Till stöd för FN:s narkotikakonventioner: Argument mot legalisering av illegala droger och harm reduction
David G. Evans, Esq., Executive Director, Crime and Justice Project, Drug Free Projects Coalition i USA har författat materialet In support of the UN Drug Conventions: The arguments against illicit drug legalization and harm reduction (andra upplagan 7 januari 2009).
Materialet som första gången presenterades i samband med konferensen World Forum Against Drugs i Stockholm i September 2008 har uppdaterats och har följande innehåll:
Background and the Near Future
The Functions of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB)
Types of Drug Legalization
The INCB Statement on Drug Legalization
Legalization Will Increase Drug Use and Drug Addiction
We Cannot Legalize Marijuana Because Its Use Has Destructive Health and Social Consequences
Legalization of Drugs Will Cause an Increase in Drug Problems
We Should Keep Strong Penalties for Drug Use Because Penalties Provide Deterrence
We Must Protect the Victims of Drug Users
Types of Drug Related Crime
Purchase-related Crime
Drug-induced Crime
Drugged Driving
Black Market Crime
Who's Really in Prison for Marijuana?
The Economics of Drug Legalization
Characteristics of Substance Abusing Employees
Legalization Will Open Drug Sales to Mass Marketing and Even Bigger Profits from Drug Sales
The Tax Issue
Alcohol and Tobacco and Drug Legalization
Alcohol Prohibition
Individual Rights and the Legalization of Drugs
The Tough Practical Questions Regarding Legalization
Now Is Not the Time to Change the Conventions. Demand and Supply Reduction and Drug Control Are Working
New Approaches to Demand Reduction and Drug Control Are Within the Conventions
Drug Courts Are Effective Tools to Reduce Drug Use and Addiction
The Old Harm Reduction Model Does Not Work
The International Experience with Legalization and Non-Abstinence Based Harm Reduction
European Cities Against Drugs Oppose Legalization/Harm Reduction
The Successful Swedish Model
The New View of Harm Reduction - a More Inclusive and Realistic Concept
Heroin as "Medicine"
Does the "Medical" Use of Smoked Marijuana Violate the UN Conventions?
Heroin Maintenance
Injection Rooms
Needle Exchange Programmes
Industrial Hemp
Ecstasy Tablet Testing
Including Drug Users as Equal Partners in Making Policy
Human Rights Issues
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Presentations at the World Forum Against Drugs - Stockholm September 8-10, 2008
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