At the Commission on Narcotic Drugs in March 2015, Justice Minister Yesid Reyes called on the United Nations to change the drug strategy and revise the international drug conventions. This is the minister`s speech. To update its drug policy, the Government is preparing a new Narcotics Act, the „National Law on Drugs and Psychoactive Substances”, to replace Law 30 of 1986. The government announced it in early 2013, but its publication was delayed. The project would define for the first time the minimum doses of synthetic drugs. Up to 200 milligrams or three tablets of amphetamine derivatives could be transported (with the exception of methamphetamines, the use of which would remain prohibited). Approved doses of cocaine (1 gram) and marijuana (20 grams) would be maintained, but authorities could resort to forensic medicine when standing in front of carriers of the most concentrated strains. In addition, the new law would establish, for the first time, the obligation for all municipalities to allocate funds to programmes aimed at preventing the consumption and treatment of drug addicts, and would remain within the limit set by the Constitutional Court to protect the consumer from criminal sanctions. There is overcrowding in prisons. According to INPEC, at the end of 2013, there were 120,032 people in prisons with a maximum capacity of 76,066 places. About 15 per cent of these persons are deprived of their liberty because they have committed drug-related offences (trafficking, manufacturing or carrying).
Over the past decade, this type of crime has been one of the four criminal modalities that feed Colombia`s prison population. Introduction. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines the term „drug” as any natural or synthetic substance that, when introduced into the body, is capable of producing effects on the central nervous system associated with the change in function, as well as changes in the psychological and emotional activity of the living being. Legal or legal drugs are those that are legally available by prescription or authorized for marketing; and illicit or illicit drugs are those whose manufacture, transport, transport and marketing are prohibited by law or that are used without a required prescription. In 2011, the Civil Security Act was enacted, reforming the Penal Code and eliminating the exception not to punish the crime of transporting narcotics in quantities of personal doses. But, despite opposition from the Attorney General`s Office, the decision not to sanction the wearing of minimum doses was upheld. Once again, the Constitutional Court clarified in its C-491 decision of 2012 that the personal dose remains decriminalized and that drug use continues to be understood as an activity protected by the right to free personality development. 5. What does the consumer law say? Is it a crime to use drugs in the country? Ungass Consumption Figures 2016 – The Colombian government delegation defends the right of countries to relax their crime and consumption policies; the unlimited availability of controlled substances for medical and scientific purposes; and stresses the need to analyse the issue of drugs in the light of scientific evidence. The harm reduction programs promoted by the Bogotá Mayor`s Office have been controversial. Many Colombian civil society groups supported them.
Regarding drug use, a press commentator recently said: „With the study of use among university students in 2012, the use of ecstasy and LSD has increased. With the 2011 study on use in schools, this was due to the increase in drug use in private schools. However, in the new national study on the use of psychoactive substances 2013, there is no way to hide that the main problem in Colombia is drinking, although the use of several drugs has increased. „.