Rosa Lee`s parents were black rural share croppers from the South who moved to Washington D.C. in order to escape racial oppression, economic exploitation and segregation and to find a better life and work there. ... She moved with and without her grandmother and mother from one low-income housing complex in Washington to another. ... At this point I can understand people getting angry at families like Rosa Lee`s, because they see how their tax money is being spent on crack and heroin instead of on food, clothes and medicine. ... She also stole change out of the pockets from people in chur...

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Marijuana could help these people. ... So for twenty seven years the US federal government has supplied him with marijuana to smoke so as to allow him to move with less pain. ... The majority of people know it is not near as serious a drug as cocaine, heroin, or crystal methamphetamines. ... (WorkShop) Marijuana also is not going to directly kill people like alcohol does. ... "While no sensible person believes cannabis is totally safe, even police chiefs back moves to decriminalize the drug. ...

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But of course, people in Hawaii are taking advantage of recent changes in Hawaii's laws and using marijuana for recreational purposes. ... Growers had hired people, with guns, to protect their crops. ... People out hiking were also shot at. ... People who smoke marijuana are two to five times more likely to move on to harder drugs. ... He said there was evidence that Mainland gangs had moved into Hawaii's drug industry and bothered by how the war on marijuana was progressing...

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The criminalization of marijuana, and other substances, has violated the people's rights. ... (Marijuana Legalization) It has done little to prevent people from using the herb. ... In 1998, 76.5million people had browsed the Internet and 71 million had smoked marijuana. ... They say that by doing marijuana you are more likely to move towardshard drugs.? ... and move to thehard stuff? ...

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The concept of free will and who we truly are as people is a subject that should be of the utmost importance when questioned from a philosophical standpoint. ... Frankfurt takes stand that there is not a problem of greater importance to the philosopher then distinguishing what we truly are as people. ... The "Wanton"" is an agent that has no 2nd order volitions, they may have 1st order desires as well as some second order desires but in turn will not have 2nd order volitions making these wantons non people according to Frankfurt. ... The agent is similar to that of the unwilling addict, helple...

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Drugs are how families get torn apart; it's how people lose all of their money and all of their material possessions. ... He was yelling, and cussing, and everything, and all at school where people were walking in and out of the office getting things, people I knew. ... She had moved out of it but she still owned it, so she let my mother and the rest of us live there. ... So I moved to Iowa to live with my father. ... But at least things did not get worse than what they were because sometimes drugs can do a lot more harm, like killing people. ...

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NORML first raised this issue in 1972 in an administrative petition asking that marijuana be moved from schedule I to schedule II of the federal Controlled Substances act, which would make it legal to be prescribed as a medicine. 16 years and many court battles and appeals later, in 1988, the Drug Enforcement Agency's own administrative law judge, Judge Francis Young, concluded that, "Marijuana has been accepted as capable of relieving distress of great numbers of very ill people, and doing so with safety under medical supervision. ... Representative Barney Frank (a democrat from Mas...

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These high-profile leaders believe that the global war on drugs is a costly failure and governments should end "the criminalization, marginalization, and stigmatization of people who use drugs but do no harm to others" (Ellingwood). ... Ultimately, the measure failed, but he said, "People are changing their minds" (Ellingwood). ... In the past few decades, reported drug use and the drug prevention budget have moved inversely. ...

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Drug prohibition removes the possibility of resolving drug disputes through a legal process and leaves people to their own violence oriented solutions. ... It would move an underground economy to a legitimate economy, and provide a safe means for the buying and selling of drugs - taking the power back from professional criminals who now control the drug trade. It would reduce drug prices and hence make it un-necessary for people to steal or resort to theft in order to buy drugs. ... The war on drugs has led to what people often refer to as the "war on drugs exception to the bill of rights." ....

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We citizens take for granted luxuries that people of other countries can only dream. ... We have the same type of violent crime and gang control as in the twenties, and people continue to use drugs. ... The market for drugs is one of supply and demand and people demand illegal drugs. Organized crime has moved in to fill this vacuum and is making billions of dollars. ... Black people are ten times more likely to be imprisoned for drug offences than whites. ...

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Younger users who drink too much alcohol, often move on to other forms of substance abuse to go along with drinking. ... In some addiction studies conducted by researchers, it was found that former addicts showed a strong preference for heroin and morphine, which means that more people abuse these two drugs than others. ...

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Opioids are a great example of an addicting drugs that people can become addicted to very easily. ... The functions that barbiturates affect are the muscle systems which help us move and pump blood throughout the body. it also affects the lungs give oxygen to the blood and filters out carbon dioxide. ... It also increases heart rate, can harm the lungs, and may increase the risk of psychosis in vulnerable people. ... The current statistics today are troubling by the amount of people who are addicted to drugs. ... Marijuana on the other hand has increasing among young people since 2007 along wi...

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Clean syringes could be handed out and drug sales could move from the territorial streets of gang infested neighborhoods to the corner drug store which would ensure the purity of the drug as compared to a potentially laced drug on the street. ... What it doesn't tell you is that hysterical drug enforcers are burning down and permanently destroying the precious and sacred Coca plants of the Columbian people. ... Now obviously the government can't get rid of money, but the black market is so profitable selling drugs at such an inflated price that it is really not that difficult to se...

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It looks quite like a homeless given such abilities be drinking cheap alcohol and maybe even injuring other people. ... We may also speculate that with the more efficient brain, people may allocate priorities in a different manner. ... From the moment of birth, life is the greatest value for us, and no one voluntarily change it for money, power or love, because people are worthless without life! ... A few seconds later, the camera shots move to Eddie's face, medium shot, which emphasizes the actor's fear and despair. ... I believe that this film must have supported the idea that peo...

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As a result of globalization, there has been an increased amount of organized crime moving across international borders, and no longer is it simply a national concern, but a global one, as it affects people all over the world, and not those of a single state. Examples of transnational crimes include: human trafficking, people smuggling, smuggling/trafficking of goods (such as weapons, drugs, illegal animal and plant products and other goods prohibited on environmental grounds), sex slavery, terrorism offences, and torture. Through the rise of globalization, it has become easier for crim...

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When people are smoking marijuana together, its easier for them to bond and find things in common, just as when people are drinking men find it easier to talk to women and dance with them. ... However for people with sound health, there is no cardiovascular risk. ... This is because people who were scared to use marijuana instead used alcohol. ... People who do hard drugs would do hard drugs whether pot existed or not. ... Such was observed in Holland in the 1970's when marijuana was partially legalized, more people moved away from hard drugs to use marijuana which was previously not avai...

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Throughout all of the debate surrounding this issue, one thing remains, while people are sitting around debating whether ill people should use marijuana to help them feel better, there are sick people sitting around making themselves feel better illegally through the use of marijuana. ... With the legalization of marijuana comes the increased risk of people abusing the drug. ... Tremors are when a body limb, such as an arm or leg, moves and shakes uncontrollably. ... This would also allow for more people to be involved in research in regards to the beneficial uses of marijuana. ... It state...

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The use of drugs will ruin your mind, emotions, and physical health as many people already know. ... La Guma depicts the harsh reality of drug and alcohol abuse that people in South Africa went through to "escape-. South Africa during the 1960's was going through an apartheid, which left many minorities and colored people in the slums. ... Due to the fact they were faced with poverty, many people can become depressed, and they looked for a quick way out. ... This information allows people to make the generalization that drugs and alcohol cause a criminal in many people to emerge. ...

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Most teenagers that are involved in drug abuse usually come from either broken families, parents that are drug abusers, an unstable environment where they are constantly on the move, or from parents which are poor and are never around due to constant work. ... Inner containment is what people believe is right and wrong, such as your beliefs and morals. ... If you constantly have many people around you telling you that drugs are bad, you will be less likely to get involved with drugs simply because you do not want to let these people down. ... Marijuana use continues to be a major problem amo...

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There are an estimated 21millilon people over the age of 12 addicted to illicit drugs (drugwarfacts.org). ... Hospitals do not typically make a habit of turning away sick people and most street IV drug users don't not have health insurance therefore cannot pay . ... " Basically we know people are actively participating in negative dangerous behaviors, and we are challenged in preventing or stopping this from happening. ... What you will not find are police, people that are condescending or judgmental and anyone that would force their personal views upon the drug user. ... * It ...

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While some states are legalizing the use of marijuana, there are structural alterations that can occur in the brain from the excessive use of marijuana that many people are unaware of. ... A longitudinal study done in New Zealand shows that people who began smoking marijuana heavily in their teens lost an average of 8 IQ points between the ages of 13 and 38. ... The hippocampus is what was affected in the longitudal study done in New Zealand where the people that were heavily smoking marijuana had a significant IQ decline. ... People start to get addicted to a drug when they take more than the...

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(Lykestos, 2) In 1972, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Legislation (NORML), an organization that supports decriminalization of marijuana, unsuccessfully petitioned the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs to move marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule II. ... These include: the institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Family Physicians; American Bar Association; American Public Health Association; American Society of Addiction Medicine; AIDS Action Council; British Medical Association; California Academy of Family Physicians; California Legislative Council for O...

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I didn't know what to expect and didn't know how the people would be. ... There were a bunch of people there, mostly men but still some woman. ... Since this was now the second meeting, I was a little less nervous because I knew what to expect walking in but of course there were different people at this one than the other. I did hear that sometimes people attend multiple meetings. ... With mark not paying his bills, he eventually lost his apartment and had to move in with his dad. ...

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Let's move on to our second legalized drug, tobacco cigarettes. ... Most people who take "harder" drugs usually have a history of marijuana use. ... Physical reactions to the drug include rapid heartbeat, raise in blood pressure, a constricting of the blood vessels, and in some cases epileptic seizures in people who have epilepsy. ... Though this drug is a dangerous drug in general, it can have worst effects on people with unknown heart conditions. ...

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Each year, according to the United States Customs Service, 60 million people enter the United States on more than 675,000 commercial and private flights. ... Using New York City as a major distribution hub, these criminal groups move heroin up and down the eastern seaboard and into the Midwest. ...

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