Decriminalization of Actions Related to Drug Trafficking
The article discusses the anti-drug legislation in the Russian Federation at the present stage, and the attempts of the legislator and other authorities to improve this legislation. The authors consider how the anti-drug legislation changed and improved in historical terms, including the stage of the existence of the USSR. The authors analyse what tasks the anti-drug legislation had and has now and by what methods and means they are solved; examine the penalties provided by the anti-drug legislation at various stages in terms of functionality and adaptability, including the notion of crisis of punishment in drug law; consider the direction towards liberalization of criminal penalties in the field of anti- drug legislation emerged in the Russian Federation in recent years. The aritcle discusses a number of measures taken in this direction, such as decriminalization and the transfer of a number of articles of the Special Part of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation to administrative proceedings. It is considered which offenses related to illicit drug trafficking are regulated not only by the current Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, but by the Administrative Offences Code of the Russian Federation, including illicit trafficking, acquisition, storage and transportation of plants containing narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances.