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31 Supremo Amicus [1] (2022)

handle is hein.journals/supami31 and id is 1 raw text is: SUPREMO AMICUS E VOLUME 31 1 SEPTEMBER, 2022 ISSN 2456-9704 A STUDY ON INCREASING TRENDS OF PSYCHEDELIC TOURISM AND ITS LEGAL ISSUES IN DARK WEB OF INDIA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO CHENNAI. By ABIRAMI. S And MANGAIYARKARASI.S From Saveetha School Of Law, Saveetha Institute Of Medical And Technical Sciences Chennai INTRODUCTION The evolution of drug tourism can be traced back to the 1960s in North America and the Western Europe by the counterculture generations. It was a time when youth opposed the norms of the society and expressed their disapproval of racial, ethnic, and political injustices through resistance and revolution. Drug tourism has been evolving since but the purpose remains the same. As a result of their pursuit of happiness, drug tourists engage in social behaviours such as building strong social relations, feeling a sense of freedom, being in an entertaining atmosphere, and living the local culture. Hence the drug tourists see drug tourism as a process from escaping to seeking. Southeast Asia, particularly in the golden triangle, which includes Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand, has a strong drug culture. In the current trend along with the well-known Golden Triangle and Golden Crescent, smugglers are utilising well-liked tourist sites in India, such as Goa, Manali, New Delhi, and Mumbai, as their base to transport expensive synthetic drugs to distant nations like Canada, Israel, the UK, Germany, and Holland. Hashish of Malan at Himachal, Magic Mushrooms from Kodaikanal, Idukki Gold in Kerala, Bhang and Opium of Rajasthan, Psychedelic drugs in Goa are major drug destinations that attract domestic as well as international tourists in India. Drugs like pseudoephedrine and ephedrine, which have medical usage, are cheap in India. When compared with Afghanistan, opium cultivation is done in many parts of Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand and the Northeast states. Hence these drug markets highly attract the narcotic tourists to India. The devotees of the Lord Shiva believe smoking marijuana is a way of worshipping him which often misleading the religious tourists to smoke weed. The principal factors behind this are searching for spiritual connections and personal growth, emotional healing, and the growth of one's own self-awareness, including interaction with the sacred natural world, God, natural energies and spirits. There are a few Psytrance festivals like Himalayan Music Festival, Indrasan Festival, Space Trip Festival, Arudra Festival, Parvati Peaking, Parvati Shangri-La Festival, HillTop Festival, Kundalini Shakti Festival, Cosmic Zoo are iconic trance parties famous in India. Drug tourism is an extremely dangerous practice and it's voluntary risk taking concerned with legal, social and medical consequences. Different legal controls on the use of illegal drugs had been put in place by the local government and community, but they had generally failed. The increasing trend in drug tourism raises questions about the efficacy of current legal frameworks in curbing the niche drug markets and drug abuse among tourists. Prioritizing treatment, education, and rehabilitation is urgently necessary because stigma, shame, and silence only serve to exacerbate this illness. www.supremoamicus.org PIF 6.242

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