السياسة الجنائية الوقائية في قانون المخدرات والمؤثرات دراسة مقارنة

Preventive criminal policy in the Law on Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances ( A comparative study )

The legislator seeks to provide legal protection that is capable of absorbing drug
and psychotropic crimes, and there is no doubt that the most important role to
combat them stems from the development of legal rules that govern drug and
psychotropic crimes, and regulate the process of legal dealing with these
substances. However, legislation is only the legal framework that states enact
to address Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Crimes, and it is not effective if
there are no devices capable of implementing it and preventive and curative
measures are available. Hence, the Iraqi legislator initiated the legislation of
the Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances Law No. (50) of 2017 to combat
them, through which he tried to criminalize the acts and determine the
penalties that affect them. the perpetrator, and drawing up a preventive policy
to prevent crime instead of imposing sanctions on its perpetrators.
The preventive policy is one of the pillars of the criminal policy that aims to
avoid negative changes that create opportunities to commit crimes. To prevent
their occurrence through preventive criminalization of behaviors related to drug
and psychotropic substance offenses, or through preventive measures that are
the most effective means of preventing the commission of crimes.