Drug controlPub Date : 2024-03-14DOI: 10.18572/2072-4160-2024-1-27-29
Vladimir N. Medvedev, Tatyana K. Kirillova
{"title":"Improvement of Laws on Combating Promotion of Consumption and Distribution of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances","authors":"Vladimir N. Medvedev, Tatyana K. Kirillova","doi":"10.18572/2072-4160-2024-1-27-29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18572/2072-4160-2024-1-27-29","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of the work is to develop proposals for optimizing measures aimed at preventing the spread and popularization of the use of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances on the territory of the Russian Federation. The methodological basis of the study was the logical, dialectical method, the method of theoretical forecasting and theoretical research. Conclusions: the authors come to the conclusion that it is necessary to expand the concept of ‘propaganda’ of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances. It is proposed to amend the Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Offenses and the Federal Law ‘On Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances’ in order to determine the illegal nature of covert propaganda and advertising of the use and distribution of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances. The scientific and practical significance of the work lies in substantiating the need for reforms of the current institutional and legal framework, as well as improving forms of counteraction to criminal groups specializing in the production and sale of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances.","PeriodicalId":383254,"journal":{"name":"Drug control","volume":"17 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140244154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Drug controlPub Date : 2024-03-14DOI: 10.18572/2072-4160-2024-1-30-33
Valeria P. Biryukova
{"title":"Special Aspects of Carrying out Drug Control in Switzerland","authors":"Valeria P. Biryukova","doi":"10.18572/2072-4160-2024-1-30-33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18572/2072-4160-2024-1-30-33","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose: to analyze the legislative regulation and public policy of the Swiss Confederation regarding control over the circulation and use of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, as well as practical aspects of the implementation of this control. Research methods: the methodological basis of the study is to use a systematic method, an analysis method, as well as formal legal and technical legal methods. Conclusions: as a result of the research work, a conclusion was drawn: the ‘four pillars’ policy allows the Swiss Confederation to exercise effective control over the circulation and use of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances. Scientific and practical significance: the results of the study can be used to improve the legislative regulation of control over the circulation and use of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances in other countries, including the Russian Federation.","PeriodicalId":383254,"journal":{"name":"Drug control","volume":"22 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140242840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Drug controlPub Date : 2024-03-14DOI: 10.18572/2072-4160-2024-1-11-14
Robert R. Iskandarov
{"title":"Sewage Water as a Promising Source of Information about Narcotic Drug Consumption and Production","authors":"Robert R. Iskandarov","doi":"10.18572/2072-4160-2024-1-11-14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18572/2072-4160-2024-1-11-14","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose: To review the prospect of monitoring population consumption of psychoactive substances using a new approach — monitoring of psychoactive substances in wastewater. Research method: the review is based on information from online databases using Google Scholar, PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus and eLibrary. Conclusion: the capabilities of the method in detecting drug labs and new psychoactive compounds are evaluated as promising and deserving of further study and implementation. Scientific and practical significance: the accepted definitions and characteristics of this method are given, the most well-known examples of the use of this method in Asian, American and European countries are described, the possibilities of the method in obtaining objective information on the consumption of psychoactive substances in different populations (places of detention, educational institutions, at sporting events, etc.), which can be scaled up to settlements and entire regions, are considered.","PeriodicalId":383254,"journal":{"name":"Drug control","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140242051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Drug controlPub Date : 2024-03-14DOI: 10.18572/2072-4160-2024-1-7-10
M. R. Potashov
{"title":"On the Need to Restrict the Opportunity of Investing in Securities of Medical Cannabis (Marijuana) Manufacturers in the Russian Federation","authors":"M. R. Potashov","doi":"10.18572/2072-4160-2024-1-7-10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18572/2072-4160-2024-1-7-10","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of the work is to substantiate the need to regulate the securities market associated with producers of medical cannabis (marijuana). Until now, organizations and individuals with the status of a qualified investor can freely acquire, own, and dispose of shares of companies engaged in the production of narcotic drugs based on plant cannabinoids. As a methodological basis, Russian legislation was studied as it relates to professional participants in the securities market engaged in brokerage activities. The Strategy of the state anti-drug policy of the Russian Federation until 2030 was carefully analyzed in terms of threats to national security and the possibility of implementing the mechanisms of this program. Based on the results of the work, the conclusion was formulated that the problem voiced in the article requires an early response from the official authorities. The scientific significance lies in the argumentation of the need to create an interdepartmental commission from representatives of the state, commercial structures and society to formulate general decisions on the problem disclosed in the article. The practical significance lies in the recommendations to the Bank of Russia to consider the possibility of developing instruments that exclude investments in the assets of producers of medical cannabis (marijuana), as well as providing a comfortable time corridor for exiting such assets.","PeriodicalId":383254,"journal":{"name":"Drug control","volume":"31 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140242790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Drug controlPub Date : 2024-03-14DOI: 10.18572/2072-4160-2024-1-15-19
L. E. Chistova
{"title":"Some Challenging Issues of the Involvement of Specialists in the Initiation of a Criminal Case on Trafficking in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances","authors":"L. E. Chistova","doi":"10.18572/2072-4160-2024-1-15-19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18572/2072-4160-2024-1-15-19","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose: based on an analysis of law enforcement practice of a specialist’s participation in the study of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances at the stage of initiating a criminal case, to identify problems that affect the effectiveness of the investigation of such crimes. Research methods: analysis, synthesis, comparative legal method. Conclusion: the legal basis for the participation of a specialist at the stage of initiating a criminal case needs to be improved. Scientific and practical significance: some proposals have been formulated to eliminate gaps in the legislation regarding the activities of a specialist at the stage of initiating a criminal case for crimes related to narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, in particular, it has been proposed to establish at the legislative level the need to draw up a conclusion instead of a certificate based on the results of a preliminary study, which has evidentiary value.","PeriodicalId":383254,"journal":{"name":"Drug control","volume":"16 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140244017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Drug controlPub Date : 2024-03-14DOI: 10.18572/2072-4160-2024-1-2-6
Viktor V. Merkuryev, Ruslan V. Zakomoldin
{"title":"On the Means of Combating Activities of Organized Criminal Groups in the Drug Trafficking Sphere in the New Conditions","authors":"Viktor V. Merkuryev, Ruslan V. Zakomoldin","doi":"10.18572/2072-4160-2024-1-2-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18572/2072-4160-2024-1-2-6","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose of the study: analysis of measures and directions of countering the activities of organized criminal groups in the field of drug trafficking in new conditions. Research methods: logical, system-structural, statistical methods of scientific knowledge of social processes and phenomena are used in the work. Conclusions: neutralization of the activities of organized criminal groups operating in the field of drug trafficking is one of the strategic directions of international and national anti-drug policy. Of particular concern are the problems associated with the increase in the volume of illicit drug production in areas that are not sufficiently controlled by the authorities, as well as in zones of armed conflict. The Russian Federation actively uses international platforms to promote national approaches in the field of international drug control. However, international cooperation in this area has recently become highly politicized, which has a negative impact on the effectiveness of combating illicit organized drug trafficking, while there is an active merging of the drug business and terrorism. In this regard, the criminal drug market and organized criminal activities in the field of drug trafficking require close attention. Scientific and practical significance: the analysis presented in the article allows us to adequately assess the current situation and develop regulatory and organizational measures to counter organized criminal activity in the field of drug trafficking in new conditions.","PeriodicalId":383254,"journal":{"name":"Drug control","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140243410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Drug controlPub Date : 2024-03-14DOI: 10.18572/2072-4160-2024-1-20-22
Sergey V. Belousov
{"title":"Special Aspects of Carrying out an Open Criminal Intelligence and Surveillance Operation: Examination of Premises, Buildings, Structures, Terrain and Transport Vehicles in Case of Identification of Illegal Laboratories Producing Synthetic Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances","authors":"Sergey V. Belousov","doi":"10.18572/2072-4160-2024-1-20-22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18572/2072-4160-2024-1-20-22","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose: to consider combating the illegal production of synthetic narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances in clandestine laboratories with a public investigative activity ‘Inspection of premises, buildings, structures, areas and vehicles’. Research methods: the methodological basis of the work is represented by such methods as description, analysis, and reference to statistical data. Conclusion based on the results of the study: based on the analysis of law enforcement practice, the importance of the public operational-search activity ‘Inspection of premises, buildings, structures, areas and vehicles’ was determined. Scientific and practical significance: highlighting the distinctive features of the public operational-search activity ‘Inspection of premises, buildings, structures, areas of terrain and vehicles’ in identifying and solving crimes related to the production of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances.","PeriodicalId":383254,"journal":{"name":"Drug control","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140243776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Drug controlPub Date : 2024-03-14DOI: 10.18572/2072-4160-2024-1-23-26
A. V. Kulikov, Ilya Yu. Zheleznyak
{"title":"Problems of Qualification of Trafficking in Plants and Plant Parts Containing Psychoactive Substances and Mushrooms Containing Psilocybin and (or) Psilocin","authors":"A. V. Kulikov, Ilya Yu. Zheleznyak","doi":"10.18572/2072-4160-2024-1-23-26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18572/2072-4160-2024-1-23-26","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose: research of such items of illicit drug trafficking as plants and plant parts containing psychoactive substances. Methodology: study and analysis of judicial practice of higher courts and scientific research of natural science specialists; formal legal and technical legal methods. Conclusions: there is a lack of due attention to the problem of selling narcotic plants and their parts, as well as narcotic mushrooms using information and telecommunication networks (including the Internet); the question is raised about the selection of mushrooms containing psilocybin and (or) psilocin from the List of plants containing psychoactive substances, since mushrooms are not plants. Scientific and practical significance: the authors propose the dispositions of art. 228, part 1 art. 228.1, art. 229.1 and art. 231 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, as well as the dispositions of the relevant articles of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, after the words ‘...or their parts containing narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances’, add the words ‘mushrooms containing psilocybin and (or) psilocin’. Also part 2 of art. 228 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation should be supplemented with the words: ‘Acquisition of items specified in Part 1 of this article using the media or electronic or information and telecommunication networks (including the Internet)’, which in general will make it possible to suppress their illegal trafficking.","PeriodicalId":383254,"journal":{"name":"Drug control","volume":"15 18","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140243996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Drug controlPub Date : 2020-12-24DOI: 10.18572/2072-4160-2020-4-3-7
A. Serebrennikova
{"title":"Criminal Liability for Crimes Related to Illegal Trafficking of Drugs and Psychotropic Substances: The Status and Prospects","authors":"A. Serebrennikova","doi":"10.18572/2072-4160-2020-4-3-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18572/2072-4160-2020-4-3-7","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of the work is to assess the state of the criminal legislation on responsibility for crimes related to the illegal circulation of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances. The subject of the research was criminal legislation, judicial practice and doctrinal sources. Methodology: the author used general scientific research methods, as well as a special legal formal dogmatic method. Conclusions: the author of the study, defining the current state of affairs in the field of criminal law combating illicit trafficking in narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and their analogues in our country, notes the inconsistency and illogicality of the work of criminal law institutions in establishing responsibility for some crimes in this area, and also draws attention to the fact that the determinants of such a problem originate in an insufficiently objective assessment by the legislator of the current state of affairs. Scientific and practical significance: the necessity of taking measures aimed at differentiating the provisions of criminal legislation in this area, as well as introducing such a concept as «illegal drug business» into the current legislation is substantiated.","PeriodicalId":383254,"journal":{"name":"Drug control","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128520094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Drug controlPub Date : 2020-12-24DOI: 10.18572/2072-4160-2020-4-32-37
A. M. Panov
{"title":"On the Improvement of Operations of Internal Affairs Agencies in the Area of the State Service of Issue of Certificates of Being Punished for Illegal Drug Use","authors":"A. M. Panov","doi":"10.18572/2072-4160-2020-4-32-37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18572/2072-4160-2020-4-32-37","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose: to show the need for improvement of the administrative activities of the internal affairs bodies in the field of drug trafficking based on the analysis of the regulatory framework which regulates the state service for the issuance of certificates on the absence of punishment for illegal drug use, the existing law enforcement practice and statistical data. Methodology: to achieve this goal, some statistical data and regulatory legal acts were analysed, and methods of analysis and synthesis, as well as a comparative legal method were used. Conclusion: the study has shown the need for increasing the efficiency of the administrative practice of the internal affairs bodies in the field of illegal drug trafficking and the need for amending the Regulations for the provision of public services for issuing certificates of no punishment for drug use. Scientific and practical significance: the use of the materials presented and analysed in the article will make it possible to increase the efficiency of the administrative practice of the internal affairs bodies in the field of illegal drug trafficking, minimising the possibility of persons who use drugs without a doctor’s prescription receiving a certificate of the absence of punishment for drug use.","PeriodicalId":383254,"journal":{"name":"Drug control","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116700846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}