State drug policy strategy: with Europe or with Russia?
Will police officers plant bags of weed on teenagers, demanding bribes and ruining their lives? Will the state contribute to the spread of HIV, tuberculosis and hepatitis in Ukraine? Will the law enforcement system stop competing to put more people in jail for our taxes and start fighting organised drug crime? The answers to these questions are rooted in the State Drug Policy Strategy for 2023-2030. Its adoption was postponed for three years due to a lack of political will, but now it is important for Ukraine's accession to the EU and the document has been put up for public discussion. NGOs that have once again submitted their comments to the document express well-founded fears that the Government will ignore the proposals and maintain the repressive model of drug policy based on the Russian model.
