The incommensurate scale of punishment has promoted the trade of drugs more than deterring it. It has taken the margin of profit to such an obnoxious level that the drug mafia has become the financier of all other illegal trades such as arms, money –laundering, smuggling, human trafficking. The drug lords wield so much of power that they can buy political protection. That makes the nexus powerful enough to influence legislation. Sometimes you are forced to think that there is a design or a tacit understanding to have this kind of enactment. If not then there should be some attempt to review and retook. Take the example of flesh trade. By relaxing the law it becomes a legitimate way of earning for the victim and a social stigma for the exploiter. Narcotics are more or less a social problem and needs to be dealt as an offence against society and not a crime against humanity. The vested interests will perhaps not like that. For them, the economic and political stakes are too high.

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