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    this case‚ the general public cannot lead to a safe life because of offenders and other discouragements. I found that the prohibition of the hood would be a tentative way to make the society safe. For three reasons which are about crime prevention‚ ostentation‚ and the exact range of the law‚ I totally agree to enact ‘prohibition of hood’. By Legislating the law of “prohibition of hood”‚ crime rates in society will be decreased. There are people wearing hoodies not only to keep their body but also

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    The Modern Prohibition: Legalizing Marijuana The fight over legalizing marijuana has been going on for many years. Many people are not aware of the huge impact legalizing marijuana would have. It has many medicinal uses‚ it is less harmful than alcohol and other legal drugs‚ and keeping it illegal is very expensive‚ and it. Prohibition did not work in the 1920’s‚ and it is surely not working again. One reason why marijuana should be legalized is‚ it would save our government a huge amount of money

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    Back in the 1920’s people would be selling beers and liquors caused people to get drunk. So they chose to make a prohibition where beer or those liquors were illegal. This caused chaos and more criminals to come and people still started to sell them. This made the people build a super max prison named Alcatraz or Justice on the Rock to hold the most wanted criminals. But over time they had to shut Alcatraz down‚ and then sent the prisoners all across the U.S.A Alcatraz is different from other prisons

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    thought to be a key factor in a person’s downfall occasionally. Several individuals support the ban of these substances at any cost. This is evident by the Prohibition period of Canada’s history and by the current laws and restrictions placed on the use and distribution of marijuana. The only difference between the two is that at the time‚ Prohibition was more encouraged by women who were just starting to realize their own potential as voters

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    Shark finning has always been a problem. In the year of 2000‚ President Bill Clinton passed the Shark Finning Prohibition Act. The proposal prohibit any person under U.S. jurisdiction from engaging in the finning of sharks‚ possessing shark fins aboard a fishing vessel without the corresponding carcass‚ and landing shark fins without the corresponding carcass (National Marine Fisheries Service). Despite the law being enacted since 2000‚ it hasn’t produce much positive effects. Up until today‚ United

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    In various points in history‚ governments have made regulations which many of the people refused to follow. During the late 18th century‚ prohibition of trade amongst separately colonized islands caused smuggling between these islands to become quite popular. Islands owned by the French‚ English‚ and Spanish each had different goods that were sought after‚ and thus‚ illegal trade commenced and was very successful. Supply and demand continued as it did because the smugglers stood to gain economically

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    The paper “Drug Prohibition: A Legal and Economical Analysis” by Walter Block agues for the legalization of addictive drugs such as marijuana‚ cocaine and heroin. It argues that there are no “market failures” which could justify the banning of these drugs‚ and also that‚ just like our current systems precursor the alcohol prohibition‚ the criminalization of these drugs increases crime‚ decreases respect for our law‚ and creates great social uproar. The main sections of this paper look at many sides

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    Introduction The system of giving dowry to girls in marriage is an ancient Indian custom. It is infact that portion of the parent’s wealth which they wish to give to the daughter. This helps the girls in question and the groom to start a home of their own. However‚ it is very sad that this custom has been vitiated in our times‚ and the system has become a menace‚ a social evil in our society. Wedding are no longer happy events‚ but keep the brides‚ parents on tenterhooks lest the groom’s family

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    The adoption of prohibition in 1919 (with ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment) had been a victory of Yankee moral values over those of immigrants‚ but now many of the great cities practically ignored the measure. In 1919-20 the russian revolution of 1917 and the establishment

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    States can put out a statistic like this and ignore the fact that if they legalized the drug there would be less violence because there would be no point for Mexican drug cartels to try and smuggle the drug into the U.S. In the article “Blame Prohibition‚ Not Pot Smokers for Violence in Mexico”‚ published by AlterNet.org‚ Tony Newman tells us how the people who run the “Just Say No” campaign against drugs have a new scheme in which they plan to blame people who smoke pot for the violence in Mexico

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