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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 ...
A sign for a cannabis shop in Portland, Oregon.Cannabis has been gradually legalized for recreational use in some U.S. states since 2012.. Drug liberalization is a drug policy process of decriminalizing, legalizing, or repealing laws that prohibit the production, possession, sale, or use of prohibited drugs.
Policies criminalizing the possession of drug paraphernalia ostracize people who use drugs and create unsafe conditions, increasing drug-use related harms like disease transmission and overdose ...
Drug possession, and recreational drug use (see: drug liberalization) Euthanasia (see: legality of euthanasia) Gambling (see: gambling age) Homosexuality (see: decriminalization of homosexuality and LGBT rights by country or territory) Polygamy [3] (see: legality of polygamy) Prostitution (see: decriminalization of sex work) Public nudity ...
More than 50 years of evidence demonstrates that locking people up for possessing drugs or forcing them into court-ordered programs does not end drug use, but it does increase harms, including ...
Months ago, state lawmakers there moved to roll back portions of that state’s first-in-the-nation drug decriminalization law after rampant public drug use during that state’s fentanyl crisis ...
One way to view Oregon’s retreat from its idealistic effort to decriminalize drug use is that it’s in line with other liberal areas. Washington state, for example, ...
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 ...