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Southeast Asia in focus: stemming the reawakening of prohibitionism [PDF]
Journal 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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From the Criminalization of Substances to the “War on Drugs” Policy: A Century of Prohibitionism in Brazil [PDF]
Revista Direito GVIn 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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Drug Abuse Prevention Campaigns in Chile (2004-2014): Between Prohibitionism and Stigmatisation [PDF]
Communication & 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]
Frontiers 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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Revista 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
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Prostitution and the Irish State: From Prohibitionism to a Globalised Sex Trade [PDF]
Irish Political Studies, 2010 Abstract This article argues that while the prostitution policies of the Irish state have changed over a long time from an unambiguous prohibitionism towards a partial abolitionism, overall policy is characterised by inconsistency and contradictions and legal changes have occurred outside of a comprehensive policy review.
Eilís Ward
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Novos Estudos CEBRAP, 2021 This article focuses on the legal disputes between the U.S. government and the Centro Espírita Beneficente União do Vegetal (UDV), as well as on the regulation of the religious use of ayahuasca by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). Our aim is to present the main issues that were at stake throughout the dispute, especially the relationship between the ...
Henrique Antunes
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Is decriminalising drugs enough? Navigating alternatives to prohibitionism
Sociologia on LineThis article provides an overview of Portuguese drug laws, highlighting their unique features, current limitations, and ongoing challenges. Although Portugal has decriminalised the use of all illegal drugs, certain aspects reflect the ambivalence of its legal approach toward drug users. The reinstatement of drug use as a criminal offense by the Supreme
Jorge Quintas, Ximene Rêgo
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Американська 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
e-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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