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Evidence That Marijuana Life In Prison
1,824 wordsA total of 3, 470, 545 Americans have been arrested for marijuana offenses. In 1997 state and local law enforcement arrested 695, 200 people for marijuana violations. That number is the highest ever recorded by the FBI. Of the 682, 885 arrests made in 1998, approximately 88 % were for simple possession. The remaining 12 % were for sale and manufacture. Every 52 seconds, a marijuana smoker is arrested in America. This is truly a waste of law enforcement and a waste of our tax money. These people ...
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Pot Smokers Fatal Accidents
1,757 words... e found to have recently smoked marijuana, though it could not be proven that it caused the accident. The engineer had extensive record of speeding and DUI. He was known by management to have drinking problems. Congress mandated that random drug testing be done on the entire transportation industry. Marijuana is less of a road hazard than alcohol. Surveys have found that half or more of fatal drivers have alcohol in their blood, as opposed to 7 - 20 % with THC, the major component of marijua...
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Affirmative Action In Education
1,142 wordsThe policy of affirmative action in education will no longer be needed in the near future. In the past, however, legislators determined that in order to prevent racial discrimination affirmative action would be needed. Recent demographic studies indicate that the Caucasian race will steadily decrease as the present populations of minorities increase. Factors such as fewer white births, an influx of immigrants, and an increase in interracial marriage will play a major role in contributing to this...
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Smoked Marijuana Muscle Spasms
2,304 words... approved proposition 215, an initiative that could, in effect, make marijuana legally available as a medicine in the United States for the first time in many years. Under this new law, patients or their primary caregivers that possess or cultivate marijuana for medical treatment recommended by a physician are exempted from criminal prosecution. The treatment may be for cancer, anorexia, AIDS, chronic pain, spasticity, glaucoma, arthritis, migraine, or any other illness for which marijuana pr...
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Raku Ware And Staffordshire Pottery
1,051 wordsRaku Ware was originally from Japan in the town of Kyoto and was named after the Raku family during the 16 th Century. At this time, the Emperor Hide yoshi had conquered Korea and the native potters immigrated to Japan bringing with them pottery techniques and knowledge. The pots were produced for the Zan Buddhist tea ceremony and the decorating and firing of the pots were part of the tea ceremony. Bernard Leach introduced Raku into the west after living in Japan and China setting up pottery in ...
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War On Drugs Legalizing Marijuana
1,705 wordsOne question that has haunted Americans for a long time is: Should the use of marijuana be legalized? Some say, Yes, while other say, No. According to Funk and Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, marijuana is defined as a mixture of leaves, stems, and flowering tops of the Indian hemp plant Cannabis sativa, smoked or eaten for its hallucinogenic and pleasure-giving effects. (Bram, Phillips, Dickey, 445) Owning marijuana was made a crime in 1937 when Congress passed the Marijuana Tax Act. Despite this law...
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5 Th Century Bc 4 Th Century
1,459 wordsGreek Pottery The pottery of the ancient Greeks are important for the styles of decoration and for the information it gives about Greek art (Sparkes 4). Because fired clay pottery is highly durable, few or no Greek art works that were made in wood, textile, or wall painting have survived (Sparkes 7). The painted decoration of pottery has become the main source of information about how the Greeks used pottery to solve many problems because in that time period other materials where either unknown ...
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Alcohol And Cigarettes Side Effects
886 wordsMarijuana has been proven to induce less side effects, or negative factors than either alcohol or cigarettes. Smoking cigarettes causes cancer, in several different forms, is physically addicting, and has enough other chemicals in it to kill small animals. Along with the extremely addicting nicotine, and tar-filled tobacco, cigarettes contain other chemical s such as rodenticide, formaldehyde, and sometimes even ammonia. Still, it is legal to buy, and smoke. Alcohol, another prevalent "evil" in ...
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Raisin In The Sun Melting Pot
932 wordsA Raisin in the Sun A Raisin in the Sun is written by Lorraine Hansberry. The play is autobiographical chronicle of her own life. Can it be called a domestic drama? How does the play exemplify the formula for domestic drama? First of all, domestic drama is a work of art, where the main emphasis is on the characters personal or intimate relationships and his / her responses to the events in their lives. As far as A Raisin in the Sun dwells on the events in the life of the character, it exemplifie...
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20 Th Century Pol Pot
1,066 wordsCould Something Like the Holocaust Happen Today? Today, many people think that the ideas of Communism were being wrongly interpreted and that they are essentially good for humankind. However, they obviously do not know the story of Cambodian genocide, which took place between 1975 and 1978. This genocide came as a direct result of practical implementation of Communist philosophy in its purest form. The name of Pol Pot is associated with indescribable horror. Yet, Marx would have been proud of th...
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Red Figure Ancient Greek
2,325 wordsIn the absence of significant examples of the major art of Greek painting, pottery has assumed an importance even beyond its own great intrinsic value. During certain periods and in certain localities the vase-painter was not content to decorate his pots with simple lines and plant motifs. He took his themes from mythology and the life around him, as did the panel and mural painters. Moreover, occasionally these vase-paintings are of the highest quality, and this is especially the case in the At...
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Sixties And Seventies Rock And Roll
2,633 wordsDrugs in the Music Industry In the fifties, sixties and seventies there was a lot of musicians that were under the influence of drugs. They used drugs as their inspiration. Many songs had themes related to being? high? or? stoned? . A drug that was frequently found in songs of the sixties was? marijuana? . The culture of most rock and roll bands was to drink a lot of alcohol and smoke a lot of marijuana. Many bands got their start because of the use of drugs, and drugs became more popular becaus...
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Smooth The Pot Sheep Dong Clay
581 wordsHopi Indians lived in the western part of America (Arizona). Their civilization is about 3000 years old and they usually farmed for living. The Hopi reservation is a remote area, comprising approximately 650, 000 acres, and is surrounded on all sides by the Navajo Reservation. The Hopi people have lived in this area for over a thousand years, with one of its native villages on Old Oraibi, having the distinction of being the oldest continuously inhabited village in the United States. Hopi brought...
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Melting Pot Henry Iii
803 wordsThe United States has Changed from a Melting Pot to a Vast Culture with Varying Racial Backgrounds. The United States, created by blending or? melting? many cultures together into one common man, known as an American. ? Modern communication and transportation accelerate mass migrations from one continent... ? to the United States (Schlesinger 21). Ethnic and racial diversity was bound to happen in the American society. As immigration began to explode, ? ... a cult of ethnicity erupted both betwe...
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War On Drugs Prohibition Of Marijuana
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Marijuana Intoxication Harder Drugs
1,146 wordsDouglas Lamar Marijuana Reefer Madness Douglas Lamar Gray bought a pound of marijuana in a room at the Econo Lodge in Decatur, Alabama. He intended to keep a couple of ounces for himself and sell the rest to some of his friends. After paying $ 900 for the pot, Gray was arrested in a police sting operation. He was charged with trafficking cannabis, tried, fined $ 25, 000, and sentenced to life without parole in the maximum security prison of Springville, Alabama. Unfortunately, Grays punishment i...
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2,450 wordsSeven Leaves Arent Bad: Marijuana Should Be Legal Thesis: Should marijuana be legalized and can it be used in positive ways? In 1937, the Marijuana Tax Stamp Act prohibited the use, sale, and cultivation of hemp / marijuana in the United States. Marijuana is a drug that is highly used through out the world. It comes from the cannabis plant. THC which stands for delta- 9 -tetrahydrocannabinol is the major psychoactive ingredient. Over sixty five million Americans today use marijuana. Today it is ...
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Drug Related Made Illegal
698 wordsShould Marijuana be legalized? Affirmative We need fuel! We need paper! People are starving! The answer to these problems is grow more pot. If we really want to save the rain forest than that is the answer. According to the U. S. department of agriculture you can make 4 times as much paper with hemp as you can with the same land area of trees, and you can grow another crop when youre done. Plus it only uses 1 / 5 the chemicals and is + the cost of paper made from trees. In fact, before the 20 th...
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Side Effects Long Term
527 wordsAll Pot The Innocent Drug All people are searching for a way to block out reality or a way to fit in somehow. The way some people deal with there problems in life is by using drugs. It seems that today many people, mainly teenagers, have turned to a drug they call pot. Although marijuana has been a large part of our society for years there are many more reasons why kids use it today more then ever. Some reasons for using pot have changed with time and some have not. One of the most obvious reaso...
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United States Supreme Court Separate But Equal
1,765 wordsRace and Ethnicity in America The Melting Pot In 1492 Columbus sailed the Ocean Blue. Everyone knows the story of Christopher Columbus; they are taught it in grade school if not before then. When he landed in America by accident, he had no idea that he would be creating the worlds largest Melting Pot. This melting pot provided means for a new country, made from a mixture of many cultures and beliefs, thus creating a new country with a new and ever-changing culture. One complication with a Meltin...
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