MANUFACTURING AND TRADE OF DRUGS

Article 188 of the Turkish Penal Code, which is regulated under the title of Offenses Against Public Health, punishes those who manufacture, import, export, sell, offer for sale, give, ship, transport, store, buy, accept, and possess narcotic or stimulant substances. has predicted.

This article does not define what narcotic or stimulant substances consist of, nor does it attempt to show them one by one. The reason for this is to provide a strong social defense by sanctioning the abuse of drugs or stimulants and drugs and synthetics with the same effect. Thus, it has been accepted that all substances which, as psychotropic substances, have narcotic or stimulant effects and cause addiction in persons, will constitute the subject of this crime. This crime is an optional crime.

In the first paragraph of the article, manufacturing, importing or exporting drugs or stimulants without a license or against the license is defined as a crime.

In the third paragraph of the article, various acts related to the trafficking of drugs or stimulants are defined as a separate crime. According to this; Unlicensed or illegal sale of drugs or stimulants within the country, offering them for sale, giving to others, transferring, storing or purchasing, accepting or keeping them for profit constitutes a separate crime.

If we consider these verbs one by one;

MANUFACTURING DRUGS AND Stimulant SUBSTANCES:

It is the process of increasing the narcotic substances and converting them into other substances that allows the obtaining of narcotic substances. Transactions that do not change the nature of the drug are not included in the concept of manufacture. The cultivation of plants that form the origin of drug production is not included in the concept of manufacturing.

It covers the purification of narcotic substances and the conversion of other narcotic substances. Production can take place in three ways. One of them is to obtain a substance other than these two substances with narcotic and stimulant properties as a result of the chemical reaction of two or more substances that do not have narcotic and stimulant properties per se. The second is the conversion of stimulant and narcotic substance obtained naturally or artificially into another narcotic and stimulant substance by some methods. The third is the purification and purification of any narcotic and stimulant substance by methods such as distillation, flotation and electrolysis, by separating the impurities in it.