"War on drugs" and "hate crimes" historical-legislative approach and adaption of the anti-drug conventions in Indochina : compulsory detention centers for drug users.

Authors

  • David Martín Herrera

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5944/rduned.11.2012.11144

Keywords:

war on drugs, hate crimes, drug users, loss opportunity, prevention centers

Abstract

After more than six decades since the beginning of the wrongly denominated «war on drugs» against the widespread consumption of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, United Nations Drug Conventions persevere –and this despite their proven ineffectiveness of persecution against a diffused enemy and severe conflicts of interests among the signatory states. A reading of the 1961 Convention (SC ) and the consequent legislation shows that limits of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) itself have been clearly exceeded. Proof of this is the criminalization, and consequent discrimination per se, of small producers and traditional or voluntary consumers of some of the substances prohibited in the Drug Conventions– being as a result de iure direct victims of «hate crimes». A direct result of this international discrimination are the exorbitant sums surrounding the world of drug trafficking, sheltered under the well-known bank secrecy in tax havens, which year after year collaborate in the maintenance and reinforcement of organized crime. All this without forgetting the so-called animus negocialis of the pharmaceutical industry, monopolized by international restriction of production and of voluntary or traditional consumption. With this study, we try to expose how the international communities have fixed some excessive goals, without taking into account the resulting collateral damage and without guaranteeing the respect of their own jus naturale, which can lead to numerous possible interpretations in the different legislations –like in Indochina, where prevention and rehabilitation centers are often understood as livelong imprisonment.

 

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Published

2012-07-01

How to Cite

Martín Herrera, D. (2012). "War on drugs" and "hate crimes" historical-legislative approach and adaption of the anti-drug conventions in Indochina : compulsory detention centers for drug users. Revista de Derecho de la UNED (RDUNED), (11). https://doi.org/10.5944/rduned.11.2012.11144

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Estudios

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