These are the major laws that affect the incarceration at the federal level; many states have mandatory minimums and similar policies. But that is changing. It is simply ineffective and inappropriate for states to focus only on new drug legislation. Twenty-three states have recently repealed drug penalties‚ including revision or even elimination of mandatory minimums‚ reclassifying what constitutes a drug offense‚ revising sentencing enhancements (being convicted of the same crime twice results
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Marijuana is an illegal schedule 1 drug that has been known to cause health problems. Most people think pot is safer than tobacco‚ but that is not true. It’s smoke contains 50% to 70% more cancer causing substances that tobacco smoke and 1 cannabis joint can cause as much damage as 5 tobacco cigarettes. As far as the effects on your mental state goes‚ the main active ingredient in Marijuana is Tetrahydrocannabinol better known as thc and this disrupts nerve cells in the brain affecting memory. It
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to finish big projects. Teamwork is very important in modern society. But‚ what should we do to respond to the work of other people? Should we give positive feedbacks or negative opinions? Will the negative words hurt our colleagues? Many people feel puzzling on these questions. I do believe that both positive and negative feedbacks have their applications and advantages. And the most important thing is to treat our friends sincerely. Positive feedbacks can make people happy and fulfill their requirement
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The Positive and Negative effects of the Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution had many positive and negative impacts on society. The positive include cheaper clothes‚ more job opportunities‚ and improvement in transportation. And the negative would include exploitation of women and children‚ workers work long hours and environmental damages. These are just a few that I believe had an impact on the Industrial Revolution. England was an ideal place for the Industrial Revolution to
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POSITIVE and NEGATIVE Effects from Internet [pic][pic] [pic][pic][pic] Group Members : List of Pages Cover and Group members ………………………………………… 1 WHY WE CHOOSE THIS TOPIC ? …………………………………. 3 Internet Nowadays ………………………………………………….. 4 The Positive Effects …………………………………………………… 5 The Negative Effects ………………………………………………….. 7 How to use The Internet Wisely …………………………………….... 9
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persist in revolutionizing social and political policy. Their alternative lifestyles and radical beleifs were the shocking blow that American culture-- segregation‚ McCarthyism‚ unjust wars‚ censorship--needed to prove that some Americans still had the common sense to care for one another. The young people of the sixties counterculture movement were successful at awakening awareness on many causes that are being fought in modern American discourse. If not for the Revolution that the hippies began‚ political
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captures elements of a widespread perception that there is a broadening‚ deepening and speeding up of world-wide interconnectedness in all aspects of life‚ from the cultural to the criminal‚ the financial to the Globalization resulted in both positive and negative effects‚ which is to be addressed accordingly. To begin with‚ globalization has contributed to the world’s economies in many beneficial ways. The advances in science and technology have allowed businesses to easily cross the geographical borders
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that can be really negative and yet some can be really positive and sometimes you can get lost in your imagination which can be bad. From the film Finding Neverland has many of those positive and negative imagination. I will explain the positive and negative imagination from that movie and some that aren’t in that movie but can still happen to you or others around you. Just be prepared for the effects I am about to tell you. So let’s get onto it. There are many negative effects of imagination
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also explains to us the difference between the negative and positive rights of a person and how negative rights and duties are more stringent than positive rights and duties. I shall be looking at this theory and explaining how it applies to certain cases. Before we can discuss these rights and how they apply to these situations‚ though‚ we must know what they truly mean. Foot says that rights can be split into two kinds‚ negative and positive. Negative rights are described as our rights not to be
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the experience of positive emotions. Life is hard‚ but experiencing positive emotions can become a stress-reducer‚ open our minds‚ build enduring resources‚ and improve our overall well-being. Negative emotions tend to narrow our thoughts to a limited set of possible actions that might be taken in response to an emotion-evoking situation (Baumgardner & Crothers‚ p41). Positive emotions contribute to enhancing our physical‚ psychological‚ and social resources. While negative emotions may compromise
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