Psychotropic drugs is a disease that is very dangerous for the society. Abuse of
psychotropic drugs at the time was now extended to all areas of the country and
the whole society. Therefore, it needs participation from all parties to overcome.
In this case the court as one of the authorized institution in terms of criminal
sanctions to the perpetrators of the abuse of psychotropic drugs has an important
role in tackling abuse of psychotropic drugs such problems. Judges also have an
important role in a decision against a defendant psychotropic case. Through the
imposition of criminal nail on the head, is expected to award the Judge, in
addition to prosecuting the perpetrators, as well as efforts to create deterrence of
the perpetrators and also an attempt to prevent other parties not to abuse
psychotropic drugs do. But the imposition of such decisions should be based on
theories of the existing criminal prosecution. The theory of criminal prosecution is
very important in terms of the imposition of a decision by the judge because it
involves the rights of individuals (humans) and a sense of justice. Based on this,
the problems in this paper is whether the state court verdict in the case of
Yogyakarta psychotropic already reflect and apply the theory of criminal
prosecution. The purpose of this research is to determine and assess whether the
state court verdict reflects Yogyakarta's criminal prosecution and apply the theory.
In this case, the author uses research methods that focus on the normative legal
norms (law in books) that require secondary data as the primary data and primary
data as supporting data. In this case, the authors conduct a study of court decisions
regarding psychotropic case. After the data are collected, analyzed using
qualitative methods by analysis using qualitative measures. Based on the results of
this study, it can be concluded that the state court verdict in the case of
psychotropic Yogyakarta has to reflect and apply the theory of criminal
prosecution, the criminal prosecution theory of retribution and rehabilitation.