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• Codeine
  ...bably the most commonly used drug overall according to numerous reports by organizations including the World Health Organization and its League of Nations predecess Codeine is classed as an illegal drug in Greece, and individuals possessing it could conceivably be arrested
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• Textiles of Mexico
  ...eam to electricity. They also changed textile mills from mostly family own organizations to more modern enterprises with professional managers and stock sold on exc ...tations to be form of pirating and puts native weavers livlihoods at risk. Organizations such as this work to have indigenous designs marked as intangible world her
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• White cane
  ...right to use their cane in any public place as well. In some cases, it is illegal for a non-blind person to carry a white cane.[http://www.nfb-nagdu.org/laws ...have been reluctant to have children use canes until they are older. Many organizations, such as the National Federation of the Blind, have attempted to change thi
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• Cannabis (drug)
  ...ons containing psychoactive cannabinoids became [[legal issues of cannabis|illegal]] in most parts of the [[world]] in the early [[20th century]]. Since then, ...hat cannabis is simply more readily available (and at an earlier age) than illegal hard drugs, and alcohol/tobacco are in turn easier to obtain earlier than c
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• Cannabis reform at the international level
  ...s (drug)|cannabis]] use under international treaties. Most cannabis reform organizations do not spend a great deal of resources on international cannabis reform, si *[[Illegal drug trade]]
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• Buprenorphine
  ...effectively wean themselves off the opiate/opioid they're addicted to. The illegal and potentially dangerous self-dosing of Buprenorphine is deemed by many st ...able on a limited basis in the UK, and has been ever since heroin was made illegal, with an interruption of a few decades which occurred, likely under pressur
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• Hutaree
  ...ent in a plot to kill various police officers and possibly civilians using illegal explosives and/or firearms. Many videos posted on the Hutaree's website support several [[right-wing]] organizations, politicians, and news commentators. A former fiancee of Hutaree leader Dav
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• Assassination of George Tiller
  ...conviction in March 1998, ruling that the search of Roeder's car had been illegal and remanded the case to the trial court. Roeder was released after serving ...r arguments|it wasn't ratified properly in the Constitution]], that it was illegal. And he went from there and got into the anti-government, got into the mili
  47 KB (6,949 words) - 21:55, 26 September 2010
• Terrorist front organization
  ...rt to the illegal activities. "Import-export" companies are favorite front organizations for terrorist groups. <br> [[Category:Front organizations]]
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• Internet and terrorism
  “Using public sources openly and without resorting to illegal means, it is possible to gather at least 80 percent of all information requ ...unity. In hopes of appealing to people all over the world, many terrorist organizations offer their websites in multiple languages. The websites typically include
  13 KB (1,972 words) - 21:56, 26 September 2010
• Insurgency
  ...operty of an attempt to disrupt the central government by means considered illegal by that government. North points out, however, that insurgents today need n ...y field fighting forces orders of magnitude larger than those of terrorist organizations." Insurgencies have a political purpose, and may provide social services a
  43 KB (6,255 words) - 21:56, 26 September 2010
• Definitions of terrorism
  ...national Cooperation in Counter-terrorism: The United Nations And Regional Organizations in the Fight Against Terrorism'', p. 4 (2006).</ref> The treaties that foll ...damental motive to make political/societal changes; the use of violence or illegal force; attacks on civilian targets by "nonstate"/"Subnational actors"; and
  70 KB (10,299 words) - 21:56, 26 September 2010
• Organized crime
  ...ized enterprises run by [[crime|criminal]]s for the purpose of engaging in illegal activity, most commonly for [[money|monetary]] [[Profit (economics)|profit] ...]] and the [[Bulgarian mafia]]. There are also a number of localized mafia organizations around the world bearing no link to any specific ethnic background.
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• Drug cartel
  ...ommercial enterprise]]s. The term was applied when the largest trafficking organizations reached an agreement to coordinate the production and distribution of cocai ...'' is a generic term that usually refers to three, usually rival, criminal organizations involved in [[narcotrafficking in Colombia]]:
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• Outlaw motorcycle club
  ...awlessness are inherent in living "The Life," and the money they obtain by illegal means is only wanted as a way to perpetuate that lifestyle.<ref>{{Citation ..., without including the letters ''MC''.{{Dubious|date=August 2009}} Other organizations, such as The Cretins Motorcycle Club, declare themselves to be non-outlaws,
  48 KB (7,309 words) - 21:58, 26 September 2010
• Racket (crime)
  A '''racket''' is an illegal business, usually run as part of [[organized crime]]. Engaging in a racket ...econd well known example is the [[Numbers game|numbers racket]], a form of illegal [[lottery]].
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• List of criminal enterprises, gangs and syndicates
  ...d associations, the primary purpose of which is to generate income through illegal means. It does not cover groups that primarily engage in such activity for ...nt enforcement is particularly poor, the cartels become quasi-paramilitary organizations.
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• Abu Sayyaf
  ...State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations|Foreign Terrorist Organizations]].<ref name="TKBAbu"/> As a result, the CIA deployed paramilitary officers ...u Sayyaf following the arrest of a [[Filipino-American]] allegedly selling illegal weapons to the Al-Qaeda linked group. Security forces have arrested Victor
  51 KB (7,590 words) - 17:27, 27 September 2010
• Black site
  ...vember 2005 and before this by [[human rights]] [[NGO]]s (non-governmental organizations).<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/ ...n of "torture or inhuman and cruel treatment", prompted by allegations of "illegal activities and serious human rights violations" made by MEP Ana Gomes to th
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• Border Security and Terrorism
  ...nes’, thinly guarded stretches of coasts and land borders which entry is illegal."<ref>Port and Maritime Security: Background and Issues for Congress. The U ...ucture Issues at the [[Government Accountability Office]], said "Drugs and illegal aliens are routinely smuggled into this country, not only in small boats bu
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