Question 16213 — drugs

Summary

Mrs Marie Tamarelle-Verhaeghe draws the attention of the Minister of the Interior to the legislation regarding the use of cannabis. In France, the law of December 31, 1970 relating to health measures to combat drug addiction and the repression of trafficking and illicit use of poisonous substances prohibits the consumption of cannabis. Almost 50 years later, the French observatory for drugs and drug addiction (OFDT) estimates that two hundred Fifty tonnes of cannabis are consumed annually in France for a turnover of two billion euros, directly benefiting the underground economy. Still according to the OFDT, 42% of adults say they have already used cannabis during their life. These figures make cannabis the most consumed narcotic product in France and attest to the ineffectiveness of the French prohibition policy. Legally, if the law is supposed to punish the illicit use of cannabis with a fine of 3,750 euros, a circular dated 2005 recommends that magistrates adapt the criminal response to the profile of the user. In his program, the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron proposed punishing the use and possession of cannabis with a simple fine instead of going to court. In January 2018, following the information mission entrusted to them, the deputies Romain Reda and Éric Poulliat submitted their report on the application of a fixed fine procedure to the offense of illicit use of narcotics. According to this report, 140,000 people are arrested each year for this reason. The working time devoted to processing these offenses by the police is estimated by the Ministry of the Interior at more than one million hours in 2016, or 600 time equivalents. full. The two rapporteurs agree that “the establishment of a fixed fine system – whatever its form – is a necessary reform”. She would therefore like to know if he is studying this proposal.

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