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Drug Essays and Term Papers
About Medical MarijuanaMarijuana is medicine. It has been used for thousands of years to treat a
wide variety of ailments. Marijuana (Cannabis sativa L.) was legal in the
United States for all purposes - industrial and recreational, as well as
medicinal until 1937.
Today, only eight Americans are legally allowed to ...
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Marijuana: The LegalizationAfter the sustaining vote in November of 1996 and coming into effect the beginning of this year, marijuana is now legal to medical patients in California and Arizona. Proposition 215 reads as follows:
The people of the State of California hereby find and declare that the purposes of the ...
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HivSince the first AIDS cases were reported in 1981, through mid-1994 more than 402,000 AIDS cases and more than 241,000 deaths have been reported in the United States alone. This is only the tip of the iceberg of infection, however. It is estimated that nearly 1 million Americans had been infected ...
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Mi Vida Locameans “my crazy life (as a girl).” The movie documents the phenomenon of female gangs in the early nineties in Los Angeles. It is written and directed by Allison Anders, who grew up in Los Angeles and went to UCLA. She uses personal experiences to help influence her story writing. In Echo ...
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Jerry Garcia And The Grateful DeadJerome John Garcia was born in 1942, in San Francisco's Mission District.
His father, a spanish immigrant named Jose "Joe" Garcia, had been a jazz
clarinetist and Dixieland bandleader in the thirties, and he named his new son
after his favorite Broadway composer, Jerome Kern. In the spring of ...
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Our Declining Education SystemAccording to "A Nation at Risk", the American education system has declined due
to a " rising tide of mediocrity" in our schools. States such as New York have
responded to the findings and recommendations of the report by implementing such
strategies as the "Regents Action Plan" and the "New ...
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Alcohol, its a substance that has become a part of much of
the social settings in today's world. Many people can say they
have drank and most can even remember their first
sip of beer. Whether, it was given unto us by our parents or at
a social engagement everyone has encountered in
their lives. But as ...
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Sobering StudiesA new study found students who doubt their abilities to handle bad moods or bad situations are more prone to drinking. This is just the latest in a number of alcohol studies coming out in relation to college students. College students are always easy targets for these surveys, since many students ...
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HepatitisIn modern society when a person gets sick with the flu or a cold they
will usually go about their normal routine with the exception of a sneeze or a
cough throughout the day. Sometimes things can be more than what they appear to
be. The symptoms start out like the flu with coughing, fever, ...
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ROBBERY OF FREEDOM:The Ultimate InjusticeWRONGFUL CONVICTION AND IMPRISONMENT IN ALABAMA
ROBBERY OF FREEDOM: The Ultimate Injustice
One human being is too many when it comes to unlawfully, wrongfully having their
freedom taken away from them and their rights denied. I received a most bizarre false accusation,
wrongful conviction, and ...
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The Mexican U.S. ConnectionMexico and the United States have been close together, at the same time
being so far apart. Mexico and the U.S. have maintained a healthy neighbor to
neighbor relationship over the centuries. There have been disputes of course,
but for the most part we are working together. When striving to ...
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FbiThe Federal Bureau of Investigation is one of the most crucial elements of law enforcement and combating of criminal activity in the United States. It works both in domestic crime, and lawlessness abroad, as well. Without it, our country wouldn’t be nearly as safe as we consider it to be. The ...
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Epilepsy OralEpilepsy is a neurological condition, which is characterized by repeated convulsions or seizures. There is no known cure to this condition however it is treatable through medical therapy or through surgical treatment.
Epilepsy is the earliest recorded brain disorder. People with epilepsy have ...
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Tim LearyTimothy Leary, also known as ‘Uncle Tim’, ‘The messiah of LSD’, and ‘The most dangerous man in America’, was born on October 22, 1920, in Springfield, Massachusetts. He went to a public high school where he discovered girls and the ability to attract attention from those in authority. After high ...
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The Federal Bureau Of InvestigationTo uphold the law through the investigation of violations of
federal criminal law; to protect the U.S. from foreign intelligence
and terrorist activities; to provide leadership and law enforcement
assistance to federal, state, local, and international agencies; and
to perform these ...
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Performance-enhancing Drugs -- Artificial Entertainment?
At a press conference in April, representatives from various professional sports joined together to discuss the effects of performance-enhancing drugs on their particular sport. Unanimously, the representatives decided that these drugs take away from the purity and ...
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Mental IllnessThe name The name of my book is by Gilda Berger. is a disorder characterized by disturbances in a person’s thoughts, emotions, or behavior. The term can refer to a wide variety of disorders, ranging from those that cause mild distress to those that severely impair a person’s ability to ...
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Excessive Alcohol Consumption--its Effects And Social AcceptExcessive Alcohol Consumption—
Its Effects and Social Acceptance
Rumors and old wives’ tales such as stress makes women heavier drinkers, divorce prompts heavy alcohol use, people drive better when they are drinking, and teenagers are the main group of drunk drivers, are being thrown ...
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Mark McGwire's Home Run RecordDuring the 1998 baseball season, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa have excited fans with the greatest home run race in the history of the game. By mid-September, both players surpassed Roger Maris's single season record of sixty-one homers, set back in 1961. Sosa and McGwire are both great players. ...
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Abortion Should Not Be LegalizedAbortion is the worst thing a woman can do against human dignity. It is a crime
against life. No woman has the right to kill a new living being. Many countries
ban abortion and many institutions fight against it. Abortion is immoral and it
should not be legalized.
Abortion is also a threat to ...
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