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Decriminalizing Cannabis in Estonia.
Estonia is the leading country in Europe with the highest number of drug fatalities per capita , deaths by fentanyl are raising and current drug policy is not doing its job. According to the most recent data, Estonia's overdose mortality rate is seven times the average in the EU. This is a big concern for a country as little as Estonia, and also a reason why the decriminalizing cannabis topic has grown so popular lately. Cannabis, as a soft drug, is criminalized in Estonia and that fact leads people to go after stronger drugs because by the law they are on the same scale. The popularity of “China white” is growing in Estonia, as it is so easily accessible, but so does the mortality rate because it is very easy to overdose on fentanyl. Estonia should re-form its drug policy because stricter laws and punishments do not change society for the better and current drug policy is not showing any positive effect either.
The reason why Estonia should consider decriminalizing cannabis is that the history of decriminalizing cannabis has shown us that the use of narcotics has gone down. Great examples for that are the Netherlands and Portugal . Portugal decriminalized all narcotics in 2001 and decided to treat possession and use of small quantities of drugs as a public health issue, not a criminal one (Ingraham, The Washington Post 2015). It has had a major effect on society and Portugal now has the second-lowest drug-induced death rate in EU. The Netherlands has a policy of toleration regarding soft drugs and its mortality rate is well below the EU average rate.
Second reason why Estonia should consider decriminalizing cannabis is that there has never occurred death by overdosing cannabis. People do feel sick after abusing marijuana , but the effect is never like overdosing on alcohol or on other narcotic substances. According to Robert Gable “the least physiologically toxic substances, those requiring 100 to 1,000 times the effective dose to cause death, include psilocybin mushrooms and marijuana, when ingested. Gable has found no published cases in the English language that document deaths from smoked marijuana, so the actual lethal dose is a mystery. Gable’s surmise is that smoking marijuana is more risky than eating it but still safer than getting drunk by alcohol (Gable, American Scientist 2006, 94).
Third reason why Estonia should decriminalize cannabis is that our doctors are afraid to write out descriptions for patients for the use of medical marijuana. By the law they are allowed to do so, but no doctor in Estonia has had the courage to write out the description for it. That leads the patients to go on the Black market in search of cannabis, which makes them criminals in the eye of law. The patient can never be sure of the quality of the cannabis he or she is buying in the Black market, with the description the patient would receive marijuana which is controlled and pure . For many seriously ill people, medical marijuana is the only medicine that relieves their pain and suffering, without debilitating side effects . But the good news for Estonian patients is that within last year there have come out many new cannabis- based medicines for European market and some of them are available in the online stores to order .
Decriminalizing cannabis possession and use is not about what is right and wrong but it is a question about people’s health. If as a country and a society we care about the wellbeing of fellow citizens and society as a whole then we decriminalize the plant that has minimal documented harm , especially when compared to legal drugs: alcohol and nicotine, and has beneficial effects on users who use it to alleviate different illness symptoms. Furthermore punishing people for possession ruins their lives , drains resources and stops objective discussion and implementation of nations drug policy in the long run greatly reducing our ability to face the challenges that much more addictive and harmful drugs pose to society. If we choose to continue to criminalize and demonize recreational or medicinal users of relatively safe substances, we abandon the solidarity modern society is built upon and risk on becoming an entrenched reactionary society where no empathic nor freethinking person would like to live their life in.
References:
Gable, R. (2006). The Toxicity of Recreational Drugs - American Scientist, Vol. 94, pp.206-208 http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/the-toxicity-of-recreational-drugs/4
Hollersen, W. (2013). This Is Working ': Portugal, 12 Years after Decriminalizing Drugs - Spiegel Online International http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/evaluating-drug-decriminalization-in-portugal-12-years-later-a-891060-2.html
Ingraham, C. (2015). Why hardly anyone dies from a drug overdose in Portugal - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/06/05/why-hardly-anyone-dies-from-a-drug-overdose-in-portugal/
Wilson, S. (2012). Synthetic drug fentanyl causes overdose boom in Estonia - BBC News http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-17524945
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