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  2. Strange laws - Wikipedia

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    Strange laws, also called weird laws, dumb laws, futile laws, unusual laws, unnecessary laws, legal oddities, or legal curiosities, are laws that are perceived to be useless, humorous or obsolete, or are no longer applicable (in regard to current culture or modern law). A number of books and websites purport to list dumb laws.

  3. List of eponymous laws - Wikipedia

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    Stokes's law of sound attenuation is a formula for the attenuation of sound in a Newtonian fluid, such as water or air, due to the fluid's viscosity. Streisand effect : whereby an attempt to hide, remove, or censor a piece of information has the unintended consequence of publicizing the information more widely.

  4. List of laws - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of "laws" applied to various disciplines. These are often adages or predictions with the appellation 'Law', although they do not apply in the legal sense, cannot be scientifically tested, or are intended only as rough descriptions (rather than applying in each case).

  5. Oregon law rolling back drug decriminalization set to take ...

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    The Democratic-controlled Legislature passed the recriminalization law in March, overhauling a measure approved by 58% of voters in 2020 that made possessing illicit drugs like heroin punishable ...

  6. DARE Didn't Make Kids 'Say No' to Drugs. It Normalized ... - AOL

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    Starting in 1983, the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program sent police officers into classrooms to teach fifth- and sixth-graders about the dangers of drugs and the need, as Nancy Reagan ...

  7. List of topics characterized as pseudoscience - Wikipedia

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    The cure is always the resolving of the conflict. Some treatments like chemotherapy or pain relieving drugs like morphine are deadly, according to Hamer. [230] [231] These "laws" are dogmas of GNM, not laws of nature or medicine, and are at odds with scientific understanding of human physiology. [232]

  8. Opium Law - Wikipedia

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    The first Opium Law was created to regulate drugs with a high addiction or abuse factor, or that are physically harmful. As the name indicates the main reason for introduction was to regulate the Opium trade and later to control various other addictive drugs like morphine , cocaine , heroin , barbiturates , amphetamines and several decades ...

  9. Police alert parents to new street drug tablets that look a ...

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    On Monday, they posted an image of the drugs' various designs on their Facebook pagewith the message, "If your kids get these for Halloween candy, they ARE NOT CANDY!!!