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Argentina	Overview of drug laws and legislative trends in Argentina Trend On August 25, 2009, the Supreme Court of Argentina unanimously declared unconstituti...
Argentina and Mexico clash with the INCB	The Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) in Vienna in March 2010 was a rather uneventful event. One of the most controversial issues were the comments...
Argentina: Reform on the way?	In August 2009, the Argentina Supreme Court declared as unconstitutional legislation that criminalized drug possession for personal consumption. This ...
Argentina’s Supreme Court Rules Sanctions for the Possession of Marijuana Unconstitutional	The Argentine Supreme court ruling that declares unconstitutional the imposition of criminal sanctions for the possession of small quantities of marij...
Argentina’s supreme court “Arriola” ruling on the possession of drugs for personal consumption	Intercambios Asociación Civil applauds the attempt of the Supreme Court Judges to distance the criminal law from drug users, but warns that attention ...
Drug Laws and Prisons in Argentina	Within the international drugs market, Argentina is a “trans-shipment” country for cocaine. Recent decades have seen an increase in the consumption of...
Drugs and prisons in Argentina	Martha Ines Miravete was a stage actress in Buenos Aires. She recalls how, in 1994, a man changed her life by inviting her to participate...
El consumo personal sigue sólo para puertas adentro	La Cámara Federal porteña ratificó que consumir estupefacientes en un espacio público, aún cuando por su escasa cantidad no deje dudas de que se tra...
El debate sobre drogas, al Congreso	El GEN presentó en la Cámara de Diputados una iniciativa para reformar el Código Penal de acuerdo con un nuevo paradigma sobre drogadicción. El proye...
El nuevo paradigma sobre las drogas	Rodeada de expertos, colegas y políticos, ayer la fiscal Mónica Cuñarro, encargada de la comisión gubernamental que impulsa la reforma de las política...
Imprisonment for drugs related offenses in Argentina	Intercambios Civil Association and theSocial Sciences School of the University of Buenos Aires launched the book “Encarcelamientos por delitos relacio...
Latin America Rejects Old U.S. Approach In Drugs War	As an increasingly violent and costly drugs war clogs up prisons with small-time users, some Latin American countries are abandoning hardline U.S. pol...
Stepping away from the darkness	The experiences of countries that have decriminalised drugs show that fears of explosions in drugs use are unfounded.
The "Arriola" Ruling of the Supreme Court of Argentina on the Possession of Drugs for Personal Consumption	On August 25, 2009, Argentina’s Supreme Court of Justice of Argentina unanimously declared to be unconstitutional the second paragraph of Article 14 o...
The Case of Argentina	Argentina is a “transit” country within the international drug market. The laws designed to prosecute drug crimes have failed to reduce the scale of t...
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