La despenalización del uso de drogas y su importancia para Ghana

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La despenalización del uso de drogas y su importancia para Ghana

20 marzo 2017

Ane-Loglo presenta un argumento basado en pruebas para defender la necesidad de avanzar hacia un nuevo enfoque político normativo con respecto al uso de drogas en Ghana. Más información, en inglés, está disponible abajo.

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WACSeries Volume 2, Issue 2

There is a significant academic debate about decriminalization of marijuana in the country, and this has received some degree of political and public support. Some have argued that decriminalization will open a floodgate for drug use in the country, while others (like myself ), do not agree and see it instead as the best way to reduce drug use in the country. In practice, repressive drug laws have neither succeeded in reducing drug consumption nor put traffickers out of their lucrative business. Instead, these laws have only driven and expanded the trade underground.

This is a massive failure. This situation has not only stigmatized people who use drugs, it has also led to misguided and harmful policy making. It has also contributed to an ongoing concerted effort to overstate the dangers of drugs – the primary actors being politicians, law enforcement agencies, and ill-informed media – and led to a situation where billions of people are unable to access essential medicines for pain relief and palliative care.

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