On Nov 11, 2015- By the beginning of this month, His Excellency Mr. Mahmoud Abass, President of State of Palestine enacted the Narcotics and Psychotropic Control Law. The new law constitutes establishing special department to combat narcotics, tighten sanctions on producers and drug dealers and it may reach to imprisonment at hard labor for life.
The enforcement of the law begins after 30 days of its publication in the formal Gazette.