I’m a statist.... Wow... I’m devastated!
Just execute the drug dealers and get this show over with. Drugs are stupid and so is any drug culture. So execute those who deal methedrine and worse. No quarter for them
Drug offenses are under the jurisdiction of the Revolutionary Courts. Punishment for narcotics offenses is severe, with death sentences possible for possession of more than 30 grams of heroin or five kilograms of opium. Those convicted of lesser offenses may be punished with imprisonment, fines, or lashings, although it is believed that lashings have been used less frequently in recent years. Offenders between the ages of 16 and 18 are afforded some leniency. More than 60 percent of the inmates in Iranian prisons are incarcerated for drug offenses, ranging from use to trafficking. Narcotics-related arrests in Iran during 2002 remained high at 118,819 persons, but are down sharply from a peak reached in 2001. Iran has executed more than 10,000 narcotics traffickers in the last decade; executions continue, but the UNODC reports that many in the Iranian judiciary are questioning the deterrent effect of executions.
They've executed over 10,000 drug smugglers, yet they continue to keep smuggling! Not that's it's a shock to anyone with common sense. You see, people who don't have money will actually risk their life for it! Amazing, but true! And even the hard ass mullahs are questioning the policy. Probably because if you've been executing thousands of people for a decade and the problem hasn't gone away, the deterrent effect just doesn't seem to be there.