The justice ministry had published a new penal code at the end of December, and the government approved it before the deadline for public comment had passed. It kept one to six years for possessing any quantity and dropped the fine for minor cases, so that even the smallest amount would mean prison; it said nothing of treatment, although the national drugs council had recommended it. Five organisations held a press conference against it, recalling that zero tolerance a decade earlier had clogged the courts.[1]
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