Vietnam may decriminalize drug use

Vietnam may decriminalize drug use

The National Assembly of Vietnam is taking everything into account to cease by legislation to treat drug use as illegal, lowering the private use of illegal drugs from a lawbreaker to an executive offense. The chairwoman of the assembly’s Committee on Social Affairs, Thi Mai mentioned her council had suggested discarding Article 199 of the Criminal Code which promotes two-year-imprisonment of for those who found guilty of illegal drugs. The use of illegal drugs would still be a serious illegal act, subject to death penalty.

Vietnam conveys illegal drug dependency through obligatory drug detoxification institutions, where drug addicts are confined for about two years and five years when it comes to few institutions. The officers in local government keep their list of those drug addicts in their regions and deliver cases to the detoxification institutions at their preference.

The government promotes support groups in the community for previous drug dependents; however, it is only available in Hanoi.

Heroin drugs are the very well-known recreational drug in Vietnam which causes the country to spread HIV because of the shared syringes.

When it comes to prohibiting the illegal drugs in the market, Vietnam has firm laws against it. During the year 2007, eighty five people were convicted a death penalty because of illegal drugs and additional nine illegal drug addicts for the following year.

Mai who is the officer of National Assembly said that the program to failed to completely remove illegal drug operations.

T.P. Nguyen