Dopalacze jako substancje szkodliwe dla zdrowia, stanowiące znamię przestępstwa z art. 165 § 1 pkt 2 k.k.

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 definition 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.