CRIMINAL DRUG TRAFFICKING: DANGER TO THE PERSON, SOCIETY AND STATE
The danger of illegal drug trafficking to the person, society and state is substantiated in the article. The most dangerous tendency to aggravation of this problem actually in all countries of the world is emphasized. A particular danger, as it follows from the paper, emerged at the turn of XX - XXI centuries and it escalates every decade. The author cites UN statistical data, official information of various states on the issues of criminal drug trafficking, places emphasis on the special danger of this social phenomenon. He shows the relation of this crime to the others, draws attention to the international, transnational organized character of the crime under study. The material is presented from the perspective of criminalistic science.