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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Argentina Decriminalizes Drug Use

This just in… A federal court in Argentina has decriminalized the personal consumption of drugs in that country. According to the court’s ruling, punishing drug users only “creates an avalanche of cases targeting consumers without climbing up in the ladder of [drug] trafficking.”

Last month at a UN meeting in Vienna, Argentina’s Minister of Justice, Aníbal Fernández, said that the policy of punishing drug consumers was a “total failure.”


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3 comments:

Andrew Oh-Willeke said...

Crude translation (starting from a Babelfish translation):

Buenos Aires (April 23, 2008): A federal court in Buenos Aires legalized personal drug use in the Argentine capital, which will allow people to annul thousands of cases involving defendants accused of having small amounts of marijuana.

The Federal Court of Appeals declared unconstitutional the article of the law that punishes the drug users, enacted in 1989.

The challenged law punishes drug users in a way that assumes that they are the base of a chain that finishes in the narcotics trafficker. But the court found that this approach generated "an avalanche of cases impacting users without managing to ascend the links of the chain of drug trafficing."

The court's holding came in the case of two young people stopped by the police for possession of marijuana reefers and tablets of ecstacy when they went to a rave in Buenos Aires in May of 2007.

Although the case is subject to further review by the Supreme Court of Justice in Argentina, the holding of the Buenos Aires court is in line with the policy of the Government of Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner to reform the laws to legalize the drug consumption.

During the 51st Extraordinary Session of the Economic and Social Council of the UN, celebrated the month last in Vienna, Argentine minister of Justice Aníbal Fernandez, discussed the "absolute failure" of the policy to punish the drug users.

In this way, for the first time in 30 years, Argentina departed from the American position of persecuting drug users much like drug dealers.

Anonymous said...

Just think, if the United States followed Argentines lead we could save 1/2 of all dollars spent by the courts, cops, amd be able to close 1/2 of our prisons.
Incarceration was only ever intended for the criminally VIOLENT in the first place. djw

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