We assume that actors of the professionalization process of palliative care make a special effort to demarcate it from euthanasia, and that such an effort has a significant impact on beliefs and attitudes toward euthanasia among the whole medical profession. We investigated concurrently attitudes toward palliative care, conceptions of euthanasia and opinion toward its legalization among a sampl...

3.1 LAND TENURE SECURITY AND LEGALIZATION............................................................... 8 3.1.1 Land Tenure Security and Legalization: Lessons Learned...........................13 3.2 IMPROVING INFRASTRUCTURE AND SERVICE DELIVERY.............................................. 15 3.2.1 Infrastructure and Building Standards ............................................................

With the recent legalization of recreational marijuana in Colorado, Washington, Alaska, the District of Columbia and legislation pending for both medical and recreational marijuana in several other states, it is important for the facts regarding its potential for serious mental health consequences to be known. Little has been said about the psychiatric risks of this substance, particularly in y...

IMPORTANCE As of 2015, almost half of US states allow medical marijuana, and 4 states allow recreational marijuana. To our knowledge, the effect of recreational marijuana on the pediatric population has not been evaluated. OBJECTIVE To compare the incidence of pediatric marijuana exposures evaluated at a children's hospital and regional poison center (RPC) in Colorado before and after recreat...

We present a model which ties together rational drug consumption, taxation, crime and other drug-related externalities. Drug control policy is addressed using an optimal tax framework. Consumption, possession and production of a drug may be prohibited, legalized or decriminalized. In all regimes illicit production of a drug may take place and drug-related crime occurs. We show that illicit drug...

To date, 27 states and the District of Columbia have passed laws easing marijuana control. This paper examines the relationship between the legalization of medical marijuana, depenalization of possession, and the incidence of non-drug crime. Using state panel data from 1970 to 2012, results show evidence of 4–12% reductions in robberies, larcenies, and burglaries due to the legalization of medi...

Recently some scholars have asserted that abortion legalization during the 1970s resulted in lower crime 15-20 years later. While economists have both substantiated and challenged these findings, sociologists and demographers have been mute on the topic. In this paper, we show that the supposed link between abortion and crime is actually the result of omitted variables bias and difficulties in ...

Previous discussions regarding human germline gene modification led to a global consensus that no germline should undergo genetic modification. However, the UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, having conducted at the UK Government's request a scientific review and a wide public consultation, provided advice to the Government on the pros and cons of Parliament's lifting a ban on alt...

In “Judicialization of the Sea: Bargaining in Shadow UNCLOS,” Sara Mitchell and Andrew Owsiak define “legalization” as international legal constraints, “judicialization” law sea states’ sense that their policy options are legally bounded, courts have gained authority to meaning sea. The authors generally correct processes legalization judicialization under UN Convention on Law Sea (UNCLOS) fund...

Based on both yearly data of 130 economies, this paper studies the association between ease doing business and FDI from three characteristics, i.e., internationalization, legalization, facilitation. The results demonstrate that its facilitation all have a statistical positive influence in attracting inflows. Second, finds legalization business, resolving insolvency indicator is most statistical...