GEVORG ISRAYELYAN

Candidate of Law, Associate Professor,

Head of the Scientific Research Center of Applied Problems in

Criminology of the National Bureau of Expertise of the

National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia,

Lecturer at the Law Department at Eurasia International University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.59546/18290744-2023.10-12-101

Annotation.

One of the important components of the organization of drug crime prevention is its legal framework. The subject of the author’s research is the relevant norms of substantive law – criminal and administrative. The results of the author’s research show that the above-mentioned foundations need to be improved. Despite the fact that the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia has been adopted since July 1, 2022, its relevant norms, according to the author, need to be updated. The author proposes to expand the legislative concept of the analogue of narcotic drugs and psychotropic (psychoactive) substances, since it does not express the main features of the analogue; to establish responsibility for the propaganda of narcotic drugs and psychotropic (psychoactive), since the criminal law establishes responsibility only for advertising these substances.; to toughen the punishment for the sale of narcotic drugs and psychotropic (psychoactive) substances to minors, since their body is weak and bears enormous damage as a result of the consumption of these substances; to establish responsibility for the illegal acquisition of a precursor at the instigation of another person for him, since the law provides for punishment for this action only in relation to narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances (psychoactive) substances, etc. Naturally, it is necessary to improve the norms defining administrative responsibility for drug-related offenses. Thus, the author considers it necessary to group these offenses in the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Armenia by the type of violated public relations, to correct other shortcomings of legal regulation.

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