New Strategy 4Drugs. Law
Beginners:
- drug trafficking – handel narkotykami
Drug trafficking generates permanent income for the black market – Nielegalny handel narkotykami przynosi stały dochód czarnemu rynkowi.
Intermediate:
- pave the way – wytyczać drogę
The Mexican government paved the way to legalize drugs which is now being considered by many countries – Meksykański rząd wytyczył drogę legalizacji narkotyków, która jest obecnie rozpatrywana w wielu krajach.
Advanced:
- without fear of prosecution – bez obaw o ściganie/ wszczęcie postępowania prokuratorskiego
After the legalization of soft drugs young people will be allowed to use them without fear of prosecution – Po legalizacji narokotyków miękkich, młodzi ludzie będą mogli ich używać bez obaw o ściganie.
Full text:
- offense – przestępstwo
- drug trafficking – handel narkotykami
- soar – gwałtownie wzrastać
The war against drugs has not been successful. Millions of people have been criminalised for non-violent drug offenses, leading to more than 1.4 million arrests in the US in 2020. In countries such as Iran and Saudi Arabia, executions for drug trafficking have soared. The death has reached nightmare proportions. In Mexico, 30 people a day are dying in the battle between drug cartels and government forces. It is unsurprising, then, that the many governments and civil society groups pushing for drug law reform are hoping that this year’s UN special session does not repeat the mistakes of the past.
- conduct a wide-ranging and open debate – prowadzić zakrojoną na szeroką skalę debatę
- consider all options – rozważać wszystkie możliwości
UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon calls for all participating countries “to conduct a wide-ranging and open debate that considers all options.”
What is significant now, though, is that governments, both big and small, are starting to agree that the hard line on drugs does not work.
- prescription – recepta
- for recreational purposes – dla rozrywki, dla celów rekreacyjnych/ imprezowych, etc.
- legalize – zalegalizować
- Portugal decriminalized all drugs in 2001, while Switzerland has pioneered the policy of heroin prescription;
- the US states of Washington and Colorado have legalised the sale of marijuana for recreational purposes;
- In May 2014, Uruguay started reforms to make it the first country in the world to legalize sales of marijuana.
- A year later Canada’s newly elected prime minister, Justin Trudeau, announced that possession of marijuana for recreational use would be legalised.
- supreme court – sąd najwyższy
- possess – posiadać / possession – posiadanie
- violate the rights – złamać prawo / przepisy / uprawnienia
- pave the way – wytyczyć drogę / wskazać sposób postępowania
- subnational – wewnętrzny (synonim dla: domestic / internal)
The same year the Mexican supreme court concluded that national laws making it illegal personally to produce, possess and consume marijuana violated the rights of Mexicans, paving the way for decriminalization. There has also been an explosion in harm reduction initiatives at the subnational level.
- without fear of prosecution – bez obaw o ściganie/ wszczęcie postępowania prokuratorskiego
- mushroom – pojawić się jak grzyby po deszczu
- set the agenda – ustalić porządek spotkania / konferencji
- set strategy – ustalić strategię
- legalize cannabis market – zalegalizować rynek sprzedaży marihuany
Drug consumption rooms and drug testing laboratories – allowing users to consume or check their narcotics without fear of prosecution – have mushroomed across cities in Canada, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland. This would help to set the agenda, when the UN must set out its next 10-year drugs strategy. By then Canada and California will have legalized cannabis markets.
