ظاهرة انتشار المخدرات في كردستان العراق : أسبابها وعلاجها في ضوء مقاصد الشريعة والقانون العراقي

Abstract

The research aims to identify the most significant causes of the spread of drugs in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. The researcher has conducted interviews with specialists and those who are concerned with this topic by offering them a set of questions and taking their opinions on them to reach the most suitable solutions and methods to combat this phenomenon. The researcher has adopted analytical and inductive approaches in this study. The first approach is used to study the opinions of writers, scholars and specialists from the Shariah and legal perspectives, while the second approach was used to review the books and studies connected to this topic. The research concludes that the proliferation of drugs has many causes and factors that increase the number of traffickers and addicts, day by day. Among these causes and factors are weakness of religious faith, school dropout, family problems, lack of good parenting, political parties and their disputes in the region, neighbouring Iran, acceptance of non-religious ideas from the West and secularists, government's negligence of what its people suffer from, lack of justice in the courts, failure to arrest influential merchants, poor prison conditions, drug access to prisoners and trafficking among them, and other reasons that made the drug an epidemic that most families suffer from and got disappointed with the treatment. This phenomenon contradicts with the purposes of Shariah; thus, Islam opposes it. The researcher has made some recommendations, including the amending the drug law, working to strengthen controlling apparatus, achieving justice in the courts, upholding the supremacy of the law uprooting root causes the phenomenon, by detaining trade merchants, re-applying the capital punishment on trade merchants, and building sanatoriums to accommodate drug users and addicts