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== Types of Casualties == | == Types of Casualties == | ||
#Drug Overdose and other harm to self | #Drug Overdose and other harm to self | ||
#Harm to others under the influence | #Harm to others under the influence of drugs | ||
#Harm to social | #Harm to users' social environment | ||
#Costs to public sector | #Costs to the public sector (health, welfare, police, prisons) | ||
#Harm inflicted by | #Harm inflicted on drug market actors by officials (destroyed lives, families, communities) | ||
#Harm inflicted by | #Harm inflicted on drug market actors by non- or pseudo-official actors (i.e. by gangs, militias) | ||
Depending on where most harm is being suspected, the consequences will differ greatly between favouring further escalation of the war on drugs on the one side and calling for urgent legalization on the other. Closely related are divergent ideas about the nature of drugs and addiction and - consequently - about the attribution of moral and legal responsibility. Everything boils down to the question: who is to blame for all the tragic losses associated with the drug epidemic? | |||
In many countries we are far away from a drug law reform not because of any legal impediments, but because there is no social support for it. This will not change as long as the question "who is to blame" has not been answered in a way that would allow such a legal reform to take place. | |||
== Limits to Drug Law Reform I: Stalemate in the Blame Game == | |||
== Who's to blame: Guilt and Responsibility == | == Who's to blame: Guilt and Responsibility == | ||