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The issue of synthetic drugs in Czech criminal law
Baloun, Ondřej ; Beranová, Andrea (advisor) ; Bohuslav, Lukáš (referee)
anglickém jazyce The inner functioning of human nervous system allows for changes in states of mind after a consumption of specific substances. It is well known that these changes have an impact on the health of a consumer, be it acute or chronic. The undesirable effects are multiplied, if the consumption grows in scale to a society-wide issue and is not properly addressed. Any health damage is followed by social effects that endanger the cohesion of a society. States reacted to this development by a wave of drug regulation, be it their consumption or distribution, through international and domestic legal instruments. This approach is at present time unable to tackle the problem of so called "synthetic drugs". Synthetic drugs are unregulated chemical analogs of illegal drugs. They offer to users' effects very similar to conventional drugs, only without legal barriers and at a fraction of a price. The dangers of synthetic drugs are twofold. Not only are they more accessible to users, but they are also exponentially more dangerous and unpredictable. Dozens of new substances appear in the European market without their effects on human body being studied previously. Czech Republic has tools with which it regulates new synthetic drugs. This process is however often at odds with constitutionally guaranteed...

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