Criminal sanctions against drug use is limiting the right for adults to make their own decisions to use substances no more dangerous than others now available legally. ... Criminalizing drug use fails to reduce it. ... It would allow a reduction in spending on the criminal justice system, end the steady increase in arrests and imprisonment's, and cut the crime rate (Bender 16). ... This in not a serious problem since there would be an absence of criminal sanctions and a black market for marijuana. Another argument is that only through law enforcement and criminal justice pressure do add...

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The consequences would be inevitable though; if the cloning bills get approved by the senate and the possibility of criminal charges are brought upon these corporations. ... This would pose a big legal question, as to how U.S. citizens that would go abroad to take advantage of this technological study, would be criminally charged here in the United States, if the senate approves the pending cloning bills. ... Criminal sanctions for the cloning of human beings exist only in the state of Michigan, where human cloning is a felony punishable by imprisonment for up to ten years" (Works cite...

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If sanctioned, prostitution will become economically lucrative for the governments involved. ... If prostitution were to be decriminalized, the profession of prostitution could become a healthy, publicly sanctioned place of business. ... Because the law drives prostitution underground into the criminal world, where everyone's hiding from the police. 2ND VICE SQUAD OFFICER: We see the black eyes. ...

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There is an equivalent remedy in criminal law (Section 458 of the Companies Act) whereby the person who committed the fraudulent trade could face a fine or even imprisonment. ... Lonrho actually had no rights in the first place to the breach of sanctions. ...

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Recognition of Aboriginal customary law Generally speaking, the common law has not recognised (in the sense of giving legal enforcement to) Aboriginal customary laws, although some recognition of the existence of customary obligations and rights has been given in the criminal law, particularly when courts are sentencing Aboriginal offenders whose acts involved elements of, or were sanctioned by, Aboriginal customary law. ...

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