There is no reason for marijuana not to be legal. Why or why not should weed be legalized? Individuals deserve the right to make choices for themselves, while the government only has the right to limit those choices if the individual’s actions endanger another. | Coffee is addictive. Every morning, all across America, there are people (many of them idling in their cars at a drive-thru) getting java. What happens when these people do not get their coffee on time and as anticipated? Other than
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convince the population that illicit drugs are bad and that prescribes drugs are good. People should choose for themselves what is good for them and for others. As said before, Marijuana is less damageable than alcohol, yet alcohol is legal, and Marijuana is not. In addition, alcohol can be damageable for people that have an alcoholic tendency, but people still consume it since it is socially acceptable. According to utilitarianism, it is ethical to legalize some drugs since it is more beneficial to
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Kant’s The Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals, deontological or the right/logical thing to do is laid out through different categorical imperatives. Kant believes logically there is always a right thing to do. There are obligations that must be done without looking at consequences and only looking at that specific moment in time to decide whether or not good motivations are being practiced. I think that acting in the right way at one moment in time is difficult to achieve without looking at consequences
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integrity. Some of my earliest memories contain my father teaching me the ways of integrity. He taught me that I should be the person who can always be trusted. He taught me how to make the right decisions, even when making the right decision angers the people I am with at the time. Integrity is the fortitude to do the right thing and fight the temptation despite the difficult circumstances. As I am with some of my close friends, they begin to discuss what acid would be like and how great of experience
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writers” which was established in two-thousand and nine. This movie is based off white and African American groups that were civil rights activists who participated in Freedom Rides. These rides were bus trips that were taken through the American South in nineteen sixty-one to protest segregation on bus terminals. The underlying social issue in the movie covers race, drugs, and gender. To begin with, an English teacher by the name of Mrs. Gruwell is hired to teach the segregated portion of the school
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school. Deborah Morse- Joseph’s principal to put the banner away because she was concerned it could advocate illegal drug activity. Frederick was the defendant and Deborah Morse was the plaintiff. Frederick refused to comply. Deborah took the banner from him. Frederick was suspended from school for 10 days for violating school policy, that forbids advocating the use of illegal drugs. Morse was ruled by U.S District Court for the District of Alaska by saying that Frederick’s actions was not protected
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he’s fantasizing progresses into torture, murder, and cannibalism. Bateman’s fall down a spiral of violence is mainly caused by his monotony lifestyle finally driving him mad and torture mixed with some murder are the perfect cure to his numbness.The never ending cycle of identical people, restaurants, clothing, and events in Bateman’s life sooner or later begins to create an identical numbness to his violent acts. As the novel continues the vivid and graphic depictions of sex, torture, and murder increases
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meet Mr. Pignati, they accomplish a friendship that could never be achieved with anyone else. John is going through great change, but Lorraine is becoming a person who can resists temptation from friends, be honest with everyone, and can even find the strength to prevent others from making dreadful choices. Paul Zindel’s miraculous novel, The Pigman, illustrates how Lorraine is resistant to negative peer pressure, honest, and resistant to drugs and alcohol. One way Lorraine is seen as resistant to negative
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other in a drunken argument when he was nine years old, Bryon's mother decided to take him home in order to take care of him. Bryon and Mark have been as close as brothers from this moment on, both living in a harsh world of gang fights, alcohol and drugs: "It was great, we were like a bunch of people making up one big person, like we totaled up to something when we were together.” It turns out that Bryon and Mark are not only used to brutal street fights, but also to stealing. Bryon knows that stealing
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T/Th 1-3 8 March 2014 Essay #1 Drug Testing in High, Pro or Con? There is a lot of controversy today on whether or not drug testing in high school is appropriate. There are many things to consider when making this decision, like constitutional rights and privacy, cost, and even if doing random drug tests will change the problem (drug problem). Los Angeles Times writer David G. Savage asks in the article “Justices Consider School Drug Tests,” “Could routine drug tests, like metal detectors, soon
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