Is the Prohibition of Drugs Useful or Not?

In the last decade of the 20th century, people in many countries began to be aware of drug management. In fact, every country in the world has a kind of anti-narcotics. However, a nationwide drug ban began as a group of the United States as a national alcohol ban in the 1920s. In 1930, the US Congress separated that drug from the bans and established a new federal anti-drug agency (Levine, 2002). Prohibition can be defined as a set of policies prohibiting the manufacture, distribution and sale of non-medical drugs.

In this article we will analyze international law and Mexican law concerning prohibition of drug and health rights. It claims that the UN Convention on Drugs in 1961 and the UN Convention on Illegal Traffic in Drugs and Psychotropics in 1988 do not prohibit the legitimization of personal drug abuse in national law. Therefore, a health-conscious system dealing with substance abuse is not selective for binding countries, it is an obligation based on normative content of health rights under international law. Therefore, considering that Mexico has ratified the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and that the right to health has a constitutional status, the use of drugs for personal use or medication Ownership violates the Mexican Federal Constitution and ICESCR.

Due to controversy on regulation of recreational medicine, the problem of drug management is controversial. Taboo critics believe that the regulation of the use of recreational drugs is individual independence and infringement of freedom. In the United States, it is unconstitutional to prohibit or regulate the use of entertainment and psychiatric drugs, critics point out that there is a possibility of harm being greater than prevention. From prehistoric times, certain psychoactive substances, in particular hallucinogens, have been used for religious purposes. Native Americans used Cactus Cactus containing Mescarin for religious ceremonies for 5 700 years. Timor-containing Amanita muscaria mushrooms for ceremonial purposes throughout prehistoric Europe