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... or that someone parked two inches inside thier handycap parking spot. Criminal justice majors are hired by the city of Chicago to explain to the citizens that working together with the police can produce solutions to minor problems like the "Parkers", or the "Loud People". are often divided between acts that most people would consider evil and acts that lawmakers decide should be regulated in the interest of the community. The first group includes such major as arson, assault, breach of the peace, burglary, kidnapping, larceny, murder, rape, and robbery. The second group includes of a "rapidly growing urban society." These include violations of income tax laws, liquor control regul ...
... Smoking it can be done three ways, through a pipe, a joint, blunt. A joint is a rolled piece of paper that is twisted at the ends. A blunt is normally an emptied cigar wrapper filled with marijuana. In a blunt you can fit much more marijuana. Though a blunt isn't always purely marijuana, it can be mixed with other drugs such as angel dust. The results are varied when someone smokes marijuana. Different people will get different results, and certain types of cannabis can cause different effects. The amount of THC (marijuana's main Active chemical) may also change the result. If alcohol, or other drug use is occurring while smoking marijuana, the effect could be different. A f ...
... does not matter whether it will deter the crime rate. Supporters of the death penalty are in favour of making examples out of offenders, and that the threat of death will be enough to deter the crime rate, but the crime rate is irrelevant. According to Isaac Ehrlich's study, published on April 16, 1976, eight murders are deterred for each execution that is carried out in the U.S.A. He goes on to say, "If one execution of a guilty capital murderer deters the murder of one innocent life, the execution is justified." To most supporters of the death penalty, like Ehrlich, if even 1 life is saved, for countless executions of the guilty, it is a good reason for the death penalty. The t ...
... of marijuana. (2) Nothing in this act shall be construed to supersede legislation prohibiting persons from engaging in conduct that endangers others, nor to condone the diversion of marijuana for nonmedical purposes. With standing any other provision of law, no physician in this state shall be punished, or denied any right or privilege, for having recommended marijuana to a patient for medical purposes. (d) Section 11357, relating to the possession of marijuana, and Section 11358, relating to the cultivation of marijuana, shall not apply to a patient, or to a patient's primary caregiver, who possesses or cultivates marijuana for the personal medical purposes of the patient upon the wri ...
... to enforce the speeding laws? No. They also say that we should value all human life. Even the most despicable. It is because we value human life so much that we put such a terrible consequence for taking it. One argument states that the death penalty does not deter people from murdering. To abolish capital punishment on this basis would be way off base. You would also have to get rid of prisons because they do not keep people from committing crimes also. Texas A&M University collected data and the results are horrifying. In 1960 there were 56 executions and 9,140 murders. In 1964 there were 15 executions and 9, 250 murders. In 1969 there were no executions and 14,590 ...
... themselves agree. As part of a three - year study by the U. S. Department of Justice, criminals in prisons across the nation were interviewed. Sixty percent feared being shot by an armed citizen more than being shot by the police. fifty - three percent did not commit a specific crime because they were afraid the victim was armed. Fifty - seven percent of them were scared off by an armed victim who either brandished a gun or actually fired it.3 This alone shows that crime would drop if more citizens owned, carried and knew how to use guns. One such case involved eleven - year old Jason Green of Houston, Texas. Home alone one night, he heard noises in the house. Arming himself with ...
... laws to keep it illegal. In the 1980’s the fight to legalize marijuana was decreased, but the groups like "N.O.R.M.A.L." were still around. Although the people weren’t so strong-willed to legalize it they still fought. New and harder drugs were now popular and marijuana wasn’t as "popular." In the early 1990’s the drug was once again popular after the side effects of the new drugs were seen. The drug’s popularity still increases today. Only there is more violence surrounding it in drug deals and gang wars. Although there would need to be regulations on it and new laws made. The legalization of marijuana would not only benefit the government but also the people. Although the gover ...
... natural form fulfilled the legal of currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States. He added that it was "one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man." This request was overruled not by medical authority, but by the DEA itself. This shows the little amount of government knowledge on the subject matter. Presently, the main chemical in marijuana which is THC is being used or in some states being proposed for medical purposes. Marinol, which is another chemical in marijuana, is used to counteract nausea, which accompanies most patients going through the chemotherapy process. It is also used for patients who suffer from glaucoma. Patients with gla ...
... just died due to the fact that another mistake was made in our justice system. This in fact would send a rush of anger through my body. The justice system killed somebody's family member. The death penalty should not even exist, due to the fact that many mistakes can be made, and a life can never be brought back. Juries have been and still are mostly consisted of the white majority. Racism and money is a big part of our everyday lives. With the majority of people in the jury consisted of whites, racism might in fact be involved. Now, if a black family is poor and does not have much money, the suspect may then be issued a racist attorney. Many cases have been recorded of this ha ...
... 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 formal medical places. J. D. P. Graham of the Welsh National School of Medicine wrote, "One not need take to seriously the anecdotal use of it's use for many purposes in China or by the Hindus in the pre-Christian Millennia ...and by the Arabs!" In 1890 in England's "Lanc ...
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