CRI210H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Harm Reduction, Methadone, Insite
27 Dec 2016
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Drugs and the canadian criminal justice system eugene oscapella. Argument: the prohibition-based approach, with its emphasis on punishment and deterrence, has failed. Governments have many options for dealing with the drugs available. Another option is to use criminal law to prohibit possession, production, Parliament prohibits many through the controlled drugs and substances act transfer, and import or export of a drug. A century of using the criminal law and (cid:498)prohibition(cid:499) Csda prohibits many actions related to the substances it lists: eg. Sale, sharing, possession, distribution, delivery, production, and import and export/ importing/exporting: criminal code lists some crimes relating to drug use (eg. driving while. Consistant increase in the crime rate for drug offences. Despite general falling overall crime rate in canada, there has been a. Penalties vary (from 6 months for small quantity possession to lifetime for impaired). But csda contains the bulk of canada(cid:495)s provisions. Rarely are he maximum penalties invoked, but parliament limited judges(cid:495)
