Polen gedoogt beetje drugs

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Polen gedoogt beetje drugs

Polen liberaliseert de drugswetgeving. De inwoners worden niet langer bestraft als ze worden betrapt met kleine hoeveelheden voor eigen gebruik, net als in Nederland. Verslaafden kunnen een straf ontlopen als ze vrijwillig instemmen met een ontwenningskuur, zo besloot het parlement vandaag.

Tegelijk is de maximumstraf voor groothandelaren verzwaard. Die riskeren voortaan twaalf in plaats van tien jaar celstraf. Wie veel drugs op zak heeft, riskeert acht jaar cel, twee meer dan nu.

 

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Poland to liberalize drug law?

12.03.2010 12:17

 

The government has drafted a new bill on the prevention of drug addiction, which, in effect, might decriminalize possession of small amounts of drugs, for personal use.

 

“We want to concentrate on prevention and treatment, not punishment,” said Justice Minister Krzysztof Kwiatkowski, commenting on the draft bill. “Punishing a person for possessing just one joint is absurd,” said Kwiatkowski and added that the state should help drug addicts to quit instead of persecuting them.

 

The liberalization of Poland’s drug law comes after the Czech Republic’s decision to abolish penalties for possessing a small quantity of illicit drugs.

 

The draft bill is expected to be forwarded to the Parliament in April.

 

According to the current law, the possession of any amount of cannabis is illegal and can result in a 3-year prison sentence and drug dealing to a 10-year prison sentence.

 

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Poland: Unconsititutional and Costly Drugs Laws Infringe on Human Rights

 

"Criminalisation of drug possession does not help to decrease illicit drug consumption. Instead, it distracts the attention and energy of the police from the real originators of the problem: mass producers and major and minor drug dealers" – write the signatories of a letter of support for liberalizing drug policy in Poland.

 

Among them are former President of Poland Aleksander Kwasniewski and a world-famous sociologist, Zygmunt Bauman. Other signatories include writers, artists and respected public figures.

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The supporters of the letter argue that drug policy is too often based on myth and dogma rather than evidence.

 

Non-functioning drug polices impact negatively upon many different areas of government activity without addressing the harms associated with drug use.

 

Signatories of the open letter urge the Polish Government to push through amendments to a drug policy bill that has now reached the parliament.

 

If accepted, a prosecutor would be entitled to discontinue legal proceedings against a person suspected of possessing a minor quantity of an illicit substance for personal use provided that the social harm of the deed is insignificant or the punishment would prove futile.

 

“Apart from advancing work on the bill, we expect a table of data stating what exactly is meant by minor quantities for each enlisted substance to be added as an annex to the bill,”says Karolina Walęcik of Krytyka Polityczna, the organization which initiated the letter.

 

“Such a solution is a small step which will help focus the efforts of enforcement agencies and the judiciary on real criminals that are drug dealers and traffickers, not on occasional users.”

 

In September a proposal of what limits could be defined for each illicit substance was announced by the Polish Drug Policy Network, an organization advocating rational drug policy in Poland which brings together experts, therapists and drug users, amongst others.

 

“The amendment we care about was introduced to the parliament in September but until now the bill hasn't even had its first reading.” says Marek Balicki, a member of Parliament and former minister of health.

 

“The current restrictive law has been binding in Poland for ten years and now it clearly shows that the goals it established have not been met. The time has come to verify those goals.”

 

Article 62.1 of the current drug law states that possession of any amount of an illicit drug is subject to imprisonment for up to three years. Even though the originators of the bill claim that the law was targeted at drug dealers, statistics show that after the law was introduced the number of arrested and tried dealers has not risen.

 

In the majority of cases, those arrested were occasional users, possessing minimal quantities of marijuana, often less than one gram.

 

According to the Polish think tank the Institute of Public Affairs, the execution of article 62.1 costs the state budget about 80 million Polish Zloty (ca. 20 million Euro) a year at a cost of over 2,500 Zloty (ca. 600 Euro) for each arrested offender.

 

Moreover, the study shows that half of the policemen interviewed admit that the current law is conducive to abuse and is in fact abused.

 

Instead of going after drug dealers and retailers, law enforcement officials choose the much easier option of focusing on people who possess minor amounts of illicit substances, which is an easy way to augment statistics.

 

In addition, the proposed amendment includes provisions for drug dependence treatment. Experts admit that access to substitution treatment in Poland is still extremely limited. Lack of access to such treatment in the north of the country was subject to criticism by Anand Grover, UN Special Rapporteur for Health.

 

Experts say that current Polish drug law is costly, infringes human rights and proves unconstitutional as it does not fulfill the constitutional criterion of proportion of punishment to the unlawful act.

 

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[nicodemus 0]

Hahahaha, een ontwenningskuur in Polen. Doe mij de soepbus maar!

[chassie 42]

:) Ontwenningskuur voor het bezit van een Jointje? Waar komt dat idee vandaan? Omdat het bij de Vodka zo goed werkt misschien :D