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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 UK: Why The Press Was Wrong About Changing Drugs Laws Based On Human Rights 🌿UK: Why The Press Was Wrong About Changing Drugs Laws Based On Human Rights
A landmark report by politicians, calling for a more liberal drug regime based onhuman rights, had one detail that attracted particular attention.
"Junkies could use privacy law to avoid jail," was one headline for a story that suggested our drug law could be at an end. A prominent MP predicted it could "open the floodgates" and lead to drug users challenging their prosecutions and winning.
This was in reaction to the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on drugs reform's new guidance, which suggested, among other things, legal challenges to prosecutions for drug possession or growing small amounts for personal use, using Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), which covers the right to privacy and family life, as merely using a drug does not "injure other people's rights either directly or indirectly and therefore should not be criminalised".
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