Conditional welfare programmes provide monetary and/or non-monetary benefits to the poor upon fulfilling certain positive behaviours outlined by the state e.g school attendance, vaccination, volunteering. Unconditional welfare programmes provide these benefits to all individuals as long as they are below the poverty line.

"Recreational drugs" is a loose term that refers to legal and illegal drugs that are used without medical supervision. There are four categories of recreational drugs: analgesics, depressants, stimulants, and hallucinogens. Analgesics include narcotics like heroin, morphine, fentanyl, and codeine. Depressants include alcohol, barbiturates, tranquilizers, and nicotine. Stimulants include cocaine, methamphetamine, and ecstasy (MDMA). Hallucinogens include LSD (acid), peyote (mescaline), psilocybin (magic mushrooms), marijuana, ketamine, phencyclidine (PCP), and salvia divinorum (diviner's sage).

The "do no harm" humanitarian principle is derived from medical ethics and specifies that all humanitarian actions must not cause direct harm to a stakeholder or stakeholders in the immediate or foreseeable term. In contrast, the "harm minimization" principle considers the course of action that minimizes the nett harm inflicted on all stakeholders, even if some stakeholders are directly harmed in the process."

"India's legal system has allows its government to issue drug ""compulsory licenses"" to companies under certain conditions, such as public health emergencies, to ensure access to affordable medicines. India has used this provision to issue compulsory licenses to local pharmaceutical manufacturers, overriding international patents held mainly by Western pharmaceutical companies. India has received strong criticism from US trade organizations, although it has a Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) compliant legal system. "

The Writers Guild of America (WGA), which represents Hollywood’s writers, and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), an association of Hollywood’s largest studios and production companies, recently reached an agreement with production companies to end their strike. Part of the agreement reached involving the use of generative AI prohibits the training of generative AI models on the work produced by writers.