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Brazil Launches Campaign to Decriminalise Drug Use

Fabiana Frayssinet
IPS
Thursday, July 12, 2012

e-justo-issoA host of academic, legal, health, political and social figures are joining together to back a campaign to decriminalise drug use in Brazil, as tens of thousands of consumers uninvolved in the drug trade are currently jailed. The “Drug Law: It’s Time to Change” campaign is an initiative launched by the Brazilian Commission on Drugs and Democracy, which aims to gather one million signatures in support of a bill that will be introduced in congress during the second half of 2013.

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brazil | decriminalization | sentencing
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