I believe that marijuana should be permanently decriminalized and not be considered a criminal offense whatsoever in Canada. ... First of all, marijuana should be legally recognized because it is an essentially harmless drug with barely any serious long-term effects to the mind or the body. ... Finally, the decriminalization of marijuana would allow Canadian police forces to focus their attention completely on issues of higher importance such as murder, theft, fraud, and the trafficking and/or consuming of more serious drugs such as crack/cocaine, heroin, ecstasy, or acid. ...

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While Longinus' idea of the sublime had an asterisk, which stated that the truly great cannot be despised, Burke believed the sublime was founded in pain and obscurity. ... The first definition of sublimity through pain can be expressed through the eyes of a someone who is addicted to a drug because the he or she experiences pain all the time that he or she is deprived from it, but that moment when they get their hands on it creates a feeling of sublimity through the knowledge that they will be able to escape the pain and move into sublimity. The achievement of finding the drug is almost ...

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Jonathan states that "those who work among the homeless" believe the principal cause of homelessness is economic, due to the shortage of low income housing, and wages to lease them. ... He indicates the results of a study published by the Massachusetts Medical Society, that mental illness only accounts for 12% of the illnesses among the homeless, excluding alcohol and drug abuse. He believes that mental illness in the United States bears a "stigma," that society assumes the homeless are mentally ill because it is easier for us to blame the problem on an uncontrollable mental illness then to ...

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However, he does believe that history can be employed to modernity when adopting only the "strengths of the past" as opposed to historic weaknesses (Nietzsche, 34). ... Instead Nietzsche believes history is a threat to modern man's happiness. ... While Marx describes religion as a drug used to deceive and exploit the masses, Nietzsche considers religion to be a threat to modernity because of its value in seeking universal truth (Nietzsche, 50). Because Nietzsche expresses strong individualist views throughout the Genealogy of Morality, he believes society must be rid of this id...

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Some studies believe that it is caused by something in a person's genetics that is passed down from parents to their children; some studies believe that phobias instead are caused on survival instincts to avoid things that can cause harm to them; while others believe that it is a mix of the two theories. ... No matter the severity of a phobia, one should try to contact a doctor if they believe they have a phobia, as if left unattended a phobia can cause social isolation, depression, or a new found need for substances such as alcohol or drugs to escape from the pain they cause....

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