ADUC – Article – The price of drug prohibition. Week from 18 to 24 June 2024

Every week, on Monday, Aduc publishes data on seizures and victims of illegal drugs, as well as a summary from the beginning of the year.
The collection is the result of a media investigation, especially local. An insight into how the public may perceive the results of the deeds and misdeeds of prohibitionist drug laws.
It is possible that all this would not happen, or would be significantly reduced, if instead of prohibitions and punishments there were laws that regulated this market (today only black and managed by large and small criminals) like tobacco and alcohol.
Aduc publishes an online newspaper on illegal drugs in Italy and around the world.

The price of prohibition
from local news
the effects of the law in force

data from 02/01/2024 to 24/06/2024
seizures
soft drugs (kg) 748,600
hard drugs (kg) 561,600
doses of synthetic drugs 265,200
cannabis plants 408.100

victims
dead 9
668 arrests
days of imprisonment 6,122

weekly summary
data from 06/18/2024 to 06/24/2024
seizures
soft drugs (kg) 35,900
hard drugs (kg) 16,400
doses of synthetic drugs 6,500
cannabis plants 20,100

victims
deaths 0
arrests 59
41 days of imprisonment
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2023 data: from 12/27/2022 to 01/01/2024
* seizures
– soft drugs: 333,200 kg
– heavy: 225,200 kg
– synthetic: doses 154,650
– cannabis: 125,900 plants
* victims
– deaths: 22
– arrests: 1,892
– days of imprisonment: 3,721