Position Paper for the Scottish National Party: Should Scotland Legalize, Decriminalize or Prohibit Cannabis?
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https://doi.org/10.36366/frontiers.v12i1.192Keywords:
Undergraduate research, Education abroad, Undergraduate research abroad, Scotland, cannibis, Study abroadAbstract
This article presents an undergraduate student research project on a position paper about if the Scottish national party should support Scotland to legalize, decriminalize, or prohibit cannabis conducted on a study abroad program in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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House of Commons. Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Bill. Retrieved April 14,2004. www.parliament.thestationeryoffice.co.uk/pa/cm199900/cmbills/085/2000085.htm
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http://www.parliament.the-stationeryoffice.co.uk/pa/ld199798/ldselect/ldsctech/151/15106.htm
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Maranatha Community. (2001) Cannabis: A Warning. Manchester, UK: Flixton. National Highway Traffic SafetyNotes. Marijuana and Alcohol Combined Severely Impede Driving Performance. In Annals of Emergency Medicine. April 2000. pp. 398–399.
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The Police Foundation Drugs and the law. Report of the Independent Inquiry into the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, 1999.
Raabe and Stalley, Risk of legalising cannabis underestimated. Appendix 14, Select Committee on Home Affairs-Appendices to the Minutes of Evidence.
(Online) Retreived March 10 2004. http://www.publications.parliament.uk/cgibin/ukparl_html.
Royal College of Psychiatrists. “Cannabis as hard to quit as tobacco.” Retreived March 10, 2004. http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/press/preleases/pr/pr_126.htm
Royal College of Psychiatrists and Royal College of Physicians, Drugs Dilemmas and Choices, 2000. Retreived March 18, 2004 http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/publications/gaskell/44_7.htm
Royal College of Psychiatrists. “Prison survey finds cannabis, cocaine and amphetamine dependence linked to psychosis.” Retreived March 10, 2004. http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/press/preleases/pr/pr_379.htm
Schlosser, Eric. (2003). Reefer Madness and other Tales from the American Underground. London Penguin Books Ltd Scottish Executive. Cannabis: know the score. Retreived February 10, 2004.
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/society/ckts-00.asp.
Sleator and Allen, Cannabis. Retreived March 24 ,2004 from www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/ research/rp2000/rp00-074.pdf
Sybling, G. and J.M.G. Persoon. Cannabis use among youth in the Netherlands. 1985/01/01. Retreived March 2, 2004.
http://www.unodc.org/unodc/bulletin/bulletin_1985-01-01_4_page007.html.
UK Online. Tackling drugs. Retreived March 23,2004. http://www.drugs.gov.uk/NationalStrategy/CannabisReclassification
The United Kingdom Parliament. Cannabis and the gateway hypothesis. Retreived
April 24, 2004.
http://www.parliament.thestationeryoffice.co.uk/pa/cm200102/cmselect/cmhaff/318/318m26.htm
Zimmer and Morgan. (1997) Marijuana Myths Marijuana Facts. New York: The Lindesmith Center.
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2005-11-15
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Jhaveri, S. (2005). Position Paper for the Scottish National Party: Should Scotland Legalize, Decriminalize or Prohibit Cannabis?. Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 12(1), 207–225. https://doi.org/10.36366/frontiers.v12i1.192
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