They also believe that the government shut down the Compassionate Use Program because the government feared that too many people would start using pot. ... Government lawyers claim that the Oakland Court system is tampering with its ability to enforce federal drug laws. ... Australia is divided between decriminalized territories and territories where it is still illegal. In 1987 and 1992, two of Australia's eight territories removed criminal penalties for possessing small amounts of marijuana for personal use. ... This is proven in a survey done in Australia. ...

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I feel we all have a right to privacy and wonder why the governments are not doing enough to protect are civil liberties. ... Its good to see at last the governments are trying to do something about this problem and not before time I might add. ... [GLOBAL COMMUNITY APPLAUDS EUROPEAN ANTI-SPAM VOTE May 31, 2002 - The Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-Mail (CAUCE), EuroCAUCE, CAUCE India, CAUCE Canada and the Coalition Against Unsolicited Bulk E-Mail, Australia (CAUBE.au) today applauded the decision by the European Parliament to protect European Internet users from the practice of...

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• Grade Level: High School

In 1885, Chinese immigrants were brought to Canada to build a national railway and after its completion; the Canadian government prohibited the families of these workers from immigrating to Canada by passing the Chinese Immigration Act (Abu-Laban & Gabriel, 2003, p.294). ... During the Second World War and the Great Depression, the government prevented immigrants who were understood to have a communist view from entering into Canada, which they then saw a decrease in immigration soon after. ... A study was conducted in Australia, which happens to have a similar immigration system to Canad...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate