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Recently inaugurated Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina, together with Santos and other heads of state, question today’s punitive, prohibitionist approach, owing to its enormous costs and meager results, and propose a different strategy: legalization.
Nevertheless, whereas only a smattering of political leaders and intellectuals advocated legalization in the past, nowadays officials are coming “out of the closet” on drugs in droves.
Those who used to say that they favored a debate on the issue now support legalization; those who opposed it now accept the need for debate; and those who continue to oppose legalization do so on moral, rather than rational, grounds.
In many other states, voters have approved public financing of elections, the adoption and preservation of Medicaid expansion, and marijuana legalization.
While AMLO is highly conservative on these matters and opposes any kind of legalization, he will find it difficult to maintain previous levels of cooperation with the US on drug enforcement.
And President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras has called for the legalization of drug consumption as a means to end the violence related to its production and trafficking.
Opponents of the trade say demand for horns could increase as a result of legalization, reviving dormant interest.
But for us the legalization of Solidarity and its right to choose its own representatives were nonnegotiable demands - and Lech Walesa held firm on this until the Communists relented.
After heated debates, we were prepared to pay what we saw as a very high price for the legalization of Solidarity as a movement.
Cannabis and the BrainAcross Europe and America, there is a groundswell of debate concerning the legalization of cannibas for personal use.
One common justification for legalization or decriminalization of cannabis centers around the idea that it does not involve a victim.
Given growing support for ending the senseless and bloody decades-long “war on drugs,” these signs of progress toward decriminalization and legalization should not pass unremarked.
Critics allege that the legalization of voluntary euthanasia has led to a breakdown of trust in the medical profession and all sorts of other dire consequences.
Roman Catholic thinkers have been among the most vocal in invoking the “slippery slope” argument against the legalization of voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted dying.
For some immigrants, the Bush proposal offers the possibility of stepping out of the shadows into legal jobs, for others it represents the possibility of legalization today but deportation from the US tomorrow.
Three years ago, Fox wanted the "whole enchilada": a temporary workers accord, more Green Cards to allow Mexicans to work in the US, legalization of immigrants already in the US, development funds for Mexican communities that send immigrants to the US, and a bilateral approach to managing the problem.
If they vote for legalization, it will probably be 20 years or more before anyone can say whether, on balance, they decided wisely.
Then, defending the legalization of abortion, she resembled Romy Schneider in Orson Welles’s The Trial, determined but ill at ease.
The End of Marijuana ProhibitionLONDON – In the coming days and weeks, critics will try to minimize what voters in the US states of Colorado and Washington accomplished by backing referenda permitting marijuana legalization and regulation.
The legalization of prostitution in October 2000 merely codified a long-standing Dutch tradition of tolerance towards buying and selling sex.
But is legalization the right approach?
Unlike the drug trade, legalization would not make much of the problem go away, but the issue is similar, because economics plays a much bigger role than is generally acknowledged.
In exchange for voting to pass over the unfit Crown Prince, Kuwait’s parliament is now demanding even more political and economic reforms, including the formal legalization of political parties, the separation of the position of prime minister from that of crown prince, and even for the prime minister to be chosen from outside the Al Sabah family.
The Nobelists’ point is that, as far as therapeutic cloning is concerned, rather than attempting global prohibition, it would be much wiser, and possibly more effective, to promote an international regulatory regime through ample legalization of stem cell research.
It is time for serious reconsideration of the status and regulation of illegal drugs, pointing to selective legalization, as well as reclassification of the market as a public-health, rather than a criminal, concern.
An "International Anti-Prohibitionist League" is now at work, calling for repeal or amendment of the UN treaties in order to allow for experimentation with legalization by individual nations.
So long as the UN anti-drug mandates remain in place, legalization of treatments, cures, and drugs that today are illicit--and recall that it was the end of prohibition alone that ended the reign of gangsters like Al Capone in the 1920s--will remain impossible.
Legalization Is the Only Viable Drug PolicyGENEVA – The market for illicit drugs represents the world’s largest criminal commodity business.
We also need more prevention and monitoring programs, which would be the case with or without legalization.
By calling for legalization, we are not surrendering to the problem posed by drugs.
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