Papers on Legal Issues
Case For Legalizing Marijuana What
Words: 2684 - Pages: 10.... in small amounts for years without physical or mental deterioration. Marijuana serves to diminish inhibitions and acts as an euphoriant. Only once in a while will it produce actual hallucinations. More potent preparations of cannabis such as hashish can induce psychedelic experiences identical to those observed after ingestion of potent hallucinogens such as LSD. Some who smoke marijuana feel no effects; others feel relaxed and sociable, tend to laugh a great deal, and have a profound loss of the sense of time. Characteristically, those under the influence of marijuana show incoordination and impaired ability to perform skilled acts. St .....
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Marijuana
Words: 1855 - Pages: 7.... that if they still
practiced this, instead of taking an Alka Seltzer after you had mom's Chili
or Tacos, you might be sitting in the living room on the LAY-Z Boy, smoking
a joint or however they would take it. The folk medicine of Africa and Asia
have used it as an herbal preparation. A "mythical" and "legendary"
pharmacist and emperor Shen Nung thought using it as a seditive was all
right. In 2,700 B.C. that same "mythical" emperor said it helped female
weakness, gout, rheumatism, malaria, beri-beri (?), contipation, and
absentmindedness.
In 1979 (A.D.) Carlton E. Turner visited China and found marijuana was
not in use in forma .....
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Contracts
Words: 1094 - Pages: 4.... offer may be terminated in a number of ways. For example, the party
making the offer may cancel it (a revocation), or the party to whom the offer is
made may reject it. When the party to whom the offer is made responds with a
different offer, called a counteroffer, the original offer is terminated. Then
the counteroffer may be accepted by the party making the original offer.
REQUIREMENTS OF A VALID CONTRACT
For a contract to be valid, both parties must give their assent. They must act
in such a way that the other people involved believe their intention is to make
a contract. Thus a person who is clearly not sincere in saying that he or s .....
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The Death Penalty
Words: 709 - Pages: 3.... Prostitution
- Blasphemy
- Adultery
People might as well eliminate the death penalty for murder as well. In fact, according to the Bible an individual who dies without being "saved" (during an execution) will go to Hell for eternal punishment. By killing the person, we are eliminating some individuals' chance for salvation. Human life has intrinsic value, even if a person has murdered another. Nobody should ever be killed, even by the state.
Moreover, human beings such as the poor, males, and racial minorities are over-represented among those executed. A study of over 2 dozen convicted criminals on death row found that all had b .....
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Law And Morality
Words: 2114 - Pages: 8.... fifteen days before they can be rescued.
The problem is that although there are five of them in the bunker, there is only
enough food for four people to survive for the remaining fifteen days. Rationing
the food will not be of any use, because all will die with such a plan. The only
way for most of the survivors to live for the next fifteen days is for one to
die. Somehow they have contacted an outside source to advise them on the
questions of "Who shall die?", and "How should the decision of choosing the
person be carried out?" These are all very difficult questions to answer, but
something must be done. It is unlikely that someon .....
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The Effects Of Race On Sentencing In Capital Punishment Cases
Words: 1134 - Pages: 5.... imposed “freakishly' and ‘wantonly” and “most often on
blacks.” Several years later in Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153 (1976), the
Supreme Court decided, with efficient controls, the death penalty could be used
constitutionally. Yet, even with these various controls, the system does not
effectively eliminate racial bias.
Since Gregg v. Georgia the total population of all 36 death rows has
grown as has the number of judicial controls used by each state. Of the 3,122
people on death row 41% are black while 48% are white (Gest, 1996, 41). This
figure may be acceptable at first glance but one must take into account the fact
t .....
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Crime Prevention
Words: 3220 - Pages: 12.... within the community and involving community members a multi-faceted attack on crime involving situational , environmental design, community-based policing, vigilante justice, and auxiliary justice, in theory, will prevent crime.
One of the reasons that community has become popular in the past twenty years is because of the economics of the justice system. The government was facing huge costs and they wanted to divert some responsibility to community based programs. Another reason was that police departments wanted to use the local communities to be their eyes and ears.
The reason for this belief was because the community would know .....
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The Need To Legalize Pot
Words: 1074 - Pages: 4.... of drug possession (---). With jail capacity
already overflowing, if you were to lock up a dealer, you therefore create a job
opening.
Bob Randall, president of the Alliance for the Cannabis Therapeutics, a
Washington-based patients' right group, says as many as five-million sick
Americans might benefit from the legal access to marijuana. Marijuana has been
found to: relieve nausea and stimulate appetite in people with cancer and AIDS,
control muscle spasms among people with multiple sclerosis and other
neurological disorder, reduce eye pressure among people with glaucoma, and some
say it also controls seizures, eases chronic pain, .....
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Legalization Of Marijuana
Words: 1244 - Pages: 5.... felony
charges and faced possible prison terms for marijuana possession. After
the law changed possession of an ounce or less of marijuana became minor
and was punished by a maximum fine of $100.00. Opposing sides argued that
reduced penalties would result in greater public acceptance of marijuana.
That would mean that there would be an increase in the amount of people
who would be caught and punished for possessing marijuana. ( Sommer, 67 ).
The annual survey of freshman, which has been sponsored by
American Counsel on Education since 1966, includes an item relating to the
legislation of marijuana. Austin, Green, and Korn ( 1987 ) indi .....
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Capital Punishment
Words: 1039 - Pages: 4.... and humane means of execution. The first
electrocution took place in New York in 1890.
In the past, capital crimes were much different than they are now.
Robbery and the selling of alcohol to underage customers was a serious capital
crime (McCuen and Baumgart 21). Rape was also a crime where the criminal was
sentenced to death.
In America, only thirty-seven states authorize the death penalty. In
most of those thirty-seven states, murder is the only capital crime. The
Supreme Court requires that two conditions must be met in order for a specific
murder to warrant the death penalty (Nardo 32). The first condition is that it .....
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