Goa sets up task force to fight drug menace:
Context
Rave parties in Goa
What has happened?
Admitting the need to control rave parties, Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on Monday said that his government had formed an Anti-Narcotics Task Force, comprising members of various law enforcement agencies, to draw a comprehensive action plan to combat trafficking of drugs
What CM said?
- Goa Police has identified joints in the tourism-savvy regions where drugs are consumed, and promised more action against drug use
- Without drugs you can’t dance until morning. With alcohol, you can dance at the most two to three hours
- Some night parties and hotels, shacks, persons, lodgings are on the radar of anti-drug agencies
- Goa being a global tourist destination, lakhs of tourists, international as well as domestic, visit the state every year and are the major target of drug peddlers/dealers. It is also learnt that these days, the drug dealers/ peddlers are using foreign tourists who are addicts to sell drugs, since foreigners can easily approach another foreigner with drugs
