{"id":139472,"date":"2021-10-07T11:07:12","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T05:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=139472"},"modified":"2021-10-12T17:43:08","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T12:13:08","slug":"some-dope-on-law-decriminalise-cannabis-rework-ndps-act-for-investigative-focus-on-hard-drugs-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/some-dope-on-law-decriminalise-cannabis-rework-ndps-act-for-investigative-focus-on-hard-drugs-supply\/","title":{"rendered":"Some dope on law:\u00a0Decriminalise\u00a0cannabis, rework NDPS Act, for investigative focus on hard drugs supply\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
What is the news?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n

The arrest and custodial interrogation of celebrity attendees of a cruise party has reopened the debate over criminalisation of cannabis.<\/p>\n

What is the status of cannabis regulation in India?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n

India\u00a0criminalised\u00a0cannabis\u00a0under American pressure in 1985 through the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As per\u00a0GoI\u00a0surveys, even after three decades\u00a0of criminalization of cannabis,\u00a0ganja and\u00a0charas\u00a0usage remains high (1.3 crore consumers, and 2.2 crore for bhang). <\/span><\/p>\n

America\u00a0and many countries are now decriminalizing cannabis for\u00a0medical or recreational use.\u00a0But India refuses to\u00a0change its stance regarding this.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What is the punishment under\u00a0NDPS Act in case of using cannabis?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

– <\/strong>NDPS Act prescribes up to<\/span>\u00a0one-year\u00a0rigorous imprisonment<\/span><\/b>\u00a0for those involved in cannabis transactions of \u201c<\/span>small quantity\u201d.<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

– 1-10 years for \u201cquantity lesser than commercial quantity<\/span><\/b>\u00a0but greater than small quantity\u201d and\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

– 10-20 years for \u201ccommercial quantity<\/span><\/b>\u201d.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What is the way forward?<\/b><\/h5>\n

Instead\u00a0of following the above punishment procedure,\u00a0NDPS must evolve a three-tier gradation of offences.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

– <\/strong>Cannabis should be decriminalized. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

– <\/strong>Those involved in manufacture, trafficking and supply of hard drugs like meth, heroin, cocaine etc must face the most prohibitive punishment. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

– Those consuming these banned substances should be tried under civil law, not criminal law \u2013 a steep fine would be an appropriate punishment.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This will allow anti-narcotics authorities to concentrate on supply chains<\/strong> that feed the Indian underground narcotics market and the main players in that market. Raiding parties will not give us final result.\u00a0\u00a0Anti-narcotics investigators should be the first ones to ask for such a change in law and priorities as their resources are wasted going after small time users.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source<\/strong>: This post is based on the article “<\/span>Some dope on law:\u00a0Decriminalise\u00a0cannabis, rework NDPS Act, for investigative focus on hard drugs supply<\/span><\/b>\u00a0” published in\u00a0<\/span>The Times of India<\/span><\/b>\u00a0on\u00a0<\/span>6th October 2021.<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is the news?\u00a0 The arrest and custodial interrogation of celebrity attendees of a cruise party has reopened the debate over criminalisation of cannabis. What is the status of cannabis regulation in India?\u00a0 India\u00a0criminalised\u00a0cannabis\u00a0under American pressure in 1985 through the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act.\u00a0 As per\u00a0GoI\u00a0surveys, even after three decades\u00a0of criminalization of cannabis,\u00a0ganja… Continue reading Some dope on law:\u00a0Decriminalise\u00a0cannabis, rework NDPS Act, for investigative focus on hard drugs supply\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[10205,10207,10170,10206],"class_list":["post-139472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-decriminalising-cannabis","tag-decriminalising-marijuana","tag-government-policies-and-intervantions","tag-ndps-act","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700791369,"cached_date":1704715811},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}