CIVIL AND CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY OF DRUG DISTRIBUTORS

Abstract

The problem of narcotic drugs and its consumption and distribution among the classes and members of the society is always considered as one of the social anomalies, which can more or less be considered as one of the social problems and a concern for the criminal legislators to deal with these people and He mentioned the imposition of punishment and the criminal responsibility of the distributors and sellers of these opiates. In this article, according to the available sources and references, the author examines the criminal law of the Anti-Narcotics Law with an emphasis on the distribution and criminal responsibility of its distributors, using library sources and analytical-descriptive and evaluation method to examine the penalties. The anti-narcotics law and the effects and results of the implementation of these punishments. Actions taken in relation to drug laws, over the past 50 years and successive changes in the law, showed that the law alone could not solve the problem of sale, distribution and criminal liability of drug distributors. For this purpose, advanced societies as well as Iran decided to reconsider this issue. The criminalization of drug abuse and the failure of this measure to control the problem of addiction and the emergence of problems such as the increase in the criminal population, led to the acceptance of decriminalization and the belief that an addicted person is sick. New approaches were made in the category of criminal liability of drug distributors and its use. Although it was very natural to change the government's approach towards the inclusion of the death penalty for drug offenders, the process that started even with a slow movement due to the variety of existing interpretations, indicated a positive event in the future. In the following, it seemed that the reduction of the most severe type of punishment for the most dangerous type of crimes with the aim of increasing the deterrence of the punishment of drug distributors and the resulting criminal liability, could not solve an important part of the challenge of the legislator to deal with drug distribution and consequently , explain the criminal responsibility of the distributors.