More than half of Europeans support cannabis legalisation – report
Reuters More than half of the European population support legalisation of adult use of cannabis and around 30 per cent of them are interested in purchasing it, according to polling data by industry consultants on Thursday. Europe’s liberal approach could reap multiple financial and economic benefits as seen in the United States, which has witnessed […]
San Marino voters overwhelmingly back legal abortion
San Marino/Rome, ItalyAP San Marino residents on Sunday voted overwhelmingly to legalize abortion, rejecting a 150-year-old law that had criminalized it and making the tiny republic the latest majority Catholic state to approve the procedure under certain circumstances. Some 77 per cent of voters approved a referendum proposal calling for abortion to be legal in […]
Argentine Senate weighs fate of abortion in Pope’s homeland
Buenos Aires, ArgentinaAP The decades-long fight by Argentine women’s groups for legal abortion was being decided by the Senate in a debate Tuesday that could change the outlook for the procedure across a continent where it is still largely illegal. The bill, which would legalise elective abortion in the first 14 weeks of a pregnancy, […]
Pope backs Argentine women’s opposition to abortion bill
Rome, ItalyAP Pope Francis is encouraging Argentine women who are protesting a proposed new law to legalize abortion, saying the protection of life is above all a matter of human ethics. In the letter to the women dated 22nd November, the Argentine Pope wrote: “Is it fair to eliminate a human life to solve a […]
Mexican church decries Senate’s marijuana legalisation vote
Mexico CityAP Mexico’s Roman Catholic Church on Sunday criticised a vote in the Senate to legalise the possession, cultivation and use of small amounts of marijuana. The bill adopted this past week must still go to the lower house of Congress for a vote. Marijuana plants grow inside discarded shoes at a makeshift camp outside […]
Postcards: Delhi’s illegal colonies await makeover after coronavirus
RINA CHANDRAN, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how a plan to legalise hitherto illegal settlements in Delhi will benefit millions…