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    in Marijuana prevention, education, treatment, and law enforcement adamantly oppose the substance, as do many political leaders. However, pro-drug advocacy groups, who support the use of illegal drugs, are making headlines. They are influencing decision making thru legislation and having a significant impact on the national policy debate here in the United States and in other countries. The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) is the oldest drug user lobby in the U.S.

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    Essay on The Three Branches of Government

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    efficient and effective manner in which society upholds. The executive, legislative and judicial branches all interact amid each other to validate accuracy of the nation’s most powerful law of the land, the Constitution. It is important to know how these branches interact with each other to learn how a bill becomes a law. Reflecting on how the three branches promote a balance of power that is constructive to include the agendas and

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    The Principle of Substituted Judgment Essay

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    Thus, medical ethics searched for a method and/or principle that would direct them on how to care for incompetent patients in a manner that respected their autonomy. Surrogates seemed to be the ethical answer. Surrogates are those people who, by law or custom, are appointed to make decisions in the place of the incompetent or doubtfully competent patient regarding medical treatment (Garrett 43). The idea of the surrogate is that they will defend the patient’s autonomy by advocating treatment decisions

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    Should Marijuana Be Legalized? Essay

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    contradictory when it comes to smoking or even eating marijuana. It is interesting what people pick and choose to be for or against in today’s world, a person any person should be legally able to choose what they do to their body so long as it abides by the laws that correspond with what you do to your body. Then there is the fact that smoking marijuana does not lead to drug abuse or even the experimentation of other drugs. Again, the Huffington Post states “as Scientific American points out,

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    Essay about Criminal Law and The War on Drugs

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    Criminal Law and The War on Drugs      "These records of wars, intrigues, factions, and revolutions, are so many collections of experiments, by which the politician or moral philosopher fixes the principles of his science, in the same manner as the physician or natural philosopher becomes acquainted with the nature of plants, minerals, and other external objects, by the experiments which he forms concerning them." (David Hume.)2   "Our long armed and hairy ancestors had no idea of

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    Should We Legalize Marijuana? Essay

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    In today’s world one of the growing debates is the legalization of marijuana. Nowadays people use “weed” for many different purposes. Whether it be for medical or even recreational weed has become a part of this world. The government in the USA keeps fighting this natural product and destroying lives on account of this drug. It has been proven to be even better than alcohol and many other things in this world. Weed being a natural product has many advantages and disadvantages but the good outweighs

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    while also managing to fail at drug deterrence and distribution. Since many citizens already back the legalization of marijuana, as demonstrated by Oakland's passing of Measure Z, which makes marijuana related offenses the "lowest priority" to Oakland law enforcement officials (Hill 2004), marijuana should be legalized. First off, marijuana isn't even that bad of a drug. It is a plant ally and hasn't been proven to do any major harm.

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    globe has allowed the freedom of obtaining music for free and should not be shut down by the entertainment industry's argument in federal court. The laws that support a

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    people each year still try marijuana at least once with no adverse effects(Marijuana). This money is wasted, whereas the government could produce a revenue with the sale of marijuana. In fact 18 million people use marijuana once a month despite drug laws, and large amounts of people think it is acceptable(Marshall 89). Even with all of the chemicals in marijuana it is still of the safer drugs. In fact alcohol and cigarettes account for 95% of drug related deaths in the United States while marijuana

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    Constitution’s Significance with Law in America The definition of constitution is the act or process of composing, setting up or establishing (Websters Dictionary online). When I think of constitution I think of our “founding father’s”, the ones who established our governemnt and function. I am reminded of why they came over here. I think of the Constitution as the mission statement for the American government. America’s set of standards. It gaurantees that we cannot stray from the vision of what

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