The First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Inside, Sheikh Fahd Al-Yousef, emphasised that the issuance of Decree Legislation No. (2025/159) on combating medication and psychotropic substances marks a decisive new part of legislative rigor in Kuwait.
Sheikh Al-Yousef confused that the Ministry of Inside “is constant its warfare in opposition to the scourge of medication with none leniency in the direction of those that tamper with the safety of society.”
He defined that the brand new legislation goals to toughen and unify penalties for every type of narcotic and psychotropic substances, establishing a strict deterrent framework with penalties that embrace the demise penalty, life imprisonment, and fines reaching as much as two million Kuwaiti dinars for crimes involving importation, smuggling, manufacturing, and cultivation.
The laws additionally strengthens penalties for trafficking, promotion, sale, buy, and barter of medication, together with:
Exploiting minors in drug-related actions.
- Committing crimes inside therapeutic, rehabilitation, instructional, sports activities, and jail services.
- Forcing others to devour medication by any means.
- Forming or managing gangs and felony organizations for drug crimes.
- Planting medication on somebody to falsely accuse them of possession or concealment.
- Utilizing public workplace or affect to commit drug-related crimes.
Highlighting the continuing menace, Sheikh Al-Yousef famous that current years have seen the seizure of enormous portions of narcotics and the prevention of quite a few smuggling makes an attempt.
He confused that the brand new legislation strengthens the power of safety businesses to impose deterrence and tighten the noose on felony networks, creating the strongest punitive system the nation has ever applied.
The legislation additionally will increase penalties for the misuse, issuance, or shelling out of narcotic or psychotropic substances for consumption, together with use inside prisons, police stations, rehabilitation facilities, instructional establishments, locations of worship, and designated studying services.
A major humanitarian element is embedded throughout the legislation, providing authorized avenues for voluntary remedy or dependancy reporting by family members as much as the third diploma, whereas guaranteeing full confidentiality. Penalties will apply to anybody who discloses data from studies or submits malicious claims.
To boost public consciousness, the Public Relations and Safety and Media Division will roll out a complete marketing campaign underneath the slogan “We Defend the Homeland.”
The marketing campaign will cowl tv, radio, cinema, exhibitions, digital public shows, and the ministry’s official channels to tell the general public about authorized provisions, penalties, and alternatives for remedy.
The legislation will come into impact 14 days following its publication within the Official Gazette, giving the general public time to evaluation its provisions and enabling authorities to finish regulatory procedures for implementation.
Sheikh Al-Yousef warned unequivocally: the Ministry of Inside “won’t be lenient or tolerant of any crime that targets the sons of the nation or impacts the safety of society,” calling on the group to strengthen cooperation in confronting the drug menace, describing it as a shared duty.