In December AMLO mooted the possibility of legalising assisted dying.
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Australia has been lagging the world in legalising marriage equality.
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Most of the public across many demographic groups supports legalising marijuana.
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A law legalising cannabis for recreational use came into force in Canada.
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Australians had overwhelmingly endorsed legalising same-sex marriage in a postal survey.
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Holland's soft drug policy has always been one of "tolerating" rather than legalising.
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Consider a related issue—the effect of legalising illegal immigrants already in America.
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Australia just voted in favour of legalising same-sex marriage, by a mile.
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In January, Germany's lower house of parliament passed a law legalising medical cannabis.
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CALIFORNIA'S lawmakers are moving slowly to implement a bill legalising doctor-assisted dying.
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The government says legalising marijuana for medical use is premature, without scientific proof.
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Nearly a third of voters in Mexico currently support legalising marijuana for recreational use.
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On June 17th Canada joined a handful of countries in legalising medically assisted suicide.
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The LDP will want Komeito's help on legislation to implement any law legalising casinos.
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"Due to the influence of Taiwan, we're 14 years away from legalising it," she concluded.
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This does not mean that the government has become any more willing to consider legalising prostitution.
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Legalising cannabis for recreational purposes is not under consideration, Pitsiorlas said in response to a question.
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Before he was president, he seemed to suggest he was open to legalising same-sex marriage.
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Whatever the effects of legalising weed, it is in Canada that they will be least hazy.
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Yet the evidence behind the theory that legalising marijuana can help combat opioid addiction is thin.
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In 1990, King Baudouin stepped aside for a day rather than sign a bill legalising abortion.
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According to Australian Marriage Equality, 64 per cent of the country's population support legalising marriage equality.
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The nation's parliament will now be under enormous pressure to pass a bill legalising that right.
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For comparison, 85% of people who claimed no faith were in favour of legalising assisted dying.
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If most states do end up legalising sports betting, the market could reach $60bn by 2025.
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Getting tough on cannabis seems strange at a time when countries and American states are legalising it.
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Legalising abortion was the defining defeat of the old order—censorious, hypocritical, male—in post-war France.
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Around 60% of Americans say they are in favour of legalising pot—including around half of Republicans.
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He voted against legalising gay marriage in 2013, and personally opposes abortion (though he respects existing law).
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"Due to the influence of Taiwan, we may be 14 years away from legalising it," she concluded.
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Around the corner are conservation groups that think legalising the trade will doom the rhino to extinction.
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He proposed legalising medical marijuana and decriminalising the possession of 28 grams or less of recreational pot.
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Lawmakers only finished legalising casinos last year after a series of controversial bills and years of debate.
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He often delivered the swing vote between the court's ideological wings and wrote the opinion legalising gay marriage.
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Under Canada's scheme for legalising cannabis, the federal government will regulate production and set minimum standards for safety.
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As a result, American football made its biggest and most definitive break from rugby: legalising the forward pass.
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Australians had overwhelmingly endorsed legalising same-sex marriage in a postal survey run by the national statistics agency.
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Australia's High Court ruled that the government could hold a non-binding postal referendum on legalising gay marriage.
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If you need an economic argument for legalising marijuana in Australia, here it is: millions of tax dollars.
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All of the first week's articles can be found here This debate on legalising assisted-dying honours The Economist.
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Many conservationists think legalising trade in either ivory or horn is too risky, since demand is hard to predict.
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On February 6th, the Knesset passed a law legalising in some cases settlers' homes illegally built on private Palestinian property.
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With the #IPBill legalising bulk surveillance of us all, he can get at it through the NSA's deal with GCHQ.
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It wasn't a ban on betting, per se, but a law prohibiting states that already banned betting from legalising it.
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Legalising it deprives organised crime of its single biggest source of income, while protecting and making honest citizens of consumers.
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Some, like Illinois, that are legalising marijuana are at the same time enacting automatic clean slates for some drug convictions.
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Ireland has gone from having few openly gay public figures to legalising gay marriage and having a gay prime minister.
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But four states—Alaska, Colorado, Oregon and Washington—and the country's capital have gone further, legalising the drug's recreational use.
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Now a growing number of jurisdictions are legalising the sale of cannabis for pure pleasure—or impure, if you prefer.
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A survey last year showed nearly 80 percent of Japanese in their 20s to 50s favoured legalising same-sex marriage.
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His supporters, who tend to be old, white and conservative, are more hostile to legalising dope than the most other Americans.
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Same-sex marriage has been dealt a blow in the Philippines, with its president dismissing the possibility of legalising marriage equality.
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On May 14th the justices ruled in favour of New Jersey, which violated the act in 2014 by legalising such wagers.
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The country has just voted in favour of legalising same-sex marriage in a non-binding, non-compulsory nationwide postal survey.
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Mr Stewart felt no kinship with bushy-bearded old soldiers there who asked about legalising medical marijuana (as Mr O'Rourke advocates).
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On Wednesday, Australia took an important step towards legalising medical cannabis after amendments to the Narcotics Drugs Act passed the senate.
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Most controversially, he argued that legalising rape on private property would help control it—a view he later insisted was satirical.
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People's Daily recently published a lengthy analysis on the possibility of legalising non-commercial surrogate motherhood to support the two-child policy.
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Like Emilie Yerby, I feel I would change my mind if presented with the right arguments in favour of legalising assisted dying.
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These policies included establishing voting rights for ex-prisoners, the expansion of Medicaid (health insurance for the poor) and legalising medical marijuana.
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Even Stalin eventually had to relent, requisitioning less grain, legalising private agricultural markets and permitting individual ownership of small plots of land.
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Pantaleon Alvarez, Speaker of the House of Representatives, said Monday he will file a bill legalising same-sex marriage in the Philippines.
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A Russian bank has provided loans to France's anti-immigrant National Front; Russian groups supported French conservatives' campaign against legalising gay marriage.
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The levies on price or weight used by America's legalising states are easy to administer, but could push consumers towards stronger strains.
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Cynthia Nixon, a former actress and political neophyte, ran on a platform of tenants' rights, legalising cannabis, criminal-justice reform and clean government.
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She dithered about legalising gay marriage, which she had supported during her election campaign, leaving it to the courts to settle the matter.
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Though studies show that telling people that payment encourages organ donations increases support for legalising payments, other examples work in the opposite way.
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The debate over legalising same-sex marriage has been running for more than 14 years, since the government first proposed it in 2003.
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The video of the impromptu lecture went viral, adding to the glamour already radiated by the snowboarding, cannabis-legalising, refugee-embracing prime minister.
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Legalising same-sex marriage was approved by only 58% of churchgoers, compared with 80% of non-practising Christians and 87% of the spiritually unattached.
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Should the country's parliament pass a bill legalising same-sex marriage, it would join 25 other countries, including the U.S., Argentina, and New Zealand.
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The enlarged group would also be well-positioned to expand into the U.S. if the Supreme Court finds in favour of legalising sports betting.
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Students liked him because he backed gay marriage, wondered aloud about legalising drugs, coached a high-school football team every week and toured college campuses.
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Though against legalising pot, he said he would not enforce a federal prohibition in states that have done so, as Mr Sessions threatened to do.
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Mexico's president, Enrique Peña Nieto, proposed legalising medical cannabis and increasing the amount people can keep for personal use without penalty from five grams to 28.
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A growing number of countries around the world are either legalising or relaxing laws on cannabis, also known as marijuana, as attitudes towards the drug change.
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The plebiscite is a *non-binding* vote on legalising marriage equality in the country, which means it cannot progress into law unless agreed upon by Australia's parliament.
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Attitudes towards drugs are becoming more liberal: according to the Pew Research Centre, a think-tank, 57% of Americans support legalising marijuana, up from 12% in 1969.
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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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Osinbajo has proposed legalising illegal oil refineries to ensure employment for angry youths who often join militants, although a military campaign to hunt them down has continued.
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In another paper, Baggio and Chong, along with Sungoh Kwon of the University of Connecticut, found that legalising medical marijuana reduced alcohol sales by more than 12%.
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Barack Obama's administration, though opposed to legalising cannabis, ruled that this would be a waste of resources in states, such as Colorado, where dope peddling is well-regulated.
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THE year 2015 was a busy one in Ireland, what with protests against water charges, a referendum legalising same-sex marriage and speculation over a coming general election.
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The arrest is likely to be seen as another black mark against casinos, still a contentious issue after lawmakers last year finished legalising them following years of debate.
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Japanese lawmakers finished legalising casinos last year after a series of controversial bills and years of debate, with opponents citing risks of increased gambling addiction and organised crime activity.
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"MADE IN CANADA", not "made in Colorado": that is how a Canadian senator described the country's approach to legalising the recreational use of cannabis in a debate last summer.
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The emergence of such groups revived talk in Russia of legalising Russian PMCs to create companies in the vein of American security contractors such as Academi (formerly called Blackwater).
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It would make modest changes to the existing constitution, such as legalising private property (subject to regulation by the state) and limiting the president to two five-year terms.
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He was sacked as a result; then, after he returned as chief justice, again removed, for having ordered Alabama's judges to ignore a Supreme Court ruling legalising gay marriage.
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That would mean legalising both possession and trade (one makes no sense without the other), setting restrictions on access that reflect a drug's relative danger, and insisting on quality controls.
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California's governor, Gavin Newsom, who took office in January, is a former mayor of San Francisco, best known for legalising gay marriage in 2004 and sparking a national social movement.
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In February 2016, Northern Ireland Assembly members voted against legalising abortion in cases where an unborn child has a terminal condition and will die in the womb or shortly after birth.
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Wilson has been in the media recently as one of the four politicians in the party who would cross the floor if there was a vote on legalising same-sex marriage.
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He is likely to filch voters from Civic Platform which, despite its urban roots and its popularity in liberal circles in western Europe, favours neither gay marriage nor legalising abortion on demand.
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"The cartorios hold the biggest responsibility for legalising grilagem (land grabs)," said Miguel Emile, a senior official with Terra Legal, a government programme for regularising small farmers' land titles in the Amazon.
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There is little doubt that legalising drugs would increase the number of people who took them, whatever restrictions were applied; and it would raise difficult issues about who should distribute them, and how.
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The right wing is keen to pass a law legalising the status of Amona, a settler outpost of 42 families built 20 years ago in the West Bank on privately owned Palestinian land.
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Mr Hinz calls his overspending defensive, a campaign "running not to lose" because the candidate, who favours legalising marijuana and raising tax on the rich, gives too little detail on what he would do.
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Broad in scope and ambitious, it focuses on reducing mass incarceration, restricting the use of deadly force by police and legalising marijuana federally—a move aimed at reducing incarceration for non-violent drug offences.
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Previous attempts to follow the Irish Republic in legalising abortion have been blocked by the socially conservative Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), using a special veto intended to prevent discrimination towards one community over another.
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There is no reason to expect that increasingly relaxed attitude to go into reverse; legalising cannabis looks broadly successful and around a quarter of Americans will soon live in states where it has taken place.
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Mr Varadkar seems to have warmed to the notion of legalising abortion, which is banned in Ireland, but he used to oppose it firmly, and still says his party should make social conservatives feel welcome.
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Separately, Switzerland is tinkering with laws that now forbid recreational marijuana, a potential precursor to joining other countries and an increasing number of U.S. states — Illinois became the latest this week — in legalising the drug.
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And although only a smallish majority of people favour legalising recreational weed, a large one (including most Republicans) support the right of states to set their policy on the matter, says a poll by Quinnipiac University.
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Thailand, one of Taiwan's few rivals in tolerance, has decriminalised gay sex, opened the army to gay recruits and banned most forms of discrimination based on sexual orientation—but legalising gay marriage remains a distant prospect.
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Groups representing the handicapped say such talk simply confirms what they fear - public financial woes are driving the push for legislation that could be a first step toward legalising euthanasia of those society deems a burden.
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In one in seven cases of assisted suicide there are problems with "completion" leaving the doctor to step in to finish the job with a lethal injection, which is why legalising one inevitably legalises the other.
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Legalising the increasingly popular ride-sharing services became urgent in March when an Egyptian court ordered their suspension after a group of taxi drivers filed a suit, arguing they were illegally using private cars as taxis.
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Despite changing attitudes to medicinal cannabis, there has been little indication the federal or state governments would be open to legalising the drug for general use, in line with U.S. states such as Colorado and Oregon.
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Following a non-binding, non-compulsory nationwide postal survey on the matter and a lengthy campaign from both the "Yes" and "No" camps, 61.6 percent of eligible Australians voted in favour of legalising same-sex marriage.
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But they ended the day higher as investors expressed relief the regulatory uncertainty was over, and looked instead to the potential benefits from a U.S. high court ruling which could lead to states legalising sports betting.
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His campaign website sports (at last count) 106 proposals, running from the consequential—imposing a tax on carbon pollution, legalising marijuana, decriminalising opioids and reforming zoning rules—to the zany, like offering free marriage counselling to all.
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Since 1992 the Professional Amateur and Sports Protection Act (PASPA) has prevented states from legalising sports betting, with a carve-out for Nevada, where such gambling was already allowed in casinos, and minor exemptions for three other states.
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There'll be an official vote in Australian Parliament before the end of the year, and the Prime Minister has publicly declared his intention to vote for legalising same-sex marriage in parliament, after voting "Yes" in the plebiscite.
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Giving women information about the health and safety benefits of legalising prostitution seems to reduce support for legalisation—perhaps because women worry about the consequences of applying a cost-benefit approach to areas relating to their status within society.
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The lawmakers' group drafted a new version of a bill last year but it has yet to be introduced in parliament, largely because of opposition from disability rights groups who fear it could be a first step toward legalising euthanasia.
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LISBON, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Portugal's parliament on Wednesday overturned the presidential veto on a bill legalising adoption by same-sex couples, which means conservative President Anibal Cavaco Silva will have to sign it into law before his term ends in March.
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Opponents of the plebiscite have pushed for a vote in parliament on legalising marriage equality, but the current Liberal Party federal government led by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull narrowly won power in July promising to have a plebiscite on the matter.
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In a famous example, published in 2001, John Donohue and Steven Levitt used variations in abortion laws across states to conclude that legalising abortion had been responsible for as much as half of the decline in crime in America in the 1990s.
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Romania moved a step closer to ruling out the possibility of legalising same-sex marriage on Wednesday when its top court paved the way for a referendum on defining marriage in the constitution as a union strictly between a man and a woman.
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The Romanian parliament's lower house overwhelmignly approved on Tuesday a draft revision of the Constitution that would narrow the definition of marriage as a union strictly between a man and a woman, which would rule out the possibility of legalising same-sex marriage.
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Sixty-four percent of Republican Catholics back the pope's opposition to gay marriage (Mr Trump says he wants to overturn the Supreme Court decision legalising gay marriage) and 54% support his anti-abortion stance (Mr Trump tends to deflect questions about abortion).
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"I've come to the conclusion that in order to achieve growth and development, we need IR." Japanese lawmakers finished legalising casinos last year after a series of controversial bills and years of debate, with opponents citing risks of increased gambling addiction and organised crime activity.
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Legalising assisted suicide and/or euthanasia is particularly dangerous because any law allowing either or both will place pressure on vulnerable people to end their lives out of fear of being a burden upon relatives, carers or a state that is short of resources.
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His proposals include legalising medical marijuana and decriminalising its recreational use; boosting renewable energy; withdrawing Wisconsin's National Guard from deployment on America's southern border; and a plan to make it easier for migrants, including the undocumented, to get driving licences and access to higher education.
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BERLIN, June 30 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday she voted against legalising gay marriage given her personal view that marriage should be between a man and a woman, but she hoped parliament's approval of the measure would lead to more social cohesion.
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Folau likened Australia's legalising of same-sex marriage two years ago and the decriminalisation of abortion in the state of New South Wales last month to the book of Isaiah, which talks about the earth being devoured after laws have been broken and rules changed.
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Partly because it would further increase the hordes of tourists from Germany, Belgium and France that come to take advantage of the relaxed Dutch approach; but mainly because the Dutch have signed the United Nations convention of 1988, which prevents them from legalising the possession of and trade in cannabis.
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