Half a gram – a thousand lives

The article presents information on the latest drug policy change in the Russian Criminal Code: a decrease of the drug threshold amounts for which possession can lead to a criminal liability. Also, the article presents an assessment of the 2003–2004 liberal revisions in the Criminal Code, and an ana...

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Autor principal: Levinson, Lev
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2474596/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18577224
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7517-5-22
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spelling pubmed-24745962008-07-17 Half a gram – a thousand lives Levinson, Lev Harm Reduct J Commentary The article presents information on the latest drug policy change in the Russian Criminal Code: a decrease of the drug threshold amounts for which possession can lead to a criminal liability. Also, the article presents an assessment of the 2003–2004 liberal revisions in the Criminal Code, and an analysis of the background/premise for the 2006 counter-reform. The author examines the new criteria for establishing criminal liability and possible consequences of these changes for people who use illicit psycho-active substances for non-medical purposes. BioMed Central 2008-06-24 /pmc/articles/PMC2474596/ /pubmed/18577224 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7517-5-22 Text en Copyright © 2008 Levinson; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2474596/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18577224
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7517-5-22
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