Drug Trafficking and Analogue Act
Drug Trafficking and Analogue Act
Drug Trafficking and Analogue Act
The trouble with trouble is ,it starts out as” fun”.Most of the people
are slipped on the depth of drugs. It is a very complex area, which
impacts in different ways on many people and has ramifications
throughout society. After every criminal and societal sanction that we
can come up with, people still use drugs, and far too many die.It is
obvious that it’s time for a new approach.After 50 years of the war on
drugs, the supply and use of drugs hasn’t just increased—it’s created a
massive black market that contributes to violence, conflict, and
corruption.
But that repertoire has only limited capacity to shrink the damage
that drug users do to themselves and others or the harms
associated with drug dealing
Our findings show that decimalization works to reduce usage of both
so called “soft” and “hard” drug usage, also it not only helps people
with their addiction it also helps with their mental health as well as
their standing society .Because this approach has been and still is
used in Portugal it has proven itself as successful .As to why the
results are as they are, it’s because addicts are no longer seen as
criminals or as lesser people, they are looked at like people who need
help. This change from the typical war on drugs mentality is exactly
what makes this method better than the old one, which hasn’t been
working for decades in the past.
The Controlled Substances Act (CSA) is the statute
establishing federal U.S. drug policy under which the manufacture,
importation, possession, use, and distribution of certain substances is
regulated. It was passed by the 91st United States Congress as Title II of
the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 and
signed into law by President Richard Nixon.[1]
The legislation created five schedules (classifications), with varying
qualifications for a substance to be included in each.
An Act to amend the Public Health Service Act and other laws to
provide increased research into, and prevention of, drug abuse and
drug dependence; to provide for treatment and rehabilitation of drug
abusers and drug dependent persons; and to strengthen existing law
enforcement authority in the field of drug abuse.
The law led to an increase in average time imprisoned for drug crimes
from 22 months to 33 months.[13]
it was, in several countries, linked to terrorist activities. It was also connected to
other criminal activities, like money laundering, arms and human trafficking, and
corruption. Against such a backdrop, he argued, as many other speakers had,
that alternative development programmes should be a major pillar of the global
effort to curb the drug trade.
With respect to alcohol and tobacco, there is great room or improvement even within the
existing policy repertoire for example, by raising taxes), even before more-innovaive
approaches are considered. With respect to the currently illicit drugs, it is much harder
to see how increasing or slightly modifying standard-issue efforts will measurably shrink
the size of the problems.
The costs—fiscal, personal, and social—of keeping half a million drug offenders (mostly
dealers) behind bars are suficiently great to raise the question of whether less
comprehensive but more targeted drug enforcement might be the better course. Various
forms of focused enforcement offer the promise of greatly reduced drug abuse, nondrug
crime, and ncarceration. These include testing and sanctions programs, nterventions to
shrink flagrant retail drug markets, collecive deterrence directed at violent drug-dealing
organizaions, and drug-law enforcement aimed at deterring and incapacitating unusually
violent individual dealers. Substanial increases in alcohol taxes might also greatly
reduce abuse, as might developing more- effective treatments for stimulant abusers or
improving the actual evidence base underlying the movement toward “evidence-based
policies.”
The fundamental policy question concerning any drug is whether to make it legal or
prohibited. Although the choice s not merely binary, a fairly sharp line divides the
specrum of options. A substance is legal if a large segment of he population can
purchase and possess it for unsupervised “recreational” use, and if there are no
restrictions on who can produce and sell the drug beyond licensing and routine
regulations.
Accepting that binary simplification, the choice becomes what kind of problem one
prefers. Use and use-related probems will be more prevalent if the substance is legal.
Prohibition will reduce, not eliminate, use and abuse, but with three principal costs:
black markets that can be violent and corrupting, enforcement costs that exceed those of
regulating a legal market, and increased damage per unit of consumption among those
who use despite the ban. (Total userelated harm could go up or down depending on the
extent to which the reduction in use offsets the increase in harmfulness per unit of use.)
The costs of prohibition are easier to observe than are its benefits in the form of averted
use and use-related problems. In that sense, prohibition is like investments in prevention,
such as improving roads; it’s easier to identify the costs than to identify lives saved in
accidents that did not happen
Southeast Asia
Thanks to the ‘golden triangle’ of drug production in Southeast Asia,
many of the surrounding countries have extremely harsh penalties for
possession and trafficking of illegal drugs. The most severe is the death
penalty (Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam) but many
enforce long prison sentences and heavy fines.
China
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia routinely executes people for drug smuggling and even
possession. Punishments also include flogging, beating and
imprisonment.
Portugal
The Netherlands
Uruguay
The USA
Saying the USA has a liberal drugs policy is a little misleading because
drug policy varies so widely from state to state. However 23 states in the
US have now legalised marijuana for medical use and Colorado has
legalised it for personal use completely. It remains to be seen whether
the entire country will follow suit.
Unfortunately there are no easy answers, but we must try to look for
some if we want to lift the ‘global burden’ of addiction.
Chinese authorities issued edicts against opium smoking in 1730, 1796 and 1800.
Drug trafficking is widely regarded by lawmakers as a serious offense around the world.
Penalties often depend on the type of drug (and its classification in the country into which it
is being trafficked), the quantity trafficked, where the drugs are sold and how they are
distributed. If the drugs are sold to underage people, then the penalties for trafficking may
be harsher than in other circumstances.
The countries of drug production and transit are some of the most affected by the drug
trade, though countries receiving the illegally imported substances are also adversely
affected. For example, Ecuador has absorbed up to 300,000 refugees from Colombia who
are running from guerrillas, paramilitaries and drug lords. While some applied for asylum,
others are still illegal immigrants. The drugs that pass from Colombia through Ecuador to
other parts of South America create economic and social problems.
drug violence can be caused by factors such as the economy, poor governments, and no
authority within law enforcement
A report by the UK government's Drug Strategy Unit that was leaked to the press, stated
that due to the expensive price of highly addictive drugs heroin and cocaine, drug use was
responsible for the great majority of crime, including 85% of shoplifting, 70–80% of
burglaries and 54% of robberies.
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