MNOP : MARIJUANA, NEERA, ONION PRICES, POLICE INTERROGATIONS

MNOP : MARIJUANA, NEERA, ONION PRICES, POLICE INTERROGATIONS

MARIJUANA

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This Govt. web site explain the pros and cons of consuming Marijuana.
THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol), the main active chemical in marijuana. Today, Marijuana is something despised and illegal.

Wikipedia has a page on the life of the First President of George Washington, the First President of US. One information we get from it is, Washington suffered from dental problems right from the age of 24. He lost one tooth every year. Unable to bear the pain, he used to consume marijuana. He used to cultivate marijuana. He had a farm of 8000 acres. Washington had slaves, but he treated them humanely. He never hankered for power or pelf.

Great men or ordinary men live within a frame of their environment. We cannot, therefore, try to evaluate people on what they have done during their times. We may do what is best for us and the country in the current environment. There are people who tried to change the environment itself. Washington seemed to have preferred gradual changes, swiftly. For that reason, abolition of slavery might have waited for Lincoln and till 1860.

NEERA

Neera is liquid extracted from the stem of the palmyra tree by making cuts and hanging pots to collect the secretion. Neera gets fermented when stored and forms a very toxic liquor called "toddy". Coconut palms also yield liquor.

National Chemical Laboratory and the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (India) formulated a technique of preserving Neera without fermentation. The preserved non-alcoholic Neera is proposed to be introduced as a soft drink in the markets. If it succeeds, it can pose a challenge to Coke and Pepsi. Neera is quite tasty.

ONION PRICES

In US Supermarkets onion prices seem to be veering around $ 1.4c. per kilo. In India an onion farmer gets something like 6 cents per kilo. If an onion farmer brings a truck load of onions to the City's wholesale markets, after paying the truck hire, unloading charges, he gets Rs. 250/- or approx. 6 Dollars. From that how can he pay his cultivation expenses and maintain his family?

POLICE INTERROGATIONS

Police use third degree methods for extracting confessions in India. According to information on net, Australian police keep the accused in an Air Conditioned Chamber and interrogate him. If he does not respond as expected, they vary the room temperatures to extremities till he cooperates. It appears that according to the Australian Law, confessions made by an accused before the Police are accepted as evidence to convict. In India, the accused to has to confess before a Magistrate.
The website

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_v._Arizona
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contains a lot of interesting information about the position in US. In spite of the judgement in Miranda vs Arizona There, still seems to be some ambiguity about the admissibility of evidence obtained by police through coercion, but the onus of proving seems to rest on the accused. This is difficult.