Descriminalización

Los pobres se benefician del principio de favorabilidad

2014-12-18T10:32:34+00:00

Ecuador - Durante los tres primeros meses, más de 1.200 personas han sido beneficiadas por la aplicación del principio de favorabilidad (Defensoría Pública – Dirección Nacional de Investigaciones Apl ...

Alternativas al tratamiento penal de los delitos relacionados con drogas

2014-09-23T12:08:05+00:00

Los Estados Miembros de la Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA) adoptaron la Estrategia Hemisférica sobre Drogas y su Plan de Acción 2011-2015, acordando considerar la posibilidad de llevar a cab ...

Declaración de la Asociación Interamericana de Defensorías Públicas (AIDEF) sobre políticas de drogas

2014-09-11T08:53:20+00:00

Los Defensores públicos y Defensoras públicas de la Asociación Interamericana de Defensorías Públicas (AIDEF) América Latina y el Caribe, reunidos en Santo Domingo (República Dominicana) en el marco ...

Consideraciones sobre el debate legislativo en torno a la ley de drogas

2012-11-19T12:19:14+00:00

La figura de la penalización de la tenencia de drogas para consumo personal se encuentra en el centro del debate sobre la necesidad de reformar la Ley de Estupefacientes 23.737, debate que pone en ev ...

A resounding success or a disastrous failure

2012-01-05T17:03:53+00:00

Two observers and scholars of the 2001 Portuguese drug policy reform consider divergent accounts of the reform which viewed it as a ‘resounding success’ or a ‘disastrous failure’. Acknowledging from ...

Drug Policy in Portugal

2011-08-31T14:10:52+00:00

?In 2000, the Portuguese government responded to widespread public concern over drugs by rejecting a "war on drugs" approach and instead decriminalized drug possession and use. It further rebuffed co ...

Dug Policy Profile Portugal

2011-07-06T09:17:27+00:00

This profile describes the national drug policy of Portugal, a policy that has attracted significant attention recently in the media and in policy debates. It considers national strategies and action ...

México y su Ley contra el narcomenudeo

2011-03-31T10:44:16+00:00

Este ensayo pretende hacer un balance de los resultados de la “Ley contra el narcomenudeo”, tras su entrada en vigor hace poco más de un año. Lo que se conoce como “Ley contra el narcomenudeo” es en ...

TNI-EMCDDA Expert Seminar on Threshold Quantities

2011-05-03T15:58:13+00:00

A wider trend for drug law reform is arising out of a felt need to make legislation more effective and more humane. Within this trend, a number of countries have considered decriminalisation or depen ...

What Can We Learn From The Portuguese Decriminalization of Illicit Drugs?

2010-12-02T03:50:41+00:00

The issue of decriminalizing illicit drugs is hotly debated, but is rarely subject to evidence-based analysis. This paper examines the case of Portugal, a nation that decriminalized the use and posse ...

Review of methodologies of evaluating effects of drug-related legal changes

2010-09-27T13:48:56+00:00

This paper analyses scientific and grey literature that examines the consequences of drug law changes, and describes their approach and methodologies. A multi-part search strategy identified 36 prima ...

Penalisation of drug possession

2009-12-01T00:00:00+00:00

Polish law provides punishment for possession of narcotic drugs. It is a controversial issue whether punishing for possession of any amount of drugs is a right thing to do. Regardless of one’s opinio ...

México: Ley contra el narcomenudeo

2009-10-01T00:00:00+00:00

Ante el crecimiento exponencial del crimen organizado, la violencia y el aumento alarmante del consumo de drogas durante los últimos años en México, el Presidente Felipe Calderón propuso una iniciati ...

Drug Decriminalization in Portugal

2010-08-04T17:34:43+00:00

On July 1, 2001, a nationwide law in Portugal took effect that decriminalized all drugs, including cocaine and heroin. Under the new legal framework, all drugs were “decriminalized,” not “legalized.” ...

Tráfico de drogas e Constituição

2009-03-01T00:00:00+00:00

Esta pesquisa realizada em processos criminais por tráfico de drogas, no Rio de Janeiro e em Brasília, demonstra que o sistema penal é seletivo, e os varejistas, que vendem pequenas quantidades de dr ...

On the threshold

2010-08-04T17:34:43+00:00

This paper offers a critique of the UK Government’s decision to abandon its former plans to introduce thresholds into drugs legislation via section 2 of the Drugs Act 2005. This provision had been en ...

Decriminalization of cannabis

2010-08-17T14:58:54+00:00

Este ensayo analiza los argumentos a favor y en contra de la despenalización del cannabis. El psiquiatra neerlandés Wim van den Brink, del Instituto de Amsterdam para la Investigación sobre Adiccione ...

La importancia de la cantidad y composición en los delitos relativos a drogas tóxicas, estupefacientes y sustancias psicotrópicas

2007-09-01T00:00:00+00:00

Análisis sobre la importancia de la cantidad de drogas tóxicas, estupefacientes y sustancias psicotrópicas en los delitos contra la salud pública, para la aplicación de una condena acorde con el daño ...

Beyond Punitive Prohibition

2010-09-27T15:32:52+00:00

The primary objective of this paper is to evaluate whether the drug conventions permit states to experiment with alternatives to the punitive prohibitionist policies that have typified the global app ...

Illicit drug use in the EU: legislative approaches

2010-08-04T17:34:43+00:00

This paper offers an overview of the current legal provisions on the use and possession of drugs for personal use in the EU Member States. In addition to documentary resources (the European Legal Dat ...