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- Although drug trafficking is an illegal crime in most countries, there are places where drug use is not illegal - Most states in the European Union have laws that criminalize the possession and distribution of narcotics - Their policies are set in place regarding drug use as a public health issue versus a criminal offense..
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Punishment for drug trafficking in different countries • Europe (EU): Maximum penalty: life imprisonment is available for the most severe cases (in 12 nations) - In the other 16 Member States, maximum penalties for drug supply range from 10 years (Finland, Sweden) to over 20 years (Italy, Portugal). Minimum penalty: range from 1 year or less of prison in nine Member States (1) to 8 years in Greece. (EMCDDA) - In Norway, drug users and traffickers used to be faced with heavy penalties. In recent years, the country tried to decriminalize drug use and possession. Instead, they focus on treatment rather than jails or fines. (The Independant).
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goslURE. NORWAY PRISONS.
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• Asia (Thailand): - Up to life imprisonment and a fine of 100,000 - 5,000,000 Baht, or the death penalty, (depending upon the amount of the substance or substances found) (Siam Legal) - In 2021, the Thai parliament passed a new narcotics bill that emphasizes prevention and treatment rather than punishment for small-scale drug users. (Reuters) • Central-South America (Mexico): - The maximum prison sentence for the crimes of production, commerce, supply, and trafficking of drugs is 25 years of imprisonment (open society), 10 and 25 years sentence for the production, transportation, trafficking, sale and supply of drugs (tni).
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HOW DID THE PUNISHMENT OF DRUG TRAFFICKING CHANGE OVER TIME? (SINGAPORE) SINGAPORE HAS THE HIGHEST EXECUTION RATE IN THE WORLD, HAVING KILLED 326 DEATH-ROW CONVICTS FOR DRUG OFFENSES..
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1994-1999 1999-2003 2011- ALMOST 76 PERCENT OF THOSE EXECUTED IN SINGAPORE WERE CONVICTED OF DRUG-RELATED CHARGES. 110 OF 138 DEATH-ROWERS WHO WERE EXECUTED WERE CONVICTED OF DRUG- RELATED CHARGES. THE FREQUENCY OF EXECUTIONS DECREASED DRAMATICALLY. Two PEOPLE WERE EXECUTED FOR DRUG OFFENCES..
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MOST SUITABLE PUNISHMENT INDIVIDUAL DRUG USERS SHALL NOT BE PUNISHED, BUT RATHER REHABILITATED. THEY WILL: • UNDERGO REHABILITATION TO REFORM • GRADUALLY GROW INDEPENDENT FROM DRUG LISE, WITH THE HELP OF THE GOVERNMENT. ILLEGAL DRUG TRAFFICKING, HOWEVER, SHOULD BE PUNISHED MORE VIOLENTLY. DRUG TRAFFICKERS WILL BE • PUT IN PRISONS SIMILAR TO NORWAY TRAINED TO DO NORMAL JOBS, WHICH WILL BE PARTIALLY PAID TO THE GOVERNMENT AS FINES (FROM 95000 TO 910000) THE SENTENCE RANGES FROM 15 TO 25 YEARS DEPENDING ON THE QUANTITY, TYPE OF DRUGS AND THE PERSON'S ROLE IN THE DRUG TRAFFICKING PROCESS..
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CITATION "About Drug Law Reform in Mexico.n Transnational Institute, 29 Dec. 2020, www.tni.org/es/node/22195#2. "Criminal Defence Drug Offences in Thailand." Siam Legal International, 10 May 2009, www.siam- legal.com/litigation/criminal-defence-drug-offences-in-thailand.php. "Disproportionate Penalties for Drug Offenses in Mexico." Open Society Foundations, www.opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/disproportionate-penalties-drug-offenses-mexico. Eastern Illinois University I Official Website I EIIJ, www.eiu.edu/polisci/pdf/ElU%20Political%20Science%20Review%20Vol%201%20issue%201%20articl 70202.pdf..
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EMCDDA Www.emcdda.europa.eu, www.emcdda.europa.eu/system/files/publications/3573/Trafficking- penalties.pdf. Flood, Rebecca. "Norway is Planning to Decriminalise Drugs." The Independent, 19 Dec. 2017, www.independent.co.uk/news/health/norway-parliament-drugs-decriminalise-recreational-cocaine-heroin- marijuana-a8111761.html. "Thai Parliament Passes New Narcotics Bill That Could Ease Overcrowded Prisons." Reuters, 24 Aug. 2021, www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/thai-parliament-passes-new-narcotics-bill-that-could-ease- overcrowded-prisons-2021-08-24/..