Arizona, whose permissive law makes opening charter schools easy, now has 500, more than any other state.

In the region, though, New York has among the most permissive laws.

A country which has permissive laws regarding prostitution is the Netherlands.

In the Netherlands, with some of the most permissive laws on the subject, euthanasia remains illegal.

Finally, there must be coordination of immigration policies at European level in order to prevent permissive laws and regularisation processes that have a 'call effect'.

Under one of the most permissive laws anywhere, seriously ill Canadians with prescriptions can grow, buy and smoke marijuana to alleviate pain.

Certainly, permissive laws that rely on former politicians' own sense of shame about capitalizing on connections have helped buoy Carlyle's fortunes.

People who believe very strongly that abortion is always murder, for example, may indeed think that the checkerboard abortion statute is better than a wholly permissive law.

Tougher gun control laws around the nation have made it harder for smugglers to buy guns in states with more permissive laws and then resell them illegally on the streets of New York.

Largely because of their activities, about 1,500 Iowans gathered for a rally at the state Capitol in Des Moines early this month seeking a more permissive law on home and church schools.

In interviews, he spoke frankly about what some see as a quiet menace - abetted by permissive laws, embarrassment over failing skills and necessity: many of the elderly are driving when they should not be.

Due to the country's permissive laws, most of the action in the American novelist Robin Cook's book Chromosome 6 takes place at a primate research facility based in Equatorial Guinea.

Clive Cookson "Generous Staffing And Permissive Laws Aid Asia's Largest Stem Cell Effort", "Scientific American" June 27, 2005.

The Vatican issued a document today that urged priests to prepare couples better for a life together, contending that permissive laws and the news media had created a climate that favors the breakdown of marriages.

The legislation would permit any mutual insurance company to avoid making surplus payments to policyholders by simply moving to states with more permissive laws and setting up a hybrid corporate structure known as a mutual holding company.

If laws vary from state to state, Ms. Andrews said, a kind of "biotechnological tourism" might occur, with companies and scientists moving from one state to the other in search of permissive laws.

Beginning in 1997, he regularly criticized states in the Southern United States for having permissive laws on gun sales, that fed an illegal movement of guns into New York City; he said that 60 percent of guns found in New York came from Florida, Georgia, Virginia, and the Carolinas.