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Sweden is an excellent example. Drug use is just a third of the European average while spending on drug control is three times the EU average. For three decades, [nb 1] Sweden has had consistent and coherent drug-control policies, regardless of which party is in power. There is a strong emphasis on prevention, drug laws have been progressively ...
Reform advocates say treating drugs as a public health issue, rather than a criminal matter, is the best way to combat addiction.
Variations of drug liberalization include drug legalization, drug relegalization, and drug decriminalization. [1] Proponents of drug liberalization may favor a regulatory regime for the production, marketing, and distribution of some or all currently illegal drugs in a manner analogous to that for alcohol , caffeine and tobacco .
The term was coined by anthropologist Jennifer James to express sex workers' movements' "goals of removing laws used to target prostitutes", although it is now commonly applied to drug policies. [2] The reverse process is criminalization. Decriminalization reflects changing social and moral views.
Drug decriminalization in Oregon came about as the result of a ballot measure, known as Measure 110, that received nearly 60% support from voters in 2020.
The move would reclassify possession of the drugs as a misdemeanor rather than a felony. Decriminalizing possession of small amounts of cocaine and heroin? Oregon may try it.
Clinton and Trump on cannabis law reform, prescription drug prices, and trafficking across the Mexican border
The Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act, also known as the MORE Act, is a proposed piece of U.S. federal legislation that would deschedule cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act and enact various criminal and social justice reforms related to cannabis, including the expungement of prior convictions.