Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 Quiz

Republic Act No. 9165 (Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002)

• Short Title: Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002

• Policy Declaration: The State aims to protect its citizens, particularly youth, from the harmful effects of dangerous drugs through effective law enforcement, treatment, and rehabilitation programs.

• Definitions:

  • Administer: Introducing a dangerous drug into a person's body, with or without their knowledge.
  • Board: The Dangerous Drugs Board.
  • Centers: Treatment and rehabilitation centers for drug dependents.
  • Chemical Diversion: Sale, distribution, or transport of controlled precursors and essential chemicals, to drug manufacturers in fraudulent transactions.
  • Clandestine Laboratory: Facility used for illegal drug manufacturing..
  • Cultivate or Culture: Planting, growing, or raising any drug-producing plant.
  • Dangerous Drugs: Specific substances listed in the annexed schedules (1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, as amended by the 1972 Protocol, and the 1971 Single Convention on Psychotropic Substances).
  • Deliver: Passing a dangerous drug to another.
  • Den, Dive or Resort: Place where dangerous drugs are administered, delivered, stored, sold, used, or distributed.
  • Dispense: Giving away dangerous drugs (with or without prescription).
  • Drug Dependence: Physiological, behavioral, and cognitive phenomena of drug use.
  • Confirmatory Test: Further analytical test (using different chemical/physical principle) to validate a screening test's result.
  • Controlled Delivery: Law enforcement technique involving a suspect consignment (drug or controlled precursor) to gather evidence or prosecute.
  • Controlled Precursors and Essential Chemicals: Substances used in dangerous drug manufacture (listed in Tables I and II of the 1988 UN Convention).
  • Cultivate: Knowingly planting, growing, or raising a drug plant.
  • Use: Injecting, consuming (eating, swallowing, smoking etc.), or otherwise introducing the dangerous drug into the body.
  • Drug Syndicate: Organized group of two or more people who aim to commit an offense under this Act.
  • Employee of Den, Dive, or Resort: Personnel in a place where controlled substances are used or distributed.
  • Financier: Person who provides funds for illegal activities related to drugs.
  • Illegal Trafficking: Illegal activity involving cultivation, delivery, administration, production, transportation, purchase, sale, and possession of dangerous drugs and controlled precursors.
  • Instrument: Any material used to commit illegal drug trade.
  • Laboratory Equipment: Equipment intended to produce dangerous drugs.
  • Manufacture: Production, preparation, compounding, or processing of dangerous drugs.
  • Planting of Evidence: Deliberately placing illegal substances to implicate an innocent person.
  • Practitioner: Licensed physician, dentist, chemist, etc in the Philippines.
  • Protector/Coddler: Someone who protects or shelters a drug offender from legal action.
  • Pusher: Selling a dangerous substance to others or distributing, dispatching, or transporting it.
  • School: Educational institution.

• Penalties: Varies for different offenses, ranging from fines to life imprisonment and even the death penalty, depending on the drug type and quantity involved and nature of the crime. (See sections concerning specifics).

Other Important Sections

• Unlawful Acts & Penalties (Section 4-11): Importation, sale, administration, dispensing, manufacturing and possession of dangerous drugs are explicitly declared as unlawful, each with its corresponding penalties.

• Maintenance of a Den, Dive, or Resort (Section 6): Maintaining a place for drug use, distribution or sale carries severe penalties, including the death penalty if the drug use results in a minor's death.

• Manufacture/Chemical Diversion (Section 8): The penalties for manufacturing dangerous drugs and diverting essential chemicals are detailed, similarly escalating with the scale of offense.

• Possession (Section 11): Possession of certain quantities of specified dangerous drugs carries various penalties, from imprisonment to the death penalty, based on amount.

• Drug Testing: Specific groups (e.g. students, applicants for driver's licenses) are subjected to random drug testing, with the associated penalties for failing these tests.

Summary of Unlawful Acts and Penalties

• Unlawful acts include drug trafficking, manufacture, cultivation, possession, and use. Penalties vary widely. Severe penalties are attached to certain drug quantities and the use of illegal substances on school grounds and in relation to minors. Severe penalties are imposed on those persons who facilitate the illegal manufacture, use, transport or consumption of illegal substances, for instance managing, using or operating a den, dive, house or resort for such activities.

Test your knowledge on the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002, which aims to protect citizens, especially the youth, from the dangers of drug abuse. This quiz covers definitions, policy declarations, and various components of the law. See how well you understand the intricacies of this important legislation!