The easiest way to seduce children, naive young men and women of the rising age, and to make them want to be liked in the country and the world is to manufacture, distribute, sell and spread drugs all over the world. The drug traffickers who do this work have become so powerful that no government in the world is able to ban these drug traffickers permanently. That is why drugs are not being eradicated.
A network of drugs is spread all over the world. Drug traffickers carry out their work from manufacturing to selling drugs on a very commercial level. There is no doubt that some dirty fish of the government and administration are secretly involved in this. If this were not the case, the drug mafia could not have flourished so much.
The problem is not limited to the purchase and sale of drugs. Chemical compounds that are harmful to health and even fatal are found in packaged food and drinks. This practice has increased continuously in the last 25 years. Under the supervision of this practice, what was previously a government ban has become quite relaxed. Now its quantity is found in wheat, rice, pulses, vegetables, fruits, spices, oil, ghee, packaged food and soda water and other drinks, which has made the health of many people very poor. The common man is helpless. It is affecting the internal organs of his body. It also affects the mental state of the person.
Drug trafficking is a big headache not only for India, but also for the world. A large number of young people and youth of almost all countries are under the influence of drugs. Surprisingly, drugs are prohibited legally. But this business is not stopping, it is continuously increasing. Questions arise whether all this is happening with the connivance of the government? Facts are also being extracted that in countries where family units are breaking down or have broken down, drug use is more prevalent among the youth.
In a country like India, children and youth still fear family and society, drug trafficking here is less than in other countries, but in the last few decades, it has been seen that in states where there is mismanagement by the governments, drug trafficking is increasing and the drug epidemic has reached its peak. The border states of India are under the grip of this. Punjab is bearing the brunt of drugs.
The increasing picture of drug use can be seen from the statistics. In 2024 alone, drugs worth Rs 16,914 crore were seized. A few days ago, more than 560 kg of cocaine and 40 kg of marijuana were seized in New Delhi. Its value is seven thousand crores. 907 kg of mephedrine worth Rs 1814 crore was seized in a factory in Bhopal, the capital of Madhya Pradesh. It is used as a raw material for making drugs. Such a huge amount is being used for the circulation of drugs. Surprisingly, the statistics say that this substance or material is what is being seized in raids, but the use of the money in the drug trade cannot be estimated.
A total of 3.63 lakh drugs were seized in India from 2009 to 2014, while 24 lakh kg of drugs were seized from 2014 to 2024. The value of the seized drugs from 2004-14 was Rs 8150 crore, while the value of the drugs destroyed between 2014-24 was Rs 54,831 crore. The drug smuggling business is at its peak in India as well as in the world. To increase this black business, human trafficking and especially prostitution are increasing and a large number of young girls are being dragged into this black business.
Drug trafficking gangs have also started dark wave, online and drone-based fraud. The result is that no activity of the society is safe under the impact of their widespread evil activities. Even the economy of the countries has come under the target of these trafficking gangs. The spread of the mafia state is flourishing due to them. The alarmingly high number of crimes is also the product of drug gangs, who commit incidents every day to eliminate their opponents. It is even more alarming that unemployed youth are joining these gangs and are becoming the cause of new problems in the society every day. Even more worrying is the increasing nexus between drug smugglers, gangsters, anti-social elements and political parties, who have become capable of playing an important role in any kind of elections being held in the country. The result is that the anarchy of smugglers has started to be effectively seen in the country and society in a public manner, which is starting to weigh heavily on democratic values. Even the security of the country seems to be at stake due to these smugglers, because drone attacks from across the border and grenade attacks on border police stations are taking place every day. The police administration sees the hand of these drug smugglers behind such incidents in the border districts of Punjab.
By the way, the drug network is being spread in every state of the country. But the border states are more affected by it. Drug smugglers have increased their influence in Punjab. It is common for urban settlements to be found in the villages of Punjab without any restrictions and for drug traffickers to silence those who speak out against drugs. In many places, where there was a strong opposition to drugs, there are also reports of murders of sarpanches or leaders. In Punjab, increasing unemployment among the youth, disillusionment among the people due to decreasing income in the agricultural sector, and the breakdown of joint families are becoming the causes of drugs.
The patrons praise the gangsters for their selfish interests, and also fill the youth with a sense of glamour, they feel proud to work with gangsters, anti-social elements and then with drug traffickers. Although the reasons are more, the economic breakdown of the youth and lack of enthusiasm for life puts them in trouble, which ultimately leads to their displacement.
Although the Drug Control Act has been enacted to stop drug trafficking in India. The Narcotics Control Bureau is the effective government agency implementing this law and the punishments under this act are also heavy, which includes fine and imprisonment of 10 to 20 years and despite the government’s announcements that it will make every possible effort to stop trafficking, the activities of drug traffickers are continuously increasing.
Today, the big challenge facing the country is drugs. It is the need of the hour to bring the youth, who are addicted to drugs, into the mainstream through government and non-government efforts. There is also a need to mobilize against drug traffickers and punish them severely, and to punish the illegal factories that manufacture drugs and their owners severely.
It is not possible to free the common people from their worries about drugs without exposing the drug mafia trio, which includes drug traffickers, evil selfish politicians and black sheep sitting in the security forces, and pinning them down.
