Drug policy of Poland
The drug policy of Poland is traces its origin to the 1920s.
In the Second Polish Republic, the 1923 Act introduced criminalization of the production, processing, export, import, storage or marketing of a number of narcotic drugs listed therein, authorizing the Minister of Health to expand their list if necessary. The threatened penalty was imprisonment for up to 5 years and a fine or one of these penalties.[1] Polish Penal Code of 1932 in art. 244, stated that a person giving another person an intoxicating poison without authorization was liable to imprisonment for up to 5 years of impironment.
In the
After the
The currently applicable Act on Counteracting Drug Addiction was passed in 2005. In Art. 59, it maintains stricter liability for providing narcotics to a minor.[4]
In 2010, the concept of substitute measures was introduced into the Act, criticized by many lawyers as imprecise, in order to combat the designer drugs.
The 2011 amendment to the Act introduced a provision that allows the prosecutor's office to discontinue proceedings in the event of possession of small amounts of drugs for personal use.[5] It also obliged the prosecutor's office to collect information about the suspect's addiction. This amendment was positively assessed in its report in 2014 by the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights.[6]
References
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- ^ "Ustawa z dnia 31 stycznia 1985 r. o zapobieganiu narkomanii". isap.sejm.gov.pl. Retrieved 2023-10-22.
- ^ "Ustawa z dnia 24 kwietnia 1997 r. o przeciwdziałaniu narkomanii". isap.sejm.gov.pl. Retrieved 2023-10-22.
- ^ "Ustawa z dnia 29 lipca 2005 r. o przeciwdziałaniu narkomanii". isap.sejm.gov.pl. Retrieved 2023-10-22.
- ^ "Od dziś możesz czuć się swobodniej z narkotykami "na własny użytek"". TVN24 (in Polish). 2011-12-09. Retrieved 2023-10-22.
- ^ "Nowelizacja ustawy o przeciwdziałaniu narkomanii – raport HFPC - Program Interwencji Prawnej". 2019-02-07. Archived from the original on 2019-02-07. Retrieved 2023-10-22.