Criminal policy governing drug trafficking in domestic and international documents

Drug trafficking is a global illegal business that includes the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of substances that are subject to drug prohibition laws. Drug trafficking as one of the criminal and illegal activities is carried out by organized criminal groups and causes abnormalities in behavioral, social, political, economic and even family fields. But what makes this deadly phenomenon as a global challenge, threatening national security and It has become an international and influencing factor on the mental, physical and moral health of people, the spread of smuggling and its trade at the domestic and international level.

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Iran's legislative policy towards drug trafficking has always been based on criminal and repressive prevention, in such a way that in determining the punishments, the amount of social ugliness of the act, the character of the perpetrator, human dignity, the type of crime and human rights standards, which are the criteria for proportionality of punishment is not noticed; This is despite the fact that Iran's legislature, by accepting some international documents to create the capacity of the criminal law realm, has not adopted a single criminal policy against drug trafficking from the very beginning. Some times, he has even tried to decriminalize some former crimes.

While adopting reactive policies against drug trafficking at the local, national and international levels by using diplomatic, military, intelligence and law enforcement capacity to prevent drug trafficking, identify criminal networks and prosecute traffickers, alternative development programs such as The product is made for the illegal cultivation of herbal medicines.