Abstract:
Today, everyone is busy in rat race, everyone is under pressure to achieve in their target-based ambitions. They also paid any amount to achieve the same including legal and illegal ways to rescue in their pressure/ tension, drug abuse is one of them. Drug abuse is a problem not confined to any society, it affected to the whole world. Every countries are tried to solve this issue through their legislations, policies, etc. At the international level United Nations Single Convention on Narcotics Drugs, 1961, The Convention on Psychotropic Substances, 1971 and the Convention on Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, 1988.
India also tried to solve this issue. E.g. the Indian Constitution provides fundamental right to healthunder Article 21, the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, etc. As per Hindu Methodology Lord Shiva uses the ‘Som-Ras’ and Cannabis [Ganja] for to attained Samadhi. Afterwards, their followers especially Shaiv, uses Kannis for attainment of Samadhi, and today we have noticed that this is also misused by some persons. Recently some cases found that school’s child used Whitener’s liquid for their addictions.
This research paper’s aims at detecting the reasons for failure of law to prevention, control of drug abuse especially reference to India.