The European Community’s Anti-Drug Efforts

For more than ten years, the European Community has made efforts to fight illicit drug abuse. A previous article in this publication (concerning the defrauding of the Community budget) noted that the 1957 Treaty of Rome does not provide the European Community with the power to enact criminal legislation. It is therefore of particular interest to analyze the legal framework the Community has used to develop, pursue and step up its large scale anti-drug policies…[more]