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Failed And What We Can Do About It; A Judical Indictment of the War on Drugs, (Temple
University Press 2001) s 114.
566 Erik Møse, Menneskerettigheter s 256.
567 Jeg gjør oppmerksom på at dette ikke er noen uttømmende tolkning. Det finnes også
flere bestemmelser som er aktuelle, og jeg går bare gjennom de viktigste her. Se for
eksempel The Report Cannabis; the facts, human rights and the law, av Kenn og Joanna
D´oudney, om du vil ha en videre forståelse av emnet.
568 Vi har sett at en helsepolitisk tilnærmelse vil redde mange liv, og påføre samfunnsstoffet
langt mindre skade, og vi har sett at det intellektuelle alibiet som narkotikalovgivningen
bygger på (at rusavhengighet fører til kriminalitet), mangler vitenskapelig belegg. Vi har også
sett hvordan det narkotikafrie samfunnsidealet er et urealistisk ideale som sørger for en
urasjonell politikk, og ved ikke å ta konsekvensene av dette, påfører de befolkningen
urimelig og ulovlig skade.
569 Denne rapporten the Beckely Foundation, kalt Recalibrating the regime: The Need for a
Human Rights-Based Approach to International Drug Polic (Beckley Foundation Report 13.
mars 2008), sier mer om kriminaliseringens konsekvenser for brukerne, samt
narkotikalovgivningens forklaringsproblem overfor retten til liv og helse:
“a growing body of research casts doubt on the link between harsh enforcement of drug
laws, and reduced levels of drug use or problems, it is getting harder for states to justify such
penalties in terms of their necessity to achieve wider social objectives. The question must be
asked – if a measure fails to achieve its ‘legitimate aim’ can it ever be considered ‘necessary’
to achieve that aim?” (Recalibrating the regime: The Need for a Human Rights-Based
Approach to International Drug Policy, Beckley Foundation Report 13. mars 2008.)
”Historically, policies aimed at prohibiting and punishing the use of certain drugs have driven
the international approach to drug control and dominate the approach of most countries,
guided as they are by the three UN drug control conventions and the dominant policy
directions emanating from the associated international bodies. Such an approach is usually
defended with moralistic portrayals that demonise and dehumanise people who use drugs
as representing a ‘social evil’ menacing the health and values of the public and state.
Portrayed as less than human, people who use drugs are often excluded from the sphere of
human rights concern.
These policies, and the accompanying enforcement practices, entrench and
exacerbate systemic discrimination against people who use drugs and result in widespread,
varied and serious human rights violations. As a result, in high-income and low-income
countries across all regions of the world, people who use illegal drugs are often among the
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