HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1970-07-23, Page 5THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1970
the International Scene
(by Reymond Canon)
Recently the long awaited Le
Drain Report on the use of drugs
was made public. It caused quite
a sensation in Canada, if only
because the report appears to
have been leaked to Time Mag-
azine before it was presented
to Parliament. The findings of
the Le Dain commission were
eagerly awaited in other count-
ries as well as in Canada for the
drug problem certainly is not
peculiar to Canada. In fact, one
of the strangest things about it
is that it is most prevalent in the
technologically advanced count-
ries with the highest standards of
living which indicates that a
high standard of living does not
necessarily solve all the problems.
This is further reinforced by the
fact that some of those caught
using drugs in Canada cone from
well-to-do homes. Drugs, then,
like adversity, is no respecter of
persons.
The main reasons why other
countries have been waiting for
the findings of the De Dain Com-
mission is that there really hasn't
been anything done like it else-
where, and measures taken in
other countries have been pun-
itive rather than preventative.
Sweden, for example, has out-
lawed the use of amphetamines
(speed), which has succeeded
only in driving the sale of the
drug underground. In other count-
ries, including Canada, the drug
user or pusher can find himself
in for a very severe jail sentence
for his very first offence - some-
thing which does little, if any-
thing to cure him of the habit.
When the LeDain Report carne
out and proposed a maximum fine
of $100 for second users of Mariju-
ana and hashish, it strikes the
middle ground between those who
would like to legalize it compl-
etely and those still insist on stiff
penalties. Perhaps the most hu-
mane thing that could be done at
the present time is to put the two
drugs under the Food and Drug
Act instead of the Narcotic Cont-
rol Act so that severe penalties
for users could be reduced some-
what. As I pointed out before,
this runs contrary to the U, N„
who still considers the two above
mentioned drugs as narcotics. '
The paper dealing with these drugs
includes Canada among the sign-
atory nations, and somehow Can-
ada will have to find a way to
get around this.
One important reason why so
many countries are waiting to
see what Ottawa does about the
Le Dain recommendations is that
almost everywhere the penalties
for carrying or selling any kind
of narcotic, from marijuana on
up, are extremely severe. In
Spain, for example, to be caught
smuggling it into the country,
even if you do not intend to sell
it in Spain, is worth a six year
jail sentence, and I heartily
agree with the person who said
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that Spanish jails are no place to
spend six years in. Neither are
the jails in any of the other Med-
iterranean countries. Such pen-
alties made those in Canada
look tame by comparison. Right
now there is one of Hugh I-lefner's
playmates of the month doing
time in a Greek jail for smuggl-
ing the stuff, and Greek jails are,
if anything worse than Spanish
jails.
This may all seen as if I knew
a lot about Mediterranean jails.
As a matter of fact, I kept out of
all of them, but I have enough
descriptions of them filed away to
satisfy me as to their primitive-
ness.
Like the White Paper on tax-
ation, there is going to be a
great deal of discussion on every-
thing that the Le Dain report has
said. Unlike the White Paper,
the regulations which the govern-
ment sets up on the use of the
narcotics will have a wide -spread
influence in the thinking in many
other countries.
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