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Ethical Position Paper on Advance Directives, Ethical Decision-Making and Utilitarianism

wishes, she would remain on life support. This scenario has several ethical implications from the nursing or medical professional...

The Costs of Prohibition and the Economic Effects of the Legalization of Marijuana

legalization with federal, state, and local government statistics; competition; elasticity; supply and demand evaluations; tax rev...

Overview of a Criminal Justice Study on Marijuana Use

This research paper consists of an analysis of Green, et al's 2010 study, "Does heavy adolescent marijuana use lead to criminal in...

Recreational Drugs and Their Negative Impact

Wilson, 2003). Short term effects are memory lapses, impairment of coordination and speech and the commonly associated drunken beh...

Marijuana and its Effects

been absolutely established is that THC does attach itself to brain receptors associated with "thought, memory, concentration, and...

Legalization of Marijuana

wrestles with a myriad of questions about substance use and abuse. First, there are good reasons why marijuana should be legali...

Canada and Marijuana Legalization

stated that both the political and public attitude towards the legalization of marijuana is greatly "skewed" (NORML). One Cons...

Illegal Drugs and Their Impact

a variety of legal prescriptions under false pretenses, one is actually taking drugs illegally. Similarly, teenagers are no allowe...

Criminal Justice VI

initiated by the police, who have more freedom and a wider range of choices in how to proceed when dealing with a juvenile than wi...

Economic Benefits of Marijuana Legalization

Benefits of Legalizing Marijuana Touted). The spokesman for Nevadans for Responsible Law Enforcement, Billy Rogers, stated "We are...

Argument in Favor of Marijuana

thus freeing up money and space for more serious criminals. If marijuana were legal the law enforcement industry could spend more ...

The Medical Argument for Legalized Marijuana

to reduce pain remains controversial. A 2001 meta-analysis of 39 clinical studies found that marijuanas was no more effective in...

Those Who Use Marijuana, Those Who Don't and Attitudinal Variations

came up with a theory as to why people utilized marijuana for pleasure (Hallstone, 2002). This sociologist looked at drug use from...

Medical Legalization of Marijuana

not want to see this step being the first of many that would, as they see it, ultimately endanger society through the legalization...

Ecuador and Texaco

including a primary pipeline that extends 280 miles across the Andes. To build the roads, forests were cleared and Indian lands bu...

Marijuana Legalization and Economic Benefits

to legalizing marijuana. The author states that "Supporters of an initiative that would decriminalize marijuana in Nevada said ...

Economic and Social Benefits of Marijuana Legalization

to make changes to the society. this becomes more evident when we note that "While the number of offenders in each major offense c...

Addiction and Marijuana

g of cannabis, and up to 2-3 mgs can induce pleasurable effects for the occasional marijuana user (Hall and Solowij, 1998, p. 1611...

Literature Review on Stress Agents

often takes more than 20 years for the effects of cigarette smoke to develop into a detectable malignancy" (p. PG). II. ADOLESCEN...

Post 1950 West and Marijuana

long history of the manner in which marijuana is perceived and regulated throughout the world. While western countries s...

Opposition to Marijuana Legalization

mean that certain professionals could legally take a smoke break and then go into surgery to perform delicate operations (Harbath,...

Argument Against Legalization of Marijuana

could be a prescribed drug, similar to what is done with morphine" (Marijuana - the Pros and Cons of Legalization, 2003). Clear...

Marijuana Legalization Argument and Criticism

and on, with each person having the slightest bit different perspective, a different variation on the theme. Any proposal, any "s...

Argument in Favor of U.S. Legalization of Marijuana

Medical Marijuana initiative was passed in California in 1996 (Annas 435). Annas said, "The law allows physicians to recommend ma...

Marijuana Legalization Support

In 4 pages this paper explains why marijuana should be legalized. There are 5 sources cited in the bibliography....

Medical Use of Marijuana and California's Proposition 215

In a paper consisting of ten pages the inhumanity of denying marijuana for medical use in cancer, AIDS and paraplegic patients is ...

Marijuana Legality and the Views of John Locke and Plato

In eight pages this paper discusses whether or not the government is justified in legally regulating marijuana use according to th...

Marijuana Legalization and the DEA

In ten pages this paper examines marijuana legalization efforts and the involvement of the Drug Enforcement Agency. There are 14 ...

Marijuana for Medical Purposes II

In twenty two pages pros and cons of medical marijuana usage are evaluated regarding its legal use of serious conditions with oppo...

Paraquat Spraying of Marijuana Fields by the Government

In ten pages this paper discusses the dangers of paraquat exposure in this consideration of whether or not the government should s...