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A number of Latin American countries have similarly moved to reduce the penalties associated with drug use and personal possession" (Laqueur, 2015, p. 748). Mexico City has decriminalized certain drugs and Greece has just announced that it is going to do so. Spain has also followed the Portugal model.
Cocaine is fully illegal in Afghanistan and drug trafficking and drug smuggling are crimes that are punishable by death. Argentina: Decriminalized for private use: Illegal: Illegal: Illegal: Cocaine is decriminalized for private and personal use or possession. The consumption and possession of fresh coca leaves for chewing and teas are legal ...
INCB – United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, 1988 [3] INCB "Green list" – List of Psychotropic Substances under International Control [4] INCB "Yellow list" – List of Narcotic Drugs under International Control [5] Chemical Weapons Convention, 1997; UN Convention on Drug Precursor ...
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Examples of subject matter which have been the subject of changing views on criminality over time in various societies and countries include: Abortion (see: abortion law and abortion-rights movements) Breastfeeding in public; Drug possession, and recreational drug use (see: drug liberalization) Euthanasia (see: legality of euthanasia)
Four years ago, Oregon voters approved a groundbreaking plan to decriminalize possession of all drugs in the state. That brief experiment is now set to come to an end.
Portugal’s 2000 decriminalization brought no surge in drug use. Drug deaths fell while the number of people treated for drug addiction in the country rose 20% from 2001 to 2008 and then ...
In 2009 police raided 340 Methamphetamine laboratories in the Czech Republic, which is the most among EU countries. [7] Government changed policy of sale of legal drugs, which contain substances needed for meth production - the buyer must have a medical prescription, must identify themself by ID card and can obtain only a small quantity.