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Legislator calls for drug prohibition law
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-03-12 16:40
A Chinese legislator has proposed to enact a drug prohibition law in order to
effectively ban drug abuse, marketing and trafficking.
Yang Meixi, a
deputy to the National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislative body,
said at the ongoing NPC annual session that the campaign of fighting
drug-related crimes does not produce satisfactory results due to the lack of a
good anti-drug law, although judicial organs have enforced relevant laws and
waged fierce battles against drug-related criminal activities.
Yang,
also chief of a public security branch in Taiyuan, capital of North China's
Shanxi Province, said it is difficult for them to crack down on drug-related
crimes effectively as the current criminal law is not applicable in determining
the seriousness of such crimes.
In addition, the current criminal law
forbids the evidence collected through various technical means from being
presented at the court.
"We call for a drug prohibition law in order to
clamp down on drug-related crimes more effectively," he
said.
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