President Mikheil Saakashvili has launched a large-scale anti-drug campaign, with efforts to tighten laws on drug dealers as well as drug users. During his annual address to parliament on March 15, Saakashvili proposed a legislative initiative that would envisage confiscating property not just of drug dealers, but of their close relatives as well.

"I propose that we adopt a law by which drug dealers not only are put in prison, but also have their property, acquired through ruining our people and our young people, confiscated," he sais, going on to state this would include the property of close relatives as well, if it was acquired through illegal activity.

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