For many years now, pondering minds have questioned the thought of having marijuana, or cannabis sativa, listed as another medicinal drug. Some say that marijuana can not be used as a medicine and that there is no evidence of its medicinal purpose; But on the other hand, there are those who think differently and pose marijuana as a potential use in today's modern world. In any case, marijuana is useful in the medical field and should be legalized for that purpose. Cultivated for at least 5,000 years and serving as one of the oldest crops not grown for food, the marijuana plant began it...

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Florida State University criminologist Gary Kleck even conducted a study on the effects of gun registration on crime rates in 75 different cities. ... In 2007, for example, a gunman entered New Life Church in Colorado Springs, and shot and killed two girls. ...

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Following graduation, Sinclair went on to graduate study at Columbia University, where he began writing full-length novels with serious social themes. ... Sinclair's early years in Baltimore had his college and university experiences in New York City provided a background for the development of his social consciousness and his rejection of capitalism. ... Love's Pilgrimage (1911) attempted to move away from the more political-social style, but in 1913 Sinclair began to investigate the great Colorado coal strike and the methods used by the Rockefeller to suppress it; as a result of ...

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