12/4/12 Medicinal Marijuana. In 1972‚ the US Congress placed marijuana in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act because they considered it to have "no accepted medical use." (http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/) After this act only 17 states of the US have legalized the use of medical marijuana. In my opinion medicinal marijuana should be legal across the united states of America. It should be legal only for medicinal purposes‚ not for everyday use. In the 17 states that marijuana is legal has
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Legalizing Medical Marijuana The debate over whether to legalize marijuana has been one of the most controversial issues dividing courts‚ the federal government‚ state governments‚ and voters. In 1996‚ Arizona and California voters overwhelmingly approved the legalization of marijuana for medicinal purposes. Propositions 200 and 215 represented a dramatic shift from a previously united federal and state front against illegal drugs to one where state governments and voters are now at odds
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Annotation Bibliography "Analysis of the Media ’s Influence on the Jury." Justice for America. N.p.‚ 2 Nov. 2007. Web. 2 Dec. 2012. . [In this article it says that the media has influenced people to support the death penalty more than once. The media has developed a fear of crime within the public. It explains that the crime rates across the country declined but the media puts an illusion on us that the crime rates have increased. It also explains that media narrative seems the influence
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Chicago Citation Style Last Updated: February 2012 UBC Okanagan Library What is Chicago Style? The Chicago Manual of Style (16th ed) provides two distinct citation styles: Humanities style (notes and bibliography) and Scientific/Social Sciences styles (parenthetical author/date references and reference list). This handout covers only the Humanities style of Chicago. The manual is available in the library at: Z 253.U69 2010. General Rules When to Cite?: You need to cite all sources that you have
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Legalizing Medical Marijuana Introduction: I. Attention Getter: Chemotherapy is poison. Many prescription drugs have harmful side effects and interactions. A: chemo kills millions of cells - good and bad – the body tries to expel the poison – nausea B: Lortab‚ Percoset‚ Oxycontin‚ Morphene – highly addictive‚ cause ulcers‚ nausea – overdose is fatal C: Many
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Medical marijuana is a form of marijuana that is given to people who need or use marijuana for medical reasons. Medical marijuana is illegal in some states of America‚ or legal with rules to it. Medical marijuana is used to treat several serious illnesses‚ behaviors‚ and disabilities of people all around the world. It is less harmful than alcohol‚ cigarettes‚ and some pharmaceuticals. There are some myths about marijuana that people believe are true. Medical marijuana should be legalized in every
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Marijuana has no known medical values Are there medicinal benefits of marijuana? Could there really be more to the cannabis plant than “getting high?” Yes‚ the cannabis (scientific name for “marijuana”) plant does in fact have medical uses‚ and there is much more to this extraordinary plant than consuming it to experience its psychoactive effects. However‚ most Americans are unaware of the present day medicinal applications of cannabis. From migraines to multiple sclerosis‚ cannabis can help. The
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prescribe to patients every day account for “100‚000” times as many deaths than the heavily criminalized‚ all natural drug we know as marijuana. Because of its non-toxic and non-addictive characteristics not one death has resulted from the use of marijuana. Some skeptics argue that marijuana‚ also known as ‘cannabis’‚ can become a gateway drug but those who use it for medical purposes find that they never really become tolerant to marijuana’s medicinal effects‚ eliminating the need to move on to harder
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Chione Lawton Professor Shrantz 2322 British Literature 8th Period 20 November‚ 2014 Annotated Bibliography Beowulf Acocella‚ Joan. "Slaying Monsters." The New Yorker 2 June 2014: 70. Literature Resource Center . Web. 18 Nov. 2014. This critical essay‚ written by Joan Acocella‚ an American journalist and book critic for New York‚ who has written many books regarding dance‚ literature‚ and psychology‚ though mentioning heavily the perfection that is Tolkien’s ‘Beowulf’ and the contemplation of as to why
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Annotated List of Works Cited Hitchcock‚ Susan Tyler. Frankenstein: A Cultural History. Ed. Susan Tyler Hitchcock. New York: Norton & Company‚ Inc. 2007. 47-49. Print. Hitchcock defines Mary Shelley ’s use of tabula rasa as inspired by John Locke ’s essay‚ Concerning Human Understanding. "Knowledge of the outside world forms as sensory impressions bombard the mind and accumulate into ideas and opinions" (47). Locke argued that man is neither innately good or evil‚ but rather a blank slate upon which
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