Sinlung Says: Is it the drug laws or the liquor prohibition? As humans, we need something to relieve us of, youths especially. Why is that when Mizo's leave Mizoram for Indian cities, mostly everyone drinks. Now, where is the problem. If prohibition was lifted, would drug use come down? This is a question which many skeptics doubt.
But look at Amsterdam.
Is it the laws that govern us? Or is the the people or groups or NGO’s that take law into their hands? Something needs to be done in Mizoram quickly.
Aizawl, Jun 28 : Concerned over the unceasing drug menace in Mizoram, Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla today reiterated the need for stronger laws to effectively deal with the social evil.
Inaugurating a two-day ‘training on Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, Mizoram Liquor Total Prohibition (MLTP) Act, and Assam Drug Control (ADC) Act’ here, Lal Thanhawla said, ''The fact that drug dealers, arrested by police, went out of jail very quickly may dishearten the police and other NGOs who are combating drug abuse in the state.'' It was with this view that this training has been organised to find loopholes in the existing drug laws and work out necessary amendments to the laws to make them more stringent, he stated.
The training was meant for NGOs, judicial magistrates, police and excise and narcotics personnel, the chief minister added.
''This training is being organised to see that if there are provisions to award more punishment to drug dealers and longer jail terms,'' he said.
Lal Thanhawla went on saying that he had personally contemplated on the use of mob rule against drug smugglers if the laws failed to give them longer imprisonment.
''They (drug smugglers) are public enemy and they don’t deserve sympathy,'' he remarked.
Mizoram's state level apex coordination committee on drugs had last year proposed that a stringent 'Mizoram Drugs Control Act' be legislated to effectively combat the drug menace in the state.
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