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  2. Legal status of cocaine - Wikipedia

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    Decriminalized for private use: Illegal: Illegal: Illegal: All use, sale possession, transportation, and cultivation of cocaine was made illegal in Argentina's Law 23.737. [1] However, in 2009 a judge ruled that banning the possession of drugs when it posed no threat to others violates the constitutional right to personal liberty. [2]

  3. Arguments for and against drug prohibition - Wikipedia

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    In Europe as of 2007, Sweden spends the second highest percentage of GDP, after the Netherlands, on drug control. [12] The UNODC argues that when Sweden reduced spending on education and rehabilitation in the 1990s in a context of higher youth unemployment and declining GDP growth, illicit drug use rose [13] but restoring expenditure from 2002 again sharply decreased drug use as student ...

  4. Drug liberalization - Wikipedia

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    Drug decriminalization is in some ways an intermediate between prohibition and legalization, and has been criticized by Peter Lilley as being "the worst of both worlds", in that drug sales would still be illegal, thus perpetuating the problems associated with leaving production and distribution of drugs to the criminal underworld, while also ...

  5. Drug laws on possession: several countries are revisiting ...

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    There are better ways to deal with drug possession (for personal use) than putting the person behind bars. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways ...

  6. Drug prohibition - Wikipedia

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    Though the prohibition of illegal drugs was established under Sharia law, particularly against the use of hashish as a recreational drug, classical jurists of medieval Islamic jurisprudence accepted the use of hashish for medicinal and therapeutic purposes, and agreed that its "medical use, even if it leads to mental derangement, should remain ...

  7. Thailand moves to ban recreational cannabis use, 18 months ...

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    Thailand became the first country in Asia to fully decriminalize cannabis in June 2022, a move years in the making and a rarity in a region where many countries give long jail terms and even death ...

  8. Canada OKs drug decriminalization test in British Columbia

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    The policy approved by federal officials doesn’t legalize the substances, but Canadians in the Pacific coast province who possess up to 2.5 grams of illicit drugs for personal use will not be ...

  9. Drug and precursor laws by country or territory - Wikipedia

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    The legal status of drugs and drug precursors varies substantially from country to country and is still changing in many of them. United Nations classify drugs internationally, it affects all its member states.