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easonable limits through means which do not themselves produce more harm than they
prevent.” Funnet på www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/Library/studies/fada/fadamenu.htm
175 Richard Brunstrom, Drugs Policy – A Radical Look Ahead. Funnet på
http://www.drugequality.org/files/Drugs_Policy_Paper_2007.pdf
176 Om det irrasjonelle skillet mellom legale og illegale stoffer
Vi har allerede vært inne på saken når vi tok for oss Storbritannias ABC system. Her er mer
om hva de forskjellige rapportene sier om den: Runciman-rapporten (som mange andre)
konkluderte med at alkohol og tobakk var langt farligere enn cannabis. I tillegg kom the
Beckley Foundation, i oktober 2008, med en omfattende rapport til House of Lords som gikk
under navnet Global Cannabis Commission Report. Denne rapporten gir et overblikk over de
siste vitenskapelige funnene knyttet til cannabis, og politikken rundt planten, samt gir
anbefalinger omhensiktsmessige tiltak videre.
Også denne rapporten konkluderte med at cannabis var et mindre farlig rusmiddel
enn tobakk og alkohol, og at mye av problembildet tilknyttet cannabis er et resultat av
kriminaliseringen (”Many of the harms associated with cannabis use are the result of
prohibition itself, particularly the social harms arising from arrest and imprisonment”).
Her er noen av rapportens konklusjoner:
“The probability and scale of harm among heavy cannabis users is modest compared with
that caused by many other psychoactive substances, both legal and illegal, in common use,
namely, alcohol, tobacco, amphetamines, cocaine and heroin.”
“Measures to reduce penalties or to decriminalize possession and use have been adopted in
numerous jurisdictions without an upsurge in use. Moreover these reform measures have
had some success in ameliorating the adverse consequences of prohibition.”
“‘That which is prohibited cannot be regulated’. There are thus advantages for governments
in moving toward a regime of regulated legal availability under strict controls, using the
variety of mechanisms available to regulate a legal market, such as taxation, availability
controls, minimum legal age for use and purchase, labeling and potency limits.”
En annen god rapport som viser det irrasjonelle skillet mellom legale og illegale stoffer, er
Development of a rational scale to assess the harm of drugs of potential misuse av David
Nutt, Leslie A King, William Saulsbury, og Colin Blakemore (funnet på
http://www.drugequality.org/reading.htm):
“This excerpt summarises the findings: Our findings raise questions about the validity of the
current Misuse of Drugs Act classification, despite the fact that it is nominally based on an
assessment of risk to users and society. The discrepancies between our findings and current
classifications are especially striking in relation to psychedelic-type drugs. Our results also
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