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Changes in Incident Schizophrenia Diagnoses Associated With Cannabis Use Disorder After Cannabis Legalization

open access: yesJAMA Network Open
Key Points Question Were the liberalization of medical cannabis and the legalization of nonmedical cannabis in Canada associated with changes in the population-attributable fraction of cannabis use disorders associated with schizophrenia?
D. Myran   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Are Legal Concepts Embedded in Legal Norms?

open access: yesInternational Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, 2011
In this paper, we discuss the problem of the relationship between legal concepts and legal norms. We argue that one of the widespread theories of legal concepts, which we call ‘the embedding theory’, is false. The theory is based on the assumption that legal norms are central for any legal system and that each legal norm establishes an inferential link
Gizbert-Studnicki, Tomasz   +1 more
openaire   +2 more sources

The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime [PDF]

open access: yes
We offer evidence that legalized abortion has contributed significantly to recent crime reductions. Crime began to fall roughly 18 years after abortion legalization. The 5 states that allowed abortion in 1970 experienced declines earlier than the rest of
John Donohue, Steven Levitt
core  

Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Common Law Roadmap for State Courts [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
Part I examines the development of the law legalizing passively hastening death and how this development relied significantly on distinguishing passively hastening death from actively hastening death.
Meisel, Alan
core   +1 more source

High Time for Conservation: Adding the Environment to the Debate on Marijuana Liberalization [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The liberalization of marijuana policies, including the legalization of medical and recreational marijuana, is sweeping the United States and other countries.
Anne G. Short Gianotti   +7 more
core  

Legality as legal principle and as legal argument

open access: yesZbornik Radova Pravnog Fakulteta u Splitu, 2010
In this paper author deals with the legality from two aspects: as legal principle and as legal argument. The legality as legal principle makes the most higher legal norms of the legal system which emphasis the basic values with all other legal norms must be in accordance.
openaire   +1 more source

The Legitimacy of Prohibiting Euthanasia

open access: yesBioéthiqueOnline, 2015
ohn Arras argues against the legalization of physician- assisted suicide and active euthanasia on the basis of social costs that he anticipates will result from legalization.
Gildenhuys, Peter
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