Why can't India get out of the Illegal Drug Trading Business?

India has a long history of drugs. From the use of drugs in many of its traditional Hindu rituals to the production of pharmaceutical drugs, India is a country which has transformed the use of drugs into a way of life. But, the growing issue nowadays is not about the use of legal drugs but the growing and spreading use of drugs by the people of India. Cannabis, a traditional drug in India was only used as a drug in rituals until a few decades ago when the immigrants came and started to export the drugs out of India. From this export, there are conversions of drugs from legal to illegal and this is the thing that is a major issue in India right now - THE CONVERSION OF USED TO LEGAL DRUGS TO ILLEGAL DRUGS.

So, there must be some ways we can stop this illegal drug trading process. There are actually, such as reinforcing the rules in India but statistics have proved that it's no use. So, there must be a question in our mind, asking, "Why can't we do it correctly? Is it an indestructible issue? NO! But it's more because that the use of drugs in India has been going for more than 3000 years and to stop using it instantly would be a big NO GO. HOwever, a part from this reason, there are a few reasons explaining the phenomenon. It's because:

- the first is that drugs, especially cannabis, are only allowed to be manufactured in a small amount even in the context to be manufactured into medicine while actually there are so many people in India each year who need it because of their diseases and other legal reasons. The reasons are completely logical and are supported by their medical histories but their appeals don't seem to be responded in the way they want by the Indian government. So, to accomodate with the demands in India itself, a lot of people secretly smuggle drugs from outside India into India so that the unbearable pain these patients have can be reduced by consuming these highly addictive but still pain-removing drugs. This is the most likely reason for the illicit drug trade to occur in India.

- the second reason is because of the security of the borders. The borders of India are not really guarded and this proved to be lethal since India, geographically is located between 2 regions which are widely known as the golden areas because of their massive cultivation and production of illegal drugs – the Golden Triangle and the Golden Crescent. Automatically, taking advantage of the present fact of the borders, illegal smugglers often use India as a transit for drugs before they travel to other parts of the world.

- The third reason why India is heavily connected with the drug trade is because of the exposure to other cultures. Many scientists have realized this problem and come up with a shocking conclusion. The conclusion is that exposure to these cultures actually are worsening the conditions in India. The exposure is believed to be the thing responsible for the change in patterns of drug consumption in India. For centuries even millenniums, cannabis was the only known drug to most people in India but affected by other cultures, this fact has drastically changed. The change is that Indian people are not only consuming cannabis but mostly the drug-addicts are not heroin addicts. As we know, heroin is a very addictive and dangerous drug which is derived from morphine, firstly intended to be used in medical world. But because of its highly addictive nature it’s now mostly prohibited by countries around the world, even for the use in medical world. It’s highly addictive properties actually change the patients to drug-addicts after they leave the hospital. This is why heroin is highly restricted to be consumed by any people but as we know, heroin-addicts are now pretty a lot and serious efforts are needed to be taken to stop this.

So, what has India done to stop the drug trade. You can read it in the next posting..

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