Papers on Legal Issues
Dangers Of Anabolic Steroids
Words: 541 - Pages: 2.... ability to build up the body. Whether taken by injection or the pill
it increases strength and endurance. Steroids also help in the healing
process of muscular tissue by first injuring them, then the muscles
heal quicker adding more fiber increasing their bulk. Many athletes
turn to steroids more often because they're cheaper then marijuana or
cocaine. A ten week cycle of testosterone cypinate and methandrostone
costs only about one hundred dollars. Steroids are also very hard to
trace because of their water base composition. They can pass through
the body within two days. A .....
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Violence Against Women Act
Words: 1055 - Pages: 4.... has a clear Constitutional right to regulate
interstate commerce. This act is based solely on interstate commerce
and is thereforeConstitutional. Because of abuse, Sara Benenson was
afraid to get a job because it would anger her husband. She was afraid
to go back to school and she was afraid to go shopping or spend any
money on her own. All three of these things clearly interfere and
affect interstate commerce. Women like Mrs. Benenson are the reason
the act was passed.
There has been a long history of judgements in fa .....
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The Positive And Negative Effects Of DNA Profiling
Words: 2498 - Pages: 10.... mistakenly thought they were afflicted with
this debilitating disease. Furthermore, confidentiality was often breached, and
in some cases, carriers were discriminated against and denied health insurance.
Nevertheless, genetic profiling has been beneficial in paternity suits and rape
cases, where the father or the assailant could be identified. However, despite
its growing number of utilizations, DNA profiling is extremely hazardous when
results are inaccurate or used to discriminate.
The frequency of genetic testing in criminal investigations (more than
1,000 in the U.S. since 1987) has been increasing dramatically despite the
inco .....
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Marijuana: The Legalization
Words: 900 - Pages: 4.... of a physician are not subject to criminal prosecution or sanction.
(C) To encourage the federal and state governments to implement a plan for the safe and affordable distribution of marijuana to all patients in medical need of marijuana. (Proposition 215 Section 11362.5)
Of course, it goes on and breaks into fine detail into which I choose not to venture. To summarize it all, if you're sick, or think you are, your doc can get you some pot. Just like that.
So what's so great about this? It supposedly brings relief to those with terminal illnesses. (Such were listed in 215) Cancer sufferers who are inflicted with nausea .....
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Bobbies
Words: 334 - Pages: 2.... and mathematics. At the end of the Napoleonic wars, Peel entered the House of Commons as a government supporter at twenty-one. At twenty-four, Peel moved to Ireland where he accomplished various things including securing the suppression in 1814 of the Catholic Board, introducing the Peace Preservation Act of 1814 (establishing an Irish police force known as the Royal Irish Constabulary), and handling the Irish famine in 1817 which brought him many praises. Peel's return to Parliament came when he lead a Protestant party to defeat the emancipation bill which allowed Catholics membership in Parliament. Peel's first interest in police began whe .....
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Should Gambling Be Legalized?
Words: 3862 - Pages: 15.... games, with close to 130 million people visiting casinos every year.1
With so much money at stake, the average gambler does not stand a chance
against this big business. The casinos go to every length to analyze what makes
a gambler bet, stay longer, and loose as much money as possible.
Gamblers who come to casinos with the intention of winning money are
habitually disappointed. As casino crime lord, Meyer Lansky's universal
gambling truth states; "Gamblers never win, the house never loses"2 Slot
Machines and most table games allow players to make bets where the probability
of winning is relatively high. Frequent wins are cha .....
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U.S. Scourge Spreads South Of The Border
Words: 2053 - Pages: 8.... with other types of
drugs like Heroin, Crystal Methamphetamine, and Cocaine.”
I recently visited the neighbor city of Tijuana and rode in a Tijuana
taxi and was immediately met with a taxi driver named Jose, a Tijuana taxi
driver in an open-necked, baby blue silk shirt, he sizes up the tourists
trudging off the footbridge from the United States. “Taxi, sir? You want
pharmacy? I get you a good pharmacy,” he urges, stepping from a line of
beckoning taxi drivers in big belts and straw cowboy hats. “Good prices! No
prescriptions!” Do I look like I want drugs?! I didn't even solicit the
business. I almost felt weird becau .....
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Decriminalize Marijuana For The Good Of America
Words: 2395 - Pages: 9.... 260)
Marijuana comes from the hemp plant, which can readily be grown on
fields across the nation and was cultivated heavily in colonial period. After
130 years of being legal, the potential problems of marijuana were brought into
the public eye by Harry J. Anslingler, the commissioner of the Federal Bureau of
Narcotics and author of Marijuana: Assassin of Youth (Goldman 88). In his book,
Anslinger portrayed images of Mexican and Negro criminals, as well as young boys,
who became killers while under the influence of marijuana. With the added
public pressure, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed into law the
Marijuana Tax Act of 193 .....
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Capital Punishment
Words: 1118 - Pages: 5.... Ages, the Church assumed the responsibility of administering punishments.
During the late 1700's the death penalty steadily grew in acceptance. Over
200 crimes were punishable by death at the beginning of the 1800's. There were
just as many methods used to execute wrong-doers as there were crimes. Some of
the techniques used included beheading, stoning, drowning, hanging, crucifying,
and burying people alive. Also used were many nontraditional forms of
execution. One type of execution utilized elephants to crush the criminal's
head on a stone block.
As times changed, so did the death penalty. Laws aimed at abolishing
the death pe .....
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The Death Penalty
Words: 982 - Pages: 4.... executions
throughout the ages were performed for minor crimes that today would be classed
as mmisdemeanors.
One of the most vicious methods of execution ever invented was geared
not only to inflict pain but to provide a gruesome spectacle for the public. It
was the English punishment for treason. It is called hanging, drawing and
countering. First you would be dragged to the place of execution on a hurdle.
This is a type of sled that was attached to the back of a horse. You would be
hanged to the brink of death before being cut down. The third stage of the
execution is that the persons gentiles would be cut off and burned in front of .....
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