In the United States, federal and state laws regarding the medical use of cannabis and cannabinoids are in conflict and have led to confusion among patients, caregivers, and healthcare providers. Currently, cannabis is legal for medical purposes in 50% of the states, and another seventeen states allow products that are high in cannabidiol (CBD) and low in THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) for medical ...

Legal judgments and decisions require valuation and integration of stimulus information. Such information processing is a province of psychological science and many psychologists have taken up legal issues to seek social usefulness. Some issues in legal psychology obey the same mathematical laws of information integration established in other areas of human psychology. This is not surprising; ...

PURPOSE To present the results of a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) analysis used as part of a process aimed at reorganising services provided within a pediatric rehabilitation programme (PRP) in Quebec, Canada and to report the perceptions of the planning committee members regarding the usefulness of the SWOT in this process. METHOD Thirty-six service providers workin...

SWOT analysis is a strategic planning method used to evaluate the Strengths, Weaknesses/Limitations, Opportunities, and Threats involved in a project or in a business venture. It involves specifying the objective of the business venture or project and identifying the internal and external factors that are favorable and unfavorable to achieve that objective. Turkish electronics industry is conti...

Because of the introduction of (regulated) market competition and self-regulation, strategy is becoming an important management field for health care organizations in many European countries. That is why health managers are introducing more and more strategic principles and tools. Especially the SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats)-analysis seems to be popular. However, hardly a...

apparent agency is one of the new and practical kinds of agencies that have been considered in both legal systems – common law and civil law- and in most laws of different countries in the world – regardless of level of economic and social development - and also in some international documents. its applications have been increased in different field of agency such as legal entities, new employm...

in this paper, we have clarified the necessity and motivation about legal act of discerning minor. after this introduction, we have classified related subjects into two topics and here we have investigated each one of them. in first topics of concepts and definitions, discerning minor and legal acts have been investigated. for second topic, we have selected legal acts of discerning minor and ha...

BACKGROUND Laws on compulsory commitment to care (CCC) in mental health, social and criminal legislation for adult persons with alcohol and/or drug dependence or misuse problems are constructed to address different scenarios related to substance use disorders. This study examines how such CCC laws in European states vary in terms of legal rights, formal orders of decision and criteria for invol...

INTRODUCTION Attention to the negative effects of structural barriers on HIV efforts is increasing. Reviewing national legal and policy environments with attention to the international human rights commitments of states is a means of assessing and providing focus for addressing these barriers to effective HIV responses. METHODS Law and policy data from the 171 countries reporting under the De...

Classical Description Logic has been widely used as a basis for ontology creation and reasoning in many knowledge specific domains. These specific domains naturally include Legal Artificial Intelligence. As in any other domain, consistency is an important issue for legal ontologies. However, due to their inherently normative feature, coherence (consistency) in legal ontologies is more subtle th...