News:1990-12-28/Policy/npc-standing-committee-adopts-the-decision-on-the-prohibition-of-narcotic-drugs-naming-cannabis-in-prc-statute

News record28 December 1990Policy

NPC Standing Committee adopts the Decision on the Prohibition of Narcotic Drugs, naming cannabis in PRC statute for the first time

The Standing Committee of the 7th National People's Congress adopted the Decision on the Prohibition of Narcotic Drugs, promulgated the same day under Presidential Order No. 38. Article 1 defines narcotics as opium, heroin, morphine, cannabis, cocaine and other addictive substances designated by the State Council, which is the first time cannabis is named in national PRC legislation. Article 6 provides that illegal cultivation of poppy, cannabis and other narcotic source plants is subject to mandatory eradication in all cases, and exempts from penalty growers who destroy a crop themselves before harvest. Explicit plant-count thresholds are given only for opium poppy at 500 and 3,000 plants, leaving cannabis inside an undefined category of other narcotic source plants. Article 10 permits the national health administration to designate specific sites to cultivate narcotic source plants for medical, teaching or research purposes.

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Date28 Dec 1990

CategoryPolicy

CountryChina

Agency全国人民代表大会常务委员会 (NPC Standing Committee)

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1990-12-28 Policy NPC Standing Committee adopts the Decision on the Prohibition of Narcotic Drugs, naming cannabis in PRC statute for the first time The Standing Committee of the 7th National People's Congress adopted the Decision on the Prohibition of Narcotic Drugs, promulgated the same day under Presidential Order No. 38. Article 1 defines narcotics as opium, heroin, morphine, cannabis, cocaine and other addictive substances designated by the State Council, which is the first time cannabis is named in national PRC legislation. Article 6 provides that illegal cultivation of poppy, cannabis and other narcotic source plants is subject to mandatory eradication in all cases, and exempts from penalty growers who destroy a crop themselves before harvest. Explicit plant-count thresholds are given only for opium poppy at 500 and 3,000 plants, leaving cannabis inside an undefined category of other narcotic source plants. Article 10 permits the national health administration to designate specific sites to cultivate narcotic source plants for medical, teaching or research purposes. http://www.bjchy.gov.cn/affair/zfyj/law/4923.htm China 全国人民代表大会常务委员会 (NPC Standing Committee)