Penalties for marijuana cultivation and/or sale also vary from state to sate. Ten states have maximum sentences of five years or less and eleven states have a maximum penalty of thirty years or more 4. ... Large scale marijuana cultivators and traffickers may be sentenced to death.3 Federal laws also deny entitlements to marijuana smokers. ... Similarly, more than 400,000 deaths each year are attributed to tobacco smoking. By comparison, marijuana is nontoxic and cannot cause death by overdose. ...

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"The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery." W.E.B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction of America. (Alexander 20). W.E.B. Du Bois reminds us that former slaves had "a brief moment in the sun" before returning to a status akin to slavery. In many schools ac...

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Bush had ideas to become tougher with drug laws such as the death penalty and using the armed forces. ... The policy has failed to reduce drug-related deaths, drug abuse, drug availability, and crime. laws against drugs not being an effective solution. ... This is proven by the number of citizens incarcerated for drug related crimes and offenses, the amount of drug related deaths, surveys and polls taken among teenagers of their drug experimentation and drug use, and how easily drugs have become available on the black market. 5. ... Extremely high usage of marijuana can cause death. ...

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By 1970 over 55 federal drug laws and countless state laws specified a variety of disciplinary measures, including life imprisonment and even the death penalty. ... While possession was made illegal, the severest penalties were reserved for illicit distribution and manufacture of drugs. ...

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These players suffered many penalties, including mandatory drug testing, for the rest of their careers, the choice of up to one year suspension or the donation of up to a tenth of a year's salary to a drug prevention program, and community service ( Meer 14). ... This has been demonstrated in laboratory tests where monkeys starved themselves to death so as to keep getting cocaine (Worsnop 50). ... Junior, a linebacker for the Cardinals, was hit hard by the deaths of Len Bias and Don Rogers. ... The deaths made Junior think about his own life and how it could have been he just as easily. ...

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These players suffered many penalties, including mandatory drug testing, for the rest of their careers, the choice of up to one year suspension or the donation of up to a tenth of a year's salary to a drug prevention program, and community service ( Meer 14). ... This has been demonstrated in laboratory tests where monkeys starved themselves to death so as to keep getting cocaine (Worsnop 50). ... Junior, a linebacker for the Cardinals, was hit hard by the deaths of Len Bias and Don Rogers. ... The deaths made Junior think about his own life and how it could have been he just as easily. ...

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It is true of someone drinks too much in one night, death may be a result. ... Despite the withdrawal symptoms, lung cancer can occur in chronic smokers, and can cause possible death. ... Binge drinking in college students can easily lead to alcohol poising and even death. ... Delirium Tremens occur in some cases of withdrawal and can lead to death. ... Although causes of death from marijuana use have occurred, deaths have occurred as a result of the behavior of marijuana users such as automobile accidents and accidental deaths. ...

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Experiments with the drug in monkeys demonstrated that the dose required for overdose death was enormous and for all practical purposes unachievable by humans smoking marihuana. ... By comparison, it is physically impossible to eat enough marijuana to induce death. ...

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Experiments with the drug in monkeys demonstrated that the dose required for overdose death was enormous and for all practical purposes unachievable by humans smoking marihuana. ... By comparison, it is physically impossible to eat enough marijuana to induce death. ...

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Most of the time, drug abusers either are unable to see the penalties or reduce the severity of them in their mind. ... A user often has enlarged pupils, rapid heartbeat, nausea, chills and trembling, convulsions, extreme mood swings, fear of insanity or death, and severe anxiety. ...

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Tough laws and stiff penalties is just a fact of life in getting this point across to the citizens of America who might use and distribute illegal drugs such as marijuana. ... They needed figures that would support their case: teenage drug arrests, emergency room visits, and even deaths due to the abuse of illegal drugs. ...

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LIBERTARIANISM Two hundred and twelve years ago thirty nine signatures spoke, gracing its delicate spaceless yet palatial surface with the ease and wave of a single downy bowed quill. Seventeen hundred and eighty seven was the year that the most momentous document in the United States history as well as posterity was created, approved and just two years later instituted as the foundation for a fledging yet promising nation destined for greatness. It was a great concept envisioned by extraordinary men, a system in which the people of the land reign, governing through democratically ...

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