Scientific Journal of the National Academy of Internal Affairs

The article under the headline «State policy to prevent inducement to use narcotics in Ukraine and Netherlands» speaks about comparison of anti-drug legislation of Ukraine and Netherlands. At the beginning it deals with the illegal circulation of narcotics, psychotropic substances and precursors. Dramatically increasing the number of persons who illegally use drugs. The author describes the international anti-drug legislation, the legislation of Ukraine in the field of drug trafficking. The author stresses illegal trafficking grows in magnitude, and threatens the basis of national security. The article submitted statistics that the author analyzes comments. In Ukraine, for four years reduced the number of crimes in the sphere of drug trafficking. The author emphasizes this negative trend, and this contributes to the latency of these crimes, and insufficient attention to these crimes relevant authorities. Then the author goes on to speak about to analyze the legislation of Netherlands in the field of drug trafficking, describes the position of the Opiumwet, the Law Directives. And explains the principle «gedoogpolitiek» in Netherlands. The author points out in Netherlands prohibits the promotion of drugs, but allowed to take soft drugs in limited doses. This article is a reference to reports Trumbo’s Institute, which operates in Netherlands. According to these reports, the policy of Netherlands to legalize the use of soft drugs was a failure. To summarize the author writes about the need to establish criminal liability for illegal advertising drugs in Ukraine, which is absent at present. The author underlines that legalization of drugs does not lead to a reduction in their use, but rather facilitates access to them, especially young people.