Drug Trafficing: The Iligitimacy of Narcotic Drugs or the Iligitimacy of Drug Trafficing

The criminal law of drugs are based on the list of prohibited “materials” and a set of criminalized “acts”. The almost neglected question is that the definition of illegitimacy goes back to the “object” or “action”. Consequently, they should talk about “illicit traffic in drugs” or “traffic in illicit drugs”. The next question is that, in both assumptions, “trade” and “consumption” of narcotics are described to illicit based on common ground, but why these two “practices” have different repressive paths? It is apparently the consequence of two pre-assumption: the demand creation by the supply and victimization of consumers. This debate, while criticizing the current criminal policy regarding drug trafficking, could lead to enlightenment in modifying that criminal policy.