The new paradigms of war against drugs' proliferation in Europe and Latin America
Every year the number of drugs' consumers in Europe increases. The attitude of common people also is changing, more and more Europeans affirm that they don't see nothing wrong in drug consumption. Latin American States also are more facing the problem, which have been characterized until that moment by relatively low index, and which policy, generally speaking, was directed to struggle with illicit planting and drug cartels. Till now the major number of Latin American States has been stuck to “prohibitive paradigm” that meaned using hard power towards all “links of the chain”: from drug lords and distributers till drugs' consumers. However, in fact it did not lead significant reduction in substantial lowering of drugs' producing and its markets. In 2011 the Global Commission on Drug Policy in its report stated that “the global war with drugs has been lost”. Moreover, during 8 years of drugs' struggle in Mexico more that 70 millions of people died. The prohibitive paradigm has its alternative — soft policy, which is adopted in Europe. The major difference between them consists in transferring of drugs' consumption from defense area to healthcare. The methods of struggle are still the same, however the treatment of drug addicts has significantly changed. Now they are not seemed as panders of the big drug mechanism functioning, which must be punished, but as ill persons who need a medical help.