Press conference dedicated the celebration of the International Day against Drug Abuse

 

To navigate the trends of development of the legal framework of Ukraine, which after a certain period of time will become reality embodied in the documents to which all economic entities operating in the commercial cultivation of industrial hemp, offer to review the text that had taken place since 55 minutes of the event.

 

The bill, which is registered and submitted to the Supreme Council is primarily aimed at the continuation of the mission and strategic directions, which are enshrined in our drug policy in our main document - the Strategy. All you need to start with acts of higher legal force, namely laws. For all other regulations are dependent primarily on the standards set out in the law. What there is is fixed. We want to embody and implement into practice the rules of international conventions that Ukraine has ratified. It stipulates that the use of drugs should go in both the scientific and medical purposes. In our country, two cultivated narcotic plants - poppy and hemp. When we looked, we realized that we can use them only for industrial purposes. When we want to solve the issue in the state to reduce the cost of painkillers, to tell the truth, we have all the imported substance, which is the basis of our anesthetics. At the same time, when we are now directing their efforts at expanding and improving the business activity of our farmers in the cultivation of traditional crops of poppy and cannabis, the destruction of only one poppy straw, even if it does not contain a large quantity of opium, which is in the grades of the Afghan, Iranian, Pakistani and Turkish poppy, but even though we just burn it and destroy, we could use it in order to ensure our own pharmaceutical industry farmsyrem. And we have serious achievements, which have remained from the Soviet times, when poppy straw, which is destroyed today, could have been used before to burn it could be used to obtain the necessary basis for the same morphine. And thus provide our people cheaper drugs.

 

We just ignored the medicinal properties of cannabis. Now the whole world starts to move in scientific research, not only in the study of the use of psychotropic substances for medical purposes THC and other cannabinoids for medical purposes. We see a lot of European countries legislators legalizuyut cannabinoid use it for medical purposes. Why do we need to restrict its citizens in the availability of medicinal properties of this plant. If it is, we have traditionally grown, and we are all well aware that will not affect the use of poppy and cannabis for medical purposes in the amount of heroin in drug trafficking, which is moving through the territory of Ukraine. We must also honestly tell people that we need to put a priority goal of man to give her a chance. It is in the bill and all written and authorized.

 

 

I remember at a briefing in the Ukrainian media center somewhere in April, you have already talked about this issue, the incorrect use of raw materials which burn and that the money is spent and the medical use of cannabis. It is now included in the bill, and changed anything since then.

 

 

Of course the bill, which is submitted, took into account all the comments that have been added to it from the experts, the public and international organizations. He is now under consideration by the relevant committees of the Supreme Council of Ukraine. He now goes to its routine order and the fall, I think that will be submitted for consideration in the session hall of the Ukrainian parliament. We work on it constantly. There is a passage of certain procedures.

 

 

It is introduced in the bill rate, which you also said in April to increase the dose, for which criminal liability.

 

 

This rule spelled out in the so-called laws. The most important document that regulates how you say the dose which is the basis of it in qualifying criminal offense, it is a departmental order of Ministry of Health. At the time, the Drug Control Service has provided its version of amendments to the order of Ministry of Health, which took into account the realities of our lives. And the statistics that there is on law enforcement agencies indicates that there is a focus on small-minded as we can call them crimes for a small sum, especially for drug users. Indeed here, first of all the law enforcement agencies should be interested in the fact that these rules have been revised, as it affects their main strategic direction. Unfortunately, the health minister was fired the head of the SDCS and this position remains now only declarative. But we continue to work in this direction, we have developed and adopted the basis of the rules that exist in Europe. We analyzed for each dose, and we can conclude that we need to solve two problems - we do not only need to raise the dose, but we must first change the very methodology of approach to the determination of the doses, and especially where it concerns the same cannabinoids. Even in the terminology, conceptual apparatus of the aforementioned Order of the definition of cannabis, does not match the concept laid down in the UN Convention itself. If today we have to achieve our breeders where there is industrial hemp varieties with a THC content in an amount which does not constitute a public danger. This made it possible to remove the protection from the technical hemp cultivation and to stimulate the development of this industry, but on the orders of the Ministry of Health is unfortunately not so much expertise on the active substance, and on the total weight of the dried straw, regardless of how it is part of the plant. Although the Convention cannabis is just the tip of the plant and not just the tip, since the seeds are not included in this definition, and just the tip, where the inflorescence - this is cannabis, but not fully the entire plant with any parts as it is written in our Order of the Ministry of Health. Qualifications should go for the active substance as a drug, and is the basis of this active ingredient is in the International Convention, in our legislation in the lists, tables, all clearly spelled out. The fact that it is the basis of the drug - and it is the base. From that, what is the proportion of the drug and defines the legal status of the treatment combination of drugs, the excess not exceeding the limits. If exceeded, that drug, if not exceeds - means a combined preparation with low contents. There are maximum limits. Therefore, if we take as a basis, and we as a state ratifying the Convention, report to the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) is drug trafficking, which are clearly spelled out. Drugs are an integral part of whether it is a drug or a substance in a proportion of it that we are up to the milligram, respectively, and should build the whole system of state control, including the base qualification of criminal offenses. It is at the basis of active ingredient. Therefore, the Ministry of Health order clearly requires revision in this context. It should be an integrated approach, not only to increase the rate and the bar to which attract a person to criminal liability and general methodological approach to solve and eliminate those gaps and contradictions which indeed it contains.