Currently lots of debates are going on between physicians‚ religious leaders‚ lawyers‚ and the general public on the subject of euthanasia. This includes voluntary euthanasia ‚ active euthanasia‚ and passive euthanasia . Canadians spend billions of dollars on health care and some feel that euthanasia or mercy killing can be justified. The question remains unanswered: should euthanasia be legalized in Canada? Euthanasia is the act in which a person who is terminally ill and suffering is killed painlessly
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15‚ 2012 Marijuana Legalize and Taxed In today ’s society Americans are suffering from increased destruction due to the never-ending war against drugs. Government officials make promising speeches to advocate tougher drugs laws. This war against drugs has not accomplished anything. Legalization and taxing is an option that should be considered to show how legalizing and taxing marijuana will put end to this cycle. It is very important to understand the effect of cannabis (marijuana) and its
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Marijuana Marijuana is the most commonly used illegal drug. The name marijuana is a Mexican slag word‚ which became popular in the 1930’s‚ which refers to the medicinal parts of the cannabis plant. Marijuana is a green‚ brown‚ or gray mixture that is created through drying the leaves and flowering tops of the cannabis plant. The potency of marijuana differs depending on what part of the plant is used. The three topics of marijuana I will be discussing is legalization of marijuana‚ teen marijuana
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Marijuana has been around for thousands of years ‚ Many citizens of the united states have heard of marijuana (cannabis) as a common drug‚ but there are also people who use it medically. The official term for marijuana is cannabis sativa. The active ingredient with in marijuana is tetrahydrocannabinol‚ frequently called THC. Marijuana is a plant that grows from a seed just like every other plant. My proposal is not defending the legalization of marijuana for recreational use‚ but essentially the
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Legalizing Marijuana Abraham Lincoln once stated that‚ "Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man ’s appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded." In today ’s society‚ this statement still applies in reference to the illegal use of marijuana. Marijuana prohibition causes far more harm than marijuana itself. Keeping marijuana illegal is
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December 3‚ 2012 The topic of marijuana has been a big topic for the past few years. The United States considers marijuana as a drug‚ in some other countries they say it is a natural herb that is grown from the ground. The issue at hand is “should marijuana be legalized?” the congress of the US stay in a constant debate on this subject. Why is the subject of marijuana such in high demand‚ if the US already considers it a drug? There are many facts that need to be looked at before a final
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Decriminalization of Marijuana As I researched the internet for information about the decriminalization of marijuana‚ I found so much information concerning this project that it was hard putting together some thoughts. Through my research of the different topics I came to the conclusion that the ones I am writing about seem to be the most important concerning the decriminalization of marijuana. Should a person go to jail for smoking marijuana? A lot of people
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Walker WR 121 8/8/10 Essay #4 Rough Smoke 101 Marijuana is by far the most commonly used illegal drug in the United States and in most other countries as well. More than 100 million Americans have tried marijuana‚ and more than twenty million have smoked it in the last year‚ but does marijuana really affect people and their thinking process‚ and should pot be legal in the United States. (Armentano Paragraph 3) I believe that marijuana should be legal because people should live life how they
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Editorial: Cocaine Legalization 4/26/02 David Borden‚ Executive Director‚ borden@drcnet.org‚ 4/26/02 Earlier this week‚ a member of the British Parliament made a very bold statement. Jenny Tonge‚ a prominent member of the Liberal Democrat party‚ called for the legalization of cocaine. Even in the UK‚ where the drug policy debate has advanced dramatically further than in most places‚ Tonge’s statement is cutting edge‚ going further than the already forward-looking position of the party itself
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Legalization of abortion Abortion is the termination of pregnancy by the removal or expulsion from the uterus of a fetus or embryo prior to viability. An abortion can occur spontaneously‚ in which case it is usually called a miscarriage‚ or it can be purposely induced. The term abortion most commonly refers to the induced abortion of a human pregnancy. According to World Statistics‚ every year in the world an estimated 40-50 million women faced with an unplanned pregnancy decide to have an abortion
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