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87b8c230-2019-04-17T11:47:26Z-00155-000 | Marijuana induces different experiences in different individuals; some of these experiences are great, some are terrible and harmful. Individuals should be free to choose to use marijuana or not, depending on their relative experience. |
87b8c230-2019-04-17T11:47:26Z-00110-000 | Richard H. Schwartz, MD, physician in Advanced Pediatrics. Letter to the Editor, New England Journal of Medicine. July 14, 1994: "...support of the use of marijuana for medical purposes is scientifically unfounded. There is no evidence that marijuana is superior to ondansetron (Zofran), dexamethasone, or synthetic tetrahydrocannabinol (Marinol) as an antiemetic in patients undergoing chemotherapy. Nor is there scientific evidence to support the use of marijuana for AIDS-associated anorexia, depression, epilepsy, narrow-angle glaucoma, or spasticity associated with multiple sclerosis."[12] |
87b8c230-2019-04-17T11:47:26Z-00096-000 | "The case against medical marijuana." The casual observer. March 31, 2010: "A very basic question that I have is this. THC, the ingredient in marijuana that people are smoking it for, is available in pill form already. Why then do we need to have smoked marijuana available with all the problems that it brings? Marinol is a prescription medicine that can be prescribed by a doctor and dispensed from a controlled pharmacy." |
87b8c230-2019-04-17T11:47:26Z-00037-000 | Marijuana smoke is highly damaging to the lungs |
87b8c230-2019-04-17T11:47:26Z-00143-000 | Marijuana smoke is more potent than cigarette smoke, with some researches concluding that the negative effect of one joint is equivalent to a pack of cigarettes. |
87b8c230-2019-04-17T11:47:26Z-00083-000 | Whole marijuana dispensaries are excessive; pharmacies better. |
87b8c230-2019-04-17T11:47:26Z-00023-000 | State should not override doctor-patient decisions on marijuana |
4cf9e3c5-2019-04-17T11:47:27Z-00045-000 | The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), in a Jan. 2007 www.fairus.org section titled "The Costs of Illegal Immigration to New Jerseyites": "The proposal to simply convert illegal alien residents to legal resident status with an amnesty violates a fundamental principle of immigration reform, because that will encourage rather than deter future illegal immigration. A policy that conveys the message that the country or any state or local government will tolerate and reward foreigners who ignore our immigration law invites the world to see illegal immigration as an accepted route to seeking a better life in our country and it will exacerbate the problem."[9] |
4cf9e3c5-2019-04-17T11:47:27Z-00062-000 | A 2010 CNN/Opinion Research asked, "Do you think the United States should or should not make it easier for illegal immigrants to become citizens of the United States?" Sixty-six percent of respondents said the U.S. should not make it easier. 33 percent said it should.[21] |
4cf9e3c5-2019-04-17T11:47:27Z-00025-000 | A path to citizenship grants amnesty to criminals. |
4cf9e3c5-2019-04-17T11:47:27Z-00034-000 | George W. Bush, MBA, 43rd President of the United States, in an Aug. 3, 2006: "The best plan is to say to somebody who has been here illegally, if you've been paying your taxes, and you've got a good criminal record, that you can pay a fine for being here illegally, and you can learn English, like the rest of us have done, and you can get in a citizenship line to apply for citizenship. You don't get to get in the front, you get to get in the back of the line. But this idea of deporting people is just not -- it doesn't make any sense to me, and it doesn't make any sense to a lot of people who understand this issue. So here's a reasonable way to treat people with respect and accomplish what we want to accomplish, which is to be a country of law and a country of decency and respect."[1] |
4cf9e3c5-2019-04-17T11:47:27Z-00027-000 | Path to citizenship respects dignity of the undocumented |
4cf9e3c5-2019-04-17T11:47:27Z-00058-000 | John McCain, US Senator (R - AZ), in a May 13, 2005 press release titled "Members of Congress Introduce Comprehensive Border Security & Immigration Reform Bill [S 2611]": "We have a national interest in identifying these individuals, incentivizing them to come forward out of the shadows, go through security background checks, pay back taxes, pay penalties for breaking the law, learn to speak English, and regularize their status."[18] |
9896d40f-2019-04-17T11:47:21Z-00040-000 | Bans should be reserved for very serious health crises. The obesity, heart attacks, and death caused by the presence of trans fats in diets is such a crisis. A ban is, thus, an appropriate regulatory response. |
6963151c-2019-04-17T11:47:23Z-00027-000 | Other joint degrees sometimes better than JD/MBA. |
6ef113b8-2019-04-17T11:47:33Z-00063-000 | Barack Obama. "We Can't Afford to Wait". February 9, 2009 - "you may have heard some of the critics of our plan saying that it would create mostly government jobs. That's simply not true. More than 90 percent of these jobs will be in the private sector. More than 90 percent." |
6ef113b8-2019-04-17T11:47:33Z-00019-000 | Stimulus lacks important tax cuts for wealthy/businesses |
6ef113b8-2019-04-17T11:47:33Z-00085-000 | Amity Shlaes. "Obama's gift to GOP is challenge to supply siders". Bloomberg. February 9, 2009 - "Cut the tax rate on capital gains to 5 percent. Halve the corporate tax rate. Fund a new, super-strong Securities and Exchange Commission to monitor anything that's traded, including the haziest derivative. [...] Buy homeowners out of mortgages they can't afford, and protect the rights of lenders. Make Social Security solvent by curtailing the annual growth in benefits. Forget one "S" word, stimulus, and learn to use two "R" words -- rent and recession. [...] Too costly, you might say, or too extreme. But the ideas above are neither costlier nor more extreme than the almost- trillion-dollar stimulus package moving through Congress. And they are more likely to bring long-term growth than the legislation advanced by President Barack Obama." |
91a1b22c-2019-04-17T11:47:28Z-00071-000 | Arthur Weinreb. "Full-body scanners; it's just common sense." Canada Free Press. January 8, 2010: "The CBC warned that the scanners emit radiation. Well, if ways have been found protect x-ray technicians and others who work with radiation, then the screeners can be protected. And there was nothing to suggest that flyers who get scanned are at risk although when the machines are put into use, that will inevitably come up." |
91a1b22c-2019-04-17T11:47:28Z-00005-000 | Alternatives to body scanners don't sacrifice privacy |
63cad73d-2019-04-17T11:47:24Z-00034-000 | Bad idea to raise taxes during down-turn |
63cad73d-2019-04-17T11:47:24Z-00028-000 | Small businesses depend on product demand, not tax breaks for wealthy |
63cad73d-2019-04-17T11:47:24Z-00066-000 | Debra J. Saunders. "Ending the Bush tax 'cuts' is a tax increase." San Francisco Chronicle. August 15th, 2010: "He must know that to put off raising taxes on the rich for one year would add $36 billion - peanuts in his circle - to the deficit. It's not going to close the gaping hole, but it could scare private-sector employers who are considering hiring. Especially when there are whispers from Washington that Obama is drafting another huge economic stimulus package." |
63cad73d-2019-04-17T11:47:24Z-00029-000 | Expiring Bush tax cuts for rich will affect only 5% of small businesses |
63cad73d-2019-04-17T11:47:24Z-00052-000 | Robert Creamer. "Why Congress Must End Bush Tax Breaks for the Rich." Huffington Post. July 28th, 2010: "The 'supply side experiment' turned out to be a colossal failure. For eight years, George W. Bush applied the theory in its purest form: increase tax breaks to the rich, eliminate regulations on Big Oil, insurance companies and Wall Street. The results are there for everyone to see. The New York Times reported last year that, 'For the first time since the Depression, the American economy has added virtually no jobs in the private sector over a 10-year period. The total number of jobs has grown a bit, but that is only because of government hiring.' In fact, since George Bush and the Republicans in Congress passed two massive tax cuts, we have seen a massive, secular decline in the creation of private sector jobs." |
7ef85aba-2019-04-17T11:47:21Z-00038-000 | Dave Cameron. "It's time to end home plate collisions." Fan Graphs. May 26th, 2011: "It’s in the best interest of the sport to keep the likes of Buster Posey and Carlos Santana healthy and on the field. It’s not good for anyone that these guys end up on the disabled list because they were trying to hold their ground." |
7ef85aba-2019-04-17T11:47:21Z-00049-000 | Fadi. "In Defense Of Home Plate Collisions." Red State Blue State. May 27th, 2011: "Ban home plate collisions? What are you talking about, Buster? It was a freak accident. Ban home plate collisions!?! Why don’t we ban pitching inside too!?! And we should ban breaking up the double play on a hard slide into second!?! How about we ban walk-off celebrations and ban beer in the grandstands, JUST FOR FUN!?!" |
7ef85aba-2019-04-17T11:47:21Z-00000-000 | Other sports have changed rules to make game safer. |
c70591bd-2019-04-17T11:47:43Z-00053-000 | "What is wrong with veal?". Animal Defenders International. Retrieved 4.07.08 - "Milk-based diets are balanced rations that involve commercial milk replacers, which utilize surplus skim milk powder and whey – both byproducts of the dairy industry – in their production. These commercial milk replacers are of equal or greater nutritional value than milk straight from the dairy cow. A great deal of time and care are taken to train the young calves to drink their milk from pails, and during this training period their diet will be supplemented with water and electrolytes to ensure they receive adequate fluids and nutrition." |
27d290e5-2019-04-17T11:47:44Z-00078-000 | National currencies are often a powerful part of national identity. Replacing them with a symbol of another country's national identity is often an affront to many citizens and their sense of nationalism and sovereignty. |
c1eb9840-2019-04-17T11:47:34Z-00008-000 | Israel is not an "occupier" and responsible for Gazans |
87d0ccd3-2019-04-17T11:47:45Z-00033-000 | Legalized prostitution sanctions a dangerous environment for women |
87d0ccd3-2019-04-17T11:47:45Z-00064-000 | Prostitution is a highly subjective moral arena, with many believing that it should be legal while others believing the opposite. Should governments really be attempting to settle this debate? The problem is that it alienates those that tolerate or support legal prostitution, and creates double standards, in which the moral values of the majority are defended by the government at the expense of the moral values of the minority. What right does one set of moral standards have to gain the government's favor over another set of moral standards? |
87d0ccd3-2019-04-17T11:47:45Z-00050-000 | Prostitution's destructiveness outweighs upholding freedoms. |
87d0ccd3-2019-04-17T11:47:45Z-00035-000 | The legalization of prostitution will decrease instances of rape |
87d0ccd3-2019-04-17T11:47:45Z-00005-000 | Prostitution often offers superior money-making opportunities for individuals. |
87d0ccd3-2019-04-17T11:47:45Z-00098-000 | - Granted that prostitution has been present in societies across the world for thousands of years, governments should recognise that it cannot be eradicated. Consequently they should pass legislation that makes prostitution safer, rather than persist with futile and dangerous prohibition. Existing legal prohibition of soliciting, or of prostitution itself, does not work. Prostitutes are regularly convicted of summary offences and fined. It is then necessary for them to return to work as prostitutes in order to repay the fines. British police officers have described this method of legal prohibition of prostitution as a ‘revolving door’. The laws banning prostitution are in fact counter-productive. |
87d0ccd3-2019-04-17T11:47:45Z-00023-000 | Prostitution is a legitimate business |
87d0ccd3-2019-04-17T11:47:45Z-00099-000 | Initiating the legalisation of prostitution would grant implicit approval to a dangerous and immoral practice. Prostitution should never be regarded as a legitimate career option for a young girl. |
87d0ccd3-2019-04-17T11:47:45Z-00009-000 | Prostitutes will continue to work on the street even after legalization |
87d0ccd3-2019-04-17T11:47:45Z-00011-000 | Prostitution is an inappropriate solution to poverty |
87d0ccd3-2019-04-17T11:47:45Z-00032-000 | Legalization won't reduce rape, as prostitution is itself a form of rape |
a7c47a5c-2019-04-17T11:47:49Z-00052-000 | - Drug consumption is principally an activity that is bad for the consumer's health, like eating fatty foods. It is in the consumer's health interests to cut-back or quite. Therefore, the state should be involved in helping individuals quite, opposed to punishing them with criminal convictions. If the state directs more resources to helping individuals break their addiction opposed to fighting the "war on drugs", consumption can be more effectively reduced. If the state focuses on helping individuals quite as opposed to punishing them into quiting, the long-term effect on reducing consumption will be greater. |
a7c47a5c-2019-04-17T11:47:49Z-00009-000 | There is no such thing as a safe drug (regulated by the state). |
671509c8-2019-04-17T11:47:34Z-00051-000 | Charter school administrators can hand-pick the best teachers |