Some U.S. states have also legalised marijuana for medicinal use, while Canada legalised recreational cannabis last year.
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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing legalised abortion in 1975; François Mitterrand abolished the death penalty in 1981; François Hollande legalised gay marriage.
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His parliament legalised assisted suicide, and cannabis for recreational use.
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Wade effectively legalised abortion in the first trimester in 1973.
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Uruguay paved the way when it legalised cannabis in 2013.
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President Boris Yeltsin legalised private retail trade in early 1992.
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Second, access to legalised drugs would be easier and quality assured.
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Liberals cheered when an Irish plebiscite legalised gay marriage in 2015.
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A move into cannabis, which was recently legalised in Canada, is no quick fix but the long-term prospects for the cannabis market, if and when the drug is more widely legalised in America, are tempting.
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Today 33 states permit medical cannabis, and 11 have legalised recreational use.
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Botswana's high court legalised gay sex, striking down a colonial-era prohibition.
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In European countries, abortion was generally legalised via legislation, sometimes after referenda.
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Uruguay, Canada and ten American states have legalised it for recreational use.
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AEDT: The Australian Federal Government has legalised the cultivation of medical marijuana.
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It didn't go far enough in calling for cannabis to be legalised.
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South Africa is the only African nation to have legalised gay marriage.
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Same-sex marriage was also legalised under the change to the law.
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We have only just legalised marijuana, four years after Colorado and Washington state.
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The younger Mr Castro legalised self-employment, and let citizens sell their homes.
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Taiwan has not legalised same-sex marriages, so the couple's wedding is ceremonial.
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Meanwhile, the medical use of cannabis is being legalised all over the world.
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And 18 months since Canada legalised recreational cannabis, hundreds of potstocks are trading.
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More than half the country's states have legalised medical cannabis, often rather loosely defined.
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No study has yet shown a causal link between legalised prostitution and people trafficking.
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Earlier this year the use of mobile phones was legalised—but only after 6pm.
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Besides California, seven other states and the District of Columbia have legalised recreational marijuana.
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In America 33 states allow medical use, and 11 have legalised the recreational kind.
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Nevada legalised it in 603, and a few others states permitted it at racetracks.
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Ironically, Bernardi would definitely hate the Roe v Wade decision that legalised abortion in America.
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Even fans, such as Ann Sherman of DePaul University in Chicago, call them "legalised bribery".
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It is, as Khrushchev suggested, a form of legalised spying known as co-operative monitoring.
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People are probably more willing to admit to getting lit once weed has been legalised.
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Soon after he was appointed, he wrote a column calling for drugs to be legalised.
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The legalised market is expected to raise about $90m in taxes next year, rising thereafter.
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Standing in solidarity with all women in Northern Ireland in their fight for legalised abortion.
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Many other European countries, including France, Britain and Spain, have already legalised same-sex marriage.
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And more and more countries—over 30 so far—have legalised medical cannabis (see map).
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New Zealand legalised same-sex marriage in 2013, but clearly, socially ingrained homophobic language still exists.
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But the government hopes domestic medicinal use, legalised last year, and exports will rapidly boost production.
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Eventually, California decided that reproduction should be a state not a federal matter, and legalised cloning.
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Yet in other jurisdictions, that has proved harder than getting it legalised in the first place.
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In December America legalised industrial hemp nationwide for the first time since the second world war.
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Switzerland's experimentation with low-THC cannabis comes as several U.S. states have decriminalised or legalised pot.
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They include several in southern Africa, most recently Zambia, which in December legalised production for export.
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A company called LivWell now has 14 dispensaries across Colorado, which legalised recreational cannabis use in 2014.
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A better idea, until drugs are legalised, would be to strengthen co-operation between Peru and Bolivia.
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In the decade since, six other jurisdictions have legalised assisted dying, either through legislation or ballot initiatives.
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It is the only country in north Africa to have legalised groups that focus on LGBT issues.
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Norway's influential energy unions have long lobbied against private cables, which were legalised under the previous government.
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Nor does it permit marriages with foreigners, unless they come from countries that have also legalised gay marriage.
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Despite growing demand, only Uruguay, Canada and the Netherlands have so far legalised the export of medicinal marijuana.
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Marijuana for recreational use is now legal in eight American states; 28 have legalised it for medical use.
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To most outsiders, the Netherlands is synonymous with liberal, legalised vice, with Amsterdam the main port of call.
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Prostitution is often lawless and exploitative, but it would be less so if governments legalised and regulated it.
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In his four years in charge, Mr Andrews has dug metro stations, built schools and legalised voluntary euthanasia.
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Dr Eddie Mhlanga, who specialises in obstetrics and gynaecology, used to think that abortion should not be legalised.
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"The impact of legalised abortion on crime", John Donohue and Steven Levitt, Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2001.
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SINCE 2002, when the Netherlands legalised assisted dying, its laws have been held up elsewhere as a model.
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Yet by 226, when the Supreme Court legalised same-sex marriage, there were only faint murmurs of protest.
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The first schism with Catholic doctrine came in 513, when divorce was legalised after a bitterly fought referendum.
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Greece legalised cannabis for medical use last year and in March lifted a ban on growing and producing it.
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Some opponents have taken their case to the constitutional court, arguing that the amnesty amounts to legalised money-laundering.
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Moreover, homosexuality was legalised in China in 1997 (before that it could be prosecuted under a law banning hooliganism).
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In the Netherlands, euthanasia (where the doctor accomplishes the act) has risen rapidly since it was legalised in 2124.
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He also legalised the use of the dollar and sought foreign investment, especially in developing a mass tourism industry.
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"The impact of legalised abortion on crime: comment", Christopher Foote and Christopher Goetz, Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 2008.
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Andrews has also spoken out about the need for same-sex marriage to be legalised in Australia in January.
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As they legalised gay marriage, countries that had previously had civil-partnership laws dealt with them in different ways.
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After America's Supreme Court legalised same-sex marriage in 2015, some people argued that plural unions should be next.
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Reported hate crimes against LGBT groups have risen in Britain and America even as gay marriage has been legalised.
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Some of these spaces have been legalised and they remain deeply embedded within the social life of local neighbourhoods.
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On Thursday, Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced on Facebook services such as Uber will be legalised from Sept. 5.
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See, most of the Celebrity fleet is registered in Malta, where same-sex marriage was legalised in July 2017.
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Some of the city's glamour came back after gambling was legalised in 1976, bringing in millions of fast dollars.
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Correction: In a previous version of this chart and map, we incorrectly indicated that Australia had legalised civil unions. Sorry.
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This will include liberalising rules around farming marijuana (which was legalised for medical purposes by the military regime in December).
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Marijuana growers say they may raise prices (after the stuff is legalised, which is supposed to happen by July 1st).
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There were loud complaints of hypocrisy: Mr Joyce had loudly defended "traditional" marriage when parliament legalised gay marriage last December.
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While Uruguay and several American states, including California, have legalised cannabis, Canada's statisticians are using neither country as a model.
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The first licence for home cultivation was issued in 2016, but he is urging that this, too, be fully legalised.
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Mr Ebrard, who followed AMLO as Mexico City's mayor in 2006, legalised same-sex marriage and abortion in the city.
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Over the weekend, the streets of Taipei saw a massive 82,000 people marching for same-sex marriage to be legalised.
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The Australian government introduced a bill to hold a non-binding plebiscite on whether same-sex marriage should be legalised.
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The four states that have legalised cannabis for recreational use have also set up systems to tax and regulate it.
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A handful of American states and Uruguay have legalised cannabis production and consumption; from next year Canada will follow suit.
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The Immigration Reform and Control Act legalised 22017m undocumented immigrants, tightened border security and punished employers who knowingly hired undocumented workers.
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In September 2015, the ACT legalised Uber, making it the first jurisdiction globally to do so before the service even launched.
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First, the price of legalised drugs would almost certainly be lower—probably much lower—than the present price of illegal ones.
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More than half of states have legalised medical or recreational marijuana use, both of which remain a crime under federal law.
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A law passed last year for the first time legalised minpaku, or home-sharing, in Japan, but also sharply restricted it.
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Brazil legalised same-sex marriage in 2013, but at least 420 gay people are thought to have been murdered last year.
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Among the governments that took power in the region's "pink tide" in the 2000s and early 2010s, only Uruguay's legalised abortion.
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"When our state in some way legalised the illegal crossing, it was a call for refugees to come," she told Broadly.
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Singapore legalised casino gambling a decade ago, but its two resorts have been struggling in recent years to attract mainland tourists.
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There is a functional black market and it is not going to end just because the government "sort of" legalised pot.
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A change in federal marijuana guidelines might lead to clashes with states where its use has been legalised, plus many more imprisonments.
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In Canada, where medical assistance in dying (MAiD) was legalised in 2016, what was a moral compass surely twists in the wind.
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It legalised abortion six years before Roe v Wade, the historic Supreme Court decision, in a bill signed by Reagan, then governor.
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Karadimas said it was "a joke" that the government had legalised marijuana for medical purposes while cutting back on health care spending.
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In 2005 China legalised direct selling, arguing that there was a distinction between that practice and the way that Ponzi schemes operate.
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Uber has been legalised in South Australia, but the company remains unhappy with the regulatory burden imposed by the state on drivers.
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Singapore has allowed hospitals to perform sex changes since the 1970s and formally legalised trans marriages (although not gay ones) in 1996.
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The star performer of the legalised pot market is the "edibles" sector, which includes THC-laced chocolates, drinks, lollipops and gummy bears.
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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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It paid $1.8bn for 45% of Cronos Group, a cannabis company from Canada (which, along with some American states, has legalised pot).
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Since the mid-1990s, more than 30 states have authorised marijuana for medical purposes and 11 have legalised it for recreational use.
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Politicians enter the chamber in a bid to block the legalisation of abortion and equal marriage, due to be legalised tonight pic.twitter.
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India's Supreme Court legalised homosexuality, a historic decision that brings an end to fraught and lengthy legal battles that started in the 1990s.
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Moreover, even in those jurisdictions where only assisted dying has been legalised, rather than full euthanasia, we see evidence of the slippery slope.
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On the other hand, Matt Denman, general manager of Uber Victoria, welcomed the news but stopped short of declaring the service effectively legalised.
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William Hague, a former Tory leader, suggested this week that cannabis ought to be legalised completely, as it has just been in Canada.
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Australia's parliament legalised gay marriage, less than a month after Australians signalled strong support for same-sex weddings in a non-binding vote.
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In September, he posted a heartfelt Instagram urging Australians to vote for same-sex marriage to be legalised: Australia - the time has come.
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The democratic island of Taiwan legalised same-sex marriage in May, over the objections of conservatives steeped in Chinese cultural and religious values.
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Belgium legalised euthanasia in 2002, and two years ago amended the rules to permit doctor-assisted death for minors in a hopeless medical situation.
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As a Catholic, he is personally opposed to abortion but has said he would not try to change the 1975 law that legalised it.
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Often nations with legalised euthanasia and/or assisted suicide have quickly extended the criteria beyond the original remit of deaths inflicted by terminal illness.
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Advocates of legalised assisted dying will point out that the mooted British law is much more restrictive than those in Belgium and the Netherlands.
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In the ensuing public outcry, the state ignored the anti-abortion lobby and legalised terminations when needed to save the life of a mother.
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New Jersey thumbed its nose at the law when it legalised sport gambling in 2012, a move that was promptly halted by lower courts.
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He used an AR-15, a semi-automatic rifle that was prohibited in 1994, but legalised in 2004 when America's assault-weapons ban expired.
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In some states, ballot initiatives have been heavily influenced by the very people who are hoping to sell the drugs once they are legalised.
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Second, once assisted dying has been legalised for one category of people, it is only a matter of time before it is extended to others.
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Large firms are moving cautiously nonetheless—particularly as cannabis is not fully legalised yet across America—leaving smaller firms to make most of the running.
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And although 29 states have legalised marijuana—seven of them and the District of Columbia permit recreational use—the federal government still considers pot illegal.
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Some homes and businesses built in parks and on other areas where they should not be are now being demolished; even more are being legalised.
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Campaigners for gun control compare this, perhaps optimistically, to the campaign for gay marriage, which was legalised state-by-state before it became legal nationally.
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The general synod of the Anglican church in Canada, where doctor-assisted dying was recently legalised, has written guidance on the issue for its congregation.
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In the only African country to have legalised gay marriage, this modest-sized building is home to Africa's first and most public LGBT-friendly mosque.
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MOSCOW, March 17 (Reuters) - One of Russia's top bankers wants online alcohol sales legalised to help people who are self-isolating because of the coronavirus.
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The lottery was legalised as long ago as the 1920s to discourage Finns from playing Swedish lotteries, and from sending money to their former rulers.
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Given the stakes involved we must pay careful attention to the practice of assisted dying in other countries and states where it has already been legalised.
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Attitudes have also changed in much of Europe, where same-sex marriage is mostly legal, and in Australia, where same-sex unions were legalised last year.
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But we are not going to be able to capitalise on any of this if we keep trying to be Chuka Umunna, but with legalised weed.
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Four American states have so far legalised its recreational use; little Uruguay will soon be joined by big, G7-member Canada in the legal-weed club.
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Aussie cruise ships to offer "legalised same-sex marriages at sea" after law changenow you can get married on a BOAT but not in Australia pic.twitter.
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If a law laying the framework for legalised casinos passes the Japanese parliament, fresh legislation would set out details such as the location of the casinos.
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Nauru Homosexuality was legalised by the Pacific Island country in 2016, after it accepted recommendations made by the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2011. 6.
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In December 2015, Uber was legalised in NSW essentially overnight after Transport Minister Andrew Constance announced changes to local regulations and offered taxi drivers a compensation package.
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Mr Harper did not attempt to overturn same-sex marriage, which had been legalised shortly before he took office; nor did he reverse Canada's liberal abortion regime.
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When they were legalised in Britain in March 193, the government expected more than 9,000 gay weddings in the following year, but fewer than 6,000 took place.
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The court's ruling in June, which was praised by international organisations and activists, meant Botswana joined a handful of African countries that have legalised same sex relationships.
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Notels, which can be bought for around $50 on the black market, are also sold in state-run shops and appear to have been legalised in 2014.
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Perhaps the most egregious case today is America's opioid epidemic, which in 2015 killed 16,000 people from overdoses of prescription drugs, in essence legalised heroin sold as painkillers.
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Ride-hailing firm Uber has moved a little closer to its destination of being legalised in Hong Kong after securing insurance coverage in line with the city's laws.
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When the Diet legalised casinos in December after years of political wrangling, a poll by NHK, the country's public broadcaster, put support for the move at just 12%.
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The chief merit of book-building is that, as Ms Sherman puts it, it allows issuers in effect to buy attention from the market, hence the "legalised bribery".
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Uber has slowly but surely been winning legislative battles across Australia to have ridesharing legalised, but the U.S. company has not gotten far in the state of Victoria.
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In 2013, the governor of the Nigerian state of Imo apologised to Christians and repealed a law that, if implemented, would have legalised abortion for nearly any reason.
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SINCE BELGIUM legalised the use of IVF by gay female couples in 2007, its fertility clinics have been overwhelmed by demand—and not only from its own citizens.
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But my conclusion, after looking at the issue for 25 years, is that there are insuperable problems with the line of reasoning employed by proponents of legalised assisted dying.
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Although almost two-thirds of Australians want gay marriage legalised and just 6% are undecided, a recent poll found that only 39% of Australians approved of holding a plebiscite.
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The hope is that having a base in the first large country to make pot legal for adults (Uruguay legalised cannabis in 2017) will give them an unbeatable lead.
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France legalised same-sex marriage in 2013, after a bitter and divisive debate in which some former conservative members of Macron's current left-and-right government opposed the legislation.
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But the evidence on marijuana points in the opposite direction: thanks to medical marijuana laws that have legalised the drug, fewer people are getting killed in the drug trade.
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International casino operators, including Las Vegas Sands and Melco Crown Entertainment, are also in the running for potentially lucrative operating rights in Japan, which legalised casino gambling in December.
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It legalised divorce by a razor-thin majority only in 1995, but three years ago became the first country in the world to adopt gay marriage by popular vote.
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Australia is one of the only developed English-speaking countries not to have legalised same-sex marriage, despite strong popular support and the backing of a majority of lawmakers.
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"We need grown-ups in Washington to say marijuana is not the kind of thing that ought to be legalised," he has said—and also, "good people don't smoke marijuana".
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He used them to advance transgender rights and gay rights: after it was legalised, his support of same-sex marriage was emblazoned in rainbow lights on the White House façade.
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Marijuana Business Daily, a trade website, estimates the total demand for recreational cannabis in America, if fully legalised, at $55bn, or about half the size of the country's beer market.
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Apple has added its logo to the Australian Marriage Equality website, joining dozens of other companies such as Microsoft and Atlassian in calling for same-sex marriage to be legalised.
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Nearly two-thirds of America's states have legalised pot sales for certain uses, but the federal government still classifies marijuana as a "Schedule 1" drug, on a par with heroin.
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The country legalised same-sex marriage in 2013, after a bitter and divisive debate in which some former conservative members of Macron's current left-and-right government opposed the legislation.
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Elizabeth Warren has been vocal in her opposition to the war on drugs, backs legalised cannabis and safe injecting centres (a practice that already exists successfully in Europe and Australia).
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Israeli leaders fear that if the new law passes and the outposts are legalised, it could provide grounds for charges to be brought before the International Criminal Court in the Hague.
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In 2015 the United States Supreme Court legalised same-sex marriage on the grounds that to deny gay people the rights and privileges of marriage is to deny them equal treatment.
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It had been a mere three years since homosexuality was legalised in the UK, and the Gay Liberation Front had just been established in response to growing concerns over widespread homophobia.
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TOKYO, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Yokohama, Japan's second-largest city, raised its hand on Thursday to host a casino resort, a newly legalised industry the government hopes will stimulate the economy and tourism.
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Opinion polling can also be influenced by media reporting, which by its nature tends to focus on the exceptional, such as a journey to Switzerland by someone seeking legalised assisted suicide there.
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Those Dana Scully feels This news comes days after the Chinese government legalised ride-hailing in the country, giving legitimacy to apps like Didi and paving the way for more investor confidence.
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KOELLIKON, Switzerland, March 240 (Reuters) - Entrepreneurs have high hopes for cannabis in Switzerland, where business has suddenly taken off in recent months, six years after the country legalised low-potency "marijuana-light".
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For example, the John M. Olin Foundation backed a professor at the University of Chicago, John Lott, to write a book, "More Guns, Less Crime", calling for concealed weapons to be legalised.
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At home, his government has raised taxes on the wealthy, launched a means-tested child benefit, imposed a carbon tax in provinces that do not have their own ones and legalised marijuana.
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Charles Falconer misrepresents the prosecution guidelines on acts of assisting suicide as offering dying people a choice between going to Switzerland for legalised assisted suicide or staying at home and seeking "amateur assistance".
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Legalised assisted-suicide, however, decreases the incentive for hospice care (it is easier to kill them) and contributes to the misery of the dying person, who ends up feeling like a dispensable burden.
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It is little wonder that in a 2015 survey of its membership the Association for Palliative Medicine found that 89% would not participate in assisted dying if it were ever to be legalised.
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Gambling in Italy has been gradually legalised over the past two decades, in part to curb organised crime's grip on it, but this has actually created new opportunities for the mob, investigators say.
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During the run-up to the nomination, Donald Trump emphasised repeatedly that his pick would help to overturn Roe v Wade, the 1973 case that legalised first- and second-trimester abortion in America.
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The teetotal president-elect's views are unclear: he has said that pot policy should be left to the states and legalisation "should be studied", but also that the drug should not be legalised now.
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Mr Pawar makes a persuasive pitch to progressives, promising a "new deal" with more funding for public schools, universal child care, legalised pot, big investments in infrastructure and reform of the criminal-justice system.
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When the U.S. legalised same-sex marriage in 2015, Apple issued an elated statement: We applaud the Supreme Court and everyone who worked so hard in the years leading up to today's historic decision.
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Taiwan's parliament this month legalised same-sex marriage and more than 360 gay couples married on May 24 after years of debate over marriage equality that has divided the self-ruled and democratic island.
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While UberX has been legalised in New South Wales and a number of other Australian states and territories, the service remains illegal in the state of Victoria where the Melbourne deal will be offered.
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If the St Louis clinic shuts down, Missouri would become the only state in the country without a legal abortion-providing facility for the first time since the Supreme Court legalised the procedure in 1973.
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The positive experience of states that have legalised marijuana may be one factor behind growing public support for the reform country-wide—up from 36% in 2005 to 60% in 2016 according to Gallup polling.
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The topic has stirred up political debates in France, which legalised gay marriage in 2013 in the face of opposition from the more conservative parts of the country, where the Catholic Church still commands influence.
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"This is why I get so angry when (mostly straight, unfortunately) people say that marriage is just a piece of paper so it doesn't really matter if same sex marriage is legalised," one person wrote.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Nearly 12 million Australians, or 74.5 percent of eligible voters, have voted so far in a postal ballot on whether same-sex marriage should be legalised, the Bureau of Statistics said on Tuesday.
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The companies would be the first virtual currency firms to operate in the Philippines after regulators legalised their entry into an economic zone in February, in contrast to neighbouring countries which have not allowed such entities.
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Since California's voters legalised the sale of marijuana for medical use in 1996, 22 more states, plus the District of Columbia, have followed suit; in a year's time the number is likely to be nearer 30.
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The creation of so-called "three-parent babies", the result of a technique to prevent mitochondrial diseases from being passed from a mother to her child, was pioneered and has so far been legalised only in Britain.
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In 22015 euthanasia was legalised for adults in Belgium who met certain criteria, the main one being that they must be in "constant and unbearable physical or psychological pain" resulting from an accident or an incurable illness.
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As the rest of Australia has legalised the ridesharing service, state by state, Queensland is set on making sure it is harder for the sharing economy to kick off locally and moving away from innovative transport methods.
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Hugo Yepes, a geophysicist at the National Polytechnical University in Quito, complains that builders and developers have been largely ignoring them and that local officials have effectively "legalised" informal new neighbourhoods without insisting on anti-seismic standards.
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The country legalised the growth of cannabis for medicinal purposes in 2016, joining a growing number of countries to have done so or be about to do so, such as Britain, Greece, Thailand and some U.S. states.
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However, same-sex marriages have not been legalised and Congress is moving in the opposite direction with a family bill backed by Evangelical Christians that would define marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
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The country legalised the growth of cannabis for medicinal purposes in 2016, joining a growing number of countries to have done so or be about to do so, such as Britain, Greece, Thailand and some U.S. states.
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In countries that have legalised any form of assisted dying, such as the Netherlands and Switzerland, we have seen incremental extension: an increase in total number of deaths and a broadening of categories of people to be included.
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While gay marriage has been legalised in countries such as the United States, France, Sweden, Spain and Nepal in the last few years, India stands with countries such as Ghana, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan in criminalising homosexuality.
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Meninist blogger Daryush Valizadeh — who goes by the name "Roosh V" — believes rape "should be legalised on private property," and regularly posts tips for "picking up" women, imploring men to "stop asking for permission" when it comes to sex.
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The all-clear from CCNE, a panel which deliberates on sweeping societal changes made possible by the progress of science, brings France a step closer to the biggest gay rights reform since same-sex marriage was legalised in 2013.
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Domestic and international companies from MGM Resorts International to Japanese game-machine maker Sega Sammy Holdings Inc could benefit from legalised casinos in Japan, a market that brokerage CLSA estimates could be worth up to $40 billion a year.
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In 254 the state legalised betting on horse races, allowing punters to slake their thirst for action dozens of times a day rather than once every four years, without any risk that a bookie would fail to pay out.
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Since then he has been trying to persuade the current government, which in opposition fought against marriage equality before same-sex weddings were legalised in 2005, to release the remainder of the funds to the 116 officially recognized victims.
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LISBON, May 29 (Reuters) - Portugal's parliament rejected on Tuesday a bill that would have legalised voluntary euthanasia for terminal patients in the Catholic-majority country by a narrow margin, but it secured enough support to ensure continued debate on the issue.
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On November 21th he had flown to New York from Los Angeles, without buying a ticket, in the hopes of witnessing UFC 2137—the first MMA event ever held in New York state, which legalised the sport earlier this year.
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If all marijuana, cannabis and hemp consumption, cultivation and trade was legalised starting July 2017, the PBO said GST revenue would increase by around $650 million in the fiscal year 183-16 budget forward estimates period, which runs through 2018-19.
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Duquesnoy will have the weight of a continent—as well as an expectant France, a country which is still battling to see MMA legalised—behind him and will inevitably encounter some detractors from the USA at some point in addition.
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Constance wouldn't say if the government is considering putting together compensation arrangements for public transport workers who lose their jobs to robotics, similar to the "industry adjustment" package received by the taxi industry when the government legalised ridesharing in late 2015.
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Fuelled by a growing acceptance of the benefits of marijuana to manage chronic pain, moderate the impact of multiple sclerosis and to soften the effects of cancer treatment, several countries and 29 states in the United States have legalised cannabis for medicinal use.
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Thanks to the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) of 1992, which prevented states that had not already legalised sports betting from doing so, wagering on the outcome of athletic contests is mostly illegal outside Nevada and is strictly forbidden online.
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And then we will show all those who wish to enjoy life with some fat, a little manure and a few legalised rapes what the end of the world is about…We are an army, men of fire and sword, warriors and destroyers.
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Given that there are around 4,000 women working in the sex industry in the Netherlands, which legalised prostitution in 2000 as a way to increase regulation and protect workers, that's at least 400 women forced to perform sexual acts against their will.
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NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Shashi Tharoor campaigning for gay sex to be legalised said on Monday he would continue his fight for the freedom and equality of sexual minorities despite attempts by members of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party to thwart his efforts.
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The Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) has released an estimate of how much the government could raise if a 10% goods and services tax (GST) was hypothetically placed on legalised household consumption of marijuana, and after federal law enforcement stopped going after marijuana related-crime.
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His Justice Department allowed prosecutors to bring lesser charges against some drug offenders to avoid triggering mandatory-minimum sentences, and let them decline to prosecute non-violent marijuana offences if they complied with state law (marijuana is illegal under federal law, but several states have legalised it).
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According to Katz, by passing this bill, the Australian government will hopefully avoid the legal problems — from tax to labour laws — experienced in the U.S., where states, including Colorado, have legalised the consumption and limited sale of marijuana but where the drug remains illegal on a federal level.
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Mrs Merkel, though "my girl" to Kohl, has governed within this post-Kohl consensus, moving his creaky old party into the centre, building on the Schröder-Fischer environmental advances and, governing with the SPD, nodding through quotas for women on company boards and a Bundestag vote that legalised gay marriage.
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The legal manoeuvring was complex; but, in essence, he counselled Alabama's probate judges, responsible for issuing marriage licences, not to grant them to same-sex couples—despite rulings to the contrary by a federal court, and even after the Supreme Court decision that in effect legalised gay marriage throughout the country.
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Co-sponsored by five Republicans and one Democrat, it passed the Senate, but the House preferred a different bill—one that enhanced border security, limited judicial review for undocumented immigrants, increased criminal penalties related to border crossings, strengthened employer verification requirements and neither expanded guest-worker visas nor legalised any undocumented immigrants.
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They found that after recreational marijuana was legalised in Colorado, Oregon and Washington, the only states for which 18 months of sales data were available, sales of ice cream rose by 3.1%, sales of cookies increased by 4.1% and sales of crisps jumped by 5.3% in the years after the laws were passed (see chart).
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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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