... the "Weed & Seed Plan", today known as the Community Project for Restoration. This plan consisted of removing the bad residents from the community and providing them with opportunities for improvement. Bill Clinton believed in utilizing marijuana for medicinal purposes such as A.I.D.S., cancer, and glaucoma but not for the general legalization. He pushed a crime ... bill for drug leaders consisting of a life sentence for three time offenders. Under the Clinton Administration, California and Arizona both legalized marijuana for solely medicinal purposes. Arizona also began to move legisl...

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... an enumerated and a delegated right to act, dispensing power between three balanced branches. Then came an amendment to the constitution, the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights was a revolutionary measure in that it guaranteed that our federal government could never lawfully advance outside it's authorized bounds and encroach ... on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without any regard to census and enumeration." (United States constitution, Bill of Rights 16th Amendment). Simply put Libertarians believe taxes are coercive, slow the...

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... an enumerated and a delegated right to act, dispensing power between three balanced branches. Then came an amendment to the constitution, the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights was a revolutionary measure in that it guaranteed that our federal government could never lawfully advance outside it's authorized bounds and encroach ... on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without any regard to census and enumeration." (United States constitution, Bill of Rights 16th Amendment). Simply put Libertarians believe taxes are coercive, slow the...

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... bars in the united States was unprecedented in world history, and that one fourth of young African-American men were now under the control of the criminal justice system." Bill Clinton was the most "tough" on crime. Once elected he endorsed the idea of the federal " three strikes and you're out" law. In August 1994 ... , Bill Clinton received a $30 billion crime bill which created dozens of new federal capital crimes, mandated life sentences for some three-time offenders, and authorized more than $16 billion for state prison grants and expansion ... ...

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... the right direction. In the past few years, the federal governments and state governments have tried to change and improve the welfare system. The Clinton Administration campaigned to "end welfare as we know it." The Administration's proposal limits AFDC benefits to two years, during which employment services would ... rape and incest in which the state would determine if efforts to establish paternity would result in physical danger to the mother. The bill requires states to establish paternity in ninety percent of their cases. States are also encouraged to develop procedures in public ...

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... , unemployment-all these are ascribed to their personal moral flaws, which contributes to the social perception of criminality, which fuels the police tactic of profiling. On June 9-10, 1999, President Bill Clinton, Attorney General Janet Reno, civil rights leaders, police, and other government leaders participated in the Strengthening Police-Community Relationships conference. During the meeting, President ... Clinton called racial profiling a "morally indefensible, deeply corrosive practice" and further stated that "racial profiling is in fact the opposite of good police work, where ac...

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... discuss medical marijuana with patients, and we are seeking clear guidelines for physicians who wish to do so." The lawsuit was filed January 14, weeks after several advisors of the Clinton Administration made a public response to Proposition 215 (which would, were it to pass, make it legal for doctors to discuss and recommend marijuana to their patients) at a December 30 press ... decision to stand, denying the medical use of marijuana to seriously ill patients. Representative Barney Frank (a democrat from Massachusetts) introduced H.R. 1782, a bill which would also attempt to move med...

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... America, the President can set a tone, deliver a message, [and] lead a cause. This is a cause I will lead" www.usatoday/com/news/opinion/e2880.htm. Before George W. Bush came to office, Presidents Clinton, Bush senior, and Regan all dumped large sums of money into the 12 departments and several agencies geared towards preventing drug trafficking, use, and prevention. The drug czar's office, officially ... been seized. The Governor has not only been focusing on the prevention of trafficking. With the help of Ms. Jackie Viana and her middle school civics class in Hialeah, Senate Bill 1588...

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... , Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, James Brown this list could keep going. American presidents have used it. Presidents like Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington (grew it, some evidence he smoked), Bill Clinton there were others too. Great minds such as Aaron Sorkin (creator of West Wing), Carl Sagan (scientist, writer), JRR Tolkien (writer of Hobbit), Dr Francis Crick (won Nobel Peace Prize ... ...

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... the second intoxicant next to alcohol. There are 200 million users in the country and about 60 million that have admitted to trying it at least once. Our former president Bill Clinton even admitted to "trying" marijuana during the nineteen sixties (online article). According to NIDA (National Institute on Drug Abuse) between 65 and 71 million Americans have smoked marijuana at some ... ...

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... the $1.7 billion Anti-Drug Abuse Act, which contained a special section requiring all schools districts that received federal funds to include drug education as part of their curriculum (Buzz 1995). The bill contained no mandated standards, but it did mention DARE by name no less than twice (Buzz 1995). The marriage of DARE and politics proved remarkably effective (Buzz 1995). Political reality ... demanded fewer social worker and more cops. The DARE program offered up cops as social workers. And it appealed to both sides of the aisle. When President Clinton introduced the administratio...

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... the issue. The main point that cannot be ignored is that marijuana proves to be a useful medication for many patients, especially those with terminal diseases such as AIDS and cancer. A bill should be created legalizing the use of medical marijuana in all 50 states. Marijuana first was made an illegal drug in 1937. Now under the Controlled Substance Act of 1970 ... , including cocaine and heroin. To get more evidence, the executive office ordered multiple studies be done in order to determine if marijuana had any medical value. The decision of the Clinton Administration came two months a...

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