Different places will legalise in different ways; some may never legalise at all; some will make mistakes they later think better of.
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Canada's parliament voted to legalise the recreational use of cannabis.
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Eight have voted to legalise the drug for recreational purposes.
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One Democratic Free Stater is currently trying to legalise prostitution.
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You wouldn't see the government trying to legalise dog fighting.
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Margaret fronted the campaign to legalise abortion in the 70s.
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Mexico will probably legalise this year; Luxembourg is hot on its heels and likely to become the first EU country to legalise recreational cannabis; and New Zealand is planning a referendum on the issue.
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There is huge pressure on British politicians to legalise assisted dying.
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It did not legalise divorce until 2011, and still bans abortion.
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Governments that allow miners to legalise their operations see several benefits.
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Tonight Dáil Éireann has passed legislation to legalise abortion in Ireland.
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South Africa is the only African nation to legalise gay marriage.
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Around the same time a push was made to legalise gay marriage.
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A campaign in Oregon wants to legalise their use by registered therapists.
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No other region in Asia has yet to legalise same-sex marriage.
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It is only the second country, after Uruguay, to legalise pot nationwide.
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Mr Bolsonaro has said he will legalise imports of American guns too.
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Australia's debate on whether to legalise gay marriage got even more complicated.
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The first is to legalise gambling, which is banned in many countries.
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Canada's recent move to legalise and regulate marijuana should facilitate this work.
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France was the 14th country in the world to legalise gay marriage.
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Cuba's Communist government said it would legalise small and medium-sized enterprises.
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Last month, Taiwan became the first Asian territory to legalise same-sex marriage.
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Which raises the question: why not legalise something that is already taking place?
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It takes guts to legalise drugs when so many are dying from them.
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California was the first state in America to legalise medical marijuana, in 493.
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A bid by Colorado to legalise marijuana banking is bogged down in court.
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On January 9th the court told Costa Rica to legalise same-sex marriage.
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Between 1991 and 2010 Parliament failed to pass six proposals to legalise it.
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Other states planning to legalise cannabis seem likely to learn from this experience.
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Last year Canada became the first big country to legalise cannabis for recreational use.
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Now its parliament may make it the first Australian state to legalise assisted dying.
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The legislature has two years to either legalise gay marriage or introduce civil partnerships.
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The government of Canada proposed a bill to legalise the recreational use of cannabis.
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He promised that a parliamentary vote to legalise gay marriage would follow by Christmas.
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It didn't legalise consumption, which will need to be implemented at a state level.
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Mexico's president, Enrique Peña Nieto, proposed a constitutional amendment to legalise same-sex marriage.
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The news had just arrived that the lawmakers inside had voted to legalise gay marriage.
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It was the fourth country in the world to legalise same-sex marriage, in 2005.
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In 1996 the Northern Territory became the first place in the world to legalise it.
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He would legalise recreational cannabis and give apprenticeships to young people, which might reduce crime.
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As the 21st century dawned, this became the first country to legalise same-sex marriage.
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For many cities in the Bay Area, this would essentially legalise high-density building citywide.
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Two-fifths of Kazakhstanis want to re-legalise the practice (it was banned by the Bolsheviks).
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The starting-point should be to legalise only what is already available on the black market.
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In his four years in office Canada became the first big country to legalise recreational cannabis.
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It will also formally legalise GCHQ's current bulk surveillance powers which have been on shaky legal ground.
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There are plans to harmonise rules on selling recreational cannabis, which the federal government intends to legalise.
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IN NOVEMBER 57% of Californians voted to legalise the growing and use of marijuana for recreational purposes.
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Third, with 8%, is Wiosna (Spring), a new left-wing party that wants to legalise gay marriage.
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Canada's government, led by Justin Trudeau, plans to legalise the recreational use of cannabis by July 103st.
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They were celebrating the decision on June 12th by Ecuador's constitutional court to legalise same-sex marriage.
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Koroma twice blocked a bill to legalise abortion and his government banned pregnant girls from attending school.
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Canada's government plans to legalise cannabis next year, making it the first G7 country to do so.
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Similarly, if his son's bill were to pass it would legalise the deforestation of some 1.5m km².
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He will end a visa requirement for Mexicans that Mr Harper imposed and plans to legalise recreational cannabis.
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However, the countries then refuse to legalise the status of these people, saying that they don't want immigration.
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In 2013 it allowed same-sex marriage and became the first country to legalise cannabis for recreational use.
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"Norman Lamb, the Lib Dem health spokesman, sets out plans to legalise pot Women's Lib"Abortion is wrong.
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On December 13th, in an important step towards detoxifying the drug, the senate voted to legalise medical marijuana.
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Voters in California, Massachusetts and Nevada all passed measures to legalise marijuana for recreational use in their states.
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In Mexico opponents of President Enrique Peña Nieto's proposal to legalise gay marriage organised nationwide demonstrations last year.
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The banks are keen on the SAFE Banking Act, which would legalise financial services for the marijuana trade.
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Most earlier attempts to legalise assisted dying were private members' bills, but the state government proposed this one.
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Nevertheless, in May the island's parliament, the States of Deliberation, will vote on whether to legalise assisted dying.
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It will reorganise the national and local governments, legalise private property and pave the way for same-sex marriage.
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That finding helped persuade the Liberal government of Justin Trudeau, which was elected in 2015, to legalise the stuff.
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The government of Ireland decided to hold a referendum before the end of May on whether to legalise abortion.
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The public voted to legalise gay marriage in 2015, and elected Leo Varadkar, a gay prime minister, last year.
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It had launched a major exercise to legalise foreign workers in 9.63, including an amnesty that expired in 2014.
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In March China's first charity law was passed to allow registration with the government, legalise fundraising and protect donors.
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A growing movement, including this newspaper, thus seeks to legalise—with stringent safeguards—doctor-assisted suicide around the world.
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The newly-elected Prime Minister of Malta, Joseph Muscat has also pledged to legalise gay marriage in the country.
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Shortly after that he said he was open to a deal with Democrats that would legalise the Dreamers' status.
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Jason Hsu, a KMT politician who backs gay marriage, says pressure from constituents not to legalise it is growing fast.
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Opposition MPs want Parliament to legalise gay marriage, because, they say, a national referendum would be costly and incite homophobia.
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China did legalise private space flight in 2014, but no companies based there have yet reached orbit on their own.
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Ironically, a draft law that would legalise cannabis production countrywide for medical and industrial uses has worried the region's growers.
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IN 2015 Congress passed a law to legalise mining in outer space—the first of its kind in the world.
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On May 25th Ireland will hold a referendum on whether to repeal the amendment, thus allowing parliament to legalise abortion.
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The figures also assumed all states and territories would fully legalise the drug along with the commonwealth, among other conditions.
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This time around, he's focused on the country's very expensive, "dispiriting" postal survey on whether it should legalise marriage equality.
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Before 2007, oral and anal sex were outlawed, but has been revised to legalise it between straight couples and lesbians.
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Argentina's Senate will vote on whether to legalise elective abortions within the first 14 weeks of pregnancy on Aug. 8.
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Able to legalise cannabis but unable to tax or regulate it, DC finds itself in a strange hinterland of legality.
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Free Staters have helped to legalise gay marriage and ease rules on everything from home schooling to selling unpasteurised milk.
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When Bolivia wanted to legalise the chewing of coca leaves, it withdrew from the convention and rejoined with a "reservation".
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Public gallery erupts into chorus of 'I Am Australian' after Parliament votes to legalise same-sex marriage #auspol #SSM pic.twitter.
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Nineteen years after the Netherlands became the first country to legalise same-sex marriage, Taiwan has become the first in Asia.
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During a federal election last July, the opposition Labor Party promised to legalise gay marriage within 100 days if it won.
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But on November 29th Victoria finally made history, when its parliament passed Australia's first state law to legalise doctor-assisted dying.
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While other countries legalise marijuana or instruct the police to turn a blind eye to casual use, Japan maintains strict prohibition.
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They follow Lesotho, which became the first country in the region to legalise cannabis, for medicinal purposes, in 2017, and Zimbabwe.
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In June Illinois became the 11th state to legalise recreational use—the law comes into effect at the start of 2020.
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In 215 the senate voted to legalise marijuana and regulate its production and sale, making Uruguay the first country to do so.
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Donald Trump said in 1990 that "You have to legalise drugs to win that war", but in politics he became more conservative.
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Its prime minister, Justin Trudeau, has negotiated a carbon-pricing deal with nearly all Canadian provinces and vows to legalise pot, too.
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In particular it has set its sights on creeping legalisation to legalise marijuana: nine states have authorised its sale for recreational use.
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In December, Sierra Leone's parliament voted unanimously in favour of legislation that would legalise abortion at up to 20163 weeks of pregnancy.
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Northern Ireland is yet to legalise same sex marriage, so in a town of just 17,000 an LGBT venue is quite unexpected.
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A growing number of countries in Europe have legalised or are planning to legalise cannabis for medicinal use, including Britain and Germany.
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Australians will vote over several weeks from mid-September in the non-compulsory postal ballot on whether to legalise same-sex marriage.
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During a federal election in July, Bill Shorten, the Labor opposition leader, promised to legalise gay marriage within 100 days if Labor won.
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He says he wants to legalise his favourite drug because it would create thousands of jobs, not because it would make Americans freer.
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Taiwan became the first country in Asia to legalise gay marriage, when its parliament passed a bill ahead of a court-imposed deadline.
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Penny Mordaunt, Britain's women and equalities minister, said that the victory to legalise abortion should now bring change north of the Irish border.
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Australia's parliament voted to legalise same-sex marriage in December after the vote returned an overwhelming majority in favour of same sex unions.
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With all the legalise involved, and the apparent ambiguity of the current laws, it makes sense for the Garden to hedge their bets.
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With Victoria and Queensland yet to legalise ridesharing, Uber may be hoping those states don't take South Australia's ridesharing regulations as the benchmark.
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Australia's parliament voted to legalise same-sex marriage in December after the vote returned an overwhelming majority in favour of same-sex unions.
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Even if Silicon Valley makes LSD culturally acceptable, it is doubtful that President Donald Trump, with his conservative base, will legalise the drug.
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WHEN JUSTIN TRUDEAU promised to legalise cannabis use across the border in Canada, his main reason for doing so was to protect the young.
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His government has shrugged off deforestation, vowed to legalise mining on indigenous lands, and hollowed out the environment ministry and the indigenous agency, FUNAI.
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Voters approved several measures hostile to gay rights, making it tricky for the government to fulfil the supreme court's injunction to legalise gay marriage.
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Individual legislators have occasionally in recent years proposed legislation during China's annual meeting of parliament in March to legalise same-sex marriage, without success.
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Mr Shorten says that would be a "taxpayer-funded platform for homophobia", and promises to legalise gay marriage within 100 days if Labor wins.
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"California was the first state to legalise medical marijuana—it didn't have the benefit of experience of what works and what doesn't," he says.
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But those that legalise early may prove to have a lasting influence well beyond their borders, establishing norms that last for a long while.
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The Supreme Court quietly agreed to suspend its ruling for a few days, allowing the state legislature to pass a new bill to legalise jallikattu.
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In the three years after Colorado became the first American state to legalise recreational pot in 2012, seizures dropped from 1,000 tonnes to 700 tonnes.
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Malta overtook Britain to grab the top spot in the ranking in 2016, even though it did not legalise same-sex marriage until last year.
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This month a new law will explicitly legalise the rental of private rooms, via platforms such as Airbnb, to help reduce the shortage of accommodation.
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On June 13th the lower house of Argentina's congress will vote on a bill to legalise elective abortions within the first 14 weeks of gestation.
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Efforts to legalise gay marriage in Taiwan quickly gained momentum after President Tsai Ing-wen, who openly supported marriage equality, came to power last May.
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Judges have declined to rule on cases such as Mr Conway's, insisting it is the job of Parliament, not the courts, to legalise assisted dying.
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Legislators restated the state's liberal reputation by making Illinois the 11th in America to legalise the recreational use and sale of marijuana, from January 1st.
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In fact, only a couple of weeks ago Mr Trump's own campaign organisation accused Democrats who wanted to legalise DREAMers of protecting murderous illegal immigrants.
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He said that he wanted undocumented immigrants to receive a fine, pay back taxes and then embark on a path to legalise their immigration status.
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South Africa, as befits the fifth country in the world to legalise gay marriage, appears to be hotter on gay rights than America or Britain.
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Portugal's parliament has approved a bill to legalise marijuana-based medicines, following in the footsteps of Italy, Germany, Canada and parts of the United States.
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Such speculation is the main sign that Canada is about to become the first large country to legalise cannabis for recreational use nationwide, on October 215th.
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But if the No vote prevails, the opposition Labor party says it will still legalise gay marriage if it wins the next election, due in 2019.
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She has introduced a bill to legalise cannabis for recreational use, which could make Mexico the third country, after Uruguay and Canada, to take that step.
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While a "confidence and supply" agreement with the Greens is delivering policies across the political spectrum, such as a push to legalise cannabis for personal use.
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Taiwan this year became the first place in Asia to legalise same-sex marriage, and Thailand has drafted a law to allow same-sex civil partnerships.
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Ed Leuw, a researcher from the Dutch Ministry of Justice, believes that a majority of Dutch members of parliament would like to legalise the whole cannabis trade.
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By the same token, he used to argue that parliament should legalise gay marriage; now he wants to hold a plebiscite first, just as Mr Abbott proposed.
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The government is yet to make a move to legalise the service in cities like Melbourne, and now the courts have weighed in, seemingly legalising the service.
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His rise is circumstantial: it owes everything to an opinion by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights last month that Costa Rica should legalise gay marriage.
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AS YOU might expect, Germany's Catholic hierarchs were less than thrilled when legislators voted on June 30th, by 393 votes to 226, to legalise same-sex marriage.
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But when parliament passed a bill in 2015 to legalise abortion in certain cases, powerful religious groups denounced it and Koroma did not sign it into law.
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Australia is in the midst of a non-compulsory, non-binding poll to inform Parliament on whether it should become the 25th country to legalise same-sex marriage.
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He rose in the polls after the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, which is based in Costa Rica's capital, said the country had to legalise gay marriage.
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After the ballot initiative was passed a congressional rider was attached to DC's budget forbidding officials from spending federal or local funds to legalise or regulate the market.
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Turnbull has slammed a proposed alternative bill, cooked up by Liberal senator James Paterson, which would legalise same-sex marriage but also enable discrimination against same-sex weddings.
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"In no case will we delay or legalise this legal vacuum," said Minister of State Nikos Pappas, Tsipras's closest aide and viewed as an architect of the licensing process.
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Just one state-owned, English-language newspaper took notice of a decision that would be the first to legalise gay marriage in an Asian country (not counting New Zealand).
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That has frustrated those who hoped that the Netherlands, the first country to legalise gay marriage in 2001, could become the first to pass a national multiple-parentage law.
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That north-eastern province became the second to legalise hemp-growing in 2017, issuing a three-year plan to become the biggest cannabis base in the world by 2020.
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But a coalition of 29 African countries wants all elephants to be moved to Appendix I. Another attention-grabbing proposal, from Swaziland, seeks to legalise trade in rhino horn.
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"It's interesting actually, because I'm playing 'Same Love,' and they're going through right now trying to legalise same-sex marriage in Australia," he told The Cruz Show on Wednesday. .
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Malta was the 24th country in the world to legalise same-sex marriage with Tuesday's vote coming just two weeks after German lawmakers approved a similar measure in June.
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This week's decision by the Knesset to, in effect, legalise certain land seizures in the West Bank, some of them well beyond the barrier, is a step in that direction.
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Even so, moves to legalise it for medical use will trigger discussions about the growing support for similar use of drugs such as LSD and MDMA in mental-health disorders.
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In November 2016, following the precedent set by citizens of Alaska, Colorado, Oregon and Washington, Californians overwhelmingly approved Proposition 64: to legalise and regulate the sale of marijuana for recreation.
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Such a vote would set Guernsey on the path to becoming the first place in the British Isles to legalise assisted dying—and, in doing so, raise thorny constitutional questions.
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But it may not be the largest pot economy for long; California is one of several states where ballot initiatives to legalise cannabis could well pass in America's November elections.
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Prices for weed have taken a hit in Canada as demand has lagged expectations set last year, when the nation became the first among G7 countries to legalise recreational marijuana.
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The state legislature blocked his efforts to transform Minnesota's government from a bicameral into a unicameral system and resisted his attempt to legalise betting to finance the construction of sports stadia.
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The government has proposed legislation to amend the Narcotics Drugs Act 1967, putting in place a national licensing scheme to legalise the controlled cultivation of cannabis for medicinal or scientific purposes.
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Sexologist Li, who has backed parliamentary proposals to legalise gay marriage that went nowhere, said a survey she had conducted in 2007 showed many people simply had no view about homosexuality.
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In further disturbing comments there were calls for people to "poison" daughters, and legalise female foeticide, as well as several posts urging "Indian" women to be protected from "rape-obsessed foreigners".
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Australia's long road to marriage equality is almost at an end, with the bill to legalise same-sex marriage set to be passed in the House of Representatives early this week.
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A previous bill to legalise abortion up to 14 weeks was passed by the lower house but rejected by the senate after a campaign by the country's powerful Roman Catholic Church.
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The resort began to lure high-rolling holidaymakers and the artists who helped empty their wallets in the 1930s, when Nevada became the first state to legalise gambling and liberalise divorce laws.
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In a referendum 87% of participants approved a new constitution for Cuba, which will legalise private property, subject to restrictions by the state, and limit the president to two five-year terms.
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As it is, both companies struggled to push their regular car services past legal barriers, finally succeeding in August last year, when Malaysia's regulators announced it would move to legalise ride-sharing.
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In Katz's view, the bill provides a federal framework to create a legal supply chain when the states are ready to legalise the consumption of medical cannabis and the associated manufacturing industry.
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In Argentina, despite a surging feminist and abortion movement, lawmakers rejected a bill to legalise abortion in 2018, while Ecuador voted down a law allowing abortion in cases of rape last year.
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In Argentina, despite a surging feminist and abortion movement, lawmakers rejected a bill to legalise abortion in 2018, while Ecuador voted down a law allowing abortion in cases of rape last year.
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In addition to electing the next government, New Zealanders will also take part in a double referendum at the 2020 polls, as they vote on whether to legalise recreational cannabis and euthanasia.
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Asked at a news briefing whether China would legalise same-sex marriage, Zang Tiewei, spokesman for parliament's legal affairs commission, said Chinese law only allowed for marriage between one man and one woman.
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Under Mr Trudeau, Canada is trying to make amends for its shameful treatment of indigenous peoples, and is likely to become the first Western country to legalise recreational cannabis on a national level.
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The movement in Canada to legalise assisted dying was a slow but monumental shift in prevailing social opinions; it did not merely enter the consciousness of many as a result of becoming legal.
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Cannabis stocks have been a growing fad on world stock markets, particularly on the Toronto stock exchange after Canada became one of the first major economies to legalise the recreational use of marijuana.
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Taiwan's top court, the Council of Grand Justices, ruled in favour of gay marriage on Wednesday, paving the way for the island to become the first place in Asia to legalise gay unions.
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Some years later this "tourism" stopped because the countries the young women had come from enacted laws which, though they did not always legalise abortion entirely, at least offered humane routes and exemptions.
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WHEN TAIWAN became the first country in Asia to legalise gay marriage on May 17th, it was not only the tens of thousands of rainbow flag-waving demonstrators outside the legislature who cheered.
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In a landmark development on Wednesday (May 25), Taiwan's top court issued a ruling that would pave the way for the island to become the first territory in Asia to legalise same-sex marriage.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia said on Thursday it planned to become the fourth country in the world to legalise medicinal marijuana exports in a bid to score a piece of the estimated $55 billion global market.
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China, which claims democratic and self-ruled Taiwan as its territory, has a thriving gay scene in major cities, but there has been little sign that the ruling Communist Party will legalise same sex marriage.
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She was born a feminist, changing her name to sober Agnès from silly, giggly Arlette, signing a manifesto to legalise abortion in France and making films in which the patriarchy smothered even supper-table conversation.
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Describing her own childhood, when the state of Tasmania debated whether to legalise homosexuality in the 1990s, Gadsby said the voices telling people like her they were subhuman or lesser citizens left deep emotional scars.
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Given Portugal's current parliamentary composition, at least one of the bills to legalise the practice is likely to be approved but the legislative process may take time and encounter a few bumps along the road.
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His promises to shorten the working week to 32 hours, legalise cannabis and finance a universal monthly income of €750 through a tax on robots were dismissed by his detractors—including Mr Valls—as Utopian reverie.
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The man who left the Socialist Party after three decades in 2009 to pursue a tougher brand of socialism wants to nationalise key sectors like airports and motorways, create a public banking giant and legalise cannabis.
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The Japanese public opposes casinos by 2-to-1 on concerns such as gambling addiction, yet insiders say political momentum has shifted in favour of the latest in a string of bills proposing to legalise them.
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The problem, as ever with the tech industry's teeny-weeny greyscaled legalise, is that the people it refers to as "users" aren't genuinely consenting to having their information sucked into the cloud for goodness knows what.
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GVC, which has grown rapidly through acquisitions including the purchase of Ladbrokes late last year, has been looking to expand in the United States, after the U.S. Supreme Court paved the way to legalise sports betting.
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Several countries, including Britain, Germany, Italy and Denmark, already allow the prescription of medicinal cannabis, and in June Canada became the second country in the world, after Uruguay, to fully legalise marijuana, ending a 90-year ban.
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We've already mentioned the excellent Supercoven and Legalise Drugs and Murder EPs, but there is also a cornucopia of excellent music available on limited edition EPs and split discs too... and you're going to need deep pockets.
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That was why, in 22.5, a handful of Republican senators, including Marco Rubio, who is running third in the primary contest, joined a bipartisan, and ultimately fruitless, effort to legalise the status of millions of illegal immigrants.
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In July MPs hijacked a piece of procedural legislation to add amendments compelling Northern Ireland to allow same-sex marriage, begin to legalise abortion and to make payments to victims of the sectarian Troubles of 1968-98.
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Historically such a combination seemed almost impossible given their differences on economic and social policy; but a recent parliamentary vote to legalise gay marriage has removed a major obstacle and could provide Merkel with a strong majority.
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Centre-left Prime Minister Matteo Renzi had promised to legalise civil unions before the end of 2015, but the deadline slipped though coalition infighting which has highlighted the sway that Roman Catholic teaching still holds over Italy.
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Since 2010, a nationwide project to privatise government land and legalise housing has let more than 1,500 households in Suto Orizari register for property titles and access loans to extend and upgrade, according to Habitat for Humanity Macedonia.
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In 1996, South Africa's new Constitution made discrimination based on sexual orientation illegal, and in 2006, South Africa was the first African nation to legalise same-sex marriage (the fifth country in the the world to do so).
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That became the biggest issue in January, after the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR), which is based in San José, issued a ruling obliging Costa Rica (and other Latin American countries) to legalise same-sex marriage.
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TOKYO, Dec 13 (Reuters) - A contentious bill to legalise casinos in Japan cleared a key parliamentary panel on Tuesday, essentially assuring its enactment into law, paving the way for high-stakes gambling in the world's third-biggest economy.
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The discovery that seven children had died in two months alone prompted pledges by multinationals sourcing mica from India to clean up their supply chains, and state authorities vowed to accelerate plans to legalise and regulate the sector.
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Candidates like Xenophon are viewed as trustworthy, and are increasingly seen as a brake on pushing through radical reforms, such as the coalition's centrepiece A$50 billion corporate tax break or Labor's strong push to legalise gay marriage.
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LONDON, March 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A law allowing same-sex couples to wed went into effect in Finland on Wednesday, bringing Helsinki into line with its Nordic neighbours as it became the 24th nation to legalise gay marriage.
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Its purpose is to legalise retroactively the supposedly inadvertent expropriation of privately owned land in the West Bank, on which some Jewish settlements have already been built, and oblige the legal owners to accept either financial compensation or alternative land.
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His ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, is a donor to the settlement of Beit El. Right-wingers pushed a "Regularisation Bill" through the Knesset that would retrospectively legalise (under Israeli law) scores of settlements and outposts built on private Palestinian land.
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Ever since Mr Trudeau said during the election campaign in 2015 that a Liberal government would legalise marijuana, discussion has focused on who would be authorised to sell it and what level of government would get the money from cannabis taxes.
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"The ruling proves that same-sex marriage is acceptable in Chinese culture, and is likely for the Chinese mainland to legalise gay marriage within a decade," Li Yinhe, a sociologist at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told the paper.
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BANGKOK, March 25 (Reuters) - Shares of companies linked to a billionaire politician who campaigned in Thailand's election on a pledge to legalise marijuana leapt on Monday after partial results suggested his party could be a key part of a coalition government.
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VALLETTA, July 12 (Reuters) - Maltese lawmakers voted on Wednesday to legalise same-sex marriage on the Roman Catholic Mediterranean island, fulfilling Prime Minister Joseph Muscat's campaign promise to make this the first law brought before parliament in his new term.
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ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria will legalise currently outlawed mini refineries in the Niger Delta oil hub by the end of the year and supply them with crude at a reasonable price, the presidency said on Thursday, fulfilling demands from community leaders.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia became the 26th nation to legalise same-sex marriage on Thursday, prompting cheers and singing from a packed parliament public gallery in a country where some states ruled homosexual acts to be illegal until just 20 years ago.
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SYDNEY, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Australia became the 26th nation to legalise same-sex marriage on Thursday, prompting cheers and singing from a packed parliament public gallery in a country where some states ruled homosexual acts to be illegal until just 20 years ago.
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While New South Wales has a Medicinal Cannabis Compassionate Use Scheme that allows police the discretion not to prosecute use of the drug by "adults with terminal illness," Victoria became the first state in Australia to legalise medical cannabis in early 2016.
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LISBON, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Hundreds of Portuguese, old and young, protested outside parliament on Thursday against proposed bills that would legalise euthanasia as lawmakers geared up for a fierce debate on the issue that is likely to be approved in a house vote.
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Last month, as the Senate debated a bill to legalise civil unions, including same-sex partnerships, Mr Grillo unexpectedly announced he would give Five Star Movement senators a free vote on a clause that would allow gay partners to adopt each other's biological offspring.
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No change to text.) BANGKOK, March 25 (Reuters) - Shares of companies linked to a billionaire politician who campaigned in Thailand's election on a pledge to legalise marijuana leapt on Monday after partial results suggested his party could be a key part of a coalition government.
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GVC, which has grown rapidly through acquisitions including the purchase of Ladbrokes late last year, has been evaluating a number of potential opportunities to expand its presence in the United States after the Supreme Court earlier this month paved the way to legalise sports betting.
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With no clear, bureaucratic way forward to legalise same-sex marriage, unlike in Taiwan which approved the step last month, and deeply conservative attitudes among the older generation towards sex, gay Chinese are pushing against old social norms and legal uncertainty to assert their rights.
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Paddy Power Betfair rose 6.3 percent after the bookmaker said it was in discussions to combine its U.S. business and fantasy sports company Fanduel to target the U.S. after a Supreme Court ruling on Monday paved the way for states to legalise sports gambling.
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And in 2015, in the course of a successful referendum campaign to legalise same-sex marriage, he became the first Irish cabinet minister ever to come out as gay—a courageous move in a country that only decriminalised gay sex in 1993, when Mr Varadkar was a teenager.
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Sun Wenlin, who sued in court in 2016 to have his marriage to his male partner registered by the local government in Hunan, a southern province (he lost), called on people to sign his online petition to legalise same-sex marriage (so far a modest 6,000 have signed up).
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Oakland, California, in effect decriminalised psychoactive plants and fungi this week; a Republican state senator wants to do the same in Iowa; Denver decriminalised magic mushrooms last month; and campaigns in California and Oregon demand ballots to decriminalise psychoactive plants and legalise the therapeutic use of psilocybin, respectively.
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No change to text.) By Chayut Setboonsarng BANGKOK, March 25 (Reuters) - Shares of companies linked to a billionaire politician who campaigned in Thailand's election on a pledge to legalise marijuana leapt on Monday after partial results suggested his party could be a key part of a coalition government.
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"For me, marriage in the Basic Law is marriage between a man and a woman and that is why I did not vote in favour of this bill today," she told reporters moments after the 393-266 vote in favour of an amendment that will legalise same-sex marriage.
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The arguments of the ex-presidents and their allies are persuading growing numbers of the need for a rethink—not least in America, once the arch drug-warrior, where more than half the population now wants to legalise cannabis, and more and more states are doing just that.
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One burgeoning player in the AI-powered legal tech space is Tel Aviv-based LawGeex, which has developed automated contract review technology to help companies sift through things like NDAs, supply agreements, purchase orders, and SaaS licenses, to ensure they're aren't any unsanctioned legal gotchas buried deep in legalise.
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Playlist: ' 'Supercoven''/''Eko Eko Azarak''/''Satyr IX''/''Legalise Drugs and Murder''/''Ivoxir B/Phase Inducer''/''The Chosen Few'' Spotify | Apple Electric Wizard are diehard movie fanatics, inspired by horror, exploitation, and trash culture beyond measure (check Noisey's Electric Wizard A-Z for a more thorough examination of this side of things).
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The unnamed cabbie from Melbourne may have taken down the serious tone of his strike against the Victorian state government's plans to deregulate the taxi industry and legalise Uber but seriously, if you felt you were facing potential financial ruin, wouldn't you want to stick it to the man, too?
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But the expectation that conditions under Mr Trump will be different is already leading to new plans for building in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, as well as to a new bill which will legalise the status of settlements built on privately-owned Palestinian land in contravention of Israeli (rather than international) law.
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In 2013 the deputy attorney-general of the day, James Cole, published a memo reassuring states that had legalised cannabis that federal agents would not interfere unless the states allowed the industry to cross certain red lines, such as selling to minors, funding crime or leaking their product into jurisdictions that had not chosen to legalise.
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On Tuesday, the South Australian government announced that from July 1, it would become the latest region to legalise services such as UberX that let people drive their own cars to take customers from A to B. It follows the legalisation of ridesharing in 2015 by the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and New South Wales (NSW) governments.
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