Legal Drinking Age In the United States‚ the legal drinking age for all fifty states and the District of Columbia is twenty-one. The drinking age is twenty-one because the government decided this is when a person becomes legally responsible to handle the repercussions of consuming alcohol. The U.S. has the highest legal drinking age in the world. Only four countries in the world have a legal drinking age over eighteen‚ making the US an exception rather than the rule. Some people may argue that
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Legal Drinking Age One of the biggest arguments that you will find going on today is‚ what the legal drinking age in The United States of America should be. Today in the USA the legal drinking age is twenty-one‚ but why twenty-one why not eighteen or thirty? Why have a drinking age of twenty-one in this country when there are over two hundred other countries that have lower drinking ages‚ and none that have higher? Who gets to decide the age at which someone is mature enough to consume alcohol
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smoking marijuana. I never smoked the substance and never will. But I always thought there was nothing wrong with it because the fact that everyone I knew that smoked marijuana nothing bad had happened to them but except they would go to jail which I think was down right stupid. I always had the thought of that‚ if you could smoke tobacco and not go to jail‚ why go to jail for smoking marijuana. Today I will try to persuade my audience why marijuana should be legal and you should be able
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EAP 5 WG Process Essay #2 The Argumentative Essay: Should Abortion Be Legal? Part One‚ Writing the Introduction Write an argumentative essay introduction on the issue of abortion. First‚ provide background information: what it is‚ what it is used for‚ and what methods are used. Include information about the number of countries where it is legal as well as the number of countries that it is illegal. Your background information should have information about why different organizations are against
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Marijuana has become a big issue in today’s healthcare settings because even though healthcare professionals find it right that their patients use medical marijuana not all people find it appropriate. In my position I am for the fact that it’s much more effective to use medical marijuana than any prescription that is prescribed to a patient. Then with the whole point of medical marijuana being used by many patients there is laws that apply to the situation which at times I find it not fair under
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Colorado Pediatrician of the Year and the Denver Business Journal Healhcare Executive of the Year. Dr. Larry Wolk’s mission is to simplify the health system for the citizens of Colorado. This distinguished lecture series was based on the topic of legal marijuana. The three main points regarding this topic is whether it is considered to be a medicine‚ recreation‚ or a plant. Many people have different views on this topic‚ whether it is based on religious views or personal beliefs. Overall‚ Dr. Larry Wolk
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American’s have seen Marijuana as an addictive drug that we have been taught to “Just Say No” to. Today‚ we are able to see the scientific and financial benefits of the plant called Cannabis. People are becoming more informed and opinionated on the topic‚ and some states have even gone as far as legalizing marijuana; the effects of this decision have been exponentially encouraging‚ especially to other states. However‚ even with the positive effects of the legalization of marijuana in some states‚ the
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Why Not to Legalize Marijuana Marjorie Fleuridor ENG/102 March 10‚ 2013 Professor Laura Barnes Marijuana is one of the best known drugs that have been widely consumed throughout history which today raises a concerned eyebrow. Those who are advocates consider marijuana a harmless and beneficial substance because of its claimed value in treating symptoms of serious illness or diseases and Jeffrey Miron‚ a professor of economics at Harvard University in the following viewpoint believes
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Legalizing Marijuana Marcie Helms Introduction to Ethics & Social Responsibility SOC120 Craig Allen 11/12/12 Everyone has a different sense of what is moral and what is ethical. The key to resolving these moral and ethical differences is coming to an agreement on what is beneficial for our society as a whole. Legalizing marijuana raises a number of ethical concerns. Some people feel that legalizing marijuana will lead to an increase of recreational use. Some also believe that it
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Should abortion be legal? That is one of the looming questions in politics and society. There are many people today who believe abortion should be illegal because it is the murder of an unborn baby. People state that an unborn baby is still a human being and that they also deserve the right to their own life (Abortion ProCon.org). Abortion is a right that does not need to be controlled by the government. Abortion should be a choice that women have that allows them to control their own bodies. According
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