DRUG LAW ADVANCES – A SMALL PS VICTORY ABOUT THE PSD

PSD deputies wanted the law to be declared unconstitutional, but most of the judges of the Constitutional Court did not agree.

New DRUG LAW It was approved almost two years ago. The diploma was approved by the Assembly of the Republic in July 2023.

There was votes in favor of PS, IL, BE, PCP, PAN and FREE, votes against the arrival and the abstention of the PSD – and abstention from the deputies of PS Maria da Luz Rosinha, Carlos Brás, Rui Lage, Fatima Fonseca, Catarina Lobo, Maria João Castro, Tiago Barbosa Ribeiro, António Faria and Joaquim Barreto.

The New Drug Law decriminalizes synthetic drugs and makes a new distinction between trafficking and consumption; It admits possession of 10 more doses daily, for a person, if it is proven to be for their own consumption.

The President of the Republic still had doubts and for the Constitutional Court the decree. But a new drug law was really by the Constitutional Court.

The PSD has requested a new constitutional inspection of this diploma. Because the purpose of the party was to equate synthetic drugs to the classic for consumers to have the same treatment.

23 PSD deputies wanted the law to declare unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court.

But now the Court didn’t give reason To these PSD deputies – and gives PS a short victory (their parliamentary group was essential in this new proposal).

Critics wanted the law not to present a limits of amount authorized. That is, above this amount, the person would already be suspected of selling drugs, explains the.

Claim that this paragraph opens the door to traffickers of justify the drug they have, regardless of their amounts – would say it was only for individual consumption.

But the Judges of the Constitutional Court did not follow the request of the PSD deputies: 10 did not declare the unconstitutional law, the other 3 voted due.