Evidence not ideology

Cannabis and Canadian youth: evidence, not ideology.

A recent United Nations Children’s Fund study on the well-being of children1 found that Canadian adolescents (aged 11 to 15 years) have the highest rate of cannabis use among the 29 advanced economies of the world; an estimated 28% had used cannabis at least once in the past year. The 2011 Canadian Alcohol and Drug Use Monitoring Survey, which surveyed older youth, found slightly lower rates of...

Treat addictions with evidence, not ideology.

The war on drugs is failing. This was the conclusion The BMJ reached at the end of last year, leading us to call for reform of drug policy (doi:10.1136/bmj.i6067). Evidence now supports decriminalisation of non-violent drug use, as do a growing number of health and human rights organisations. And the debate is moving cautiously towards support for legalised but heavily regulated drug markets. A...

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Ideology with evidence: global warming, maps and ethics.

The world is getting fatter and apart from the usual reasons for being worried about this—vast increases in diabetes and cardiovascular diseases—Edwards and Roberts have given us a new one. They have calculated the energy costs of food production and transportation arising in two hypothetical populations, in which one has a 3.5% prevalence of obesity (reflecting UK in 1970) and the other of 40%...

Approaches of Islamic Ideology to interfere or not to interfere in the area of divergence

  Introduction: The principles of the School of Natural Rights during the Age of Entitlement, i.e., the 17th and 18th centuries, regarding the centrality of human being, his freedom and self-determination, as well as the human rights recommendations and documentations designed and drafted by the international organizations during the current century and the appearance of “globalization”, the...