LAW X Medicine - The Global Youth Review

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key difference here is that these protests are directly attacking politics. They are hard to ignore with such huge turnout despite COVID-19 and harsh police retaliations. Indeed, they threaten to drastically change Poland’s structure of power, because they call for greater equality and inclusion of women and minorities in policy making rather than the patriarchal system which is currently in place.

Should Cannabis be Legalised for Medicinal Purposes? By Ria Patel, Year 12 North London Collegiate

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annabis is a psychotropic drug that stems from a cannabis plant and is used predominantly for recreational purposes.

However, as many studies and investigations have suggested, there

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