Assisted suicide in the United Kingdom Medical Journal published an editorial arguing that medical organisations like the British Medical Association ought to drop their opposition to assisted dying and take a neutral stance so as to enable Parliament to debate the issue and not have what Raymond Tallis described as a "disproportionate influence on the decision". In 2014, Labour peer Lord Falconer introduced an Assisted Dying Bill into the House of Lords. The bill proposed that terminally ill patients with a life expectancy of less than six months be given the option of a medically assisted death, subject to legal safeguards. The bill reached committee stage
Decriminalization of non-medical cannabis in the United States average of $11.3 billion per year on courts, police, prison guards and other related expenses. Studies on decriminalization of marijuana in Portugal have indicated it to be a "huge success". Drug use rates in Portugal were found to be dramatically lower than the United States with decriminalization enacted. Teenage use of marijuana in the Netherlands where it is sold legally and openly is lower than in the United States. Uruguay became the first country in the world to completely legalize cannabis in 2013. Some people are in favor of decriminalization and legalization of marijuana simply for the moral stance that