Just like almost everything, drug is forbidden in Iran. Just like almost everything, it is very easy to find some. Opium particularly. Iran is located on the biggest route of opium, coming from Afghanistan towards western markets. And the government is not particularly efficient at controlling it. One can buy stick of opium for 3 euros. Students say it became a plague in universities, where drug dealers are rarely bothered by the police (apparently too busy at controlling girl's hijab) and even crack and ecstasy have become more and more common. Many of the critics of the government say it is too lenient on drug dealers (some asserted to me that a drug dealer caught by the police now is just fined, while he would have been sentenced to death under the previous president), and that its leniency is intentional: it aims at destroying political opposition, particularly in universities. This might be only another conspiracy theory. though. To be fair, the Iranian government has to fight with one of the biggest drug problem in the world. Afghanistan floods its neighbour with cheap opium .directed towards Europe and America. The chief of Iranian anti-drug police boasts that his country alone made 95% of seizures of illegal drugs in the world, !
The thing is that in a country where police is so good at controlling illegal behavior in the public space, while using various devices to impose approbation for an unpopular regime (through the celebration of patriotic values, the religious mobilisation etc), drugs appear as yet another device to control minds... (to be continued
The thing is that in a country where police is so good at controlling illegal behavior in the public space, while using various devices to impose approbation for an unpopular regime (through the celebration of patriotic values, the religious mobilisation etc), drugs appear as yet another device to control minds... (to be continued
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