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Showing 1 to 20 of 96 for “"legalization"”.
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The Case for Mary Jane: A Study of Student Perceptions on Marijuana Legalization
Marijuana legalization is continuously up for debate in the legislature and throughout the United States, many states have legalized a variety of marijuana uses and decriminalized minor marijuana offenses. While many studies have been conducted on individuals’ opinions and perceptions on marijuana …
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The politics of implementation : towards a pro-poor land legalization policy in Quito
… of policies for informal neighborhood legalization to analyze the relationship between the national government, municipal council and low-income neighborhoods of the City. I follow Gilbert and Ward's reasoning of regarding the State as a political entity, and its policies of land as a …
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Attitudes before and after the Legalization of Recreational Marijuana among Undergraduate Students in Nevada
Increased legalization of recreational marijuana across the U.S. is a relevant phenomenoninfluencing society. Emerging adults are greatly affected by retail marijuana, and theirperceptions, as well as use behavior, are likely to change with legalization. In Nevada,medical marijuana has been legal …
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Faculty and staff attitudes toward marijuana use and policy: perceptions of dangerousness and legalization
… recent years, and the support for marijuana legalization has increased significantly (Green, Doherty, & Ensminger, 2017; Resko et al., 2019). As attitudinal research has been found to affect policy, the current study focused on perceptions toward marijuana use and policy among university …
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Beyond the Legalization of Marijuana: Economics of Marijuana as a Drug and Herbal Supplement
… misunderstand a crucial aspect of cannabis legalization: they have not critically analyzed how the pharmaceutical industry might react when synthetic cannabinoid compounds could be incorporated into new products. I argue that when marijuana is federally legal, there will be two independent …
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Legalization of Privacy and Personal Data Governance: Feasibility Assessment for a New Global Framework Development
The International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners has been actively engaged in the development of a new, legally binding international framework for privacy and data protection. Given the existence of three international privacy and data protection regimes (i.e. the OECD …
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The danger of the single legal story: the effects of international human rights legalization on land issues in Africa
… law, pursuant to the process of human rights legalization. For in practice, the legalization process has gradually and progressively reduced human rights into a monodisciplinary legal domain in which the multidisciplinary ode to human rights has been silenced. Whether intended or unintended, …
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Trajectories of commitment and instability across the legalization of same-sex marriage: an examination of the role of heterosexist experiences
Almost two full years have passed since the legalization of same-sex marriage in the historical Obergefell v. Hodges case. However, sexual minorities continue to face heterosexism (National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, 2016) and the US fails to consistently provide protections for …
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Effects of public policies on informal and formal urban expansion. A comparative impact evaluation between neighborhood legalization and slum upgrading policies in Bogota-Colombia
Una de las principales características de la historia reciente de las ciudades latinoamericanas ha sido la rápida y descontrolada expansión de la ciudad informal e ilegal, que, sólo en el caso de Bogotá, ha provocado un déficit habitacional de más de 352.000 hogares (14 % de la población de la …
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From Kyiv with Love: the Push to Legalize Same-Sex Civil Partnerships
… in Ukrainian society regarding the potential legalization of same-sex civil partnerships following the Russian 2022 full-scale invasion. To conduct this study, open-source media was collected from various groups within Ukrainian society to determine which arguments are more significant …
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Provincial Cannabis Legislation, Regulation, and Licensing: Its Effectiveness and Impacts on Municipalities in Ontario
The legalization of cannabis has been a controversial topic within the last two decades in many developed states. The legalization brought medicinal benefits, economic opportunity, and a projected decrease in organized crime. It has, however, also prompted new challenges for different levels of …
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Vilniaus universiteto medicinos ir filosofijos studentų požiūrio į eutanaziją ir jos įteisinimą Lietuvoje tyrimas ir vertinimas /
… Philosophy Students Towards Euthanasia and Its Legalization in Lithuania: Analysis and Evaluation Keywords: Euthanasia, legalizing euthanasia, students’ opinion, end-of-life decisions. Euthanasia becomes a popular topic in Europe in recent years. There is no simple assessment of euthanasia, …
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Up in Smoke: Two Theoretical Perspectives on the Future of Marijuana Law in the United States
… dependent variable, attitudes toward marijuana legalization. Through this analysis, two theories are utilized, Richard Quinney’s critical theory of crime and normative theory of law, to outline predictors for the future legalization of marijuana in the U.S. The findings show that while neither …
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Up in Smoke: Two Theoretical Perspectives on the Future of Marijuana Law in the United States
… dependent variable, attitudes toward marijuana legalization. Through this analysis, two theories are utilized, Richard Quinney’s critical theory of crime and normative theory of law, to outline predictors for the future legalization of marijuana in the U.S. The findings show that while neither …
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Three Essays on the Economics of Education
… The first and third chapters examine marijuana legalization and its effects on students, while the second chapter examines the impact of pension incentives on teacher quality.The first chapter examines the extent to which there are negative spillovers of recreational marijuana legalization on …
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Internal dispute resolution: the legal environment of complex public organizations
… of organizations by examining the dynamics of legalization in the Commonwealth of Virginia Grievance Program. It extends legalization research to the public administration and policy field by exploring and describing how the legal environment of complex, public organizations serve to …
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Towards Health Centered Drug Policy: An Analysis of Past and Developing Drug Policy
… has examined the extent to which marijuana legalization has caused an increase in overdose deaths. Here, we address this question. To examine the causal effect of marijuana legalization on overdose deaths, we combine state-year level data on marijuana policy and overdose deaths with …
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Essays in Applied Economics
… these questions, we leverage Brazil's unexpected legalization of outsourcing in 1993, which sharply increased outsourcing among security guards. Using regional variation in the pre-legalization court permissiveness, we find that outsourcing legalization persistently increased total employment of …
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