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Factors Leading Towards Cannabis Use And What Can Be Done About Them: A Study ...

Factors Leading towards cannabis use
and what can be done about them:
A study carried out in local transport drivers
of district Peshawar, Pakistan.

Contents
Executive Summary 2
Chapter 1 Introduction 4
1.1 Justification for the study 4
1.2 Problem Identification4
1.3 Aim of the dissertation 5
1.4 Specific Objectives5
1.5 Output of the study6
1.6 Stakeholders/target audience 6
1.7 Methodology 6
Chapter 2 Problem Analysis 7
Chapter 3 Literature Review 11
3.1 Actions Against Cannabis 17
3.2 Peshawar Drivers 34
Chapter 4 Recommendations 38
Chapter 5 Summary and Conclusions 44
Bibliography46


Executive Summary
The problem of drug trafficking represents a crippling facet of reality in Pakistan that is affecting 34% of the country's population in terms of having problems with drug usage, and or abuse. The district of Peshawar, which lies near the Khyber Pass access to Afghanistan, places that region at the centre of trafficking activity that has made illicit drugs readily available to the populace at highly affordable prices due to the proximity of heavy drug activity. Drug use is an international problem, one that increasingly is focusing on Pakistan as a result of it being in the center of the most active drug producing regions in the world. As such, the country has developed a serious internal problem in that its citizens have become swept up in the production, trafficking as well as use of drugs. The preceding are activities that undermine the nation's economy as the money flows are black market, and one which is costing the country its most valuable resource, is people, who are in ever increasing numbers being wasted as well as suffering from the ravages of drug use, and addiction.
The purpose, and role of government represent a complex issue that in its own right deserves a study onto itself. In the context of the examination thus identified, a summary of this complex relationship shall be put forth as it is an integral aspect of the preceding. Reus-Smit (1999, p. 129) tells us that:
The moral purpose of the modern state thus entailed a new principle of procedural justicelegislative justice. This principle prescribes two precepts of rule determination: first, that only those subject to the rules have the right to define them and, second, that the rules of society must apply equally to all citizens, in all like cases. Both precepts were enshrined in the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, which states that [l]aw is the expression of the general will; all citizens have the right to concur personally, or through their representatives, in its formation; it must be the same for all, whether it protects or punishes.
Rousseau provides further amplification of the purpose of government as he held that the laws legislated by the people or their representatives must apply equally to all citizens in all like cases.


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