remains a major issue and has caused much controversy due to opposing views. With the economy being in the state that it is, we need to utilize all available resources and set aside personal emotion regarding “smoking weed”. While some support decriminalization, there are many reasons why other individuals, including the government, do not. From a utilitarian point view, legalizing marijuana will produce the greatest good for the greatest number of people affected by the choice (Mosser, 2010, sect.
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Ending Prohibition of Marijuana Marijuana should be legal for many reasons. Not only is marijuana been proven over and over through research and studies to help with many illnesses, but marijuana has never caused death by overdose like many legal drugs do year after year. I will also discuss how not only the marijuana plant can be used for medical, and recreational use, but the plant is also a relative of hemp which can be used to produce, rope, clothing, paper and many other resources . We can
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Whether observed through the perspective of the media or within a historical context, women at a national premise have a greater awareness in the struggle of gender equality and female identification. Feminism looks at how the social, economic and political structures affect and shape women at the individual level. Accordingly, feminist theories analyze the relationship between gender differences, gender inequality and oppression. The idea of ‘waves’ in Canadian Feminist movements have been both
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1. Background 2. Measuring Economic Activity 2.1 GDP 2.2 Investment 2.3 Consumption 2.4 Savings 2.5 Rate of interest 3. Foreign Capital 3.1 Comparative Trade Advantage 3.2 Trade Deficit 4. Long Run Factors affecting Economy 4.1 Politics 4.2 Education 4.3 Corruption 4.4 Population 4
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that marijuana should not be legalized for medical use, because young people are given mixed signals about drugs, other drugs can be used that are easier to regulate, and there are more harmful side effects. Marijuana is one of the most abused drugs in America today. It is estimated that close to four million Americans regularly use marijuana. It is often one of the first illegal drugs that young people experiment with (Gassett2). Legalization for medical purposes would send a mixed signal
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Both Nellie McClung and Emily Murphy were the catalysts for the rise of women in Canada. They worked both separately and together to get women the right to vote, be recognized as persons, and to be able to have positions in the senate. Along their road to success, these two women also, in some people’s views, faltered. They both supported the sterilization act in Alberta, and Emily Murphy was particularly racist. These two women have achieved amazing things for Canadian workingwomen, as well as Canadian
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November 9, 2014 AMBA 600 Introduction Marijuana is perhaps the most widely known, yet misunderstood drugs in our society. While still illegal under the Federal Controlled Substance act signed in 197 classifying it as Schedule 1 narcotic along with cocaine and heroin (Chang, 2013). Despite this, there has been a remarkable shift of public opinion not only supporting the decriminalization of marijuana but even legally selling medical and recreational marijuana. Some supporters of the effort cite
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PROSTITUTION IS NOT A CHOICE LEARN A BOUT TH E TRA FFI CKING OF WOMEN AND GIRLS WORLDWIDE, AND FIND OUT WHAT CAN BE DONE TO END THIS WID ESPR EAD PROBLEM … Soroptimist International of the Americas-1709 Spruce Street Philadelphia, PA 19103 - 215 893 9000 - www.soroptimist.org SOROPTIMIST WHITE PAPER Prostitution is Not a Choice I think so much about what has happened to me. Why these men did what they did to me. Old, disgusting men. It was horrible. They knew I did not want to be
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In another case, which involved 40,000 people in the medical marijuana access program and the federal court of Canada, who had certified a class-action lawsuit. This case took place in 2013, when Health Canada sent out envelops to 40,000 people who were part of the Marihuana Medical Access Program, which also had their name on the envelope as well as the program title, before this incident, letters never including the word marijuana in the title. This caused an uproar from the recipients of these
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The defendant moved to suppress the drugs based on the fact that the drugs were obtained as a result of an unlawful search and in violation of the 4th and 14th amendment. The judge allowed the motion and concluded that Desmarais's actions of "lifting back the defendant's waistband visually to inspect the defendant's buttocks area and later to retrieve the drugs amounted to strip searches that he concluded were unreasonably conducted." (Morales v Commonwealth
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