Casino the evil with all its consequences is planted by Congress, cries BJP. Goa is called the unofficial transit point for the drug trade. Our youth and families are fighting a losing battle against addiction as many are ruined by this habit. The EDM music festivals as everyone knows are an avenue for drug proliferation despite government assurances. Seized drugs have disappeared from custody and been replaced by harmless powder. Drug peddlers are enlisted for drug sale under threats of arrests. Some politicians are linked to the drug trade. The famous Israeli drug lord Atala has escaped the long arms of the law due to influential interference.
Large quantities of psychotropic drugs are seized from India. These are sold especially by Nigerians. Some foreigners have been caught cultivating cannabis on terraces and at isolated houses rented by them. The drug seizures reported are just the tip of the iceberg. The police-politician-peddler nexus is an old old story. Till there is tourism, the drug trade will continue to flourish. Some drug-related deaths in clubs have raised an alarm but the tracks are systematically covered up. All the noise about allowing the cultivation of cannabis may be much more than what it appears like.
