Comparative review of punishing the abuse of narcotics in the EU member countries and in our legislation

Abstract

The abuse of narcotics, including also the drug-related crime and regarding all its complex manifestations, represents an universal challenge for the humanity. In spite of an intensive repressive approach to solve this problem, the number of addicts has significantly increased throughout the world as well as the number of drug related crimes and criminal offences. Therefore, the question to reconsider the existing criminal policy in this field, which basic assumptions were included in the UN conventions adopted during the second half of the XX century, is becoming inevitable. The EU member countries revised in that purpose some expired legal solutions and paid special attention to those questions requiring advanced analysis and special treatment because of their specific characteristics. By using comparative approach to the criminal legal reaction to the abuse of drugs in the EU member countries, it is possible to come to different conclusions enabling at the worst its definition in our legislation.

Zloupotrebe droga, uključujući i kriminalitet vezan za njih, u svim svojim kompleksnim pojavnim oblicima predstavljaju univerzalni problem čovečanstva. I pored intenzivno represivnog pristupa u njegovom rešavanju, broj zavisnika širom sveta višestruko se povećao, kao i broj krivičnih dela i prekršaja u vezi sa opojnim drogama. Zato se kao neizbežno nameće pitanje preispitivanja postojeće kriminalne politike u ovoj oblasti, čiji su osnovi sadržani u konvencijama UN donetim tokom druge polovine XX veka. Zemlje Evropske unije su u tom cilju revidirale neka stara rešenja i posvetile posebnu pažnju onim pitanjima koja zbog svoje specifičnosti zahtevaju dublju analizu i poseban tretman. Komparativnim pristupom krivičnopravnoj reakciji na zloupotrebe droga u zemljama EU moguće je doći do različitih zaključaka, koji u krajnjem slučaju, olakšavaju njeno definisanje i u našem zakonodavstvu.