Revisiting The National Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances policy of India: A Critical Evaluation

Abstract : Commonly, this legal instrument, which serves as the foundation for the current global drug enforcement structure centred by the UN System, is misunderstood as merely a convention to integrate all previous international security agreements. This is a fallacious position that provides no historical background for contemporary discussions concerning the modification of a similar international agreement system. From a historic and international relations approach, this essay recreates the development of the Convention. A criticism of fundamental pre-1961 agreements is preceded by a comprehensive evaluation of the government records of a United Nations gathering for adopted families of the a Single Symposium on Narcotic Drugs as well as an examination of a status of the treaty as a "solitary" conference in light of successive treaties. The Single Conference on Controlled Substances constitutes a substantial departure from of the locus of control of earlier international conventions; a shift to a more prohibitive perspective that, in terms of international interactions, could be regarded as a transitional government as opposed to the a mere formalisation of earlier instruments. In this way, the essay stresses the eradication of drug use, which has been deeply ingrained in the cultural, economic, and religious traditions of numerous non-Western societies for millennia. In addition, despite being frequently disregarded, this Agreement has failed to perform its stated function as the "only" international instrument for drug control. As a result of the additional treaties signed in later years and the shifting socioeconomic and political settings, the control system contains substantial inconsistencies. Even if a shift of prescriptive focus has happened, this paper suggests that a single panel discussion of Controlled Drugs should be revived in order to correct past mistakes and contradictions within the government, especially with relation to scheduling and conventional narcotic use.