athletes. New doping control measures must be rooted in sport ethics and values; they must flow from athlete agreement; they must respect athletes' rights to privacy; and they must be independently, accountably and fairly administered. We need to use drug-free athletes as role models and to marshal the force of parents and the media. When it comes to eliminating doping in sports, there can be no compromise, no middle ground, and not rhetorical acrobatics. We must go for the gold. Our athletes and
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Proposition 64 legalized the recreational use of marijuana for adults. It also allowed people convicted of marijuana charges to petition courts to toss out the cases or reduce penalties. Therefore, it would be appropriate to release jailed individuals who are convicted of minor marijuana offenses. “Fundamentally, I think it’s incredibly unjust for anyone to keep being punished for activity that is no longer a crime,” said Rebecca Kaplan, Oakland council member. Doing so would serve tremendous benefits
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Over the years many governments have exaggerated and have placed a certain stigma on marijuana and other drugs.They did this to protect the children of the future, an example is the U.S. government in the 1930s told the general public that a marijuana cigarette would result in death and that marijuana can increase violent tendencies. Laws that have been passed by many governments including the Canadian has created a broken system and politicians have been agreeing that this system is still working
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The book that my group has chosen to read is A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah, which portrays Beah’s experience of being a child soldier and being present in the middle of a civil war. I feel that the first third of the book is mainly Beah trying to set the bedrock for what is to come, which I liked very much as it gave me the chance to connect to the emotions displayed by Beah. His initial character reminds of a child forced to grow mature beyond his own age due to circumstances
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clash on what is and isn’t a drug, the true moral issues are the following: Is the nonmedical use of drugs OK? And if so, can the state intervene when it comes to usage? To what degree (218)? As far as ethical theories are concerned, the choice seems clear to one side. Aristotle’s virtue ethics suggest that we ought to condemn drug use because it hinders our development. Kant says that we should never use ourselves as a means to an end, and addiction is
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long term effects of opioid are brain damage, liver damage, and tolerance (meaning someone would have to take more to feel the same relief) (Abuse), while with marijuana there’s no liver damage and the tolerance depends on how often someone has to use it. Also, the only brain damage a person could suffer from marijuana is possibly some memory loss and while on it, a slow reaction to the environment. Additionally, marijuana can be used to treat several issues instead of just relieving pain like opioids
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According to the United Nations, marijuana is the most widely used illicit substance in the world. In modern times, marijuana has been used for such cases like recreational, religious, spiritual and medicinal purposes. However, most of today’s people use marijuana for own self-satisfaction and psychoactive purposes. The United Nation estimated that in 2004, around 4 percent of the world’s adult population, which is 162 million people, used marijuana annually and around 0.6 percent used it daily. Due
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College Students and Drug Abuse The irresponsible use of drugs and alcohol by college students has always been an issue for university campuses, but the problem has become more and more frequent and has grown in familiarity with every passing generation. In past years, the problem has not only multiplied in frequency, but has also grown in danger. Now students are abusing not only recreational drugs like Marijuana and Cocaine, but also prescription drugs like Ritalin and others like it such
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Green Technology: A Cost Benefit Analysis of Business going Green Cost Benefit Analysis of Green Technology. I. Introduction Many business owners fear the costs associated with going green and although the net return varies according to the sector, in most cases these fears are unwarranted. Sustainable business practices should be evaluated based on a cost/benefit analysis. The benefits for things like brand
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A Long Way Gone Ishmael Beah was an innocent boy who enjoyed playing football, swimming in the streams, and even started a rap and dance group with his friends and older brother. The group discovered their love for rap music from old cassette tapes of O.P.P, Run D.M.C, and the Sugarhill Gang. Ishmael and Junior, along with their other friends cherished these few hip hop and rap cassette tapes. Ishmael constantly carried these couple tapes on him at all times. They choreographed dance routines
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