Humanities & Social Sciences 4 (2016 9) 1014-1022 ~ ~ ~ УДК 351.761.3 The Concept and Features of Narcotic Drugs in the Legal Turnover as an Object of Legal Relations Artyom D. Nevirko* Siberian Institute of Law Federal Drug Control Service of Russia 20 Rokossovskogo Str., Krasnoyarsk, 660131, Russia Received 21.11.2015, received in revised form 08.12.2015, accepted 14.03.2016 The article describes the features of narcotic drugs as an object of the legal turnover. <...> The criteria of the demarcation of narcotic drugs from other medicines have been analyzed. <...> The suggested concept of narcotic drugs refl ects all the necessary features. <...> From a philosophical point of view, drugs are seen as a form of matter, represented by things, objects of the material world, having relative independence and stable existence. <...> For example, in medicine, combining theoretical principles with practical activities aimed at preserving © Siberian Federal University. <...> All rights reserved * Corresponding author E-mail address: onrio@yandex.ru # 1014 # and promoting human health, the extension of life, prevention and treatment of diseases, narcotic drugs mainly considered as a group of drugs that have analgesic and somnolent effect, abuse of which, or consumption without doctor’s prescription leads to addiction2 . <...> According to the World Health Organization, the narcotic drug “is any material (substance), which, when introduced into a living organism, is capable of changing one or several of its functions and can cause psychic or somatic dependence”3 . investigated In jurisprudence narcotic drugs are primarily as an object (subject) of legal relationships. <...> However, like any other matter in its philosophical sense, they have all the same properties that are characteristic of any thing. <...> The Concept and Features of Narcotic Drugs in the Legal Turnover as an Object of Legal Relations But at the same time, these substances have such features which are peculiar to them as objects of social and legal rights. <...> First, they are the subjects of the real material world; they exist in a certain objectifi ed form of things, and they are not the fruit of our mind and imagination. <...> Second, like other things, investigated substances possess certain measures, in particular the weight and volume. <...> Third, the drugs as material objects of the world include the results of human labour <...>