With a new administration in the White House but control of U.S. Senate unlikely to change, odds federal legalization marijuana next few years are remote. When it eventually happens, however, could come two basic forms: rescheduling and descheduling. Rescheduling would change from Schedule 1 narcotic—completely illegal under Controlled Substances Act—to 2 or 3, making legally available through ...

In a world where everyone has their own beliefs and opinions, sometimes being extremely polarized, the subject of Euthanasia raises lot uncertainties questions. It is way more than just medical ethical problem, legal, religious, political, philosophical arguments are brought into discussion. As societies evolve, this topic viewed changes, for reason number countries which have legalized euthana...

AbstractSince the landmark ruling in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health 2004, legalization same-sex marriage (SSM) has proliferated throughout United States via either legislati...

We present a case of imaging proven cerebral vasospasm causing ischemic stroke in a young patient chronically on buprenorphine-naloxone for heroin remission who started smoking cannabis on a daily basis. With cannabis legalization spreading across the states in the USA, it is important for physicians not only to be aware of cannabis reported association with cerebral vasospasm in some patients ...

There is evidence that the use of cannabis is increasing in Australia, with stable black-market prices, despite the 9-year National Campaign Against Drug Abuse, increasing expenditure to enforce the laws against cannabis use, and the seizure of large plantations of cannabis plants. Recent government data are used to estimate the conservative cost of drug-law enforcement against cannabis use as ...

The psychiatric literature on physician-assisted suicide is scant and almost universally opposed to legalization. This opposition stems from the traditional perspective of suicide as a symptom of mental illness and the tendency of psychiatrists to extend their view of suicide in the medically well to the terminally ill. This article examines the basis for and validity of this opposition and mak...

tragedy and the discovery of teratogens, the legalization of abortion, and growing attention to the problems of women's alcoholism following the women's liberation movement. This volume amply lives up to its aim of exploring the intertwined relations between child health and society from the late nineteenth century to the present. It forms a significant contribution to the history of medicine a...