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Southeast Asia in focus: stemming the reawakening of prohibitionism [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of the International AIDS Society, 2016
No abstract available. (Published: 26 June 2016) Citation: Rahman F and Kamarulzaman A. Journal of the International AIDS Society 2016, 19 :21279 http://www.jiasociety.org/index.php/jias/article/view/21279 | http://dx.doi.org/10.7448/IAS.19.1 ...
Fifa Rahman, Adeeba Kamarulzaman
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Drug Abuse Prevention Campaigns in Chile (2004-2014): Between Prohibitionism and Stigmatisation [PDF]

open access: yesCommunication & Society (Formerly Comunicación y Sociedad), 2019
This paper studies the presence and reproduction of the ‘prohibitionist’ paradigm in the Chilean state’s drug policy by studying its drug abuse prevention campaigns.
Salomé Sola-Morales, Carla Quiroz
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Lethal autonomous weapon systems and respect for human dignity [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Big Data, 2022
Much of the literature concerning the ethics of lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) has focused on the idea of human dignity. The lion's share of that literature has been devoted to arguing that the use of LAWS is inconsistent with human dignity, so
Leonard Kahn
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From the Criminalization of Substances to the “War on Drugs” Policy: A Century of Prohibitionism in Brazil [PDF]

open access: yesRevista Direito GV
In 1921, Decree 4,294 defined prohibitionism as the referential model of state response to drugs in Brazil. One century later, not only is the approach still enshrined in national legislation but also materialized in a complex institutional and ...
José Guilherme Magalhães e Silva   +2 more
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Diageo's 'Stop Out of Control Drinking' Campaign in Ireland: An Analysis. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One, 2016
BACKGROUND: It has been argued that the alcohol industry uses corporate social responsibility activities to influence policy and undermine public health, and that every opportunity should be taken to scrutinise such activities.
Petticrew M   +5 more
europepmc   +7 more sources

Cambio de paradigma o reforma del prohibicionismo: el consumo de cannabis en el tribunal constitucional mexicano

open access: yesRevista de Estudios Sociales, 2021
Mexico is at a crossroads in terms of drug policy. The judicial route has recently positioned itself as a possible tool to dismantle a century of prohibitionism that, in its historical development, has resulted in significant grievances for the country ...
Daniel Beltrán-Velarde   +1 more
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The prohibition movement in the United States: the Prohibition Party in cartoons of the late 19th and early 20th centuries

open access: yesАмериканська історія і політика, 2021
The present paper has three main objectives: 1) to cover the history of American temperance movements at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries, and their key characteristics; 2) to trace the Prohibition Party history and activity; 3) to do a content ...
Liliia Pytlovana
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Políticas de drogas e o encarceramento de populações vulneráveis em Portugal e no Brasil

open access: yese-cadernos ces, 2022
This article seeks to understand aspects of the different forms of drug policy and its impact on vulnerable populations, focusing on incarceration in two different contexts, Portugal and Brazil.
Mayalu Matos Silva
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Economists and engineers, politicians and industrialists: Industrialisms in liberal Spain (1800-1850)

open access: yesRevista de Historia Industrial, 2020
Agrarian mercantilism, being the ruling tradition throughout the 18th century, extended its influence into the 19th century under the cover of classical economics as applied to the ‘natural order’ of economic development.
Joaquín Ocampo, Guillermo Antuña
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Cannabis use under prohibitionism – the interplay between motives, contexts and subjects [PDF]

open access: yesDrugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 2019
A key question in drugs research is why people use psychoactive substances. Diverse motives such as boredom, habit, and pain relief have served as explanations, but little is known about how adult ...
Mats Ekendahl   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

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