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Modern History of Medical Cannabis: From Widespread Use to Prohibitionism and Back

Trends in Pharmacological Sciences, 2017
Over the history of pharmacology there are numerous examples of drugs being widely distributed, almost ‘trendy’, prescribed by physicians in a certain period as a sort of panacea, and then neglected, forgotten, or even forbidden as they become considered dangerous in the light of clinical observations.
PISANTI, SIMONA, BIFULCO, Maurizio
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Drug Policies in Australia: Alternatives to Prohibitionism

Journal of Drug Issues, 1986
After an overview of the current Australian situation, five arguments that are used to justify prohibitionist stances are reviewed. All are shown to be inadequate. The real conditions under which a successful prohibition might be attempted are discussed, and it is shown that these do not exist in Australia at present, at least not as far as some ...
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Migration between prohibitionism and the perpetuation of illegal labour

History and Anthropology, 2005
The management of the migrations turn to a prohibitionism coexists with the perpetuation of a widespread underground economy. Migrants are faced less with the possibility of legitimate and rewarding integration than with a system of “use and discard”. Migrants have come to see two sides of dominant countries: paternalism, tolerance and solidarity, but ...
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De prohibitione carnis. Meat Abstention and the Priscillianists

Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity, 2007
ZUSAMMENFASSUNG Priscillian von Avila zog in Gallien und Italien im 4. Jh. breite Aufmerksamkeit auf sich, was dazu führte, daß einige Bischöfe ihn aller möglichen Häresien verdächtigten. Unter diesen Häresievorwürfen findet sich auch der Vorwurf, Priscillian und seine Anhänger verträten hinsichtlich des Verzichts auf Fleischgenuß eine ...
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The New Prohibitionism: The Movement to Regulate Personal Behavior

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016
This paper applies economic analysis and rights theory to the movement of governments to regulate personal behavior in the areas of alcohol, tobacco and food consumption, free speech, gun ownership, sex, the body as property, the right to work. Utilitarianism and rights theory are also discussed.
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Japanese Feminism and Commercialized Sex: The Union of Militarism and Prohibitionism

Social Science Japan Journal, 2006
This essay examines the relationship between US policy toward commercialized sex, known as the 'American Plan', and postwar Japan's prohibitionism in the context of changes in the global management of commercialized sex over the course of the 20th century, and reconsiders the meaning of prohibitionism for feminism.
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Review essay / temperance ideology and sociological denial: Prohibitionism in drug policy discourse

Criminal Justice Ethics, 1993
Mark Kleiman, Against Excess: Drug Policy for Results New York: Basic Books, 1992. 474 pp. + xvi.
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Social Effects of Prohibitionism in the Americas and New Drug Policies

2018
The prohibitionist complex is still powerful and multiform. Despite the evil it has been proved to unleash, avoiding it is a tough task. On the one hand, this article focuses on the persistence of prohibitionism in Uruguay and the violence (both statal and interpersonal) that it inflicts on the most vulnerable drug users.
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Capitalism, prohibitionism, and the drug policy reform movement: theses on Friedman et al.

International Journal of Drug Policy, 2001
The New Left of the 1960s was new in part because it recognized that capitalism was no more the cause of every problem than communism was the solution. The Old Left had been slow to understand that racism, sexism, and many other forms of inequality and inhumanity were not reducible to economic exploitation, and that ‘‘the working class’’ was not always
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Promises and Prohibitionism in Colombia’s New Drug Policy

NACLA Report on the Americas, 2023
Aura María Puyana, Sandra Yanneth Bermúdez   +1 more
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