Crime relating to the abuse of addictive substances

Crime relating to the abuse of addictive substances Crime relating to the abuse of addictive substances is still a current legal issue. It is a very broad topic including many different questions, namely illegal alcohol production, crimes committed by drug users to get money to pay for their addiction or crimes committed on drug users. However, the purpose of my thesis is to analyse drug offences in the Czech Penal law. In the first chapter of this work, I briefly describe the division of drugs into specific groups based on common features and also provide some information concerning origin, usage and effects of the most known substances. Second chapter deals with the history of legal regulation of crimes relating to the abuse of non-alcoholic drugs, because existing legislation is in many ways based on it. In this legal area, our country is still bound by several international conventions and I have incorporated them in this chapter too. Finally, this chapter includes some basic information about our new penal code. The merit of this thesis is contained in chapters 3 - 7. There, substantive rules of drug offences according to articles 283 - 287 of the penal code are analyzed using the commentary on the penal law, articles of legal experts, and especially jurisprudence. In these chapters, I direct..