Kanabis je vrlo lako nabaviti u Srbiji, i prilično bezbedno. Problem je što ljudi umiru, idu u zatvor, i finansiraju druge kriminalne aktivnosti zbog korišćenja dotičnog.
Opet postavljam pitanje - kolika je stopa upotrebe marihuane u Holandiji (dekriminalizacija), a kolika u SAD (stroga politika protiv droga)? Ustvari, pogledajmo jednu tabelicu sa nekim poređenjima:
Socijalni indikator | Godina poređenja | SAD | Holandija |
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Stopa korišćenja marihuane u toku celog života (+12 god) | 2001 | 36.9% | 17% |
Stopa korišćenja marihuane u toku prošlog meseca (+12 god) | 2001 | 5.4% | 3% |
Stopa korišćenja heroina u toku celog života (+12 god) | 2001 | 1.4% | 0.4% |
Broj stanovnika u zatvoru na svakih 100,000 građana | 2002 | 701 | 100 |
Prosečan trošak na sistem kriminalne pravde po stanovniku (u EUR) | 2008 | €379 | €223 |
Stopa ubistava na svakih 100,000 građana | prosek 1999-2001 | 5.56 | 1.51 |
Izvori:
1: US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, National Household Survey on Drug Abuse: Volume I. Summary of National Findings (Washington, DC: HHS, August 2002), p. 109, Table H.1.
2: Trimbos Institute, "Report to the EMCDDA by the Reitox National Focal Point, The Netherlands Drug Situation 2002" (Lisboa, Portugal: European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, Nov. 2002), p. 28, Table 2.1.
3: Walmsley, Roy, "World Prison Population List (fifth edition) (London, England: Research, Development and Statistics Directorate of the Home Office), Dec. 2003, p. 3, Table 2.
4: Walmsley, Roy, "World Prison Population List (fifth edition) (London, England: Research, Development and Statistics Directorate of the Home Office), Dec. 2003, p. 5, Table 4.
5: van Dijk, Frans & Jaap de Waard, "Legal infrastructure of the Netherlands in international perspective: Crime control" (Netherlands: Ministry of Justice, June 2000), p. 9, Table S.13.
6: Barclay, Gordon, Cynthia Tavares, Sally Kenny, Arsalaan Siddique & Emma Wilby, "International comparisons of criminal justice statistics 2001," Issue 12/03 (London, England: Home Office Research, Development & Statistics Directorate, October 2003), p. 10, Table 1.1.
(tabela preuzeta sa http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/node/67)
Zbog čega ovi podaci? Pa želeo sam da pokažem da su naša percepcija i stvarnost dve različite stvari. Ustvari, ljudi koji žele da smanje broj korisnika droga i ljudi koji žele dekriminalizaciju žele istu stvar. Dekriminalizacija dovodi do regulisanja tržišta, smanjivanja broja uživalaca težih droga, bezbednijeg i zdravijeg života građana, i smanjuje trošak za poreske obveznike.