Whether is possible to win a drug mafia?

The drugs takes the lead place among the goods subject to strict state interdictions. Enormous means are spent for struggle with drug business. Law machinery constantly intercept large parties of drugs, arrest drug couriers and the whole groupings drug distributors. It is reported about successes almost daily. But for some reason it is not visible the end to this battle: one drug dealers put in prison - on their places stand up new.

Many sincerely consider, that the problem with spread of drugs is solved very simply - it is necessary to toughen punishment for participation to drug business - and in the country will be finished with this dangerous phenomenon. However the world practice experience does not confirm such hopes.

In struggle against drug-dealing the most strict measures of punishment comparable with murder were applied and applied now: people for it subject to long prison term in the developed countries of the West, drug-dealers are hang in Singapore and Egypt, it chop off heads in Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, them shoot in China and in the African countries. In Iran only for one 1989 year on verdicts of Islamic courts it has been hung about thousand persons, involved in drug-dealing. The government of the United States has gone on a unprecedented step for the democratic country, having carried out military intrusion to Panama only to grasp and judge at itself the head of the state the general Noregu which have suspected of communications with a drug mafia. Unfortunately, in the heat of never-ending fights with drug-dealers statesmen does not suffice either forces nor time to stop and precisely to understand those deep reasons which generate drug business and which feed its with vital energy. The reasons here are cleanly economic.

Virtually the drugs is the goods, and drug traffic is the usual commercial transaction. Here only the legal law, as a rule, considers such transaction criminal, but concrete alive people directly involved in it do not see anything bad in it. Both parties participating in this transaction, are happy: the addict receives the desired doze of a drug, the drug-dealer - money. The rigid criminal interdiction on similar relations forces both to keep secret of the transaction. Both of them against somebody stranger stirred it.

Objective laws of the free market are those: if there are people who very much wish to buy a certain goods (in particular, a drug), sooner or later, but necessarily there will be a seller, ready this goods to sell it (unimportantly, whether the goods by the legal law or not). So in drugs trade are guilty not drug-dealers, but only those who buys drugs (that is - consumers of drugs).

For this reason struggle with drug business never can come to the end with a victory: for it is struggle against consequence, instead of against the reason of the phenomenon. And while there will be exist consumers of drugs – drug business will prosper to spite of all interdictions, how many drug-dealers punish.

From this does not follow that for successful struggle with drug business it is necessary to punish end users of drugs. For drug-dealing has disappeared absolutely, the state should replace in prison of all taking to a potion, and even those who only wishes to try a drug. In practice such, naturally, it is unattainable.

The main engine of drug business is a bent of people to drugs. It is formed not only as satisfaction of curiosity in reception of new sensations, but also as quite realized desire to leave from a reality to the world of narcotic dreams. Such happens often at unsatisfied with a life or hard sick people. Until people will have a need to receive pleasant sensations by means of drugs, - drug-dealers will not disappear.

Amazing survivability of drug-dealing most evidently shows its economic essence. It is impossible to win its by repressive methods.


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