THE LEGALIZATION OF MARIJUANA - SCIENTIFIC, LEGAL AND ETHICAL DILEMMAS

Filip Pajić

Authors

Filip Pajić A student of the fourth study year, The Faculty of Law for Commerce and Judiciary, The University of Business Academy in Novi Sad

Abstract

DESPITE the fact that it has its application both in industry and medicine, precisely because of its psychoactive nature, cannabis is, in the majority of world countries, on the list of prohibited substances, and accordingly its cultivation and usage is legally punishable. According to the data given in the World Report on Drugs for 2016, developed by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, cannabis is the world’s leading illegal substance in terms of breeding, production, resale and number of users. Bearing in mind the diﬀerent attitudes regarding the use, eﬀects, and in general the legality and legitimacy of using cannabis, and the fact that the reactions to marijuana are individual, the paper analyzes scientific, legal and ethical dilemmas in this area. Without giving any primacy neither to the legalization, nor to the attitude against the legalization of marijuana, it is unquestionable to support the view that the prohibition of something (in this case marijuana), which has widely been used illegally for a long time, entails a series of bad eﬀects that might successfully be prevented with a controlled legalized usage or consumption

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