Dopalacze jako substancje szkodliwe dla zdrowia, stanowiące znamię przestępstwa z art. 165 § 1 pkt 2 k.k.
Legal highs as substances harmful to health constituting a feature of the crime of Article 165 § 1 item 2 of the Penal Code
Author(s): Ryszard A. StefańskiSubject(s): Micro-Economics, Criminal Law, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: legal highs; danger to life or health; new psychoactive substance; crime; substitute
Summary/Abstract: The article analyses “legal highs” in the context of recognising this substance as a substance harmful to health, covered by the crime of causing a threat to the life or health of many people (Article 165 § 1 item 2 of the Penal Code). Legal highs fall within the definitione of both a substitute (Article 4 item 27 of the Act of 29 July 2005 on Counteracting Drug Addiction) and a new psychoactive substance (Article 4 item 11a of the Act on Drug Addiction). Nevertheless, the greatest axiological justification is to recognise them as a substitute. This already determines from the normative point of view their harmfulness to health. Not every legal high contains, by its nature, substances so harmful to humans that its use always results in a threat to the life or health of many people.
Journal: Problemy Prawa Karnego
- Issue Year: 8/2024
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 1-26
- Page Count: 26
- Language: Polish