The benefits of marijuana There is no plant on Earth more condemned than marijuana. We’re talking about a living organism which governments have taken upon themselves to designate as an illegal substance. Despite no existing evidence of anyone ever dying of a marijuana overdose‚ possession of this plant is still illegal in many parts. Marijuana has been found to suppress cancer‚ reduce blood pressure‚ treat glaucoma‚ alleviate pain and even inhibit HIV. It is an antioxidant‚ anti-inflammatory
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gangster. He goes on the describe Paulie as a man who “may have moved slow‚ but that was because Paulie didn’t have to move for anybody.” As Henry gained employment‚ and became increasingly involved with gangsters he admired so much‚ he received mixed reactions from his parents. His Mother supported his aspirations‚ but his Father began beating him because his job led to truancy. While Henry’s father was beating him‚ a low-angle freeze frame is used showing Henry’s Father’s arm cocked back‚ belt-in-hand;
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Medical Marijuana is a highly controversial topic in America. Twenty-five states have already made laws legalizing the medical use of marijuana (25 Legal Medical Marijuana). With this growing number of states which have the drug legalized already it begs the question whether or not medical marijuana should be legalized in all 50 states. The drug has been proven to be suitable for treating many symptoms of many diseases. Additionally‚ it has less side effects than many other drugs. Finally‚ it is
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abuse‚ and discrimination based on gender and sexual orientation but none of those will matter in five years if we don’t even have a healthy‚ safe environment to live in. Some things that tend to bother me about this certain social problem is the lack of effort and the lack of public knowledge about how fast and rapidly our environment is going downhill. Our landfills are growing at an unacceptable rate while need to make more and more just to keep all of the trash contained into a certain area. This
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Censorship: Reaction of the Scared Wesley Scroggins states in the article “Scroggins: Filthy books demeaning to Republic education”‚ “In high school English classes‚ children are required to read and view material that should be classified as soft pornography”(Springfield News- Leader). He then states that Speak should not be allowed in English classes because it is inappropriate for teenagers to be reading by viewing soft pornography. Laurie Halse Anderson states within her essay “A Comment About Censorship”
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Multiple Sclerosis and Medical Marijuana How would you feel if you had a degenerative disease and the one medicine that helped you the most was not allowed to be prescribed to you and was also illegal for you to obtain? That is the case for many Multiple Sclerosis(MS)patients today. MS affects patients in many different ways‚ but medical marijuana (Cannibis) can help releive the symptoms of MS in these patients‚ if only it was legal to prescribe. MS is a chronic unpredictable nuerological disease
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Time is Platinum. "Late comers will be left behind." August 23‚ 2006 Last August 23‚ 4:30 PM at IIT guardhouse time‚ we departed from MSU-IIT campus to start our most awaited trip to Cebu City via a Rural Transit bus that transported us to the pier in Cagayan de Oro‚ where we aboard Trans Asia 1. Dinner was served before departure and at exactly 8:30 PM‚ the ship left the port. We’re together with the BS Economics and BS Physics students in the Economy A section of the ship (third floor) while
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Marijuana laws waste billions of taxpayer dollars to lock up non-violent americans. [1 in 3 adult americans have tried marijuana] and [federal marijuana laws can arrest or imprison everyone one of them just for simple possession.] [These laws are unfair and abuse our criminal justice system.] [Prosecuting and jailing these Americans wastes valuable resources better spent keeping violent criminals off our streets.] As it is‚ [hundreds of thousands of citizens have already been imprisoned - many of
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History of Marijuana Cannabis is indigneous to Central and South Asia Evidence of the inhalation of cannabis smoke can be found in the 3rd millennium BCE‚ as indicated by charred cannabis seeds found in a ritual brazier at an ancient burial site in present day Romania. In 2003‚ a leather basket filled with cannabis leaf fragments and seeds was found next to a 2‚500- to 2‚800-year-old mummified shaman in the northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China. Cannabis is also known to have been
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Thomas Edison State College Sociology Reaction Report When choosing a partner we are putting ourselves on what would be called a marketplace for relationships. People usually will marry within there ethnic group‚ nationality or social group. This is Endogamy also called in-marriage‚ custom enjoining one to marry within one’s own group. The penalties for transgressing endogamous restrictions have varied greatly among cultures and have ranged
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