MOSCOW. (Pyotr Goncharov for RIA Novosti)...

According to First Deputy Speaker Alexander Torshin, as many as 30,000 young lives are snuffed out in Russia by narcotics annually, or an average of 80 a day. These are people in the prime of life: from 18 to 39 years old. Official statistics show Russia today counts between 2 million and 2.5 million drug addicts.

The Russian drug mafia takes advantage of national anti-narcotic legislation, which is inadequate. Indeed, as Senator Torshin says, what do they have to fear? The worst that can happen to drug barons is that they die of laughter when reading the Criminal Code"s section on the distribution and sale of drugs.

The senator explained that an incident involving narcotics weighing more than 2.5 grams is considered a major crime. The absence of other weight criteria in determining the degree of public menace from drug-related crimes results in that the punishment for selling 2.5 grams of heroin is the same as for selling 10 kg or 100 kg of the same narcotic. So bulk

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