Parliament begins enactment of a law on drugs

Parliament begins enactment of a law on drugs 



1/16/2014 0:00 


Includes penalties of up to a penalty 
of Baghdad, Omar Abdel Latif raised to the Committee on Health and the Environment of parliamentary law on drugs and psychotropic substances to the Presidency of the Council of Representatives for inclusion on the agenda of the parliament session on Thursday. committee member Eman Abdel Razak Al-Hassan said in a statement singled out the "morning": that " Chair of the Committee raised the law drugs and psychotropic substances to the Presidency of the Parliament, to put it on the agenda and read for the first time and his refusal or acceptance in principle by members of Parliament. " She hoped to vote on the law during the current session of its importance and its effective role in the society in which they began to abound in it cases of drug abuse and psychotropic substances. 's cabinet agreed last October on the draft law on drugs and psychotropic substances and to transmit it to the House of Representatives, after making the necessary adjustments by the Legal Department of the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers. For his part, Deputy Chairman of the Committee, Dr. Hamza Alkrtani This law of legislation very important after had been flouted society a lot of those narcotic substances and grains. expressed in a statement the "morning", lamented the impact of these materials on the nature of Iraqi society and the values ​​and principles and Islamic traditions and tribal, confirming the presence of a contradiction of the closure of stores that sell alcoholic beverages and nightclubs, and see at the same time that the door is wide open in front of the smuggling of these materials and circulation, returned such a thing as "great imbalance." and pointed out that this law will see the light soon to prevent this dangerous phenomenon that want to influence the values ​​and principles of the assets of the Iraqi society Arab Islamic. and the organization culture and awareness against substance organized a seminar in Erbil on the occasion of the World Day to combat drug two years ago, as pointed Saifuddin Saber member of the governing body of the organization to that according to unofficial statistics, the there is 3 percent of the Kurdish society are addicted to drugs including foreigners., in turn, said committee member Dr. Habib Terminal: "The law on drugs and psychotropic substances is important legislation too, who came to the Health and Environment Committee and was in time to the Council of State because it requires some additions, and then returned to the Commission as an archaeological debates and raise to the Presidency. said in a statement the "morning", said, "This law is one of the dangerous legislation that address a very important issue in the Iraqi arena, as the judiciary and the executive bodies can not separate the lead job at the present time because they are working the laws of old where there is no less types of deterrence for those who commit these crimes. "According to a parliamentary source, the reasons for the legislation are:" Given to authenticate the Republic of Iraq and its accession to several international treaties related to drugs and psychotropic substances, and the face of the proliferation of illicit trafficking in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances in Iraq, and for the suppression of criminal gangs that working to mislead some groups of people and encourage them to use those materials, which pose a serious threat to human health and welfare and damage the foundations of the economic, social, cultural and moral society, but the purpose of adopting the rules of science in the treatment of drug addicts and Psychotropic Substances, and the consolidation of Arab and international cooperation in this regard, To prevent drug cultivation or plants that draw them psychotropic substances or reduce them as a serious pest threatening entity of society and the development of deterrent penalties for growers or traffickers. " The source of the "morning", to include penalties of up to several executions.

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