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Tackling the drug menace in India

Tackling the drug menace in India
Start Date :
Nov 03, 2014
Last Date :
Feb 01, 2015
04:15 AM IST (GMT +5.30 Hrs)
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During the ‘Mann Ki Baat’ Radio programme, Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi shared that a large number of people have been talking to him about the increase in usage ...

During the ‘Mann Ki Baat’ Radio programme, Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi shared that a large number of people have been talking to him about the increase in usage of drugs. The Prime Minister described this as a very serious issue and assured that he will talk about the menace during the next ‘Mann Ki Baat’ radio programme.

The Open Forums invites you to talk about the menace of drugs. Share how you feel this menace can be mitigated, what steps can be taken to get youngsters out of this. You can share anecdotes – how you saved children from this menace of drugs or if you have had a personal experience. NGOs working in this sphere should contribute. Your contribution would be a major step in freeing India from the menace of drugs.

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Harsha Aggarwal
Harsha Aggarwal 11 years 6 months ago
Thank you to Prime Minister Modi and his cabinet for all that they do. I hope we try and pass as many bills as possible now because if the upper house rejects them, hopefully after 6 months, a joint session can get all of them approved (if that's how it works)?? Otherwise, I'm sceptical as to how meaningful and completely necessary bills like the Insurance bill and GST will get passed? Thank you for all that you do.
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Harsha Aggarwal
Harsha Aggarwal 11 years 6 months ago
Simultaneously, we can try education on the side effects of drugs...we know those don't work well for those who have made up their minds. You can try shaming them...as we are doing so with other social misdemeanours. But for drugs, if we kill the supply I think the demand will drop and so if we kill the profits, the supply will stop. Only way I know to kill profits is to increase competition or stop cash transacted businesses from operating beyond a certain value? I think that's all I have.
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Harsha Aggarwal
Harsha Aggarwal 11 years 6 months ago
keep the same popularly consumed drugs cool without incentivizing new drugs from coming on the scene. If such drugs do come on the scene, if legal businesses can buy them, at least the price will be kept low? In the process, law enforcement may also find out about the suppliers etc? The idea is, keep the same drugs popular but more risky for consumers to buy (due to tracing) and if they consume such drugs, make them more responsible? Also make the drugs themselves more expensive?
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Harsha Aggarwal
Harsha Aggarwal 11 years 6 months ago
prescriptions may consume such drugs?? Because if we legalize a currently illegal (hence high margin product), all the margin will be potentially competed away and the incentives to the black market will drop. Also, reducing cash transactions will help a lot in controlling this problem, like any other. So legalizing, highly regulating, paying via non-cash means, and requiring licenses to sell, prescriptions to buy, minimum age limits, and making the expensive may all be means to still....
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Harsha Aggarwal
Harsha Aggarwal 11 years 6 months ago
like a business problem, however inappropriate that might be, may be most effective. Effectively, drug consumption is similar to that of tobacco / alcohol consumption? How about, very seriously regulating the popular drug industry but still making the regulatory hurdles so high that young people still get a kick out of trying to purchase and consume them? ie. Make them expensive, need to have a license to sell (like selling marijuana to hospitals for cancer patients) only people with....
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Harsha Aggarwal
Harsha Aggarwal 11 years 6 months ago
Good afternoon; I watched the movie Traffic with Michael Douglas, which also deals with the same problem and the points are true. How to stop young people from consuming illegal drugs when they think it is "cool" and if not, it gets them high if they can't deal with their issues - school pressure/peer pressure / family trouble etc. Also I don't know how much drugs cost but if they are expensive, chances are they are consumed more for partying than depression? My gut would be to look at it....
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Paras Yadav
Paras Yadav 11 years 6 months ago
Dear sir, We all know that cigarettes nd tobacco have bad effects. You should stop the Manufacturing of these, even if it provides lot's of taxes to the goverment. I think goverment should not play with lives of people in front of taxes. Thank you sir
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KRISHANA KUMAR SINGH SINGH
KRISHANA KUMAR SINGH SINGH 11 years 6 months ago
आदरणीय प्रधानमंत्री जी , यह मेरा आपको प्रथम निवेदन है इस समय हमारे देश की राजधानी दिल्ली के न्यायालयों में अधिवक्ता बंधुओं की अनिश्चितकालीन हड़ताल चल रही है जिससे सभी पक्षों को काफी असुविधा का सामना करना पद रहा है परन्तु मौद्रिक क्षेत्राधिकार के मुद्दे पर सरकार की तरफ से कोई भी ऐसा आश्वासन नहीं दिया गया है की समबन्धित बिल को कब तक सदन में पेश किया जाएगा। वर्तमान में प्रस्तुत मुद्दा अत्यावश्यक है की अपनी सरकार इस पर गहनता से विचार करे व इस अधिवक्ताओं की तरफ से असंतुष्टि के स्वर को शांत करे।
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