Medical and Legal Justifications for Decriminalization of Soft Drugs

Abstract

Soft drugs are a relatively new concept that has no history at least in our country’s legal and social literature. The term is referred to as a form of drugs with specific features and refers to those substances whose consumption is not likely to cause addiction, has less adverse effects on the health of the body and can be expected to use it as a treatment. These characteristics have caused some tendency to decriminalization of this type of drugs. However, the opposition believes that the decriminalization is in the first place opposed to legal moralism and secondly because it violates international obligations of governments. Also, releasing these drugs, such as hashish, will reduce prices and eventually increase its consumption. In addition to the implication of a large number of studies, Decriminalization of soft drugs consumption amounts to an increase in crimes especially financial crimes. The experience of countries already involved in drug abuse has also been an unsuccessful experience. Please Cite This Article As: Ehsanpour, SR & Mahdavi Sabet, MA (2020). “Medical and legal Justifications for Decriminalization of Soft Drugs”. Journal of Interdisciplinary Legal Researches, 1 (1): 39-54.

Keywords

• criminalization
• decriminalization
• medical justification
• crime