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The world is suffering from an absurd return to the Middle Ages in terms of punishments. Things that belonged to pre-modern times such as torture and the death penalty had been on the way out for something like 200 years - the gallows and the sword was replaced by the prison and rehabilitation, expressed in what Amnesty International called an irreversible worldwide trend towards the abolition of the death penalty. This trend has been reversed - over the last decades, more and more countries have decided to introduce the death penalty or to re-introduce it even for non-violent offenses. What are these offenses? Drug offenses. Drug policy is responsible for this trend. | The world is suffering from an absurd return to the Middle Ages in terms of punishments. Things that belonged to pre-modern times such as torture and the death penalty had been on the way out for something like 200 years - the gallows and the sword was replaced by the prison and rehabilitation, expressed in what Amnesty International called an irreversible worldwide trend towards the abolition of the death penalty. This trend has been reversed - over the last decades, more and more countries have decided to introduce the death penalty or to re-introduce it even for non-violent offenses. What are these offenses? Drug offenses. Drug policy is responsible for this trend. | ||
The world is suffering from seismic changes in the relation between individual and state rights. Individual rights have been reduced, state rights have been extended so there is less autonomy and more subordination. This is the case in criminal procedure especially in terrorism cases and in drug cases. In both cases, there is no doubt that enemy criminal law has replaced citizens' criminal law. While terrorist legislation has been important, drug legislation has been first to pave the way and to organise consensus | The world is suffering from seismic changes in the relation between individual and state rights. Individual rights have been reduced, state rights have been extended so there is less autonomy and more subordination. This is the case in criminal procedure especially in terrorism cases and in drug cases. In both cases, there is no doubt that enemy criminal law has replaced citizens' criminal law. While terrorist legislation has been important, drug legislation has been first to pave the way and to organise consensus. Drug policy is responsible for the erosion of citizenship and the unhealthy growth of police powers. | ||
The world is suffering from ever more | The world is suffering from ever more infringements of human rights like torture and extrajudicial killings. This cannot only be attributed to the "dark side" of the war on terror. It also has to do with the war on drugs - and again, many of the barbaric practices in the war on terror were just copies of the models developed in the war on drugs. The militarization and barbarization of crime control is a central element of a larger process that we are witnessing today. We can call it the process of de-civilization or of the re-barbarization of the world. Drug policy is a central element of this process. And if we do not re-think and re-organize drug policy from scrap, nothing will be able to stop that. | ||
Does drug policy work? Is it effective? Is it efficient? | Does drug policy work? Is it effective? Is it efficient? | ||