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740,405 | Mexico’s economy is recovering but is fragile | Montes 6-25 | Montes 6-25 | upbeat April data buoyed hopes that the economy is finally on the path toward improved growth. economists welcomed the broad 1.3% expansion in the global index of economic activity in April, which marked the best monthly performance since November 2012 "The frequency of the positive data over the negative data is incre... | "The frequency of the positive data is increasing we're in a recovery cycle the Mexican economy will significantly rebound in the second half of the year government spending jumped 13% central bank cut interest rates and will lower its growth estimate suggesting that the recovery will be moderate unemployment is high a... | (JUAN MONTES, reporter, “Mexican Economy Sees Glimpse of Recovery” June 25, 2014, http://online.wsj.com/articles/mexican-economy-sees-glimpse-of-recovery-1403719934, KB)
After many months of dreary economic news from Mexico, upbeat April data buoyed hopes that the economy is finally on the path toward improved growth. ... | 4166 | <h4><strong>Mexico’s economy is recovering but is fragile</h4><p>Montes 6-25</p><p></strong>(JUAN MONTES, reporter, “Mexican Economy Sees Glimpse of Recovery” June 25, 2014, http://online.wsj.com/articles/mexican-economy-sees-glimpse-of-recovery-1403719934, KB)</p><p>After many months of dreary economic news from Mexic... | 1NC | OFF CASE | 1NC Mexico DA | 429545 | 3 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,406 | Economic inequality has to be addressed before and separate from legislation – this answers the permutation because you’re the wrong starting point | Haynes, 4 | Haynes, 4 (Dina F., “Used, Abused, Arrested and Deported.” Human Rights Quarterly 26.2 – Project Muse) | Trafficking in women is fueled by poverty, and women in transitioning and developing countries are exceptionally vulnerable Poverty conditions in these countries tend to impact women in particular, as their economic status vis-à-vis men is usually even lower in these countries While the eradication of poverty is too la... | Trafficking in women is fueled by poverty Poverty conditions in these countries tend to impact women in particular, as their economic status vis-à-vis men is usually lower While the eradication of poverty is too large to be tackled within an anti-trafficking scheme, the conditions that foster a vulnerability to traffic... | Trafficking in women is fueled by poverty, and women in transitioning and developing countries are exceptionally vulnerable.144 Poverty conditions in these countries tend to impact women in particular, as their economic status vis-à-vis men is usually even lower in these countries. While the eradication of gender-based... | 1040 | <h4>Economic inequality has to be addressed before and separate from legislation – this answers the permutation because you’re the wrong starting point</h4><p><strong>Haynes, 4</strong> (Dina F., “Used, Abused, Arrested and Deported.” Human Rights Quarterly 26.2 – Project Muse)</p><p><u><strong><mark>Trafficking in wom... | 2NC | Cap K | 2NC AT: Gender>Econ | 429846 | 1 | null | 564680 | N | 6 | 1AC Prostitution Feminist Standpoint
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740,407 | Voting neg recognizes that rejecting the totality of capitalism is the only ethical decision possible. It means preferring not to engage in the affirmative’s logic of overspecific criticism which blunts radical critique by creating wounded attachments to status quo minutia. | null | null | null | null | null | null | <h4>Voting neg recognizes that rejecting the totality of capitalism is the only ethical decision possible. It means preferring not to engage in the affirmative’s logic of overspecific criticism which blunts radical critique by creating wounded attachments to status quo minutia. </h4> | 2NC | Cap K | 2NC Alternative | 429844 | 1 | null | 564692 | N | 2 | 1AC - Marijuana Prohibition is Racist
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740,408 | The plan destroys cartels | Pullen ‘09 | Pullen ‘09
(Doug Pullen “Cheech and Chong: Comedy tour stokes talk on pot legalization” May 10, 2009 Sunday Lexis, TSW) | 75 percent of the cartels' revenues are dependent upon marijuana If you take that away from them, it will at destabilize and affect their ability to recruit new members and the kind of heavy weaponry used to outgun the Mexican military | 75 percent of the cartels' revenues are dependent upon marijuana If you take that away from them, it will at destabilize and affect their ability to recruit new members and the kind of heavy weaponry used to outgun the Mexican military | "If you legalize it, at least you eliminate that huge problem of law enforcement. Now you've got a cap on it." While elected officials debate marijuana legalization, Chong says he doesn't smoke the herb anymore. Nor does he believe Cheech and Chong were wrong to use or joke about marijuana. Cheech and Chong was a comed... | 1387 | <h4><strong>The plan destroys cartels</h4><p>Pullen ‘09</p><p></strong>(Doug Pullen “Cheech and Chong: Comedy tour stokes talk on pot legalization” May 10, 2009 Sunday Lexis, TSW)</p><p>"If you legalize it, at least you eliminate that huge problem of law enforcement. Now you've got a cap on it." While elected officials... | 1NC | OFF CASE | 1NC Mexico DA | 429847 | 1 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,409 | Legalization expands the black market, increases violence from customers, makes it exceedingly difficult to get police help, and decreases support services and exit programs | Forrey ‘14 | Forrey ‘14
[Chariane K. Forrey is a 2014 J.D. Candidate at the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. 14 Nev. L.J. 970. ETB] | Nevada is not alone in attempting legalization Victoria enacted the Prostitution Control Act of 1994 to reform and legalize adult prostitution. the Act was meant to protect prostitutes from violence and health risks and to eliminate criminals from providing prostitution services the opposite occurred To meet the demand... | Victoria enacted the the Act to protect prostitutes from violence the opposite occurred To meet the demand 400 illegal brothels sprung up compared with 95 legal brothels the competition among prostitutes resulted in increased pressure to book a buyer even if the buyer was violent, drunk, or demanding The blurred line b... | Nevada is not alone in attempting legalization. Victoria, Australia is a state similar to Nevada in that international tourists flock toward its gaming industry. n149 Australian popular culture has promoted its reputation as a "nation [*985] of gamblers." n150 Victoria in particular has been the heartland for gambling ... | 3026 | <h4><strong>Legalization expands the black market, increases violence from customers, makes it exceedingly difficult to get police help, and decreases support services and exit programs</h4><p>Forrey ‘14</p><p></strong>[Chariane K. Forrey is a 2014 J.D. Candidate at the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University o... | 1NR | Case | Ext – 1NC #2 | 429849 | 1 | null | 564680 | N | 6 | 1AC Prostitution Feminist Standpoint
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740,410 | This refusal represents the direct prioritization of class struggle as a direct confrontation with the constitutive societal antagonism – which radicalizes political subjectivity, embraces the universal kernel of emancipation, and imposes universal punishment on the structural oppressors of humanity. | null | null | null | null | null | null | <h4>This refusal represents the direct prioritization of class struggle as a direct confrontation with the constitutive societal antagonism – which radicalizes political subjectivity, embraces the universal kernel of emancipation, and imposes universal punishment on the structural oppressors of humanity. </h4> | 2NC | Cap K | 2NC Alternative | 429848 | 1 | null | 564692 | N | 2 | 1AC - Marijuana Prohibition is Racist
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740,411 | Cartels are key to Mexico’s banking sector – collapse crushes the entire economy | Lange 10 | Lange 10
(Jason Lange, Correspondent, Washington, “From spas to banks, Mexico economy rides on drugs” Jan 22, 2010, http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/01/22/us-drugs-mexico-economy-idUSTRE60L0X120100122, KB) | Collins is one of dozens under suspicion of laundering money for the nation's booming drug business, whose growing economic impact now pervades just about every level of Mexican life. cartels bring $40 billion into Mexico from their global operations every year. Mexico probably made more money in 2009 moving drugs than... | Mexico made more money moving drugs than it did exporting oil It has propped up the country's banking system, helping it ride out the financial crisis and aiding the country's economy. the Sinaloa cartel bought hospitals and real estate During the financial crisis last year, those assets provided valuable liquidity "Th... | At a modern factory in a city whose main claim to fame is an image of the Virgin Mary revered for granting miracles, Mexican pharmaceuticals firm Grupo Collins churns out antibiotics and other medicines. But the United States contends that the company in Zapopan is not what it seems. The U.S. Treasury put Grupo Collins... | 10597 | <h4>Cartels are key to Mexico’s banking sector – collapse crushes the entire economy</h4><p><strong>Lange 10</p><p></strong>(Jason Lange, Correspondent, Washington, “From spas to banks, Mexico economy rides on drugs” Jan 22, 2010, http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/01/22/us-drugs-mexico-economy-idUSTRE60L0X120100122, ... | 1NC | OFF CASE | 1NC Mexico DA | 296358 | 6 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,412 | Legalization doesn’t solve stigma | Raymond ‘3 | Raymond ‘3
[Ph.D. Janice Raymond is a professor at the University of Massachusetts.¶ “Ten Reasons for Not Legalizing Prostitution ¶ And a Legal Response to the Demand for Prostitution.” (Published in simultaneously in hard copy in Journal of Trauma Practice, 2, 2003: ¶ pp. 315-332; and in Prostitution, Trafficking and ... | Legalization of prostitution increases clandestine, ¶ illegal and street prostitution. ¶ One goals of legalized prostitution was to move prostituted women indoors into ¶ brothels and clubs where they would be allegedly less vulnerable than in street ¶ prostitution. However, many women are in street prostitution because... | Legalization increases illegal and street prostitution women want ¶ to avoid being controlled by pimps (transformed in legalized ¶ systems into sex businessmen legalization may drive some into street prostitution legalization does not erase the stigma Because they must register and lose their anonymity, women are more ... | 4. Legalization/decriminalizaton of prostitution increases clandestine, ¶ illegal and street prostitution. ¶ ¶ One goals of legalized prostitution was to move prostituted women indoors into ¶ brothels and clubs where they would be allegedly less vulnerable than in street ¶ prostitution. However, many women are in stree... | 3510 | <h4><strong>Legalization doesn’t solve stigma </h4><p>Raymond ‘3</p><p></strong>[Ph.D. Janice Raymond is a professor at the University of Massachusetts.¶ “Ten Reasons for Not Legalizing Prostitution ¶ And a Legal Response to the Demand for Prostitution.” (Published in simultaneously in hard copy in Journal of Trauma Pr... | 1NR | Case | Ext – 1NC #2 | 62064 | 25 | null | 564680 | N | 6 | 1AC Prostitution Feminist Standpoint
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740,413 | Our starting point of class analysis resolves the case better than the 1AC | Cole 12 | Cole 12 | Preston’s pedagogical solutions are the abolition of both ‘whiteness’ and capitalism, of which the former is perhaps capitalism’s ‘weakest link’ There are major problems with ‘the abolition of whiteness’. it is too vague to have any practical implications hardly surprising given the abstract theorizing that preceded it... | There are major problems with ‘the abolition of whiteness’ it is too vague to have any practical implications how are white people to be persuaded to ‘abolish their whiteness’ what would follow it is open to misinterpretation abolition of ‘whiteness’ is useless as a unifier and counter-productive as a rallying point we... | Centre for Education for Social Justice @ Bishop Grosseteste U College Lincoln, (Mike, “Critical race theory in education, Marxism and abstract racial domination,” British Journal of Sociology of Education, 33:2, p. 167-183)
What then are the implications for educational practice? Preston’s pedagogical solutions are th... | 2370 | <h4>Our <u>starting point</u> of class analysis resolves the case better than the 1AC</h4><p><strong>Cole 12</p><p></strong>Centre for Education for Social Justice @ Bishop Grosseteste U College Lincoln, (Mike, “Critical race theory in education, Marxism and abstract racial domination,” British Journal of Sociology of ... | 2NC | Cap K | 2NC Alternative | 429850 | 14 | null | 564692 | N | 2 | 1AC - Marijuana Prohibition is Racist
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740,414 | That spills over and crushes the US econ | Olson 9 | Olson 9 | Mexico also remains vital for the U.S. economy, although the current economic slowdown presents special challenges that will have to be addressed with great care Mexico is the second destination for U.S. exports, border states economies are particularly tied with Mexico’ This degree of integration creates opportunities... | Mexico remains vital for the U.S. economy Mexico is the second destination for U.S. exports border states economies ¶are tied with Mexico integration generates ¶risks for spillover effects in times of economic ¶ crisis.An economic slowdown will affect the other and a full-scale crisis could send shockwaves across the b... | (Eric L., M.A., International Affairs, American University; B.A., History and Secondary Education, Trinity College, Associate Director of the Latin American Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, as a Senior Specialist in the Department for Promotion of Good Governance at the Org... | 1805 | <h4><strong>That spills over and crushes the US econ</h4><p>Olson 9 </p><p></strong>(Eric L., M.A., International Affairs, American University; B.A., History and Secondary Education, Trinity College, Associate Director of the Latin American Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, ... | 1NC | OFF CASE | 1NC Mexico DA | 301596 | 7 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,415 | Evaluating political costs and understanding tradeoffs key to prevent genocide | Lanz 8 | Lanz 8 | The fi rst is that resources are scarce and effective confl ict management requires priorities We need to think about what is most important and concentrate our resources – money, political capital, personnel – to achieve this objective The second lesson is that actors working in or on confl ict, whatever approach they... | resources are scarce and effective confl ict management requires priorities We need to think about what is most important and concentrate our resources – political capital to achieve this objective actors working in or on confl ict must be aware that their decisions and actions have opportunity costs and that they can ... | (David, Mediation Support Project for Swisspeace, “Conflict Management and Opportunity Cost: the International Response to the Darfur Crisis”)
There are no simple solutions for the contradictions outlined above – they represent complicated dilemmas and tricky trade-offs. It would be naïve to call for more coordination ... | 1865 | <h4><strong>Evaluating political costs and understanding tradeoffs key to prevent genocide</h4><p>Lanz 8</p><p></strong> (David, Mediation Support Project for Swisspeace, “Conflict Management and Opportunity Cost: the International Response to the Darfur Crisis”)</p><p>There are no simple solutions for the contradictio... | 1NR | MT | 1NR AT: K of Politics | 423864 | 2 | null | 564680 | N | 6 | 1AC Prostitution Feminist Standpoint
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740,416 | Only the alt solves—must foreground class struggle -- materialism forms the basis for all oppression, which then is subdivided by individual and collective structures | McLaren 4 | McLaren 4 | we are now in the midst of returning to the ‘most fundamental form of class struggle class struggle is ‘not yet a thing of the past’ those who seek to undermine its centrality are largely blind to the ‘needs of the large mass of people who are barely surviving capital's newly-honed mechanisms of globalized greed’ a mor... | a more comprehensive understanding of the historical juncture necessitates foregrounding class analysis This does not render secondary’ the concerns of those marginalized by race It is often assumed foregrounding capitalist social relations undermines the importance of attending to ‘difference’ or trivializes struggles... | Distinguished Fellow – Critical Studies @ Chapman U and UCLA urban schooling prof, and Scatamburlo-D’Annibale, associate professor of Communication – U Windsor, (Peter and Valerie, “Class Dismissed? Historical materialism and the politics of ‘difference’,” Educational Philosophy and Theory Vol. 36, Issue 2, p. 183-199)... | 11098 | <h4>Only the alt solves—must foreground class struggle -- materialism forms <u>the basis</u> for all oppression, which then is <u>subdivided</u><strong> by individual and collective structures</h4><p>McLaren</strong> <strong>4</p><p></strong>Distinguished Fellow – Critical Studies @ Chapman U and UCLA urban schooling p... | 2NC | Cap K | 2NC AT: Alt Bad | 46572 | 863 | null | 564692 | N | 2 | 1AC - Marijuana Prohibition is Racist
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740,417 | Nuclear war | Merlini 11 | Merlini 11 (Cesare Merlini, BA in humanities, holds a diploma for industrial engineering, nonresident Senior Fellow at the Center on the United States at the Brookings Institute, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Italian Institute of International Affairs, President of the Italian Institute of International Affa... | The first scenario entails the premature crumbling of the post-Westphalian system. One or more of the acute tensions apparent today evolves into an open and traditional conflict between states, perhaps even involving the use of nuclear weapons. The crisis might be triggered by a collapse of the global economic and fina... | The scenario entails the crumbling of the post-Westphalian system. tensions evolves into conflict between states involving the use of nuclear weapons. The crisis might be triggered by a collapse of the global economic system the rational approach would be sidestepped by a return to theocratic absolutes converging with ... | Two neatly opposed scenarios for the future of the world order illustrate the range of possibilities, albeit at the risk of oversimplification. The first scenario entails the premature crumbling of the post-Westphalian system. One or more of the acute tensions apparent today evolves into an open and traditional conflic... | 2134 | <h4>Nuclear war</h4><p><strong>Merlini 11</strong> (Cesare Merlini, BA in humanities, holds a diploma for industrial engineering, nonresident Senior Fellow at the Center on the United States at the Brookings Institute, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Italian Institute of International Affairs, President of the... | 1NC | OFF CASE | 1NC Mexico DA | 32231 | 280 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,418 | You should evaluate our politics DA. Their dogmatic refusal to consider political process implications is grounded in the same destructive blindness the aff criticizes. | Chandler ‘3 | David Chandler, Centre for the Study of Democracy - University of Westminster, ‘3 | attention to a political mission, beyond petty partisanship through foreign policy activism has been an important resource of authority and credibility for western political leaders. The ability to project or symbolise unifying ‘values’ has become a core leadership attribute Bush’s shaky start was transformed by his sp... | attention to a political mission has been an important resource of credibility for political leaders. search for a moral grounding has led to an increasingly moralised good versus evil’ view of crisis situations The emphasis on ethical policy commitments enables governments to declare an unequivocal moral stance, which... | (British Journal of Politics and International Relations 5.3, “Rhetoric without responsibility”)
The attention to the articulation of a political mission, beyond the petty partisanship of left and right, through foreign policy activism abroad has been an important resource of authority and credibility for western polit... | 5768 | <h4>You should evaluate our politics DA. Their dogmatic refusal to consider political process implications is grounded in the same destructive blindness the aff criticizes.</h4><p>David <u><strong>Chandler</u></strong>, Centre for the Study of Democracy - University of Westminster, <u><strong>‘3</p><p></u></strong>(Bri... | 1NR | MT | 1NR AT: K of Politics | 423866 | 2 | null | 564680 | N | 6 | 1AC Prostitution Feminist Standpoint
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740,419 | The 1AC misreads history—slavery was not based on racial antagonism but economic exploitation | Alexander 2010 , The New Press 2010, pages 23-25 | Alexander 2010 (Michelle, associate professor of law, Ohio State University, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, former direct of ACLU’S Racial Justice Project, J.D., Stanford Law School) The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, The New Press 2010, pages 23-25 | Only in the past few centuries, owing largely to European imperialism, have people been classified along racial lines in America, the idea of race emerged as a means of reconciling chattel slavery as well as the extermination of American Indians—with ideals of freedom when settlements remained small, indentured servitu... | Only in the past few centuries, owing to European imperialism, have people been classified along racial lines in America, race emerged as a means of reconciling chattel slavery as well as extermination of American Indians with freedom when settlements remained small, indentured servitude was the dominant means of labor... | The concept of race is a relatively recent development. Only in the past few centuries, owing largely to European imperialism, have the world’s people been classified along racial lines. Here, in America, the idea of race emerged as a means of reconciling chattel slavery—as well as the extermination of American Indians... | 5803 | <h4>The 1AC misreads history—slavery was not based on racial antagonism but economic exploitation</h4><p><strong>Alexander 2010</strong> (Michelle, associate professor of law, Ohio State University, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, former direct of ACLU’S Racial Justice Project, J.D., Stanford Law ... | 2NC | Cap K | 2NC AT: History | 113645 | 59 | null | 564692 | N | 2 | 1AC - Marijuana Prohibition is Racist
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740,420 | CP Text: The United States should hold a binding national referendum to coincide with the 2014 midterm elections on the legalization of the plant Cannabis sativa L., whether growing or not; the seeds thereof; the resin extracted from any part of such plant; and every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or... | null | null | null | null | null | null | <h4>CP Text: The United States should hold a binding national referendum to coincide with the 2014 midterm elections on the legalization of the plant Cannabis sativa L., whether growing or not; the seeds thereof; the resin extracted from any part of such plant; and every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture... | 1NC | OFF CASE | 1NC Referendum CP | 429851 | 1 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,421 | The CP solves 100% of the case, avoids the midterms DA and provides Uniqueness for it. A national referendum on marijuana legalization would pass – that’s the 1NC Marczyk. That means that legalization still happens, it just happens three months from now – no 1AC card is specific enough to give a warrant for why that wo... | null | null | null | null | null | null | <h4>The CP solves 100% of the case, avoids the midterms DA and provides Uniqueness for it. A national referendum on marijuana legalization would pass – that’s the 1NC Marczyk. That means that legalization still happens, it just happens three months from now – no 1AC card is specific enough to give a warrant for why tha... | 1NR | CP | 2NC Overview | 429852 | 1 | null | 564692 | N | 2 | 1AC - Marijuana Prohibition is Racist
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740,422 | Extinction justifies sacrificing the lesser number | null | Kateb 92 – Prof Politics, Princeton (George, The Inner Ocean, p 12) | null | null | The main point, however, is that utilitarianism has a necessary pace in any democratic country's normal political deliberations. But its advocates must know its place, which ordinarily is only to help to decide what the theory of rights leaves alone. When may rights be overridden by government? I have two sorts of case... | 1890 | <h4>Extinction justifies sacrificing the lesser number</h4><p>Kateb 92<strong> </strong>– Prof Politics, Princeton<strong> </strong>(George, The Inner Ocean, p 12)</p><p>The main point, however, is that utilitarianism has a necessary pace in any democratic country's normal political deliberations. But its advocates mus... | 1NR | MT | 1NR – Util F/L | 74232 | 12 | null | 564680 | N | 6 | 1AC Prostitution Feminist Standpoint
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740,423 | The referendum passes and provides uniqueness to the midterms disad | Marczyk 13 | Marczyk 13 | The writing is on the wall; marijuana will be completely legal in the U.S. within 10 years. Demographics project legalization with a 2-1 majority among younger voters legalization is just a matter of time You cannot legislate against a social movement that is on the right side of history. prohibition seems to be crumbl... | marijuana will be legal in 10 years Demographics project legalization with a 2-1 majority legalization is just a matter of time You cannot legislate against a social movement prohibition seems to be crumbling The majority vote in Colorado is a directive to the fed to stand down. These states are a strong representative... | Ron, former drug education specialist and M.S. in cardiac rehabilitation and exercise physiology, “Worth Repeating: ‘Marijuana Spring’ Will Save Future of Earth”, http://www.tokesignals.com/worth-repeating-marijuana-spring-will-save-future-of-earth/, October 18th, AB
The writing is on the wall; marijuana will be comple... | 3364 | <h4>The referendum passes and provides uniqueness to the midterms disad<strong> </h4><p>Marczyk 13</p><p></strong>Ron, former drug education specialist and M.S. in cardiac rehabilitation and exercise physiology, “Worth Repeating: ‘Marijuana Spring’ Will Save Future of Earth”, http://www.tokesignals.com/worth-repeating-... | 1NC | OFF CASE | 1NC Referendum CP | 429554 | 4 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,424 | Life should be valued as apriori – it precedes the ability to value anything else | Kacou 8 | Kacou 8
Amien Kacou. 2008. WHY EVEN MIND? On The A Priori Value Of “Life”, Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, Vol 4, No 1-2 (2008) cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/92/184 | finding things good can certainly not exist in any world without consciousness (i.e., without “life,” pleasure is, not only uniquely characteristic of life but also, the core expression of goodness in life—the most general sign or phenomenon for favorable conscious valuation something primitively valuable is attainable... | finding things good can not exist without consciousness without “life only in living therefore, a priori, life ought to be indefinitely) pursued for the sake of preserving the possibility of finding good the fact that we have (subjective) desire for life shows life to have (objective) value | Furthermore, that manner of finding things good that is in pleasure can certainly not exist in any world without consciousness (i.e., without “life,” as we now understand the word)—slight analogies put aside. In fact, we can begin to develop a more sophisticated definition of the concept of “pleasure,” in the broadest ... | 3476 | <h4><strong>Life should be valued as apriori – it precedes the ability to value anything else</h4><p>Kacou 8</p><p></strong>Amien Kacou. 2008. WHY EVEN MIND? On The A Priori Value Of “Life”, Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, Vol 4, No 1-2 (2008) cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/art... | 1NR | MT | 1NR – Util F/L | 96600 | 214 | null | 564680 | N | 6 | 1AC Prostitution Feminist Standpoint
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740,425 | Debating over the specific merits of policies using empirical evidence is necessary to solve propagandist takeover and serial policy failure. Evaluating opportunity costs is key. | null | Anderson 3 – Lisa Anderson, Dean of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia, former President of the Middle East Studies Association, November 2003, online: http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/871 | We have a special responsibility, in fostering intellectual exchange, promoting high standards of scholarship, enhancing education and encouraging public awareness of the Middle East to ensure that our academic collaborators and colleagues are not treated like enemy aliens, their religions maligned and motives impugned... | We have a responsibility, in fostering intellectual exchange, promoting high standards of scholarship the academy and the policy world cannot afford to be mutually incomprehensible policy can shape scholarship and scholarship should shape policy we should speak publicly because our opinions are much better informed tha... | Yet, there is far more that we must do, as an institution and as individuals. We have a special responsibility, in fostering intellectual exchange, promoting high standards of scholarship, enhancing education and encouraging public awareness of the Middle East to ensure that our academic collaborators and colleagues ar... | 10266 | <h4>Debating over the specific merits of policies using empirical evidence is necessary to solve propagandist takeover and serial policy failure. Evaluating opportunity costs is key.</h4><p>Anderson 3 – Lisa Anderson, Dean of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia, former President of the Middle Ea... | 1NR | CP | 2NC Process Over Product | 429853 | 1 | null | 564692 | N | 2 | 1AC - Marijuana Prohibition is Racist
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740,426 | Their epistemology of threat production justifies nuclear lashout to eliminate the threat -- causes extinction | Massumi 07 | Massumi 07 | Preemption remains the official military strategy of the United States. preemption is an operative logic of power defining a political age one that combines an ontology with an epistemology in such a way as to trace itself out as a self-propelling tendency Preemption is not prevention. Although the goal of both is to n... | Preemption is not prevention Epistemologically, prevention assumes an ability to assess threats Prevention operates in an knowable world in uncertainty is a lack of information, The quickest way for a process to acquire its own cause is for it to produce one , the process must take the effect it seeks to avoid (nuclear... | Brian, Communication Department of the Université de Montréal, http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/theory_and_event/ v010/10.2massumi.html, “Potential Politics and the Primacy of Preemption”
It is certain that there will be adjustments. But it should be remembered that Bush referred to a change in "tactics," not a change in ... | 7104 | <h4>Their epistemology of threat production justifies nuclear lashout to eliminate the threat -- causes extinction </h4><p><strong><mark>Massumi 07</strong></mark> </p><p>Brian, Communication Department of the Université de Montréal, http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/theory_and_event/ v010/10.2massumi.html, “Potential Poli... | 1NC | OFF CASE | 1NC Security K | 57061 | 49 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,427 | Dems win- Blumenthal and Wang both project | TDS 9/12 | TDS 9/12 | when Huffpost Pollster joins the Princeton Election Consortium in forecasting that Democrats are more likely to keep their Senate majority, that's good news Huffpost calculates a 56 percent "chance that Democrats will keep control of the Senate." 56 percent doesn't allow all that much breathing space. But 8 weeks from ... | when Huffpost joins the Princeton Election Consortium in forecasting Dem s are more likely to keep their Senate majority, that's good news Huffpost calculates a 56 percent "chance Democrats will keep control of the Senate." 56 percent doesn't allow much breathing space. But 8 weeks from election day it's a sign Dems ar... | The Democratic Strategist: Huffpost Pollster Sees 56 Percent Chance Dems Will Hold Senate Majority http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/strategist/2014/09/huffpost_pollster_sees_56_perc.php 09/12/14 [AW]
Don't bet the ranch on it just yet, but when Huffpost Pollster joins the Princeton Election Consortium in forecast... | 2373 | <h4><strong>Dems win- Blumenthal and Wang both project</h4><p>TDS 9/12</p><p></strong>The Democratic Strategist: Huffpost Pollster Sees 56 Percent Chance Dems Will Hold Senate Majority http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/strategist/2014/09/huffpost_pollster_sees_56_perc.php 09/12/14 [AW]</p><p>Don't bet the ranch on... | 1NR | MT | 1NR Uniqueness Wall | 429854 | 4 | null | 564680 | N | 6 | 1AC Prostitution Feminist Standpoint
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740,428 | Refusing to calculate masks the most totalitarian calculations. Refusal to be responsible for all the potential outcomes of our actions is the worst for violence and totally unethical | Campbell, Professor of International Politics at the University of Newcastle, 1999 | Campbell, Professor of International Politics at the University of Newcastle, 1999
(David, “The Deterritorialization of Responsibility,” Moral Spaces, Eds. Michael J. Shapiro & David Campbell, p. 45-7) | Derrida argues, "that justice exceeds law and calculation, that the unpresentable exceeds the determinable cannot and should not serve as alibi for staying out of juridico-political battles, within an institution or a state, or between institutions or states and others incalculable justice requires us to calculate It i... | justice requires us to calculate left to itself, the incalculable and giving ) idea of justice can always be re-appropriated by the most perverse calculation The necessity of calculating the incalculable thus responds to a duty, that compels the decision to avoid "the bad calculation This is the necessary condition," f... | That undecidability resides within the decision, Derrida argues, "that justice exceeds law and calculation, that the unpresentable exceeds the determinable cannot and should not serve as alibi for staying out of juridico-political battles, within an institution or a state, or between institutions or states and others."... | 3102 | <h4><strong>Refusing to calculate masks the most totalitarian calculations. Refusal to be responsible for all the potential outcomes of our actions is the worst for violence and totally unethical</h4><p><mark>Campbell</mark>, Professor of International Politics at the University of Newcastle, 19<mark>99</mark> </p><p><... | 1NR | CP | 2NC Process Over Product | 1373885 | 11 | null | 564692 | N | 2 | 1AC - Marijuana Prohibition is Racist
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740,429 | The alternative is to reject the affirmative’s security logic | Neocleous 08 | Neocleous 08 | Mark, Prof. of Government @ Brunel, [Critique of Security, 185-6]
Security politics is, , an anti-politics,"' reinforcing security fetishism and the monopolistic character of security on the political imagination. We therefore need to get beyond security politics, not add yet more 'sectors' to it you take away security... | Security politics is anti-politics," We need to get beyond security politics not add more 'sectors' to it The task is not to fill the hole with another vision of security, but to fight for an alternative political language which allow us to forge another kind of politics it requires accepting that insecurity is part of... | Mark, Prof. of Government @ Brunel, [Critique of Security, 185-6]
could be told - what might count as having achieved it. Security politics is, in this sewnse, an anti-politics,"' dominating political discourse in much the same manner as the security state tries to dominate human beings, reinforcing security fetishism ... | 3600 | <h4>The alternative is to reject the affirmative’s security logic </h4><p><strong><mark>Neocleous 08</strong></mark> </p><p><u>Mark, Prof. of Government @ Brunel, [Critique of Security, 185-6]</p><p></u>could be told - what might count as having achieved it. <u><mark>Security politics is</mark>,</u> in this sewnse<u>, ... | 1NC | OFF CASE | 1NC Security K | 421953 | 6 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,430 | Poll based models are better than fundamentals | Wang 5/27 | Wang 5/27 <Sam, data scientist, a co-founder of the Princeton Election Consortium and an associate professor of neuroscience and molecular biology at Princeton University, better predictor of midterms than Silver, “The War of the Senate Models,” http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/the-war-of-the-senate-model... | because of this reliance on national public opinion, as a general rule, with a Democratic president in power, the more a model relies on non-poll-based assumptions, the more it will favor the Republicans. When it comes to extremely close races Type 1 models are of limited use Modelers put in lots of factors that have b... | because of reliance on public opinion with a Democratic president the more a model relies on non-poll-based assumptions, the more it will favor Republicans each factor you add contributes “noise”—accumulating uncertainties Once we have a sufficient amount of polling data fundamentals lose their importance for predictio... | Type 1: Fundamentals only. Type 1 models, which rely on no polling data at all, have the advantage that they can be created before the campaign even starts. The Monkey Cage model is currently pure Type 1, relying on a large number of fundamentals, from candidate “quality” to economic growth. This year, the most importa... | 4274 | <h4>Poll based models are better than fundamentals</h4><p><strong>Wang 5/27</strong> <Sam, data scientist, a co-founder of the Princeton Election Consortium and an associate professor of neuroscience and molecular biology at Princeton University, better predictor of midterms than Silver, “The War of the Senate Models,”... | 1NR | MT | 1NR Uniqueness Wall | 224333 | 6 | null | 564680 | N | 6 | 1AC Prostitution Feminist Standpoint
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740,431 | Focusing on the details of policy implementation is key to solve inevitable extinction. Awareness of the issue is insufficient – debating rules and procedures is key to engaging the political | Beres 2003 Louis Rene, Journal and Courier, June 5 ln) | Beres 2003 (professor of international law @ Purdue University, ’03; Louis Rene, Journal and Courier, June 5 ln) | within a few short years, expanding tribalism will produce several new genocides and proliferating nuclear weapons will generate one or more regional nuclear wars. various governments will try to deflect our attention, but it will be a vain effort. What shall we do? For a start, we must all begin to look carefully beh... | expanding tribalism will produce several new genocides and proliferating nuclear weapons will generate one or more regional nuclear wars , we must Reject analyses of day-to-day events in favor of penetrating assessments of world affairs some college students are exposed to an occasional course in "global awareness," b... | For us, other rude awakenings are unavoidable, some of which could easily overshadow the horrors of Sept. 11. There can be little doubt that, within a few short years, expanding tribalism will produce several new genocides and proliferating nuclear weapons will generate one or more regional nuclear wars. Paralyzed by f... | 4127 | <h4>Focusing on the details of policy implementation is key to solve inevitable extinction. Awareness of the issue is insufficient – debating rules and procedures is key to engaging the political</h4><p><u><strong>Beres 2003</u></strong> (professor of international law @ Purdue University, ’03; <u><strong>Louis Rene, ... | 1NR | CP | 2NC Process Over Product | 86619 | 23 | null | 564692 | N | 2 | 1AC - Marijuana Prohibition is Racist
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740,432 | Advantage is non unique – doesn’t account for august 2013 memo that created fed-state co-op | Flatow 13 | Nicole Flatow 8-29-13 Journalist, “BREAKING: Justice Department Won’t Challenge State Marijuana Laws, Announces Major Shift In Law Enforcement Policy”, http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/08/29/2551851/breaking-justice-department-wont-challenge-state-marijuana-laws-announces-major-shift-law-enforcement-policy/ Access... | the Department of Justice also issued new guidance to prosecutors today calling for scaled back prosecution not just of users of marijuana, but also of distributors and growers complying with state law: prosecutors should continue to review marijuana cases and on a case-by-case basis and weigh all available information... | the Department of Justice also issued new guidance to prosecutors today calling for scaled back prosecution not just of users of marijuana, but also of distributors and growers complying with state law: prosecutors should continue to review marijuana cases and on a case-by-case basis in compliance with a strong and eff... | More than six months after Washington and Colorado passed ballot initiatives to legalize and regulate recreational marijuana, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said today he would not sue to block the implementation of the laws — at least not until he sees how the laws operate in effect. This announcement came as littl... | 2739 | <h4>Advantage is non unique – doesn’t account for august 2013 memo that created fed-state co-op</h4><p>Nicole <strong>Flatow</strong> 8-29-<strong>13 </strong>Journalist, “BREAKING: Justice Department Won’t Challenge State Marijuana Laws, Announces Major Shift In Law Enforcement Policy”, http://thinkprogress.org/justic... | 1NC | CASE | AT: Federalism | 429855 | 5 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,433 | No | Kurtz 9/12 -save-democrats-this-fall/>#SPS | Kurtz 9/12 <Howard, Fox, “Why Obama’s assault on ISIS probably won’t save the Democrats this fall,” http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/09/12/why-obamas-assault-on-isis-probably-wont-save-democrats-this-fall/>#SPS | People don’t usually vote on foreign policy unless we’re engaged in a full-fledged war. If the assault on ISIS doesn’t have that feel by November, most folks will do what they usually do by voting their pocketbooks and rendering a judgment on the incumbent. | People don’t usually vote on foreign policy unless we’re engaged in a full-fledged war. If the assault on ISIS doesn’t have that feel by November, most folks will do what they usually do by voting their pocketbooks and rendering a judgment on the incumbent. | People don’t usually vote on foreign policy unless we’re engaged in a full-fledged war. If the assault on ISIS doesn’t have that feel by November, most folks will do what they usually do by voting their pocketbooks and rendering a judgment on the incumbent. | 257 | <h4><strong>No</h4><p>Kurtz 9/12</strong> <Howard, Fox, “Why Obama’s assault on ISIS probably won’t save the Democrats this fall,” http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/09/12/why-obamas-assault-on-isis-probably-wont<u><strong>-save-democrats-this-fall/>#SPS</p><p><mark>People don’t usually vote on foreign policy unless ... | 1NR | MT | 1NR AT: Obama Foreign Policy | 429856 | 1 | null | 564680 | N | 6 | 1AC Prostitution Feminist Standpoint
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740,434 | B.) Certainty -- | null | null | null | null | null | null | <h4>B.) <u>Certainty</u> --</h4> | 1NR | CP | AT: Perm Do The CP | 429857 | 1 | null | 564692 | N | 2 | 1AC - Marijuana Prohibition is Racist
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740,435 | Pot is irrelevant- tons of alt causes | Natelson 14 | Natelson 14 (Rob, Independence Institute's Senior Fellow in Constitutional Jurisprudence, 1-4-14, "Lessons for Federalism from Colorado's Pot Legalization" The American Thinker) www.americanthinker.com/2014/01/lessons_for_federalism_from_colorados_pot_legalization.html | From Colorado's marijuana "legalization" some federalism advocates draw a conclusion that the only way to restore constitutional limits is for constitutionalists to form alliances with hard core "progressives" in areas of common concern There are, however, at least two problems with this approach. the few areas of comm... | From Colorado's legalization" some draw a conclusion that the only way to restore constitutional limits is for constitutionalists to form alliances with progressives the few areas of common concern are mostly very small and of limited importance. "Progressives" very rarely take a genuine pro-federalism position, and wh... | From Colorado's marijuana "legalization" some federalism advocates draw a conclusion that is both (1) obvious and (2) wrong. The conclusion is that the only way to restore constitutional limits is for constitutionalists to form alliances with hard core "progressives" in areas of common concern. After all, wasn't it a r... | 778 | <h4>Pot is irrelevant- tons of alt causes</h4><p><strong>Natelson 14<u></strong> (Rob, Independence Institute's Senior Fellow in Constitutional Jurisprudence, 1-4-14, "Lessons for Federalism from Colorado's Pot Legalization" The American Thinker) www.americanthinker.com/2014/01/lessons_for_federalism_from_colorados_pot... | 1NC | CASE | AT: Federalism | 56535 | 46 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,436 | First - “Resolved” means | null | re·solve verb \ri-ˈzälv, -ˈzȯlv also -ˈzäv or -ˈzȯv\ | : to find an answer or solution to (something) : to settle or solve (something)
to make a definite decision to do something | to make a definite decision to do something | : to find an answer or solution to (something) : to settle or solve (something)
: to make a definite and serious decision to do something
That’s Merriam Webster 14 [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/resolved] | 216 | <h4>First - “Resolved” means </h4><p>re·solve verb \ri-ˈzälv, -ˈzȯlv also -ˈzäv or -ˈzȯv\</p><p><u><strong>: to find an answer or solution to (something) : to settle or solve (something)</p><p></u></strong>: <u><strong><mark>to make a definite</u></strong></mark> and serious <u><strong><mark>decision to do something<... | 1NR | CP | AT: Perm Do The CP | 429571 | 3 | null | 564692 | N | 2 | 1AC - Marijuana Prohibition is Racist
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740,437 | GOP Majority would cut Obama EPA Regs | The Hill, 9/6 | The Hill, 9/6 | Republican Senate candidate Dan Sullivan blamed Obama and Senate Democrats for locking up the country's energy resources , vowing that a GOP-controlled Senate would be the best fix The Obama-Reid agenda has locked up America’s natural resources, burdened small businesses throughout the country with an avalanche of regu... | Sullivan blamed Obama and Senate Democrats for locking up the country's energy resources vowing that a GOP-controlled Senate would be the best fix He added that the E P A are trying to "dictate how we manage our state-owned lands That could all change if voters put Republicans in charge If Republicans win the Senate he... | [Laura Barron-Lopez, “Senate hopeful: GOP-majority would squash Obama's climate agenda” The Hill, http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/216827-senate-hopeful-gop-majority-would-squash-obamas-climate-agenda, CBE]
Republican Senate candidate Dan Sullivan (Alaska) blamed President Obama and Senate Democrats for loc... | 2187 | <h4><strong>GOP Majority would cut Obama EPA Regs</h4><p>The Hill, 9/6</p><p></strong>[Laura Barron-Lopez, “Senate hopeful: GOP-majority would squash Obama's climate agenda” The Hill, http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/216827-senate-hopeful-gop-majority-would-squash-obamas-climate-agenda, CBE]</p><p><u><stron... | 1NR | MT | 1NR Internal Link Wall | 429530 | 6 | null | 564680 | N | 6 | 1AC Prostitution Feminist Standpoint
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740,438 | Cooperative federalism is resilient | Greve 2K (Michael, John G. Searle Scholar, American Enterprise Institute; Ph.D. (Government) Cornell University, 1987, “Against Cooperative Federalism” Mississippi Law Journal, 70 Miss. L.J. 557, Lexis) | Greve 2K (Michael, John G. Searle Scholar, American Enterprise Institute; Ph.D. (Government) Cornell University, 1987, “Against Cooperative Federalism” Mississippi Law Journal, 70 Miss. L.J. 557, Lexis) | Cooperative federalism is enormously resilient and self-stabilizing. The range of conflict within the system is defined by the participant-beneficiaries' fight over the terms of cooperation. State and local governments will complain about federal imposition; national interest groups and congressional patrons will compl... | Cooperative federalism is enormously resilient and self-stabilizing Furor over unfunded mandates produces more money and less onerous federal conditions; interest group complaints leads to the re-categorization of federal programs system returns to its bargaining equilibrium cooperative arrangements are virtually immun... | Cooperative federalism is enormously resilient and, moreover, self-stabilizing. The range of conflict within the system is defined by the participant-beneficiaries' fight over the terms of cooperation. State and local governments will complain about unfunded mandates and federal imposition; national interest groups and... | 1314 | <h4>Cooperative federalism is resilient</h4><p><strong>Greve 2K<u> (Michael, John G. Searle Scholar, American Enterprise Institute; Ph.D. (Government) Cornell University, 1987, “Against Cooperative Federalism” Mississippi Law Journal, 70 Miss. L.J. 557, Lexis)</p><p><mark>Cooperative federalism is enormously resilient ... | 1NC | CASE | AT: Federalism | 56547 | 27 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,439 | Warming is real and anthropogenic–best climate data and models | Mueller 12 | Mueller 12
(The New York Times, Richard A. Mueller, July 28, 2012, “The Conversion of a Climate Change Skeptic” Richard A. Muller, a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a former MacArthur Foundation fellow, is the author, most recently, of “Energy for Future Presidents: The Science Behin... | CALL me a converted skeptic. Three years ago I identified problems in previous climate studies that, in my mind, threw doubt on the very existence of global warming. Last year, following an intensive research I concluded that global warming was real I’m now going a step further: Humans are almost entirely the cause. My... | following intensive research I concluded global warming was real Humans almost entirely the cause. average temperature has risen by two and a half degrees Fahrenheit over the past 250 years all of this results from human emission of greenhouse gases These findings are stronger than the I.P.C.C Our Berkeley Earth approa... | CALL me a converted skeptic. Three years ago I identified problems in previous climate studies that, in my mind, threw doubt on the very existence of global warming. Last year, following an intensive research effort involving a dozen scientists, I concluded that global warming was real and that the prior estimates of t... | 4578 | <h4>Warming is real and anthropogenic–<strong>best climate data and models</h4><p>Mueller 12 </p><p></strong>(The New York Times, Richard A. Mueller, July 28, 2012, “The Conversion of a Climate Change Skeptic” Richard A. Muller, a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a former MacArthur Fo... | 1NR | MT | 1NR AT: Warming Not Real | 120367 | 64 | null | 564680 | N | 6 | 1AC Prostitution Feminist Standpoint
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740,440 | Second - “Should” means | null | Should | to express obligation or expediency | to express obligation or expediency | 1—used in auxiliary function to express condition <if he should leave his father, his father would die — Genesis 44:22(Revised Standard Version)> 2—used in auxiliary function to express obligation, propriety, or expediency <'tis commanded I should do so — Shakespeare> <this is as it should be — H. L. Savage> <you shoul... | 437 | <h4>Second - “Should” means </h4><p>Should<u><strong> </p><p></u></strong>1—used in auxiliary function to express condition <if he should leave his father, his father would die — Genesis 44:22(Revised Standard Version)> 2—used in auxiliary function <u><strong><mark>to express obligation</u></strong></mark>, propriety, ... | 1NR | CP | AT: Perm Do The CP | 429575 | 3 | null | 564692 | N | 2 | 1AC - Marijuana Prohibition is Racist
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740,441 | Emerging economies make competitiveness decline inevitable and alt causes overwhelm their internal link | CNN ‘10 | CNN ‘10 | [http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2010/10/01/david-rubenstein-u-s-is-losing-its-competitive-edge/?section=magazines_fortune]
Ever since China's economy surpassed Japan's this past summer, speculation has escalated over when the country might take over the United States as the world's largest. the U.S. faces losing its ... | the U.S. faces losing its competitive edge amid the rise of emerging economics – several pressing factors are threatening America's competitive edge huge deficits and government debt, high unemployment, and widening income disparities. it's inevitable that China and India surpass the U.S. economy – simply because th... | [http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2010/10/01/david-rubenstein-u-s-is-losing-its-competitive-edge/?section=magazines_fortune]
Ever since China's economy surpassed Japan's this past summer, speculation has escalated over when the country might take over the United States as the world's largest. The estimate has ranged from... | 2564 | <h4><strong>Emerging economies make competitiveness decline inevitable and alt causes overwhelm their internal link </h4><p>CNN ‘10</p><p><u>[http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2010/10/01/david-rubenstein-u-s-is-losing-its-competitive-edge/?section=magazines_fortune]</p><p>Ever since China's economy surpassed Japan's this ... | 1NC | CASE | AT: Federalism | 199640 | 7 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,442 | Err neg — their evidence is a joke | Plait 12/11/12 | Plait 12/11/12 | , AM
was thinking of writing a lengthy post about climate denial being completely unscientific nonsense but then Powell wrote a post that is basically a slam-dunk of debunking He looked up how many peer-reviewed scientific papers were published in professional journals about global warming, and compared the ones suppor... | Powell looked up how many peer-reviewed papers published in professional journals about warming and compared the ones supporting the idea that we’re heating up compared to those that don’t Powell looked at 13,950 articles. how many disputed climate change? Twenty-four Science thrives on dissenting ideas If there is act... | Phil, Creator of Bad Astronomy, is an astronomer, lecturer, and author. After 10years working on Hubble Space Telescope data and six more working on astronomy education, he struck out on his own as a writer, “Why Climate Change Denial Is Just Hot Air,” http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2012/12/11/climate_change_... | 2229 | <h4><strong>Err neg — their evidence is a joke</h4><p>Plait 12/11/12</p><p></strong>Phil, Creator of Bad Astronomy, is an astronomer, lecturer, and author. After 10years working on Hubble Space Telescope data and six more working on astronomy education, he struck out on his own as a writer, “Why Climate Change Denial I... | 1NR | MT | 1NR AT: Warming Not Real | 271758 | 4 | null | 564680 | N | 6 | 1AC Prostitution Feminist Standpoint
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740,443 | Third - “Substantial” means:
The words “outward, open, actual, visible, substantial, and exclusive,” in connection with a change of possession, mean substantially the same thing. They mean not concealed, not hidden, exposed to view, free from concealment, dissimulation, reserve, or disguise; in full existence; denotin... | The word substantial mean in full existence; denoting that which not merely can be, but is opposed to potential, genuine; certain absolute real at present time | null | null | null | null | null | <h4>Third - “Substantial” means:</h4><p><u><strong>The word</u></strong>s “outward, open, actual, visible, <u><strong>substantial</u></strong>, and exclusive,” in connection with a change of possession, mean substantially the same thing. <u>They <strong>mean</u></strong> not concealed, not hidden, exposed to view, free... | 1NR | CP | AT: Perm Do The CP | 429858 | 1 | null | 564692 | N | 2 | 1AC - Marijuana Prohibition is Racist
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740,444 | Hegemony isn’t key to peace | Fettweis, 11 | Fettweis, 11 Christopher J. Fettweis, Department of Political Science, Tulane University, 9/26/11, Free Riding or Restraint? Examining European Grand Strategy, Comparative Strategy, 30:316–332, EBSCO | there is no evidence to support a direct relationship between U.S. activism and international stability the limited data we do have suggest the opposite may be true During the 90s the U S cut back on its defense spending . By 1998, the United States was spending $100 billion less on defense in real terms than it had in... | there is no evidence to support a relationship between U.S. activism and stability During the 90s the U S cut defense The verdict is plain: The world grew more peaceful while the U S cut its forces. No state seemed to believe that its security was endangered No militaries enhanced no security dilemmas or arms races no ... | It is perhaps worth noting that there is no evidence to support a direct relationship between the relative level of U.S. activism and international stability. In fact, the limited data we do have suggest the opposite may be true. During the 1990s, the United States cut back on its defense spending fairly substantially.... | 4559 | <h4>Hegemony isn’t key to peace</h4><p><strong>Fettweis, 11</strong> Christopher J. Fettweis<u>, Department of Political Science, Tulane University, 9/26/11, Free Riding or Restraint? Examining European Grand Strategy, Comparative Strategy, 30:316–332, EBSCO</p><p></u>It is perhaps worth noting that <u><strong><mark>th... | 1NC | CASE | AT: Federalism | 42650 | 583 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,445 | That’s Words and Phrases ‘64 [40 W&P 759] | null | null | null | null | null | null | <h4><mark>That’s Words and Phrases ‘64</mark> [40 W&P 759] </h4> | 1NR | CP | AT: Perm Do The CP | 429859 | 1 | null | 564692 | N | 2 | 1AC - Marijuana Prohibition is Racist
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740,446 | The perm severs all of these mandates - the counterplan doesn’t certainly result in the plan - it puts it to a vote. The CHANCE that the plan isn’t done means the perm severs the firm, certain and genuine implementation of the plan that they have to defend. | null | null | null | null | null | null | <h4>The perm severs all of these mandates - the counterplan doesn’t certainly result in the plan - it puts it to a vote. The CHANCE that the plan isn’t done means the perm severs the firm, certain and genuine implementation of the plan that they have to defend.</h4> | 1NR | CP | AT: Perm Do The CP | 429860 | 1 | null | 564692 | N | 2 | 1AC - Marijuana Prohibition is Racist
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740,447 | Heg is unsustainable Layne 10(Christopher Layne, Professor and Robert M. Gates Chair in National Security at Texas A&M's George H.W. Bush School of Government & Public Service. "Graceful decline: the end of Pax Americana". The American Conservative. May 2010. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_7060/is_5_9/ai_n542235... | China's economy has been growing much more rapidly than the United States' it will overtake the U.S. as the world's largest economy around 2020. China will use its increasing wealth to build formidable military power and that it will seek to become the dominant power in East Asia United States of 2010 lives are far dif... | null | null | null | null | null | <h4>Heg is unsustainable <strong>Layne 10</strong>(Christopher Layne, Professor and Robert M. Gates Chair in National Security at Texas A&M's George H.W. Bush School of Government & Public Service. "Graceful decline: the end of Pax Americana". The American Conservative. May 2010. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_7... | 1NC | CASE | AT: Federalism | 429861 | 1 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,448 | Innovation solves – 5 platforms | Reuters 3-28 | Reuters 3-28 (Monsanto Blog, citing Dr. Robb Fraley, Ph.D in microbiology and biochemistry from the University of Illinois, technical advisor to numerous government agencies, on the editorial boards of numerous scientific journals, fellow at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, DATE \@ "M/d/yyyy" 9... | Fraley outlined the range of challenges faced by farmers today, including the vast impact of climate change future advances in agricultural technology would be realized from a combination of a systems approach that has five distinct technology platforms: breeding, biotechnology, crop protection, biological, and data sc... | Fraley outlined the challenges faced by farmers including climate change advances in technology would be realized from five distinct platforms: breeding, biotechnology, crop protection, biological, and data science. These platforms will enable farmers to operate more efficiently and farm more sustainably | Fraley outlined the range of challenges faced by farmers today, including the vast impact of climate change, which is already leading to more volatile weather and drought conditions, changing crop planting zones and increased threats from insects, weeds and disease. Fraley predicted that future advances in agricultural... | 627 | <h4>Innovation solves – 5 platforms</h4><p><strong>Reuters 3-28</strong> (Monsanto Blog, citing Dr. Robb Fraley, Ph.D in microbiology and biochemistry from the University of Illinois, technical advisor to numerous government agencies, on the editorial boards of numerous scientific journals, fellow at the American Assoc... | 1NC | CASE | AT: Cali Water | 429863 | 1 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,449 | Severance of certainty is a voting issue, particularly on this topic -- it allows the aff to say the plan might not be done in order to get out of any disad and still garner advantages based on cooperative federalism, democratic representation or the perception of the war on drugs | null | null | null | null | null | null | <h4>Severance of certainty is a voting issue, particularly on this topic -- it allows the aff to say the plan might not be done in order to get out of any disad and still garner advantages based on cooperative federalism, democratic representation or the perception of the war on drugs </h4> | 1NR | CP | AT: Perm Do The CP | 429862 | 1 | null | 564692 | N | 2 | 1AC - Marijuana Prohibition is Racist
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740,450 | Any growing of marijuana causes the impact | Moriarty 14 | Moriarty 14
Liam Moriarty. IJPR: Pot vs Fish: Can We Grow Salmon-Friendly Weed? http://ijpr.org/post/pot-vs-fish-can-we-grow-salmon-friendly-weed 01/29/14 DA-07/07/14 | As marijuana has become more mainstream, the business of cultivating the plant has boomed coastal northern California is believed to be the largest cannabis-growing region in the US. The Eel River runs through the heart of the Emerald Triangle, draining California’s third-largest watershed And it’s a key battleground i... | northern California is believed to be the largest cannabis-growing region in the US. And it’s key to save coastal salmon it’s pretty clear that the marijuana industry at this point is the biggest single business in terms of its impact on the river | As marijuana has become more mainstream, the business of cultivating the plant has boomed. That’s true nowhere more than in coastal northern California. There, the so-called Emerald Triangle of Mendocino, Trinity and Humboldt counties is believed to be the largest cannabis-growing region in the US. But as the hills hav... | 1185 | <h4><strong>Any growing of marijuana causes the impact</h4><p>Moriarty 14</p><p></strong>Liam Moriarty. IJPR: Pot vs Fish: Can We Grow Salmon-Friendly Weed? http://ijpr.org/post/pot-vs-fish-can-we-grow-salmon-friendly-weed 01/29/14 DA-07/07/14</p><p><u><strong>As marijuana has become more mainstream, the business of cu... | 1NC | CASE | AT: Cali Water | 429864 | 1 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,451 | Prioritization of discourse destroys critique – discussing questions of implementation are key to progressive change | Brown ‘1 | Wendy Brown, Poli Sci and Women’s Studies @ Berkeley, ‘1 (Politics Out of History, p. 35-6) | “Speech codes kill critique Gates remarked Gates was referring to what happens when debates about them, usurp the discursive space in which one might have offered a substantive political response to bigoted epithets turning political questions into moralistic ones – as speech codes of any sort do – not only prohibits c... | Speech codes kill critique debates about them usurp space in which one might have offered a substantive political response turning political questions into moralistic ones – as speech codes do expresses a profound hostility toward political life moralistic reproaches to speech kill critique by configuring injustice as ... | “Speech codes kill critique,” Henry Louis Gates remarked in a 1993 essay on hate speech.14 Although Gates was referring to what happens when hate speech regulations, and the debates about them, usurp the discursive space in which one might have offered a substantive political response to bigoted epithets, his point als... | 3120 | <h4>Prioritization of discourse destroys critique – discussing questions of implementation are key to progressive change</h4><p>Wendy <u><strong>Brown</u></strong>, Poli Sci and Women’s Studies @ Berkeley, <u><strong>‘1</u></strong> (Politics Out of History, p. 35-6)</p><p><u><strong>“<mark>Speech codes kill critique</... | 1NR | DA | 1nc frontline | 241413 | 30 | null | 564692 | N | 2 | 1AC - Marijuana Prohibition is Racist
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740,452 | Food shortages inevitable | Dawson ‘6 | Dawson ‘6 | the world is on the precipice of a population explosion Food has been relatively inexpensive This will probably not be the case for the next generation. There are now over six billion people and we will add the next billion in only a dozen years. The owners of oil and gas will probably never again allow the prices to f... | the world is on the precipice of a population explosion There are now over six billion people and we will add the next billion owners of oil and gas will probably never again allow the prices to fall very much cost of energy and fertilizer (usually made from natural gas) are substantial costs in food production, not to... | Thomas, January 5. American Chronicle, “Food for Thought and the Price of Food,” http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=4533
It may seem to many that we are living in a period in which there are potentially insurmountable problems facing us on every side. Certainly the world is on the preci... | 4204 | <h4>Food shortages inevitable</h4><p><strong>Dawson ‘6</p><p></strong>Thomas, January 5. American Chronicle, “Food for Thought and the Price of Food,” http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=4533</p><p>It may seem to many that we are living in a period in which there are potentially insurmou... | 1NC | CASE | AT: Cali Water | 429865 | 2 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,453 | More likely to vote if marijuana is on the ballot – most vote in favor | Davis 14 | Davis 14 <Susan, USA Today, Marijuana ballot initiatives may motivate voters, March 26 http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/03/25/marijuana-poll-turnout/6867389/>#SPS | The latest George Washington University Battleground poll nearly four in 10 respondents say they would be "much more likely" to vote if marijuana legalization issues were on the ballot. An additional 30% say such ballot initiatives would make them "somewhat" more likely to vote.¶ Democrats historically have a tougher t... | nearly four in 10 respondents say they would be "much more likely" to vote if marijuana legalization issues were on the ballot. An additional 30% say such ballot initiatives would make them "somewhat" more likely to vote Support for legalizing medical marijuana use has grown steadily with 73% in favor 53%, also back de... | WASHINGTON — Warning: Increased voter turnout could be a political side effect of marijuana.¶ The latest George Washington University Battleground poll, a national survey of likely voters, reveals that nearly four in 10 respondents say they would be "much more likely" to vote if marijuana legalization issues were on th... | 3447 | <h4>More likely to vote if marijuana is on the ballot – most vote in favor</h4><p><strong>Davis 14 </strong><Susan, USA Today, Marijuana ballot initiatives may motivate voters, March 26 http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/03/25/marijuana-poll-turnout/6867389/>#SPS</p><p>WASHINGTON — Warning: Increased vote... | 1NR | DA | Link to the Aff | 429866 | 6 | null | 564692 | N | 2 | 1AC - Marijuana Prohibition is Racist
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740,454 | Deforestation decreasing now -- most comprehensive data | FAO 10 , AB) | FAO 10 (Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, “World deforestation decreases, but remains alarming in many countries”, http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/40893/icode/, AB) | World deforestation mainly the conversion of tropical forests to agricultural land, has decreased over the past ten years Globally, around 13 million hectares of forests were converted to other uses or lost through natural causes according to key findings of FAO's most comprehensive forest review to date Brazil and In... | World deforestation has decreased over the past ten years Globally 13 million hectares of forests were converted or lost through natural causes Brazil and Indonesia which had the highest loss of forests have significantly reduced deforestation the net loss of forest area was reduced to 5.2 million down from 8.3 The net... | 25 March 2010, Rome - World deforestation, mainly the conversion of tropical forests to agricultural land, has decreased over the past ten years but continues at an alarmingly high rate in many countries, FAO announced today. Globally, around 13 million hectares of forests were converted to other uses or lost through n... | 1404 | <h4>Deforestation decreasing now -- most comprehensive data </h4><p><strong>FAO 10</strong> (Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, “World deforestation decreases, but remains alarming in many countries”, http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/40893/icode/<u><strong>, AB) </p><p></u></strong>25 March ... | 1NC | CASE | AT: Deforestation | 429867 | 2 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,455 | Increases Dem voter turnout but doesn’t cause GOP backlash | Edwards-Levy 14 <Ariel, HuffPo, Voters Say They're More Likely To Turn Out If Marijuana Is On The Ballot, March 25, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/25/marijuana-turnout-poll_n_5030351.html>#SPS | Edwards-Levy 14 <Ariel, HuffPo, Voters Say They're More Likely To Turn Out If Marijuana Is On The Ballot, March 25, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/25/marijuana-turnout-poll_n_5030351.html>#SPS | The chance to vote on marijuana could persuade some voters to show up on Election Day, according to a poll Sixty-nine percent of voters polled said they would be more likely to vote in an election if a proposal to legalize marijuana was on the ballot, just 13 percent said they'd be less likely Liberals were even more e... | The chance to vote on marijuana could persuade some voters to show up on Election Day according to a poll Sixty-nine percent of voters polled said they would be more likely to vote in an election if a proposal to legalize marijuana was on the ballot Liberals were even more enthusiastic about voting under those circumst... | The chance to vote on marijuana could persuade some voters to show up on Election Day, according to a George Washington University Battleground poll conducted by the bipartisan team of Lake Research Partners and the Tarrance Group.¶ Sixty-nine percent of voters polled said they would be more likely to vote in an electi... | 1538 | <h4>Increases Dem voter turnout but doesn’t cause GOP backlash</h4><p><strong>Edwards-Levy 14</strong> <u><strong><Ariel, HuffPo, Voters Say They're More Likely To Turn Out If Marijuana Is On The Ballot, March 25, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/25/marijuana-turnout-poll_n_5030351.html>#SPS</p><p><mark>The chance... | 1NR | DA | Link to the Aff | 429628 | 2 | null | 564692 | N | 2 | 1AC - Marijuana Prohibition is Racist
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740,456 | Regeneration solves | Tengo 07 | Tengo 07 (Thomas Elmqvist (Department of Systems Ecology at Stolkholm University). Markku Pyykonin. (Stockholm Resilience Centre) and Maria (Department of Biology and Plant Ecology at the University of Antananarivo). "Patterns of Loss and Regeneration of Tropical Dry Forest in Madagascar: The Social Institutional Conte... | Loss of tropical forests are of growing concern worldwide , little is known about the role of regeneration of tropical forests Institutional characteristics were analyzed, testing the hypothesis that forest cover change is a function of strength of local social institutions The results showed a minor decrease of 7% tot... | results showed an overall net increase of 4% during the period 1993–2000 a stable forest cover occurred in the area with highest population density and good market access The large-scale spontaneous regeneration dominated by native endemic species appears to be a result of a combination of changes in precipitation, mig... | Loss of tropical forests and changes in land-use/land-cover are of growing concern worldwide. Although knowledge exists about the institutional context in which tropical forest loss is embedded, little is known about the role of social institutions in influencing regeneration of tropical forests. In the present study w... | 1970 | <h4>Regeneration solves </h4><p><strong>Tengo 07</strong> (Thomas Elmqvist (Department of Systems Ecology at Stolkholm University). Markku Pyykonin. (Stockholm Resilience Centre) and Maria (Department of Biology and Plant Ecology at the University of Antananarivo). "Patterns of Loss and Regeneration of Tropical Dry For... | 1NC | CASE | AT: Deforestation | 36362 | 10 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,457 | Dems have the momentum to take the senate now – ALASKA is the key swing state | Cohn 9/12 <Nate, The New York Times, “Democrats Are Seeing More Daylight in Path to Senate Control,” http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/13/upshot/democrats-are-seeing-more-daylight-in-path-to-senate-control.html?abt=0002&abg=1>#SPS | Cohn 9/12 <Nate, The New York Times, “Democrats Are Seeing More Daylight in Path to Senate Control,” http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/13/upshot/democrats-are-seeing-more-daylight-in-path-to-senate-control.html?abt=0002&abg=1>#SPS | the Democratic path to a Senate has started to look easier. today the Democratic path to victory looks as clear as it has at any point this year. That path remains narrow with just two months to go, the party appears to have an advantage The Democrats/// now appear to have a modest lead in Colorado and Michigan, two st... | the Dem path to a Senate victory looks as clear as it has at any point this year. That path remains narrow with just two months to go, the party appears to have an advantage The Dem s have a modest lead in Colorado and Michigan These leads are not insurmountable. But they are not insubstantial, either . If Colorado and... | A few months ago, the Democratic path to a Senate majority looked long and arduous. It has started to look easier. The Democrats started the campaign with a clear advantage in enough races to end up with 45 seats, well short of the 50 needed to retain control of the chamber. To get to 50, the party was going to have to... | 7151 | <h4>Dems have the momentum to take the senate now – ALASKA is the key swing state</h4><p><strong>Cohn 9/12</strong> <u><strong><Nate, The New York Times, “Democrats Are Seeing More Daylight in Path to Senate Control,” http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/13/upshot/democrats-are-seeing-more-daylight-in-path-to-senate-control.... | 1NR | DA | AK | 429802 | 11 | null | 564692 | N | 2 | 1AC - Marijuana Prohibition is Racist
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740,458 | No warming -- the best data proves | Whitehouse 13 | Whitehouse 13 (David, PhD in Astrophysics, the Science Editor of the Global Warming Policy Foundation and BBC Science Correspondent and Editor, “The Global Warming Standstill”, The Global Warming Policy Foundation, http://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2013/03/Whitehouse-GT_Standstill.pdf, AB) | nobody predicted that in the age of global warming the annual average global temperature would remain unchanged for so long The observation was first made in 2006; the global annual average temperature had not increased for the previous five years even though many climate scientists were talking about anthropogenic glo... | nobody predicted temperature would remain unchanged for so long global annual average temperature had not increased all major temperature datasets showed no warming throughout the first decade of the 21st century the standstill is independent of what happened in 1998. global annual temperature in the past 15 years has ... | In retrospect, nobody predicted that in the age of global warming the annual average global temperature would remain unchanged for so long. It began as a tentative observation but has become one of the most important investigations in climate science, and one of the major talking points for others interested in the deb... | 3232 | <h4>No warming -- the best data proves </h4><p><strong>Whitehouse 13</strong> (David, PhD in Astrophysics, the Science Editor of the Global Warming Policy Foundation and BBC Science Correspondent and Editor, “The Global Warming Standstill”, The Global Warming Policy Foundation, http://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/20... | 1NC | CASE | AT: Warming | 429868 | 1 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,459 | Legalization on the midterm ballot spurs democratic win -- proven with the Alaska race | Walker 14 | Walker 14 | Could End up Saving Democratic Control of the Senate”, AB
marijuana legalization could now be what helps Democrats narrowly maintain control of the Senate law required local election officials to move a marijuana legalization initiative scheduled for the primary ballot to the November general election This date change ... | legalization could be what helps Democrats narrowly maintain control of the Senate law to move a marijuana legalization initiative to the November general election This change could save Begich and Democrats control of the Senate having legalization on the ballot has the unique ability to get young people vote 69 perce... | Jon, Election analyst for FDL, http://elections.firedoglake.com/2014/04/22/how-marijuana-legalization-could-end-up-saving-democratic-control-of-the-senate/, “How Marijuana Legalization Could End up Saving Democratic Control of the Senate”, AB
Thanks to a strange series of coincidences marijuana legalization could now b... | 2484 | <h4>Legalization on the midterm ballot spurs democratic<strong> </strong>win<strong> -- proven with the Alaska race</h4><p>Walker 14</p><p></strong>Jon, Election analyst for FDL, http://elections.firedoglake.com/2014/04/22/how-marijuana-legalization-could-end-up-saving-democratic-control-of-the-senate/, “How Marijuana ... | 1NR | DA | AK | 429869 | 5 | null | 564692 | N | 2 | 1AC - Marijuana Prohibition is Racist
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740,460 | Diseases won’t cause extinction – burnout or variation | York 14 | York 14 Ian, head of the Influenza Molecular Virology and Vaccines team in the Immunology and Pathogenesis Branch, Influenza Division at the CDC, former assistant professor in immunology/virology/molecular biology (MSU), former RA Professor in antiviral and antitumor immunity (UMass Medical School), Research Fellow (Ha... | mostly diseases don't drive species extinct the most dangerous diseases are those that spread from one individual to another. If the disease is highly lethal, then the population drops, and it becomes less likely that individuals will contact each other Highly contagious diseases tend to burn out the main reason is va... | diseases don't drive species extinct Highly contagious diseases tend to burn out the reason is variation . you end up with infected individuals who survive our genomes contain instances of pathogen resistance genes that spread through the population | But mostly diseases don't drive species extinct. There are several reasons for that. For one, the most dangerous diseases are those that spread from one individual to another. If the disease is highly lethal, then the population drops, and it becomes less likely that individuals will contact each other during the inf... | 1362 | <h4><strong>Diseases won’t cause extinction – burnout or variation</h4><p>York 14 </strong>Ian, head of the Influenza Molecular Virology and Vaccines team in the Immunology and Pathogenesis Branch, Influenza Division at the CDC, former assistant professor in immunology/virology/molecular biology (MSU), former RA Profes... | 1NC | CASE | AT: Disease | 24497 | 495 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,461 | 4. More evidence – history and demographics prove | Hudak 8/20 http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/fixgov/posts/2014/08/20-harry-reid-marijuana-keep-the-senate-blue-hudak | Hudak 8/20 <John, Fellow of Governance Studies at the Brookings Institute, Managing Editor, FixGov Blog, “Harry Reid Should Love Marijuana: How Legalization Could Keep the Senate Blue,” http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/fixgov/posts/2014/08/20-harry-reid-marijuana-keep-the-senate-blue-hudak | Marijuana legalization might ensure Harry Reid remains the Senate Majority Leader in 2014. In a year in which the battle for majority control of the Senate is the biggest story of the midterms, every race counts. One of the more competitive battles for the Senate is taking place in Alaska the Alaska Senate race is comp... | Marijuana legalization might ensure Harry Reid remains the Senate Majority Leader in 2014. every race counts. One of the more competitive is Alaska Marijuana legalization could change that by dramatically changing the character and nature of the midterm electorate in Alaska, and helping Sen. Begich win reelection. ball... | Marijuana legalization might ensure Harry Reid remains the Senate Majority Leader in 2014. In a year in which the battle for majority control of the Senate is the biggest story of the midterms, every race counts. One of the more competitive battles for the Senate is taking place in Alaska, where incumbent Sen. Mark Beg... | 6700 | <h4>4. More evidence – history and demographics prove</h4><p><strong>Hudak 8/20 </strong><John, Fellow of Governance Studies at the Brookings Institute, Managing Editor, FixGov Blog, “Harry Reid Should Love Marijuana: How Legalization Could Keep the Senate Blue,” <u><strong>http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/fixgov/posts/2... | 1NR | DA | AK | 429627 | 45 | null | 564692 | N | 2 | 1AC - Marijuana Prohibition is Racist
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740,462 | Intervening actors check disease impact | Zakaria 9— | Zakaria 9—Editor of Newsweek, BA from Yale, PhD in pol sci, Harvard. He serves on the board of Yale University, The Council on Foreign Relations, The Trilateral Commission, and Shakespeare and Company. Named "one of the 21 most important people of the 21st Century" (Fareed, “The Capitalist Manifesto: Greed Is Good,” 1... | After bracing ourselves for a global pandemic, we've suffered the usual seasonal influenza Senior officials prophesied that millions could be infected But as of last week, the WHO had confirmed only 4,800 cases Why did predictions of a pandemic turn out to be so exaggerated there is a mistake in the way we look at the ... | predictions turn out exaggerated we rarely anticipate human response///// to crisis swine flu was met by vigorous response The Mexican government brought transmission to a halt the world looks nothing like 1918 health-care systems are better | Note—Laurie Garrett=science and health writer, winner of the Pulitzer, Polk, and Peabody Prize
It certainly looks like another example of crying wolf. After bracing ourselves for a global pandemic, we've suffered something more like the usual seasonal influenza. Three weeks ago the World Health Organization declared a ... | 2893 | <h4><strong>Intervening actors check disease impact </h4><p>Zakaria 9—</strong>Editor of Newsweek, BA from Yale, PhD in pol sci, Harvard. He serves on the board of Yale University, The Council on Foreign Relations, The Trilateral Commission, and Shakespeare and Company. Named "one of the 21 most important people of the... | 1NC | CASE | AT: Disease | 49494 | 151 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,463 | ISIS isn’t enough | Kurtz 9/12 <Howard, Fox, “Why Obama’s assault on ISIS probably won’t save the Democrats this fall,” http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/09/12/why-obamas-assault-on-isis-probably-wont-save-democrats-this-fall/>#SPS | Kurtz 9/12 <Howard, Fox, “Why Obama’s assault on ISIS probably won’t save the Democrats this fall,” http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/09/12/why-obamas-assault-on-isis-probably-wont-save-democrats-this-fall/>#SPS | Could President Obama’s military move against ISIS derail the Republican freight train that appeared to be barreling toward victory in the midterm elections? It’s possible, but not very likely. whether or not Obama is leading from behind he has committed to using U.S. military power against the terrorists. And that cou... | Could President Obama’s military move against ISIS derail the Republican freight train It’s possible, but not very likely things could go badly on the battlefield: American casualties, civilians mistakenly targeted, and so on. Then public sentiment could shift against Obama, People don’t usually vote on foreign policy ... | Could President Obama’s military move against ISIS derail the Republican freight train that appeared to be barreling toward victory in the midterm elections? It’s possible, but not very likely. Until Wednesday night’s speech, the president was taking a political beating on foreign policy that had a toxic effect on his ... | 4416 | <h4>ISIS isn’t enough</h4><p><strong>Kurtz 9/12</strong> <u><strong><Howard, Fox, “Why Obama’s assault on ISIS probably won’t save the Democrats this fall,” http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/09/12/why-obamas-assault-on-isis-probably-wont-save-democrats-this-fall/>#SPS</p><p><mark>Could President Obama’s military mov... | 1NR | DA | AT:ISIS | 429871 | 1 | null | 564692 | N | 2 | 1AC - Marijuana Prohibition is Racist
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740,464 | B.) Certainty -- | null | null | null | null | null | null | <h4>B.) <u>Certainty</u> --</h4> | 2NC | CP | AT: Perm | 429870 | 1 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,465 | First - “Resolved” means | null | re·solve verb \ri-ˈzälv, -ˈzȯlv also -ˈzäv or -ˈzȯv\ | find an answer or solution to (something) : to settle or solve (something)
to make a definite decision to do something | to make a definite decision to do something | : to find an answer or solution to (something) : to settle or solve (something)
: to make a definite and serious decision to do something
That’s Merriam Webster 14 [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/resolved] | 216 | <h4>First - “Resolved” means </h4><p>re·solve verb \ri-ˈzälv, -ˈzȯlv also -ˈzäv or -ˈzȯv\</p><p>: to<u><strong> find an answer or solution to (something) : to settle or solve (something)</p><p></u></strong>: <u><strong><mark>to make a definite</u></strong></mark> and serious <u><strong><mark>decision to do something<... | 2NC | CP | AT: Perm | 429571 | 3 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,466 | Second - “Should” means | null | Should | to express obligation or expediency | to express obligation or expediency | 1—used in auxiliary function to express condition <if he should leave his father, his father would die — Genesis 44:22(Revised Standard Version)> 2—used in auxiliary function to express obligation, propriety, or expediency <'tis commanded I should do so — Shakespeare> <this is as it should be — H. L. Savage> <you shoul... | 437 | <h4>Second - “Should” means </h4><p>Should<u><strong> </p><p></u></strong>1—used in auxiliary function to express condition <if he should leave his father, his father would die — Genesis 44:22(Revised Standard Version)> 2—used in auxiliary function <u><strong><mark>to express obligation</u></strong></mark>, propriety, ... | 2NC | CP | AT: Perm | 429575 | 3 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,467 | C.) Legalize -- | null | null | null | null | null | null | <h4>C.) <u>Legalize</u> --</h4> | 2NC | CP | AT: Perm | 429872 | 1 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,468 | It means to authorize | RANDOM HOUSE 14 | RANDOM HOUSE 14 [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/legalize] | le·gal·ize
verb (used with object .
to make legal; authorize. | le·gal·ize
verb with object
to make legal; authorize. | le·gal·ize [lee-guh-lahyz] Show IPA
verb (used with object), le·gal·ized, le·gal·iz·ing.
to make legal; authorize.
Also, especially British, le·gal·ise. | 154 | <h4>It means to authorize</h4><p><strong>RANDOM HOUSE 14</strong> [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/legalize]</p><p><u><strong><mark>le·gal·ize</u></strong></mark> [lee-guh-lahyz] Show IPA</p><p><u><strong><mark>verb</mark> (used <mark>with object</u></strong></mark>), le·gal·ized, le·gal·iz·ing<u><strong>.</p>... | 2NC | CP | AT: Perm | 429583 | 5 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,469 | Authorize means | null | au·tho·rize verb \ˈȯ-thə-ˌrīz\ | to give power or permission to (someone or something)
to give legal or official approval to or for (something) | to give legal or official approval for something
That’s Merriam Webster 14 | : to give power or permission to (someone or something)
: to give legal or official approval to or for (something)
That’s Merriam Webster 14 [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/authorize] | 194 | <h4>Authorize means</h4><p>au·tho·rize verb \ˈȯ-thə-ˌrīz\</p><p>: <u><strong>to give power or permission to (someone or something)</p><p></u></strong>: <u><strong><mark>to give legal or official approval </mark>to or <mark>for</mark> (<mark>something</mark>)</p><p></u><mark>That’s Merriam Webster 14</strong></mark> [h... | 2NC | CP | AT: Perm | 429588 | 2 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,470 | National referendum has never happened – obvi not normal means | null | null | null | null | null | null | <h4>National referendum has never happened – obvi<strong> not normal means </h4></strong> | 2NC | CP | 2NC AT: Normal Means | 429873 | 1 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,471 | ***Legalization advocates concede HR 499 is the MOST LIKELY way marijuana legalization would occur -- NOT a referendum | Sheets 13 | Sheets 13 | The long, hard fight by marijuana advocates to make headway toward legalizing pot at the federal level is experiencing a glimmer of hope this year in the U.S. Congress in the form of the HR 499 bill which is gaining supporters by the week The legislation proposes changes to federal law regarding marijuana remove it fro... | The fight by marijuana advocates toward legalizing pot at the federal level is experiencing a glimmer of hope in the HR 499 which is gaining supporters by the week. The legislation proposes to remove it from its list of controlled substances and leave it to the states to regulate The bill continues to gain support Lega... | Connor Adams, senior award winning journalist for the International Business Times, April 05th 2013, “Will HR 499 Pot Bill Finally Legalize Marijuana In America?”, http://www.ibtimes.com/will-hr-499-pot-bill-finally-legalize-marijuana-america-1174909, AB
The long, hard fight by marijuana advocates to make some headway ... | 2273 | <h4><strong>***Legalization advocates concede HR 499 is the MOST LIKELY way marijuana legalization would occur -- NOT a referendum </h4><p>Sheets 13</p><p></strong>Connor Adams, senior award winning journalist for the International Business Times, April 05th 2013, “Will HR 499 Pot Bill Finally Legalize Marijuana In Ame... | 2NC | CP | 2NC AT: Normal Means | 429591 | 2 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,472 | Its predictable - politicians publically advocate a national referendum on legalization | Robelo 13 | Robelo 13 | When the people of Colorado and Washington made history by legalizing marijuana, their vote reverberated around the world A bill to legally regulate cannabis was introduced into the lower house of congress politicians spoke of holding a national referendum in three years | When Colorado and Washington made history by legalizing marijuana, their vote reverberated around the world A bill to legally regulate cannabis was introduced into the house politicians spoke of holding a national referendum | Daniel, research coordinator at the Drug Policy Alliance and writer for the Huffington Post, January 10th, “Legalization in US spurs debate throughout Americas”, http://www.westcoastleaf.net/?p=5178, AB
When the people of Colorado and Washington made history by legalizing marijuana, their vote reverberated around the w... | 1019 | <h4><strong>Its predictable - politicians publically advocate a national referendum on legalization</h4><p>Robelo 13 </p><p></strong>Daniel, research coordinator at the Drug Policy Alliance and writer for the Huffington Post, January 10th, “Legalization in US spurs debate throughout Americas”, http://www.westcoastleaf.... | 2NC | CP | 2NC AT: Theory | 429592 | 2 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,473 | Delay of marijuana initiatives to the general election is central topic education -- Alaska proves | Quinn 14 | Quinn 14
Steve, Rueters correspondent, April 22nd 2014, http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/22/us-usa-alaska-election-idUSBREA3L05820140422, “Alaska pot legalization vote pushed back to November”, AB | A ballot initiative that could make Alaska the third U.S. state to legalize recreational marijuana will go before voters in a general election in November rather than in August The means that a broader swath of the public is likely to vote on the issue than if it had gone before voters as scheduled | A ballot initiative that could make Alaska legalize marijuana will go before voters in a general election rather than in August The means a broader swath of the public is likely vote than if it had gone before voters as scheduled | (Reuters) - A ballot initiative that could make Alaska the third U.S. state to legalize recreational marijuana will go before voters in a general election in November rather than in August as previously scheduled, officials said on Monday. The move means that a broader swath of the public is likely to vote on the issue... | 410 | <h4><strong> Delay of marijuana initiatives to the general election is central topic education -- Alaska proves </h4><p>Quinn 14</p><p></strong>Steve, Rueters correspondent, April 22nd 2014, http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/22/us-usa-alaska-election-idUSBREA3L05820140422, “Alaska pot legalization vote pushed back... | 2NC | CP | 2NC AT: Theory | 429594 | 2 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,474 | They cause serial policy failure. | Dillon and Reid 00 | Dillon and Reid 00 (Michael, Professor of Politics – University of Lancaster, and Julian, Lecturer in International Relations – King’s College, “Global Governance, Liberal Peace, and Complex Emergency”, Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, January / March, 25(1)) | Governmentality creates a market for policy serial policy failure--the fate of all policy--compels a continuous search for new analysis Serial policy failure is no simple shortcoming that policy will overcome. Serial policy failure is rooted in the ontological and epistemological assumptions that fashion the ways in... | Governmentality creates a market for policy serial policy failure the fate of all policy compels a continuous search for new analysis Serial policy failure is no simple shortcoming that policy will overcome Serial policy failure is rooted in the ontological and epistemological assumptions that fashion the ways in which... | More specifically, where there is a policy problematic there is expertise, and where there is expertise there, too, a policy problematic will emerge. Such problematics are detailed and elaborated in terms of discrete forms of knowledge as well as interlocking policy domains. Policy domains reify the problematization of... | 3548 | <h4>They cause serial policy failure.</h4><p><strong>Dillon and Reid 00</strong> (Michael, Professor of Politics – University of Lancaster, and Julian, Lecturer in International Relations – King’s College, “Global Governance, Liberal Peace, and Complex Emergency”, Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, January / March... | 2NC | Security K | 2NC Framework - Core | 16041 | 75 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,475 | Your politics are passive and lead to tyranny | Antonio 95 | Antonio 95 (Nietzsche’s antisociology: Subjectified Culture and the End of History”; American Journal of Sociology; Volume 101, No. 1; July 1995, jstor,) | Nietzsche considered roles" as "external," phenomena symptomatic of estrangement persons in specialized occupations overidentify with their positions and engage in fabrications to obtain advancement They are so absorbed in simulating role players that they have trouble being anything but actors-"The role has actually... | Nietzsche considered roles" as "external," phenomena symptomatic of estrangement persons in specialized occupations overidentify with their positions and engage in fabrications to obtain advancement They are so absorbed in simulating role players that they have trouble being anything but actors-"The role has actually b... | According to Nietzsche, the "subject" is Socratic culture's most central, durable foundation. This prototypic expression of ressentiment, master reification, and ultimate justification for slave morality and mass discipline "separates strength from expressions of strength, as if there were a neutral substratum . . . fr... | 5159 | <h4><u><strong>Your politics are passive and lead to tyranny </h4><p></u>Antonio 95</strong> (Nietzsche’s antisociology: Subjectified Culture and the End of History”; American Journal of Sociology; Volume 101, No. 1; July 1995, jstor,)</p><p>According to Nietzsche, the "subject" is Socratic culture's most central, dura... | 2NC | Security K | 2NC Framework - Core | 5118 | 314 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,476 | 3 -- Political blueprints coopt alt solvency | Burke 07 | Burke 07 | Anthony, Senior Lecturer @ School of Politics & IR @ Univ. of New South Wales, ‘7 [Beyond Security, Ethics and Violence, p. 21-2]
Jones is quite, militant about this If [critical theorists] succumb to the temptation of suggesting a blueprint for an emancipated order that is unrelated to the possibilities inherent in th... | If [critical theorists succumb to the temptation of suggesting a blueprint for order they] have no way of justifying their arguments epistemologically identifying where immanent possibilities exist, such arguments are ultimately [devastating] and risk denying the entire purpose of the critical project at times of pessi... | Anthony, Senior Lecturer @ School of Politics & IR @ Univ. of New South Wales, ‘7 [Beyond Security, Ethics and Violence, p. 21-2]
A further argument of the CSS thinkers, one that adds a sharply conservative note to their normative discourse, needs comment. This states that proposals for political transformation must be... | 3407 | <h4>3 -- Political blueprints coopt alt solvency </h4><p><strong>Burke</strong> <strong>07</strong> </p><p><u>Anthony, Senior Lecturer @ School of Politics & IR @ Univ. of New South Wales, ‘7 [Beyond Security, Ethics and Violence, p. 21-2]</p><p></u>A further argument of the CSS thinkers, one that adds a sharply conser... | 2NC | Security K | 2NC Permutation | 93850 | 3 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,477 | Food security pays lip service to the hungry while serving as a justification for the violent expansion of global governance | Alcock 9 | Alcock 9 (Rupert, graduated with a distinction in the MSc in Development and Security from the Department of Politics, University of Bristol in 2009, MSc dissertation prize joint winner 2009, “Speaking Food: A Discourse Analytic Study of Food Security” 2009, pdf available online, p. 10-14 MT) | Since the 1970s, the concept of ‘food security’ has been the primary lens through which the ongoing prevalence and inherent complexity of global hunger has been viewed. The adoption of the term at the FAO-sanctioned World Food Conference in 1974 has led to a burgeoning literature on the subject, most of which takes ‘fo... | food security’ is symptomatic of positivist epistemologies a shift of analytical focus is required: ‘Instead of presuming their existence we ought to historicize them food security reproduce the kind of managerial solutions which characterise the positivistic need for certainty while lip-service is occasionally paid to... | Since the 1970s, the concept of ‘food security’ has been the primary lens through which the ongoing prevalence and inherent complexity of global hunger has been viewed. The adoption of the term at the FAO-sanctioned World Food Conference in 1974 has led to a burgeoning literature on the subject, most of which takes ‘fo... | 7480 | <h4><u>Food security pays lip service to the hungry while serving as a justification for the violent expansion of global governance </h4><p></u><strong>Alcock 9<u></strong> (Rupert, graduated with a distinction in the MSc in Development and Security from the Department of Politics, University of Bristol in 2009, MSc di... | 2NC | Security K | 2NC Link - US Agriculture | 18747 | 15 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,478 | Their discursive construction of health and disease is mediated by colonialist understandings of the “foreign” and “dangerous” other—epidemiological discourses reproduce power relations that make disease a threat in the first place. | Lewis 7 | Lewis 7
Bradley Lewis 07, Professor at New York University—Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, 2007, “The New Global Health Movement: Rx for the World,” New Literary History, Vol. 38 No. 3, pp. 459-477 | All discourses deployed by the global health movement are mediated by the culture, society, and politics in which they are produced. Intentionally or not, they reproduce and relocate cultural, societal, and political ideas and constructions, including problematic constructions of the contagious foreign "other." The ass... | discourses deployed by the global health movement reproduce problematic constructions of the contagious foreign "other." The association of "foreignness" with contagion has long been established in scientific discourses germ theory represents viruses—as "foreign," "dangerous," "contagious," and a threat to the "pristin... | Of course, Rx was made for popular audiences in the U.S. and so in its populist format, some may argue, it is more likely to reproduce these kinds of stereotypes than other more professional or expert discourses. This does not mean, however, that other medical discourses are devoid of these problematic "othering" stere... | 2765 | <h4><strong>Their discursive construction of health and disease is mediated by colonialist understandings of the “foreign” and “dangerous” other—epidemiological discourses reproduce power relations that make disease a threat in the first place. </h4><p>Lewis 7</p><p><u>Bradley Lewis 07, Professor at New York University... | 2NC | Security K | 2NC Link - Disease | 16105 | 9 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,479 | Apocalyptic environment discourse creates a politics of danger that make totalitarian control necessary in the name of ecological protection. | Waever 1995 | Waever 1995 (Ole, Senior Researcher at the Center for Peace & Conflict Research, On Security, p. 63-64) | environmental security is its mobilization potential the obvious reason for putting environmental issues into the security agenda is the possible magni tude of the threats posed, and the need to mobilize urgent and unprece dented responses to them. The security label is a useful way both of sig nalling danger and setti... | environmental security41 label is a useful way both of sig nalling danger and setting priority in debates environmental threats are unintentional : The consequence of thinking of environmental problems as threats to security is that the sorts of governmental responses by state organizations the instinct for centralized... | Central to the arguments for the conceptual innovation of environmental or ecological security41 is its mobilization potential. As Buzan points out, the concept of national security "has an enormous power as an instrument of social and political mobilization" and, therefore, "the obvious reason for putting environmenta... | 5089 | <h4>Apocalyptic environment discourse creates a politics of danger that make totalitarian control necessary in the name of ecological protection.</h4><p><strong>Waever 1995</strong> (Ole, Senior Researcher at the Center for Peace & Conflict Research, On Security, p. 63-64)</p><p><u><mark> </p><p></u></mark>Central to t... | 2NC | Security K | 2NC Link - Deforestation + Warming | 265481 | 6 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,480 | Framing global warming in apocalyptic turns causes elite takeover and diminishes agency, exacerbating the problem | Foust and Murphy 2009 | Foust and Murphy 2009 | null | null | Christina R. Foust is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Communication Studies at the University of Denver. William O’Shannon Murphy is a doctoral student in the Department of Human Communication Studies at the University of Denver. "Revealing and Reframing Apocalyptic Tragedy in Global Warming Discourse... | 398 | <h4>Framing global<strong> </strong>warming in apocalyptic turns causes elite takeover and diminishes agency, exacerbating the problem</h4><p><strong>Foust and Murphy 2009</strong> </p><p>Christina R. Foust is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Communication Studies at the University of Denver. William O... | 2NC | Security K | 2NC Link - Deforestation + Warming | 429875 | 1 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,481 | Along with supporting diverse sites of human agency, rhetors may want to avoid the inherent conservatism of apocalyptic discourse. Apocalyptic rhetoric suggests that received sense-making systems (i.e., common sense) cannot explain great changes, but that various prophets can (Brummett, 1991). In the case of climate ch... | null | null | null | null | null | null | <h4><u><strong>Along with supporting diverse sites of human agency, rhetors may want to avoid the inherent conservatism of apocalyptic discourse.</u></strong> Apocalyptic rhetoric suggests that received sense-making systems (i.e., common sense) cannot explain great changes, but that various prophets can (Brummett, 1991... | 2NC | Security K | 2NC Link - Deforestation + Warming | 429874 | 1 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,482 | Fear appeals decrease individual engagement with global warming and result in passive nihilism. The 1AC starting point makes effective solutions to global warming impossible - we must begin with individual agency. | O'Neill 09 | O'Neill 09 (Saffron O’Neill is a tutor at the University of East Anglia, and a research fellow with the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. Sophie Nicholson-Cole is a senior research associate in the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia, United Kingdom. “Fear Won’t Do It” ... | This article presents the integrated findings from two empirical, multimethod studies, Both studies underwent ethical scrutiny by senior colleagues before participant recruitment. the use of largely qualitative methods in both studies reported here complements recent large-scale quantitative U.K. survey research by all... | This article presents the findings from two empirical, multimethod studies the qualitative methods here complements recent large-scale quantitative U.K. survey research leading to a rich exploratory data source. . groups disagreed strongly with using fear as a communications tool In addition to distancing the viewer fr... | This article presents the integrated findings from two empirical, multimethod studies, both carried out by researchers at the University of East Anglia. Both studies underwent ethical scrutiny by senior colleagues before participant recruitment. The studies explored the influence of visual and iconic representations of... | 3902 | <h4>Fear<strong> </strong>appeals decrease individual engagement with global warming and result in passive nihilism. The 1AC starting point makes effective solutions to global warming impossible - we must begin with individual agency.</h4><p><strong>O'Neill 09</strong> (Saffron O’Neill is a tutor at the University of ... | 2NC | Security K | 2NC Link - Deforestation + Warming | 271918 | 4 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,483 | B SUBPOINT - Their reps ensure no value to life | Baudrillard 76 | Jean Baudrillard 76 (“Symbolic exchange and Death,” pg. 167) | Security is another form of control, life blackmailed with the afterlife 'security forces' range from life assurance and social security to the car seatbelt by way of the state security police force this is above all the worst repression, which consists in dispossessing you of your own death It is necessary to rob ever... | Security is control life blackmailed with the afterlife this the worst repression, which consists in dispossessing you of your own death It is necessary to rob every one of the last possibility of giving themselves their own death as the last 'great escape' from a life laid down by the system the gift-exchange t expres... | Security is another form of social control, in the form of life blackmailed with the afterlife. It is universally present for us today, and 'security forces' range from life assurance and social security to the car seatbelt by way of the state security police force .39 'Belt up' says an advertising slogan for seatbelts... | 2234 | <h4>B SUBPOINT - Their reps ensure no value to life </h4><p>Jean <strong>Baudrillard 76 <u></strong>(“Symbolic exchange and Death,” pg. 167)</p><p><mark>Security is </mark>another form of </u>social <u><mark>control</mark>,</u> in the form of <u><mark>life blackmailed with the afterlife</u></mark>. It is universally pr... | 2NC | Security K | 2NC Impact Wall | 148321 | 49 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,484 | That’s a reason to vote negative on presumption -- no VTL in squo means no reason to do the aff and only a risk the alternative rejuvenates that loss of value | null | null | null | null | null | null | <h4>That’s a reason to vote negative on presumption -- no VTL in squo means no reason to do the aff<u><strong> and only a risk the alternative rejuvenates that loss of value </h4></u></strong> | 2NC | Security K | 2NC Impact Wall | 429876 | 1 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,485 | C SUBPOINT - The PARADOX OF RISK makes this issue NOT resolvable by weighing the plan. | Kessler 2008 | Kessler 2008 (Oliver Kessler, Sociology at University of Bielefeld, “From Insecurity to Uncertainty: Risk and the Paradox of Security Politics” Alternatives 33 (2008), 211-232) | If risk is defined by potential loss, even the highest degree of improbability becomes irrelevant as loss goes to infinity risk management as a rational endeavor breaks down uncertainty is a precondition for catastrophies. without a warning we find meteorites. tsunami in South East Asia, and 9/11. we do not know the m... | If risk is defined by potential loss, even the highest degree of improbability becomes irrelevant as loss goes to infinity risk management as a rational endeavor breaks down even absurd scenarios gain plausibility. By a chain improbable events Although likelihood of the scenario dwindles with each step, the impressio... | The problem of the second method is that it is very difficult to "calculate" politically unacceptable losses. If the risk of terrorism is defined in traditional terms by probability and potential loss, then the focus on dramatic terror attacks leads to the marginalization of probabilities. The reason is that even ... | 5527 | <h4>C SUBPOINT - <strong>The PARADOX OF RISK makes this issue NOT resolvable by weighing the plan. </h4><p>Kessler 2008</strong> (Oliver Kessler, Sociology at University of Bielefeld, “From Insecurity to Uncertainty: Risk and the Paradox of Security Politics” Alternatives 33 (2008), 211-232)</p><p>The problem of th... | 2NC | Security K | 2NC Impact Wall | 10122 | 937 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,486 | D SUBPOINT -- The affirmative paves over structural violence as a product of securitization and locks in social and environmental tension---culminates in extinction and makes war inevitable | Szentes 8 | Szentes 8
Tamás Szentes 8, Professor Emeritus at the Corvinus University of Budapest. “Globalisation and prospects of the world society” 4/22/08 http://www.eadi.org/fileadmin/Documents/Events/exco/Glob.___prospects_-_jav..pdf | human society can survive only in a lasting real peace arms race and militarisation have escalated many “invisible wars” are suffered by the poor manifested in mass misery, poverty, unemployment, homelessness, starvation epidemics and poor health conditions, exploitation and oppression racial discrimination organised i... | “invisible wars” are suffered by the poor manifested in mass , poverty starvation and oppression, and degradation of environment Behind “invisible wars” we find striking international inequities which generate social as well as international tensions paving the way for “visible” wars The prerequisites of a lasting peac... | It’ s a common place that human society can survive and develop only in a lasting real peace. Without peace countries cannot develop. Although since 1945 there has been no world war, but --numerous local wars took place, --terrorism has spread all over the world, undermining security even in the most developed and powe... | 7503 | <h4><strong>D SUBPOINT -- The affirmative paves over structural violence as a product of securitization and locks in social and environmental tension---culminates in extinction and makes war inevitable </h4><p>Szentes 8</p><p></strong>Tamás Szentes 8, Professor Emeritus at the Corvinus University of Budapest. “Globalis... | 2NC | Security K | 2NC Impact Wall | 912 | 269 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,487 | State centered security will always fail because it centers its calculus on wild risk assessment—only by interrogating the epistemological assumptions of their securitization and the causes of crises can we solve them | Ahmed 12 | Ahmed 12
Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed is Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Research and Development (IPRD), an independent think tank focused on the study of violent conflict, he has taught at the Department of International Relations, University of Sussex "The international relations of crisis and the crisis... | recommendations to shift our frame of orientation away from conventional state-centrism toward a 'human security' approach are valid, this cannot be achieved without confronting the deeper theoretical assumptions underlying conventional approaches to 'non-traditional' security issues By occluding the structural origin ... | recommendations to shift from state-centrism toward 'human security' cannot be achieved without confronting deeper assumptions underlying approaches to 'non-traditional' security they operate largely at the level of 'surface' impacts such as terrorism conflict crises fuel the projection of risk The externalisation of ... | While recommendations to shift our frame of orientation away from conventional state-centrism toward a 'human security' approach are valid, this cannot be achieved without confronting the deeper theoretical assumptions underlying conventional approaches to 'non-traditional' security issues.106 By occluding the structur... | 5269 | <h4>State centered security will always fail because it centers its calculus on wild risk assessment—only by interrogating the epistemological assumptions of their securitization and the causes of crises can we solve them </h4><p><strong>Ahmed 12</strong> </p><p>Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed is Executive Director of the I... | 2NC | Security K | 2NC Impact Wall | 1548828 | 373 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,488 | Threat con is not inevitable, it is a product of a particular historical context that assumes discursive hegemony because it has been represented as such | Bleiker, 2001 | Bleiker, 2001 (Roland, Millennium: Journal of International Studies Vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 509-533) | The task of critically analysing world politics is to make fuller use of various faculties and to challenge the mimetic and exclusive conventions of Realist international politics We all have an intuitive longing for the hope that what we represent is what we see and think, and that what we see and think must really be... | The task of critically analysing world politics is to challenge conventions of Realist politics t a scientific analysis of Cold War intelligence contain equally subjective dimensions we are wedded to conventions of language power is at peak a form of representation able to disguise its subjective values Realism has bee... | Nothing is harder than to notice the obvious that was not noticed before. The task of critically analysing world politics is to make fuller use of various faculties and to challenge the mimetic and exclusive conventions of Realist international politics, just as Magritte's painting of a pipe was aimed at undermining 't... | 4443 | <h4>Threat con is not inevitable, it is a product of a particular historical context that assumes discursive hegemony because it has been represented as such</h4><p><strong><mark>Bleiker</mark>, 200<mark>1</strong></mark> (Roland, Millennium: Journal of International Studies Vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 509-533)</p><p>Nothing i... | 2NC | Security K | 2NC AT: Psyche | 137620 | 7 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,489 | Diversification will happen – we will concede it – It causes cocaine and sex trafficking shift | Francis 14 | Francis 14 | Mexican syndicates diversifying cocaine and heroin They are heavily involved in kidnapping extortion, prostitution, migrant smuggling,” stealing and exporting Oxycontin and Roxicodone. stealing from energy companies | Mexican syndicates diversifying cocaine They are heavily involved in kidnapping migrant smuggling | editor-at-large for the Fiscal Times; MA degree from Georgetown Univ, David “Legalizing Pot Makes Mexican Cartels Even More Dangerous” January 7, http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2014/01/07/Legalizing-Pot-Makes-Mexican-Cartels-Even-More-Dangerous
“Mexican syndicates are diversifying their sources of revenue beyon... | 1276 | <h4><strong>Diversification will happen – we will concede it – It causes cocaine and sex trafficking shift </h4><p>Francis 14</p><p></strong> editor-at-large for the Fiscal Times; MA degree from Georgetown Univ, David “Legalizing Pot Makes Mexican Cartels Even More Dangerous” January 7, http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Ar... | 1NR | ***Mexico*** | Turn | 431057 | 41 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,490 | Cocaine cultivation causes bioD collapse – concede 1AC Mittermer -- it causes extinction | Handwerk 11 | Handwerk 11 (Brian, National Geographic News, http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/02/110218-cocaine-coca-farming-colombia-rainforests-environment-science/, “Cocaine to Blame for Rain Forest Loss, Study Says”, AB) | Cocaine is destroying lives Farming coca, cocaine has been linked to rising deforestation rates in Colombian rain forests Dávalos quantified indirect deforestation tied to coca farming, such as clearing land for growing food crops near coca plantations there is just more probability of losing the forest close to [coca ... | Farming cocaine has been linked to deforestation in Colombian rain forests Dávalos quantified indirect deforestation such as clearing land for growing food near plantations there is more probability of losing forest close to [coca cultivation coca cultivation is taking a heavy toll species the world's richest biodivers... | Cocaine is destroying lives and tearing homes apart—and not simply because of drug use. Farming coca, the plant used to make cocaine, has been linked to rising deforestation rates in Colombian rain forests, a new study says. What's more, ecologist Liliana M. Dávalos and colleagues have for the first time quantified ind... | 1163 | <h4>Cocaine cultivation causes bioD collapse – concede 1AC Mittermer -- it causes extinction </h4><p><strong>Handwerk 11</strong> (Brian, National Geographic News, http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/02/110218-cocaine-coca-farming-colombia-rainforests-environment-science/, “Cocaine to Blame for Rain Forest Los... | 1NR | ***Mexico*** | Turn | 57832 | 4 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,491 | Sex trafficking is a fate worse than death and causes AIDS | HTIA 8/23, | HTIA 8/23, Human Trafficking in Africa, “Social Impacts of Human Trafficking,” 8/23/14, http://htia.weebly.com/social-impact.html, FM | The social impacts of human trafficking are rather universal Those who have truly experienced human trafficking are the ones who must cope with the majority of the social impacts , HIV and AIDS can be spread because of human trafficking, which can affect any and all of the population If a person has had to experience h... | HIV and AIDS spread because of human trafficking If a person has had to experience human trafficking, they have known a life worse than death itself. Victims of human trafficking have absolutely no freedoms, and experience abuse, violence, deprivation, and torture This lack of sanitation is one of the many factors in t... | The social impacts of human trafficking are rather universal. This does not denote them as being not a serious matter, nonetheless. Those who have truly experienced human trafficking are the ones who must cope with the majority of the social impacts. Although, HIV and AIDS can be spread because of human trafficking, wh... | 2807 | <h4>Sex trafficking is a fate worse than death and causes AIDS </h4><p><strong>HTIA 8/23, </strong>Human Trafficking in Africa, “Social Impacts of Human Trafficking,” 8/23/14, http://htia.weebly.com/social-impact.html, FM</p><p><u><strong>The social impacts of human trafficking are rather universal</u></strong>. This d... | 1NR | ***Mexico*** | Turn | 429878 | 1 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,492 | AIDS causes extinction | Muchiri 00 | Muchiri 00, Staff Member at Ministry of Education in Nairobi | AIDS was more effective than war in destabilizing African countries AIDS is the most serious threat to humankind, more serious than economic crises, capital crashes or floods It has no cure yet. We are watching a continent succumb to a dehumanizing death AIDS was seen as threat to world peace other continent is on the ... | AIDS was more effective than war in destabilizing countries AIDS is the most serious threat to humankind, more serious than economic crises, capital crashes or floods It has no cure yet. We are watching a continent succumb to a dehumanizing death AIDS was seen as threat to world peace other continent is on the brink of... | [Michael Kibaara, “Will Annan finally put out Africa’s fires?” Jakarta Post, March 6, LN]
The executive director of UNAIDS, Peter Piot, estimated that Africa would annually need between $ 1 billion to $ 3 billion to combat the disease, but currently receives only $ 160 million a year in official assistance. World Bank ... | 2770 | <h4>AIDS causes extinction </h4><p><strong>Muchiri 00</strong>, Staff Member at Ministry of Education in Nairobi </p><p>[Michael Kibaara, “Will Annan finally put out Africa’s fires?” Jakarta Post, March 6, LN] </p><p>The executive director of UNAIDS, Peter Piot, estimated that Africa would annually need between $ 1 bil... | 1NR | ***Mexico*** | Turn | 295098 | 7 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,493 | Prolif escalates to nuclear war. | Sokolski ‘9 | Sokolski ‘9 (Henry Sokolski, executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, serves on the U.S. Congressional Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism, June-July 2009, “Avoiding a Nuclear Crowd,” Hoover Policy Review, online: http://www.hoover.org/publi... | the U.S. has tried to cope with independent nuclear powers by making them “strategic partners non-NATO allies and strategic stakeholders In this world, every nuclear power center could have significant diplomatic security relations or ties with one another but none of these ties is viewed by Washington as being as impo... | in a world with an increasing number of nuclear states actions of just one or two that might overthrow a nuclear weapons state could check U.S. influence or ignite a war Washington could have difficulty containing the perfect nuclear storm: military and nuclear rivalries could easily be much more intense advanced mili... | So far, the U.S. has tried to cope with independent nuclear powers by making them “strategic partners” (e.g., India and Russia), NATO nuclear allies (France and the UK), “non-NATO allies” (e.g., Israel and Pakistan), and strategic stakeholders (China); or by fudging if a nation actually has attained full nuclear status... | 3816 | <h4>Prolif<u><strong> escalates to nuclear war.</h4><p>Sokolski ‘9</u> </strong>(Henry Sokolski, executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, serves on the U.S. Congressional Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism, June-July 2009, “Avoiding a Nucle... | 1NR | Impact | 2NC I—Prolif—Top Level | 86170 | 93 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,494 | Deterrence Breakdown – Nuclear acquisition nullifies effective US intervention that also checks their wars – we control the only internal into escalation | Cimbala ‘7 | Cimbala ‘7 (Stephen, Distinguished Prof. Pol. Sci. – Penn. State Brandywine, Journal of Slavic Military Studies, “NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION AND DETERRENCE IN ASIA: THE VIEW FROM VLADIVOSTOK”, 20, InformaWorld) | There is no “magic number” of nuclear-armed states that guarantees a first use of nuclear weapons in the twenty-first century. there is some experience to suggest states might become more careful Nevertheless, the propensity of heads of state for committing military follies should never be underestimated: The “rational... | no “magic number” of nuclear-armed states that guarantees a first use of nuclear weapons in the twenty-first century Nevertheless, the propensity of heads of state for committing military follies should never be underestimated rationalities” of states are not of the black box variety .S. intelligence cannot be guarante... | There is no “magic number” of nuclear-armed states that guarantees a first use of nuclear weapons in the twenty-first century. States will not become irrational on account of the possession of nuclear weapons: indeed, there is some experience during and after the Cold War to suggest that states might become more carefu... | 2388 | <h4><u>Deterrence Breakdown</u> – Nuclear acquisition nullifies effective US intervention that also checks their wars – we control the only internal into escalation</h4><p><strong>Cimbala ‘7</strong> (Stephen, Distinguished Prof. Pol. Sci. – Penn. State Brandywine, Journal of Slavic Military Studies, “NUCLEAR PROLIFERA... | 1NR | Impact | AT: Deterrence | 250538 | 6 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,495 | Dems win- Blumenthal and Wang both project | TDS 9/12 | TDS 9/12 | when Huffpost Pollster joins the Princeton Election Consortium in forecasting that Democrats are more likely to keep their Senate majority, that's good news Huffpost calculates a 56 percent "chance that Democrats will keep control of the Senate." 56 percent doesn't allow all that much breathing space. But 8 weeks from ... | when Huffpost joins the Princeton Election Consortium in forecasting Dem s are more likely to keep their Senate majority, that's good news Huffpost calculates a 56 percent "chance Democrats will keep control of the Senate." 56 percent doesn't allow much breathing space. But 8 weeks from election day it's a sign Dems ar... | The Democratic Strategist: Huffpost Pollster Sees 56 Percent Chance Dems Will Hold Senate Majority http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/strategist/2014/09/huffpost_pollster_sees_56_perc.php 09/12/14 [AW]
Don't bet the ranch on it just yet, but when Huffpost Pollster joins the Princeton Election Consortium in forecast... | 2373 | <h4><strong>Dems win- Blumenthal and Wang both project</h4><p>TDS 9/12</p><p></strong>The Democratic Strategist: Huffpost Pollster Sees 56 Percent Chance Dems Will Hold Senate Majority http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/strategist/2014/09/huffpost_pollster_sees_56_perc.php 09/12/14 [AW]</p><p>Don't bet the ranch on... | 1NR | UX | AT: Polls | 429854 | 4 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,496 | Poll based models are better than fundamentals | Wang 5/27 | Wang 5/27 <Sam, data scientist, a co-founder of the Princeton Election Consortium and an associate professor of neuroscience and molecular biology at Princeton University, better predictor of midterms than Silver, “The War of the Senate Models,” http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/the-war-of-the-senate-model... | because of this reliance on national public opinion, as a general rule, with a Democratic president in power, the more a model relies on non-poll-based assumptions, the more it will favor the Republicans. When it comes to extremely close races Type 1 models are of limited use Modelers put in lots of factors that have b... | because of reliance on public opinion with a Democratic president the more a model relies on non-poll-based assumptions, the more it will favor Republicans each factor you add contributes “noise”—accumulating uncertainties Once we have a sufficient amount of polling data fundamentals lose their importance for predictio... | Type 1: Fundamentals only. Type 1 models, which rely on no polling data at all, have the advantage that they can be created before the campaign even starts. The Monkey Cage model is currently pure Type 1, relying on a large number of fundamentals, from candidate “quality” to economic growth. This year, the most importa... | 4274 | <h4>Poll based models are better than fundamentals</h4><p><strong>Wang 5/27</strong> <Sam, data scientist, a co-founder of the Princeton Election Consortium and an associate professor of neuroscience and molecular biology at Princeton University, better predictor of midterms than Silver, “The War of the Senate Models,”... | 1NR | UX | AT: Polls | 224333 | 6 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,497 | Dems have the momentum to take the senate now – but there is no margin of error | Cohn 9/12 | Cohn 9/12 <Nate, The New York Times, “Democrats Are Seeing More Daylight in Path to Senate Control,” http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/13/upshot/democrats-are-seeing-more-daylight-in-path-to-senate-control.html?abt=0002&abg=1>#SPS | the Democratic path to a Senate has started to look easier. today the Democratic path to victory looks as clear as it has at any point this year. That path remains narrow with just two months to go, the party appears to have an advantage The Democrats now appear to have a modest lead in Colorado and Michigan, two state... | the Dem path to a Senate victory looks as clear as it has at any point this year. That path remains narrow with just two months to go, the party appears to have an advantage The Dem s have a modest lead in Colorado and Michigan These leads are not insurmountable. But they are not insubstantial, either . If Colorado and... | A few months ago, the Democratic path to a Senate majority looked long and arduous. It has started to look easier. The Democrats started the campaign with a clear advantage in enough races to end up with 45 seats, well short of the 50 needed to retain control of the chamber. To get to 50, the party was going to have to... | 7148 | <h4>Dems have the momentum to take the senate now – but there is no margin of error</h4><p><strong>Cohn 9/12</strong> <Nate, The New York Times, “Democrats Are Seeing More Daylight in Path to Senate Control,” http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/13/upshot/democrats-are-seeing-more-daylight-in-path-to-senate-control.html?abt=... | 1NR | Alaska DA | 2NC | 429802 | 11 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,498 | Legalization on the midterm ballot spurs democratic win in Alaska – Plan robs them of the issue | Walker 14 | Walker 14 | Could End up Saving Democratic Control of the Senate”, AB
marijuana legalization could now be what helps Democrats narrowly maintain control of the Senate law required local election officials to move a marijuana legalization initiative scheduled for the primary ballot to the November general election This date change ... | legalization could be what helps Democrats narrowly maintain control of the Senate a marijuana legalization initiative could save Begich and Democrats control of the Senate having legalization on the ballot has the unique ability to get young people vote 69 percent said they were more likely to turn out any increase in... | Jon, Election analyst for FDL, http://elections.firedoglake.com/2014/04/22/how-marijuana-legalization-could-end-up-saving-democratic-control-of-the-senate/, “How Marijuana Legalization Could End up Saving Democratic Control of the Senate”, AB
Thanks to a strange series of coincidences marijuana legalization could now b... | 2484 | <h4>Legalization on the midterm ballot spurs democratic<strong> </strong>win<strong> in Alaska – Plan robs them of the issue</h4><p>Walker 14</p><p></strong>Jon, Election analyst for FDL, http://elections.firedoglake.com/2014/04/22/how-marijuana-legalization-could-end-up-saving-democratic-control-of-the-senate/, “How M... | 1NR | Alaska DA | 2NC | 429869 | 5 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,499 | Asian war is unlikely - all potential conflicts are solved by regional stability initiatives | Bitzinger & Desker ‘8 | Bitzinger & Desker ‘8 | despite all the potential crucibles of conflict, the Asia-Pacific, is stable the region has been free of warfare. the break-up of states is unlikely. Terrorism is contained. North Korea is moving toward a denuclearisation Tensions between China and Taiwan seem unlikely to erupt in open conflict given ef... | )
the Asia-Pacific is stable the break-up of states is unlikely Tensions between China and Taiwan seem unlikely to erupt in open conflict given efforts to re-open consultation as well as institutional relationships there are many multilateral organisations and initiatives dedicated to enhancing stability countries are ... | senior fellow and dean of S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies respectively (Richard A. Bitzinger, Barry Desker, “Why East Asian War is Unlikely,” Survival, December 2008, http://pdfserve.informaworld.com-/678328_731200556_906256449.pdf)
The Asia-Pacific region can be regarded as a zone of both relative insecu... | 3012 | <h4><strong>Asian war is unlikely - all potential conflicts are solved by regional stability initiatives </h4><p>Bitzinger & Desker ‘8 </p><p></strong> senior fellow and dean of S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies respectively (Richard A. Bitzinger, Barry Desker, “Why East Asian War is Unlikely,” Survival, De... | 1NR | Impact Turn | 2NC | 129553 | 67 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,500 | Tensions are declining and it won’t no nuclear | Kato ‘8 | Kato ‘8 | The challenges that Asia will face will not require the use of force or will be low intensity if they do. Both major flashpoints-- are showing a decline in tension////. cross-strait tension has substantially declined. China will concentrate on peaceful growth while avoiding military adventurism | The challenges that Asia will face will not require the use of force or will be low intensity if they do major flashpoints are showing a decline in tension cross-strait tension has substantially declined China will concentrate on peaceful growth while avoiding military adventurism | (Yoichi, bureau chief of the American General Bureau of the Asahi Shimbun, “Return from 9/11 PTSD to Global Leader,” Washington Quarterly, Fall 2008, lexis)
The challenges that the Asia Pacific will face in the foreseeable future will not likely require the actual use of force or will likely be low intensity if they do... | 1371 | <h4><strong>Tensions are declining and it won’t no nuclear</h4><p>Kato ‘8</p><p></strong>(Yoichi, bureau chief of the American General Bureau of the Asahi Shimbun, “Return from 9/11 PTSD to Global Leader,” Washington Quarterly, Fall 2008, lexis) </p><p><u><strong><mark>The challenges that</mark> </u></strong>the<u><str... | 1NR | Impact Turn | 2NC | 429879 | 1 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,501 | No great Asian power wars | White ‘9 | White ‘9 | major conflicts in Asia seems unthinkable. East Asia has enjoyed peace such as never before China, Japan and the United States – have maintained harmonious and cooperative relationships. excluding minor incidents none of East Asia’s major powers has used significant force against another Asian the members of ASEAN ... | major conflicts in Asia seems unthinkable. East Asia has enjoyed peace such as never before excluding minor incidents none of East Asia’s major powers has used significant force against another Asian North Korea and the Spratlys have been effectively managed even India–Pakistan does not threaten outbreak of major war | [Hugh, Professor of Strategic Studies at Australian National University and a Visiting Fellow at the Lowy
Institute for International Policy, Survival vol. 50 no. 6]
If we conceive of ‘wars’ the way our parents and grandparents did – as major conflicts among powerful states that disrupt the lives of billions and transf... | 1383 | <h4><strong>No great Asian power wars</h4><p>White ‘9</p><p></strong>[Hugh, Professor of Strategic Studies at Australian National University and a Visiting Fellow at the Lowy</p><p>Institute for International Policy, Survival vol. 50 no. 6]</p><p>If we conceive of ‘wars’ the way our parents and grandparents did – as <u... | 1NR | Impact Turn | 2NC | 429880 | 2 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,502 | 1.) No incentive | Moss 13 | Moss 13 (Trefor Moss is an independent journalist based in Hong Kong and defense analyst for the Diplomat, February 10th, “7 Reasons China and Japan Won’t Go To War”, http://thediplomat.com/2013/02/10/7-reasons-china-and-japan-wont-go-to-war/?all=true, AB) | if Abe is gambling with the region’s security, he is playing the odds Japan can pursue a muscular foreign policy without triggering a catastrophic backlash from China based on numerous constraints that shape Chinese actions as well as the interlocking structure of the globalized environment there are seven reasons war ... | Abe is playing the odds Japan can pursue a muscular foreign policy without triggering a based on numerous constraints war is a very unlikely prospect the prospect of humiliation is enough to persuade Beijing to not to have a war at all Xi would be doomed politically the Communist Party wouldn’t survive | But if Shinzo Abe is gambling with the region’s security, he is at least playing the odds. He is calculating that Japan can pursue a more muscular foreign policy without triggering a catastrophic backlash from China, based on the numerous constraints that shape Chinese actions, as well as the interlocking structure of ... | 1251 | <h4>1.) No incentive </h4><p><strong><mark>Moss 13</strong></mark> (Trefor Moss is an independent journalist based in Hong Kong and defense analyst for the Diplomat, February 10th, “7 Reasons China and Japan Won’t Go To War”, http://thediplomat.com/2013/02/10/7-reasons-china-and-japan-wont-go-to-war/?all=true, AB)</p><... | 2NR | Midterms | AT: Impact Turn | 60225 | 88 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,503 | 2.) Economic interdependence | Moss 13 , AB) | Moss 13 (Trefor Moss is an independent journalist based in Hong Kong and defense analyst for the Diplomat, February 10th, “7 Reasons China and Japan Won’t Go To War”, http://thediplomat.com/2013/02/10/7-reasons-china-and-japan-wont-go-to-war/?all=true, AB) | Economic interdependence Win or lose, a Sino-Japanese war would be disastrous for both The economy Abe is trying to breathe life would take a battering Panic in the globalized economy would further depress both economies, and potentially destroy the programs of both countries’ new leaders. | Economic interdependence a Sino-Japanese war would be disastrous The economy would take a battering Panic would depress both economies and destroy both countries’ leaders | 2. Economic interdependence. Win or lose, a Sino-Japanese war would be disastrous for both participants. The flagging economy that Abe is trying to breathe life into with a $117 billion stimulus package would take a battering as the lucrative China market was closed off to Japanese business. China would suffer, too, as... | 633 | <h4>2.)<strong> </strong>Economic<strong> </strong>interdependence<strong> </h4><p><mark>Moss 13</strong></mark> (Trefor Moss is an independent journalist based in Hong Kong and defense analyst for the Diplomat, February 10th, “7 Reasons China and Japan Won’t Go To War”, http://thediplomat.com/2013/02/10/7-reasons-chin... | 2NR | Midterms | AT: Impact Turn | 60225 | 88 | null | 564681 | N | 4 | 1AC Marijuana Hemp Enviro Federalism
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740,504 | “Legalize” requires regulatory distinctions | Moser 13 | Moser 13 | Legalization vs. Decriminalization¶ To decriminalize an act means to reduce the severity of the offense so that, instead of prison, an offender will pay a fine.¶ Legalization means making something completely legal The issue would no longer be deciding if an act or product was legal to buy or sell. Now there would be a... | To decriminalize means to reduce the severity of the offense Legalization means making something completely legal | Sam, “The Difference between Legalization and Decriminalization” [http://www.criminaldefenceblawg.com/uncategorized/the-difference-between-legalization-and-decriminalization/] February 5 //
Legalization vs. Decriminalization¶ The question in situations like this has often been whether to decriminalize an offense, such ... | 1193 | <h4><u><strong>“Legalize” requires regulatory distinctions</h4><p>Moser 13 </p><p></u></strong>Sam, “The Difference between Legalization and Decriminalization” [http://www.criminaldefenceblawg.com/uncategorized/the-difference-between-legalization-and-decriminalization/] February 5 //</p><p><u>Legalization vs. Decrimina... | 1NC | null | Off | 429882 | 4 | null | 564706 | N | 4 | 1ac was marijuana legalization with cartels hemp and state budgets
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