... and those legal uses are not adding in any significant way to the country drug problem. While experts debate the medical use of marijuana, patients in Santa Cruz, San Francisco and Alameda County are lining up at Cannabis Buyers" Club to receive the drug. Despite the coffee house atmosphere at the Cannabis Buyers" Club marijuana remains illegal. Although some chronically ill people ... informers. An investigation by the National Law Journal found that the proportion of federal search warrants relying exclusively only on unidentified informers nearly tripled from 1980 to 1993, increasing ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... Gutieerrez (2013) discusses how obesity can lead to many other diseases in his news article "Childhood Obesity is a Gateway to Many Other Chronic Diseases." Gollust (2013) analysis the consequences of childhood obesity through several studies in his article "Framing the Consequences of Childhood Obesity to Increase Public Support for Obesity Prevention Policy." Papalia and Feldman speak on ... the worldwide issue of obesity. They talk about obesity in different countries, obesity amoung different genders, obesity in different ethnic groups and many other subgroups that obesity impacts. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... higher in 1996 than in 1950. (Gornick 2000) In England, the infant mortality rate in the lowest socioeconomic class is double that of the highest class. That has not changed since the implementation of the National Health Service. (Whitehead 1999, Ross and Mirowsky 2000, Gunning-Schepers, and Stronks 1999, Brown 1999, Fuchs 1998) The problem extends beyond the usual boundaries of health services. In fact, access may not ... continue care deemed inappropriate. Demands for inappropriate care are a distortion of patients' rights. Given the discomfort and uncertainty associated with framing...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate