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Re: The Week Online with DRCNet, Issue #161
Saturday 25 Nov 2000 Message-ID: <32yKKRAh36H6EwsD@shuggie.demon.co.uk> Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 12:17:37 +0000 To: shug@shuggie.demon.co.uk From: shug Subject: Re: The Week Online with DRCNet, Issue #161 References: <5.0.0.25.2.20001122140517.062a00f0@drcnet.org> In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.2.20001122140517.062a00f0@drcnet.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike Integrated Version 5.01 U In message <5.0.0.25.2.20001122140517.062a00f0@drcnet.org>, DRCNet >6. Newsbrief: New Polish Drug Bill Ends Experiment, Outlaws > Possession for Personal Use > http://www.drcnet.org/wol/161.html#polandcriminalization > >A three-year experiment in tolerating drug possession has ended >in Poland. President Aleksander Kwasniewski this week signed >into law a tough new drug bill passed by the Polish parliament in >September. > >The new law undoes provisions of the 1997 Act On Countering Drug >Addiction, which exempted drugs for personal use from criminal >penalties and called for drug treatment to occur only >voluntarily, except in the case of minors. > >In regard to drug possession, the 1997 law said, "The >perpetrators of [drug offenses], who possess narcotic drugs or >psychotropic substances in diminutive quantities for their own >use, are not liable to any penalty." > >In regard to coerced treatment, the 1997 law said, "Submission to >treatment, rehabilitation or re-adaptation shall be voluntary, >except when the regulations under this Law provide otherwise. > >Under the new law, possession of narcotics or psychotropic >substances, including marijuana, can be punished by up to three >years in prison. > >The new law also allows judges to force drug users into >treatment. > >"The police can now arrest and stigmatize youngsters and addicts, >which will be easier than cracking down on professionals," Marek >Kotanski told Reuters. Kotanski heads Monar, Poland's largest >private drug abuse service organization. > >Supporters of the new legislation argued that it would target >drug dealers, whom they asserted took advantage of the personal >use exemption to evade prosecution. > >They also pointed to official statistics showing a steady >increase in the number of habitual drug users since the fall of >communism in 1989. > >================ IS IT NOT CLEAR THAT CANNABIS PROHIBITION IS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY? ______________________________________________________________________ Shug -- "Let me see if I've got this Santa business straight. You say he wears a beard, has no discernible source of income and flies to cities all over the world under cover of darkness? You sure this guy isn't laundering illegal drug money?" -- Tom Armstrong -- http://www.ukcia.org - The UK Cannabis Information Website
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