They took many approaches and strategies in order to improve
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War One‚ was a time of permeating corruption and attempts to reform. The Progressives‚ including Muckrakers and the Progressive Party‚ tried very hard to reform government policies. The Progressives were quite successful in reforming the government at the Federal and State levels between 1870 and 1920‚ but only marginally successful at the municipal level. On the Federal level‚ the Progressives successfully pushed for multiple reforms. Progressives led to the Interstate Commerce Act‚ the Federal
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crude oil in Nigeria turned her into a monoculture economy. Following the advice given by her Brazilian colleague‚ Ngozi Okonji Iweala set out to create an economic team that could come up with a “comprehensive strategy” that would be used to create reforms for Nigeria. The came up with a medium term plan that they believed had to pass three test: a. it should have a diagnosis of the socio-economic problems in Nigeria‚ b. it should propose a solution‚ c. solutions should be readily translated into specific
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awareness. The main idea of the reforms in the United States at this time was the relatively new sense of Democracy. Reform sought to maximize these benefits in light of Democracy and for this reason came up with many changes in which greater good can be found through freedom‚ justice‚ and equality of all people. In addition to extending social and political equality for women and the means to economic affluence for the poor (through education)‚ a number of reforms also extended to various oppressed
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ESSAY PROMPTS (1) In what ways did the development in transportation bring about economic and social change in the United States in the period 1820-1860? During the periods of 1826 through 1860‚ United States saw a dramatic economic and social change due to the development in transportation such as the railroad and the steamship. A major difference that caused a change in transportation was the railroad. The transcontinental railroad wasn’t completed until 1869‚ but it was expanding exponentially
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education‚ fair pay and helped them by giving them a job. They also said “without working in factories the children’s family wouldn’t be able to survive. Some factory owners called for reform because they thought they worked too long hours and they didn’t get enough education. Some campaigners thought that reforms should be introduced because the factories were in bad conditions and most of the children have deformed bones and bad lungs. Other campaigners thought they should not because at least
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Amendment Act of 1825. This was a less liberal move on Gladstone’s part and limited the effect of the workers strikes. Henceforth limiting the power they possessed to make change therefore the reputation of the ministry could be questioned. Though reform is being made‚ it is not exactly benefitting the masses hugely. Moreover this Act was more beneficial to the working classes than the Friendly Society Acts‚ so in this sense Gladstone was trying to improve the statuses of the working classes hence
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