Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon, through their campaigns against drug usage and trafficking, created substantial international pressure on the SE countries, specifically India, to pass an anti-drug law so strict that it crippled the entire trade route into the United States. It would have caused widespread religious mobilization, which could have resulted in political instability thus, the policy formulation was resisted for two decades. However, considering India’s culture and the significant role of religion in society, banning drugs and narcotics wasn’t feasible. Despite the popularity of drugs in pop culture, a massive backlash by the UN and other countries led to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs in 1961, which mandated a policy so strict that drugs and consumption can be stopped entirely in 25 years while focusing on illegal trade. This campaign sparked an international movement to ban drugs and enact anti-drug laws specifically in Southeast Asia, as it was the primary hub for producing narcotics.
It led to more illegal drug trafficking in the USA, which led to the US’s Anti drug war campaign. With this backdrop, the focusing events arose in the mid-1950s with the onset of the Vietnam War and the increased use of drugs and narcotics by Americans and others due to easy access.
Despite this, The Dangerous Drugs Act of 1930 classified drugs by potency, but no specific policy was to control narcotics in general. However, in a country like ours, where cannabis and drugs have cultural significance, there has been minimal mobilization or focus on the issue of drug use. In 1894, they produced the Indian Hemp drugs commission report, the first Indo-British report on hemp and cannabis in India. In 1893, the House of Commons in the United Kingdom expressed concern about the increased use of hemp drugs due to easy availability in the Indian province of Bengal because it was near the Golden Triangle trade route. After 1893, the colonial government realized the dangers of high drug consumption in conjunction with opium. To monopolize government control over opium routes and sales, the opium act of 18 was enacted. As a result, we have the modern-day Golden Triangle and Golden Crescent, which are essential precursors to the modern-day policy form we use today. The base for this draconian policy was developed during the opium wars of the early 19th century when the opium trade in British colonies flourished. There have been various changes over the years to the NDPS act and its modern-day provisions due to events over the years.
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