Cooperation in drug control: Memorandum of understanding between the Government of the Republic of Ecuador and the Government of the United States of America on the implementation of the Sensitive Drug Investigation Units Programme in Ecuador. August 2009 8. What role has Ecuadorian civil society played in the drug debate in the country? Mr. Serrano`s initiative does not create or set a methodology for micro-commerce whose nomenclature exists only in the stories of the police and the media. On the contrary, as its name suggests, the draft «Organic Law against the Use and Microtraportation of Drugs» is an attack on drug use, i.e. on users who also exercise the free right of personality (Art. 66 para. 5 CR); against the right to living space as a human right that favours each subject by living, being or being part of the city (art. 31 CR); against the right not to be discriminated against for private decisions or lifestyles (Art.

11 para. 2 CR); against legal protection not to be criminalized (Art. 364 CR); but above all against the right that no one be deprived of the state of innocence (CR 76.2) without having committed a typical, illegal and guilty crime. The law also creates the legal basis for «the classification of drugs and scheduled substances that are subject to control for the purpose of prevention and comprehensive care of use and consumption». The law defines drugs as alcohol, tobacco, substances classified by international treaties, synthetic substances and substances for industrial use (adhesives, adhesives, etc.) and defines the five guiding principles for the application of the law: due process; Bailiwick; intersectorality; Human rights; Sovereignty. This law is expected to be adopted in the course of 2015. Finally, among other controversial elements, the draft law imposes the obligation to establish niches for communication and information on drugs from a prohibitionist point of view rather than from a fully inclusive point of view (Art. 16 CR).

By virtue of a corporate difference between public and private media, the percentage of the band for the implementation of a program with prohibitionist content begins again with denial. Thus maintaining the same ambivalence that private programs reproduce, after the information work of the security authorities was praised for the discovery, discovery and arrest of people arrested for drug-related offenses, while the next chapter of spectacular telenovelas such as «Las muñecas de la mafia», «El patrón del mal» or «Sin tetas no hay paraíso» was announced. In this sense, prohibitionism and drug culture are sometimes aligned on the same channel. In 2010, unASUR established the South American Council on the World Drug Problem, headquartered in Quito. The company has an action plan focused on demand reduction and alternative, comprehensive and sustainable development. The construction of a South American identity on this issue, one of its central objectives, has been hampered by different visions and policies between Member States. In February 2015, the launch of initiatives on the world drug problem in the region was announced. The reform began in 2008, when the Constituent Assembly approved a pardon for people convicted of drug trafficking according to certain criteria. This amnesty proved to be part of a new approach, which is also reflected in the text of the Constitution, article 364 of which states: 6.

Is there mandatory treatment for drug addicts? Are there «drug courts» in Ecuador? The legal aspects of Bill 108 became the main instrument that enabled ecuadorian security forces to carry out activities funded by the United States Drug Control Assistance. However, Bill 108 also laid the foundation for the establishment of an administrative unit focused exclusively on drug issues. In particular, it demanded the establishment of the National Council for the Control of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, CONSEP. The establishment of a separate organizational unit for drug control issues was a significant change from the previous management of drug problems by the Government of Ecuador. Pardon of mules, a reasonable proposal – TNI Drug Law Reform Series No. 1 February 2009 The objective of this new organic law, as stated in its first article, is to «determine the institutional framework for drugs and scheduled substances subject to control, as well as the control obligations and the effects of their non-compliance». With his approval, Law 108 is repealed.