Introduction Cannabis is a frequently used recreational drug that potentially imposes several health consequences. While the medicinal use of cannabis is legal in several countries, its possession in small quantities for the purpose of personal use has a worldwide trend to become decriminalized and effectively legal.1 In the author’s knowledge, the accessibility and overall usage of cannabis is...

An editorial in this issue describes a cannabis policy framework document issued by a major Canadian research centre, calling for legalization of non-medical use under strict controls to prevent increase in use, especially by adolescents and young adults who are most vulnerable to adverse effects of cannabis. It claims that such a system would eliminate the severe personal, social and monetary ...

The article considers the decriminalization of criminal offenses in context law policy from position current legislation and doctrinal principles. study used general private-scientific research methods, analysis, synthesis, formal-legal, logical-semantic, comparative-legal methods. It is noted that a part social defines tasks facing law. One ways to implement form exclusion acts as criminally i...

Present-day legal judgments of psychopathological criminals strongly avoid the exploitation of “moral” considerations. Currently, the attribution of responsibility to criminals often takes advantage of the cognitive concept of mental incapacity so that, in these cases, the moral judgment about moral conducts of “psycho-pathological” criminals is potentially extinguished. We contend that the the...

These reflections aim to increase awareness of the contradictions inherent in the definition of sport and its relation to health and education. Taking the doping issue as a point of departure, we seek to open a general debate regarding the impact of the sports performance industry on public health. Illegal doping practices lead to the health insecurity of many professional and aspiring athletes...