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Marijuana is a controversial drug that is the most commonly used within the population of that nature. Human beings are constantly going through struggles in life so some tend to use marijuana as a form of relief and as well as a form of medication. The drug has effects that is different for every individual and which is why in most states it is illegal. The limited legalization of marijuana in Washington and Colorado is having a positive effect in those states and one of them is due to the…

How Welfare Discourages Self-Reliance Tragically, poverty is ubiquitous, everyone has encountered poverty in one way or another. Whether it be a personal experience or something as casual as crossing a homeless man on their street. The first instinct of any Good Samaritan is to assist any beggar they might encounter, however this might not be the best option. When viewed on a larger scale, such as the government’s many welfare programs, it becomes evident that simple charitable donations might…

772,121 boys and 427,929 girls (42). That means, on average, between 1971-1972, for every 100 men in sports and athletics, there were only 27 women. This, unfortunately, was the reality that many women had to grow up in. A Neal McCluskey from Cato Institute said on March 30, 2005, “Unfortunately, as long as the government is involved, college sports will continue to revolve around political, rather than athletic, contests, and only the most politically skilled will win. Until now, that's been…

Every year there is a new “it” drug such as Xanex, marijuana, promethazine, and so on. There are actually more drugs that the youth could be exposed to. An examination of late overviews and exploration puts the extent of the illicit U.S. drug market at $200 billion to $750 billion every year, with most gauges coming in the middle of $400 billion and $500 billion. The investigation additionally found that the present decade has logged into the heaviest medication use per individual every year in…

states federal prison get treated better than most people that have not ever even committed a crime and the criminals that are in the federal prison must have done something bad enough to have to go to the federal prison.Facts gathered by the cato institute confirmed that around 1 percent of all officers commit misconduct in a year and most of them do not get in trouble because they are, “Men of the law.”Who is going to believe anyone that is getting abused and mistreated by the men that are…

The United States Constitution, which serves as the supreme law of the United States, was written by men who envisioned a government that would be fair and just. To further protect the citizens of this land, amendments have been added that offer protection of individual liberty and justice and place restrictions on the powers of government. Today, the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution is the cornerstone of litigation related to drug testing of welfare recipients. While the funding of…

Sarah Wisniewski Ms. Schlossberg English II Honors, Period 5 20 January 2017 The Fight for Adoption: DeBoer v. Snyder Through the history of the United States, with an unfortunate pattern, discrimination has been a part of the progress and obstacles overcome for issues including race, gender, sexual orientation and more. In the cases of DeBoer v. Snyder and Obergefell v. Hodges, discrimination came in the form of a lack of basic rights for people of the homosexual identity. In both cases,…

Following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in February of this year, the US Supreme Court has still been operating with eight justices instead of appointing a ninth. The reason for this being a lack of response from the Senate to President Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland. This failure to acknowledge the President’s motion has sparked outrage across the country, bringing rise to the Constitutional provisions associated with the appointment of Supreme Court Justices. Several issues…

In the third New York Times article, “An Assault on the Voting Rights Act,” the word choice of “assault” demonstrates a noticeable bias towards the disapproval of the ruling. It emits a vibe of attack towards the nation. The first sentence, “the conservative majority on the Roberts Court issued another damaging and intellectually dishonest ruling.” goes for a specific stance that accuses the conservative of having class bias against the minority, Entman and Rojecki’s work The Black Image in…

As of now the way the U.S. elects its president is through a system called the Electoral College. Other systems like the direct popular vote or the national popular vote may work in democracies, but the United States is a federal republic not a democracy. While allowing states to be represented in a manner consistent with their size, the Electoral College has the exceptional power of allowing small states and rural areas to still maintain their influence in the government. This allows us to have…