Workshop title (Criminal legal confrontation of the drug phenomenon) presented by Assistant Professor Dr. Khaled Ahmed Ali Ahmed. There is no doubt that the spread of drugs and psychotropic substances and the illicit trade in them has reached a frightening degree in various parts of the world and is threatening entire societies, which It generated great concern for the entire international community.

In Iraq in particular, we are currently facing the most violent attacks in the field of the spread and use of drugs due to the openness of the borders to neighboring countries, and the spread of organized crime gangs. Iraq has become a suitable environment for the presence and spread of drugs, with weak social control institutions and weak means of combating drugs in the country.

In view of the huge and imaginary sums generated by the drug trade, international gangs began to increase in strength, organization, and funding, and their activities extended across countries to continents until drug crimes became transcontinental, legalized without a nation and without borders, and led to other serious crimes such as (money laundering, organized crime, and human trafficking). weapons, administrative corruption, etc.), and drugs have also become one of the most prominent sources of financing terrorist activities in the world.

  Accordingly, the Iraqi legislator issued a new law called (Law on Combating Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances No. 50 of 2017), which included a modern criminal policy consistent with international agreements concerned with combating drugs. We will look at the most important forms of criminal confrontation with the drug phenomenon that were mentioned in the aforementioned law.