RT Article
T1 Drug Policy and the Ultima Ratio in A Social and Democratic State, Spain
JF Oñati Socio-Legal Series
VO 3
IS 1
SP 135
OP 153
A1 Arana, Xabier
A1 Hogg, Alison
A2 Hogg, Alison
LA English
YR 2013
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1743366167
AB As a Member State of the UN and the EU, Spain's drug policy is heavily conditioned by these external superior ‘legal personalities’. Although, the Spanish legislature has enacted amendments to legislation on illicit substances over the last ten years to attenuate excessively punitive law, their interpretation and internal application of conventions on drug legislation has by in large overlooked the ultima ratio principle i.e. minimum intervention (Arana 2012). Spain’s criminal legislation is presented as well as the consequences of the prohibition of illicit substances in this jurisdiction. Finally, alternatives that have emerged in the Basque Autonomous Community to counter the effects of its criminalisation are briefly discussed and promoted as a means of abating external legal constraints that have serious social and legal ramifications.
CN 360
K1 Kriminalisierung
K1 Drogenpolitik
K1 Illicit substances
K1 International conventions
K1 Ultima Ratio
K1 Democratic State
K1 Spanien
DO 10.15496/publikation-52646