Manufacturing And Trafficking Of Narcotic Drugs
MANUFACTURE AND TRAFFICKING OF DRUGS
Article 188 of the Turkish Penal Code, which is regulated under the title of Offences Against Public Health, stipulates that persons who manufacture, import, export, sell, offer for sale, give, deliver, transport, store, purchase, accept or possess drugs or stimulants shall be punished.
This article does not define what constitutes narcotic or stimulant substances, nor does it endeavour to list them one by one. The reason for this is to ensure a strong social defence by sanctioning the abuse of drugs or stimulants and drugs and synthetics that have the same effect. Thus, as psychotropic substances, it has been accepted that all substances that have a narcotic or stimulant effect and cause addiction in individuals will constitute the subject of this offence. This offence is an optional offence.
In the first paragraph of the Article, the manufacture, import or export of drugs or stimulants without a licence or in violation of a licence is defined as an offence.
In the third paragraph of the Article, various acts related to drug or stimulant trafficking are defined as a separate offence. Accordingly, the sale, offering for sale, giving to others, transporting, storing or purchasing, accepting or possessing narcotic or stimulant substances within the country without a licence or in violation of the licence for the purpose of gain constitutes a separate offence.
If we consider these acts one by one;
PRODUCING DRUGS AND STIMULANTS:
It is the process of increasing and converting narcotic substances into other substances that enable the obtaining of narcotic substances. Transactions that do not change the nature of the drug substance do not fall under the concept of production. The cultivation of plants that constitute the origin of the production of narcotic substances is not included in the concept of production.
It includes the processes of purification of narcotic substances and their transformation into other narcotic substances. Manufacture may take three forms. One of them is the chemical reaction of two or more substances that do not have the properties of narcotic and stimulant substances in their own right, resulting in the production of a substance that has narcotic and stimulant properties other than these two substances. The second is the transformation of the stimulant and narcotic substance obtained naturally or artificially into another narcotic and stimulant substance by some methods. The third is the purification and purification of any drug and stimulant substance by separating the impurities in it by methods such as distillation, flatosyon and electrolysis.
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