Eximir a los consumidores de drogas de ser sometidos a arrestos y procesos judiciales por el consumo de drogas y por actos preparatorios como la adquisición, la simple posesión o el cultivo para consumo personal, no conduce a un mayor consumo de drogas y sí descarga notablemente la presión a la que están sometidos los organismos de aplicación de la ley y los sistemas judicial y penitenciario, además de acabar con las barreras que impiden que los consumidores que muestran patrones problemáticos de consumo se aproximen a servicios de tratamiento y reducción de los daños.

  • Review of methodologies of evaluating effects of drug-related legal changes

    European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA)
    April, 2010

    This paper analyses scientific and grey literature that examines the consequences of drug law changes, and describes their approach and methodologies. A multi-part search strategy identified 36 primary studies coming from Europe, North America and Australia, which were then categorised by the type of legal change they examined; changes to laws addressing illegal use and possession, changes in laws regulating legal use and possession, and enforcement strategies of existing laws such as police crackdowns and employee drug testing.

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  • Penalisation of drug possession

    Institutional action and costs
    Ewelina Kuzmicz et al.
    Institute of Public Affairs, Analyses & Opinions, 11/104
    December 2009

    Polish law provides punishment for possession of narcotic drugs. It is a controversial issue whether punishing for possession of any amount of drugs is a right thing to do. Regardless of one’s opinion, it is worth being aware of the consequences of the adopted legal solutions. In spite of the high cost, the enforcement of the Act does not result in mitigating drug problems in Poland, such as reduction of drug trafficking or “deterring” their potential users.

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  • México: Ley contra el narcomenudeo

    Una apuesta dudosa
    Jorge Hernández Tinajero y Carlos Zamudio Angles
    Serie reforma legislativa en materia de drogas No. 3
    Octubre de 2009

    Ante el crecimiento exponencial del crimen organizado, la violencia y el aumento alarmante del consumo de drogas durante los últimos años en México, el Presidente Felipe Calderón propuso una iniciativa de ley como parte de su estrategia general de seguridad con el fin de combatir el comercio de drogas a pequeña escala, conocido en México como "narcomenudeo". La ley fue aprobada por ambas cámaras legislativas del Congreso en abril de 2009.

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  • Drug Decriminalization in Portugal

    Lessons for Creating Fair and Successful Drug Policies
    Glenn Greenwald
    Cato Institute
    April 2009

    On July 1, 2001, a nationwide law in Portugal took effect that decriminalized all drugs, including cocaine and heroin. Under the new legal framework, all drugs were “decriminalized,” not “legalized.” Drug possession for personal use and drug usage itself are still legally prohibited, but violations of those prohibitions are deemed to be exclusively administrative violations and are removed completely from the criminal realm.

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  • Tráfico de drogas e Constituição

    Um estudo jurídico-social do tipo do art. 33 da Lei de Drogas diante dos princípios constitucionais-penais
    Ela Volkmer de Castilho Wiecko Luciana Boiteux
    Relatório Final do Projeto de Pesquisa apresentado ao Ministério da Justiça/ PNUD, no Projeto “Pensando o Direito”
    Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro / Universidade de Brasília
    Março de 2009

    Esta pesquisa realizada em processos criminais por tráfico de drogas, no Rio de Janeiro e em Brasília, demonstra que o sistema penal é seletivo, e os varejistas, que vendem pequenas quantidades de drogas, constituem 60% dos condenados, tendo sido presos sozinhos e desarmados e recebido severas penas privativas de liberdade. Apesar de, atualmente, os condenados por tráfico de drogas serem a segunda maior incidência no sistema penitenciário brasileiro, só perdendo para os crimes patrimoniais, tal situação não acarreta nenhuma alteração na oferta ou no consumo de substâncias ilícitas.

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  • On the threshold

    How relevant should quantity be in determining intent to supply?
    Charlotte Walsh
    International Journal of Drug Policy 19 (2008) 479–485
    December 2008

    This paper offers a critique of the UK Government’s decision to abandon its former plans to introduce thresholds into drugs legislation via section 2 of the Drugs Act 2005. This provision had been enacted with a view to enhancing the significance of the amount of drugs an individual is caught with in prosecutions for the offence of possession with intent to supply.

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  • Decriminalization of cannabis

    Wim van den Brink
    Current Opinion in Psychiatry 2008, 21:122–126
    March 2008

    Este ensayo analiza los argumentos a favor y en contra de la despenalización del cannabis. El psiquiatra neerlandés Wim van den Brink, del Instituto de Amsterdam para la Investigación sobre Adicciones (AIAR), sopesa detenidamente las actuales pruebas sobre las ventajas y los riesgos que entrañaría tal cambio en las políticas de drogas.

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  • La importancia de la cantidad y composición en los delitos relativos a drogas tóxicas, estupefacientes y sustancias psicotrópicas

    Maria Encarnación Mayán Santos
    Noticias Jurídicas
    Septiembre 2007

    Análisis sobre la importancia de la cantidad de drogas tóxicas, estupefacientes y sustancias psicotrópicas en los delitos contra la salud pública, para la aplicación de una condena acorde con el daño producido; y, la diferencia entre el autoconsumo y el tráfico de drogas, sobre la base de convenios internacionales y jurisprudencia.

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  • Beyond Punitive Prohibition

    Liberalizing the Dialogue on International Drug Policy
    Melissa T. Aoyagi
    Journal of International Law and Politics
    Volume 37, Number 3
    March 2006

    The primary objective of this paper is to evaluate whether the drug conventions permit states to experiment with alternatives to the punitive prohibitionist policies that have typified the global approach to combating the negative effects of personal drug use. Because harm minimization encompasses most policies providing alternatives to punitive prohibition, the analysis that follows will focus on comparing the two strategies, in an effort to frame the current debate on drug policy.

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  • Illicit drug use in the EU: legislative approaches

    European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA)
    February 2005

    This paper offers an overview of the current legal provisions on the use and possession of drugs for personal use in the EU Member States. In addition to documentary resources (the European Legal Database on Drugs – ELDD) and the current work of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) in the field, some thirty studies and other publications were consulted. The study concludes that, in many countries, personal use of illicit drugs is considered a relatively minor offence, incompatible with custodial sanctions.

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