The crackdown on the narcotics smugglers has picked up speed and every day we hear of about half a dozen private properties being attached by the police department. It is a great feeling to have the drug smugglers behind the bars and their ill-gotten wealth being seized. This crackdown of this intensity should have started about a decade ago. If this crackdown had started about a decade ago then we would have been able to prevent thousands of youth from falling in the tentacles of drug abuse.
The drugs usage is common to all three regions of South, central and north Kashmir but the main supply line of drugs was always happening from the south Kashmir region. The dry marshy land here provides a safe ground for marijuana cultivation. From south Kashmir marijuana and other drugs would flow to the rest of north India and other parts of Jammu and Kashmir. Many people became overnight rich due to acting as a mule for this supply chain of drugs. This ill-gotten wealth created a new elite class in south Kashmir which wanted everything now and here. Big fat weddings, foreign new year trips, lavish cars, frequent visits to Thailand and what not. As they say crime breeds another crime so the drugs abuse led to many other associated problems in the society from which it might take another thirty years minimum to recover.
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Drugs are the real cancer. A society where drug abuse breeds and sustains for a longer period of time is a society bound for doom. Drug abuse is mainly prevalent in the youth who ideally are bread earners in a society and when a supposed bread earner becomes a dependent the whole family structure goes for a toss.
Kashmir needs more rehabilitation centres desperately and needs them now. There are still thousands of youth who can be motivated to throw off this bad habit, youth who are still in the initial stages of drug abuse. There are still dreams in their eyes, they want to have a career, take care of their parents, marry off, have children and be a bread earner for the whole family. We need counselors who can bring these youth back on the right path. No mercy for those who pushed thousands of youth into drug abuse.
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