news from france

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Here are the last news on the French legislation.
It is the report of a meeting of the French legislators.
I translated this text with an automatic translator. sorry for the faults.





" The debate on the usage was blurred for such a long time. It is necessary to stop the it is not grave, it is not harmful ", estimated the Lord Chancellor Dominique Perben, while recommending " a penal answer increased in sanitary dominant ".


Circular of April 8th


In its circular of 18 pages, dated April 8th, the Chancellery notices that the simple decisions of classification " lead the user, but also the public opinion, to trivialize " the consumption.
Consequently, for those whom it appoints as " major users and without judicial antecedents " arrested in ownership of " very small quantities of stunning ", the circular demands a classification matched of a " reminder in the law ", delivered orally by a representative of the prosecutor.
For the users " which exceeded the simple experiment ", the text asks for a classification matched of a " orientation towards a sanitary or social structure ". She can come along with an obligation in regular medical tests aiming at establishing " the cessation of any consumption ".
" The therapeutic order ", heavy obligation of care, addresses it the users of " hard drugs " or " poly addicts ".
Between these three users' levels, the circular raises however no indicating picture(table), for every type of drug what distinguishes for example a user " having exceeded the experiment " of a user " poly addict ", nor clarifies what it understands by " very small quantities of stunning ".


The prison


On the other hand,it insists on the fact that " the legal proceedings in front of the court dealing with criminal matters have to remain exceptional " and will be reserved for the "recidivists" or " to the users who refuse to submit themselves to the alternative measures ".
And in case of dismissal in front of the court, parquets(public prosecutor's departments) will have to privilege demands of punishments " to educational or sanitary dominant ".
On the other hand, when the usage of drug is made in a place " that must be the object of a particular surveillance " (schools, prisons) or " by persons exercising a profession at risk " (truck drivers for example), legal proceedings " in dissuasive vocation " must be engaged.


A novelty should besides make speak about her in the middle of the consumers of cannabis: the text demands " a voluntarist penal politics " against " the provocation in aid of the stunning ", to which the circular dedicates three pages.
It notably aims " the growshops which are puttings on salecannabis seeds", " clothes and jewels raising a leaf of cannabis ", the distribution broadcasting ofbooks " praising the merits of the stunning products ".
Emitted(Uttered) within the framework of the action plan against the drug, the alcohol and the tobacco, presented last July, this circular precedes one second, on the traffic this time, which will be passed on to the magistrates " in the quite next days ", announced the Minister.


The gone back up representatives UMP


The representative UMP Richard Dell' Agnola judged on Thursday that France " cannot save an evolution of legislation on the drug ", whereas the government chose not to overrule the law of 1970.
" I have the conviction, as many, that eventually we cannot save an evolution of our legislation. The law of 1970, adopted to fight against the consumption of heroine, is unsuitable and not applicable to fight effectively against the cannabis ", declared Richard Dell' Agnola during a debate on the drug addiction to the National Assembly.
In June, 2004, Richard Dell' Agnola had deposited a private bill, cosigned by 240 members of parliament, aiming at overruling and at replacing the law of December 31st, 1970.
But next month, the government had given up replacing this law, privileging the statutory way and the circulars to parquets(public prosecutor's departments) to develop the answer to be brought to the users of drugs.


" France without drug "


" What we want, it is France without drug ", threw(launched) during this debate to the Assembly Christine Boutin for whom " to reduce the risks does not allow to look after itself ".
In the opinion of Christian Decocq, this politics " instil the renunciation ", it is " the Trojan horse of the decriminalization " of the usage of stunning.
The replacement of the subutex or the méthadone to the heroine was particularly attacked.
" it is of use to nothing to replace a dependence by the other one ", Jean-Paul Garraud denounces for whom these products " are not harmless " and can be only a " stage towards the abstinence and the weaning ".
The representative quotes the figure from " 60 overdoses a year " with the substitute products, " or as much as the illicit products ", and that of " at least a third(third party) of the subutex resold on the parallel market " with the aim of a hijacked use.
Denouncing a " enormous traffic ", Josyane Boyce takes himself to those who " are on drugs at the expense of the Social Security ". " Do we Have to be delighted that the subutex became the second most paid off medicine? ", asks the elected member in a semicircle where a single socialist representative took place.


"Time bomb"


For Olivier Dosne, the " theoretical repayment " of the méthadone and the subutex by the Social Security amounts to " 131 million euro ".
"Time bomb", the replacement must " be limited in the time " and suspended if the addict " continue to consume the other drugs ", Françoise Branget pleads. She wishes that the patient " is forced to follow a cure Of detoxification " if it does not respect a " contract " spent with a doctor.
" Let us try this new way of cure which represent centres of weaning ", throws Françoise Branget. About twenty " therapeutic communities ", where, on a voluntary base, the stop of the drug will be made without replacement, are going to be created, among which three from 2005.
Josiane Boyce says sound not enough taste for the exchanges of syringes. " To distribute syringes does not protect the pupil from third against the purchase of cannabis ", pursues Christine Boutin. Gold, the hashish " is the sieve of entrance towards the alcohol and the heroine ", argue Pascal Ménage.
Certain associations were attacked, guilty with Jean - Paul Garraud's eyes " to instigate the curiosity of the young people by inciting them to consume " in leaflets(gatefolds) of information distributed in turnips. " Is it the role of the State to finance (these associations) with the money of our taxes? ", asks Olivier Dosne.