THE CRIME OF SEDUCING JUVENILES INTO DRUG ABUSE IN IRAQI LAW
Abstract
The drug abuse problem remains a serious challenge at the national and international levels because of the health, social, economic and moral harms it carries, because it is more deadly and destructive than conventional weapons by virtue of it breathing its slow toxins into the bodies of the victims. How to use it and control its uses under heavy supervision.
Hence, the Iraqi legislator has spared no effort to move along this path, as it has criminalized the seduction of minors to use drugs and psychotropic substances, according to Article (28 / Fifth) of the Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act No. 50 of 2017 and punishes anyone who seduces a juvenile with drug abuse with death. or life imprisonment or temporary imprisonment and fine, and well done, because the act of seduction is the first step to drag the group of juveniles aged (9-18) years to the path of drug use or psychotropic substance or addiction.
In order to mention this disturbing crime and to indicate the position of Iraqi law in this regard, we divide the investigation into three lawsuits, and we address the conceptual framework in the first case, and note what is meant by seduction, youth, drugs and psychotropic substances, while appointing the second condition for substantive provisions. For the crime. We deal with the two pillars of crime and the penalties prescribed under the above-mentioned Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act and welcome the third requirement of the procedural provisions that we have been tasked with discussing the granting of authority to investigate the crime of members of the special judicial oversight of employees and not to release those accused of crimes Seduction of exempted juveniles and news and the obligation of the user to review medical or social clinics and not the possibility of criminal prosecution of those who request the treatment of users on their own and maintain confidentiality in the treatment and application of the supervised delivery system. Our findings and suggestions.
