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...people later in life. Such violations have nothing to do with an individual’s competence in a specific job and should not show up on background checks. More importantly, however, the laws punish an act that should not be illegal. Smoking marijuana hurts nobody except, arguably, the smoker. Since the proposal wisely keeps intact the laws that punish driving under the influence of marijuana and even strengthens the laws governing underage use, there is no conceivable justification for punishing possession except for the smoker’s own good. Even if smoking has a detrimental effect on one?...
...years old • Born in New York City; raised in River Vale, New Jersey • Father was a radio newscaster and editor at NBC News. Mother was a nurse. • Studied literature at Cornell University • Notorious night owl and self-described control freak • Is a proud pot smoker and is on the advisory board of NORML, an organization that promotes legalization of marijuana • Has never married and says he is a "committed bachelor" • In 2004, former girlfriend Coco Johnsen sued him for $9 million, saying he promised to marry and support her. The lawsuit was thrown...
...insinuations culled from blogs, TV, newspapers and Obama's own books. Corsi apparently wrote in a mad rush, in the most literal sense: I counted eight factual errors in the first 50 pages. Obama Nation may be most useful for readers convinced Obama is secretly a radical leftist Muslim smoker; they may find the book comforting, like reading a Wikipedia entry summarizing everything they have read before...
...over another. Usually the choice is made solely on the basis of medical need, but, says David Rothman, professor of society and medicine at Columbia University, ''social criteria sometimes enter in.'' Few hospitals, he notes, will offer a liver to an unrecovered alcoholic or a heart to an inveterate smoker...
...smoked. The greater the pack-years, the greater the risk. When you're getting up around 50 pack-years and beyond, that's a lot. If people have a lot of pack-years, the risk of, say, lung cancer never goes back down to [the risk of a non-smoker...