SOC 705 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Formal System, Psychoactive Drug, Addiction
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The autonomy and permeability of law: the case of the canadian prohibition of cannabis. Unobservable communications communication is often understood in a linear process (transmitter-receptor model) luhmann believes that such a transfer is impossible because everyone understands the same information in different ways. Deparadoxification luhmann suggests that any social system finds its unity in paradox paradox in some cases, the fact that crimes are punished can endanger the penal norm itself. 2 in drug related offenses the fact that users are being punished can be used to challenge the legitimacy. Ambiguitiesz in the law ambiguities and vagueness in the law the language of the law. 265 assault (1) a person commits an assault when: without the consent of another person, he applies force intentionally to that other person, directly or indirectly. Holds that the actions of individuals should only be limited to prevent harm to other individuals. The state should only limit individual actions that harm others.