Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 PDF

RA 9165 Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 The Nature of Drug and Drug Abuse  What is a drug? A drug is a chemical substance that influences the function of living cells and alters the body or mental processes when taken into the body or applied through the skin. ...

RA 9165 Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 The Nature of Drug and Drug Abuse  What is a drug? A drug is a chemical substance that influences the function of living cells and alters the body or mental processes when taken into the body or applied through the skin. How are drugs taken? Ingestion Inhalation Injection Used as suppository Applied topically What is addiction? Addiction isn't limited to alcohol and drugs. People may be addicted to many items, like food, gambling, shopping, or any of the items that hinder a healthy lifestyle. When things come out of control, and people act compulsively, no matter what the consequences. When the individual is no longer in control of their life, they become addicted regardless of the triggering mechanism. The addiction can take over the entire life of one person. What is drug addiction? Drug addiction or dependence is a state of compulsive use of psychoactive substances (drugs, narcotics, and chemicals). Use continues despite negative consequences (social, emotional, or physical harm; they may cause the user.) Drugs are addictive and differ from substance to person. Similarly, a person who is predisposed to addiction psychologically or genetically is much more likely to become addicted There are 2 forms of drug addiction Physical dependency Psychological dependency Physical dependency Occurs when a drug or substance is regularly used, and the body becomes accustomed to its effects. Then the user must continue to use the drug to feel normal since his absence will trigger withdrawal symptoms. Psychological dependency Comes when a drug is used regularly, and the mind has become emotionally dependent on its influence, either feeling pleasure or relieving pain. It does not feel able to function without it. Its absence gives rise to intense cravings, often brought on or magnified with stress. A user may have either aspect of dependence but usually has both. When are drugs harmful? Any drug that is taken excessively can be harmful. Certain drugs can also be harmful if taken in dangerous combinations or ordinary or even small amounts by a hypersensitive (allergic) person. Why do people turn to drugs? Medicines can solve problems. Widespread access to various drugs. Peer pressure. The notion that drugs give enjoyment to users and in the context that is used as an alcohol substitute. Explain ‘All medicines are drugs but not all drugs are medicine’ What is drug abuse? Drug abuse is the use of a licit or illicit chemical substance, which results in physical, mental, or social impairment of an individual. Are there products other than drugs ever abused? Glue Paint thinners Fuel and other toxic (breathable) solvents contain dangerous chemicals.  Common causes of Drug Abuse Unhappy home, parents are showing no interest in their children. Lack of parental values and guidance. Domestic violence, whether verbal or physical. Parents who make free use of alcohol and illegal drugs. Peer pressure/encouragement. Curiosity or desire to experience. Escape from mental and physical pain; relief from boredom and frustration; Desires to escape from harsh realities. Weak personality, the common sense of self – esteem and self – worth.  Effects of Drug Abuse Malnutrition Panic Reaction Physical Damage Drug Abuse Preventing Measure 1. Exhaust all communication channels; talk to people you trust; get free to open up and share your emotions and concerns. 1. Learn how to cope with negative emotions by using sport, music, meditation, and prayer as relaxation forms; 1. Expand your horizons by seeking new interests, meeting new people, visiting new places, and incorporating new experiences into yourself. 2. Allow yourself the chance to be everything you can be by finding and developing your personality. 1. Develop family relationships; aim to build balanced, safe family life and content. Parents should lead a good example; educate their kids, and teach essential information about drug use. 6. Establish a drug awareness program to teach the school's students about the risks of drug violence. 7. Local leaders will coordinate and run programs to disseminate information to prevent drug abuse. Organize a social and leisure initiative which will act as a meaningful alternative to drug abuse. 8. Partner with officials to apprehend identified drug pushers and disrupt the community-based drug base network. 9. Helping drug users in treatment and rehabilitation. 10. Implement a direct, sincere, quick action, and hands-on approach to the government to address the growing menace of drug abuse.  CLASSIFICATION OF COMMONLY ABUSED DRUGS THERE ARE FIVE DIFFERENT KINDS OF DRUGS IN THE FIELD OF ILLEGAL AND ABUSED DRUG USE. DEPRESSANTS NARCOTICS STIMULANTS HALLUCINOGENS INHALANTS 1. DEPRESSANTS KNOWN AS "DOWNERS," DRUGS THAT ACT ON AND DEPRESS THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM CAUSING INITIAL RELAXATION THAT LEADS TO SLEEP AND DROWSINESS ALCOHOL SEDATIVE-HYPNOTICS  ALCOHOL SPECIFICALLY ETHYL ALCOHOL, THE MAIN INGREDIENT OF ALL ALCOHOLIC DRINKS. SOME LIQUOR BRANDS SUCH AS GIN, WHISKEY, BRANDY, PILSEN, AND RUM ARE FAVORED TO ACHIEVE THE DESIRED EFFECT AMONG ALCOHOLICS OR TROUBLE DRINKERS. EFFECT: THE EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL CAN VARY FROM MILD, SUCH AS SKIN FLUSHING, TO MORE SEVERE SYMPTOMS SUCH AS LOWERING INHIBITIONS LEADING TO POOR SOCIAL JUDGMENT, CONCENTRATION PROBLEMS, LOSS OF COORDINATION, LACK OF CRITICAL JUDGMENT, PARTICULARLY VISION DULLED PERCEPTION, MOOD SWINGS, DECREASED CORE BODY TEMPERATURE, ELEVATED BLOOD PRESSURE, PASSING OUT, AND VOMITING.  SEDATIVE-HYPNOTICS MOST OFTEN REFERRED TO AS MILD TRANQUILIZERS. SUCH MEDICATIONS ARE USED IN THE TREATMENT OF EPILEPSY, INSOMNIA, AND ANXIETY. EFFECT: DROWSINESS, DIZZINESS AND CONFUSION, COORDINATION AND MEMORY DISTURBANCES, SLOWER HEART RATE AND BREATHING, WHICH CAN BE WORSENED IF COMBINED WITH ALCOHOL, INCREASED RISK OF FALLS AND INJURIES, WORSENING OF SYMPTOMS OF DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY, IMPAIRED ATTENTION AND JUDG MENT, MOOD FLUCTUATIONS AND INAPPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR, RISK OF DEPENDENCY AND ADDICTION, AND RISK OF DEATH FROM OVERDOSE, EITHER DELIBERATE OR ACCIDENTAL.  2. NARCOTICS KNOWN AS "OPIATES OR OPIOIDS," IS OPIUM-DERIVED DRUGS AND THEIR DERIVATIVES. THESE MEDICINAL DRUGS RELIEVE PAIN, SUPPRESS COUGH, REDUCE BOWEL MOVEMENT, AND INDUCE PSYCHOLOGICAL INDIFFERENCE. A. OPIUM B. MORPHINE C. CODEINE D. HEROINE  OPIUM COAGULATED OPIUM POPPY JUICE USED FORMERLY AS A PAIN RELIEVER BUT REPLACED WITH MORPHINE AND CODEINE. EFFECTS: SHORT TERM EFFECTS CAN INCLUDE EUPHORIA, RELAXATION, ANALGESIA, SLOWER SHALLOWER BREATHING, LOWER HEART RATE, IMPAIRED REFLEXES, TEMPORARY CONSTIPATION, LOSS OF APPETITE. REGULAR USE OF OPIUM MAY CAUSE: TOLERANCE-HAVING TO USE MORE TO ACHIEVE THE SAME RESULT, IRREGULAR PERIODS, AND DIFFICULTY OF HAVING CHILDREN, LACK OF SEX DRIVE, CONSTIPATION, OPIUM DEPENDENCE.  MORPHINE OPIUM'S PRIMARY ALKALOID OCCURS IN A CRYSTALLINE WHITE BASE AND IS MARKETED AS TABLETS AND INJECTABLE SOLUTIONS. EFFECTS: MORPHINE MAY CAUSE SIDE EFFECTS. DROWNING, PAIN, AND CRAMPS IN THE STOMACH, DRY MOUTH, HEADACHE, NERVOUSNESS, CHANGES IN MOOD, DIFFICULTY URINATING, OR PAIN WHEN URINATING. SPECIFIC SIDE EFFECTS CAN BE SEVERE. BLUE OR PURPLE SKIN COLOR, CHANGES IN HEARTBEAT, RESTLESSNESS, HALLUCINATIONS (SEEING THINGS OR HEARING VOICES THAT DO NOT EXIST), FEVER, SWEATING, CONFUSION, RAPID HEARTBEAT, SHIVERING, SEVERE MUSCLE STIFFNESS OR TWITCHING, LOSS OF COORDINATION, NAUSEA, VOMITING, OR DIARRHEA), WEAKNESS, OR DIZZINESS, INABILITY TO GET OR KEEP AN ERECTION, IRREGULAR MENSTRUATION, DECREASED SEXUAL DESIRE, SEIZURES, EXTREME DROWSINESS, FAINTING, CHEST PAIN, FEVER, SWELLING OF THE EYES, HIVES, RASH, ITCHING, FACE, MOUTH, LIPS OR THROAT, HEAVINESS, AND BREATHING OR SWALLOWING DIFFICULTIES.  CODEINE AN ALKALOID THAT WAS EXTRACTED FROM MORPHINE AND USED AS AN ANALGESIC MILD. EFFECTS: USING CODEINE, AS WITH ANY PRESCRIPTION, COMES WITH ITS SIDE EFFECTS; THESE INCLUDE DIZZINESS, DROWSINESS, NAUSEA AND STOMACH PAIN, VOMITING, CONSTIPATION, SWEATING, MILD ITCHING, RASHES, DRY MOUTH, FLUSHING, NERVOUSNESS, SHAKINESS, VERTIGO, WEAKNESS.  HEROIN WHITE CRYSTALLINE NARCOTICS SYNTHESIZED FROM MORPHINE AND USED AS A SUPPRESSANT FOR COUGHING. EFFECTS: THE SHORT-TERM EFFECTS WILL DEVIATE SLIGHTLY BASED ON THE METHOD OF DELIVERY TO THE SYSTEM. STILL, THE MOST COMMON IMMEDIATE ANALGESIC (PAIN-RELIEVING) AND DEPRESSING EFFECTS OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM ARE A "RUSH," WHICH IS A SHARP INCREASE IN EUPHORIC FEELINGS, FEELINGS OF WARMTH AND FLUSHING DURING A "RUSH," HEAVY SENSATION IN THE EXTREMITIES, REDUCED FEELINGS OF PAIN, DROWSINESS, SEDATION, AND LETHARGY. 3. STIMULANTS DRUGS USED TO STIMULATE ALERTNESS, BOOST MOOD, INCREASE SPEECH, MENTAL AND MOTOR ACTIVITY, ALLEVIATE TIREDNESS OR BOREDOM, AND DECREASE APPETITE. A. AMPHETAMINE B. METHAMPHETAMINE HYDROCHLORIDE (SHABU) C. ECSTASY D. COCAINE E. CAFFEINE F. NICOTINE  AMPHETAMINE A COLORLESS LIQUID WITH AN ACRID TASTE AND A MILD ODOR THAT STIMULATES THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM CONSIDERABLY. THIS ILLICIT DRUG MOST COMMONLY USED IN THE UNITED STATES. EFFECTS: THEY CAUSE INCREASED ALERTNESS AND SOMEWHAT A FALSE SENSE OF WELL-BEING. THE SHORT- TERM NEGATIVE EFFECTS INCLUDE PARANOIA, HALLUCINATIONS, AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR, INSOMNIA, ACNE, AND SORES. LONGER-TERM EFFECTS INCLUDE DEPENDENCE, RESULTING IN FATAL KIDNEY AND LUNG DISORDERS, POSSIBLE BRAIN DAMAGE, AND POSSIBLE HEART STROKE  METHAMPHETAMINE HYDROCHLORIDE KNOWN AS "SHABU," IS A WHITE, ODORLESS CRYSTALLINE POWDER WITH A BITTER TASTE, CONSIDERED THE PHILIPPINES' MOST ABUSED STIMULANT. THE ABUSERS ADMINISTER IT BY INJECTION, INHALATION, SNIFFING, OR INGESTION THROUGH THE BODY. EFFECTS: DANGEROUS EFFECTS ON THE USER ARE FEELINGS OF IRRITABILITY, FEAR, ANXIETY, AND LOSS OF APPETITE LEADING TO LOSS OF WEIGHT. SCHIZOPHRENIA, SPLIT PERSONALITY RESULTING IN VIOLENT BEHAVIOR, HALLUCINATIONS LEADING TO PARANOID PSYCHOSIS, RESULTING IN VIOLENT AGGRESSION.  ECSTASY A SYNTHETIC DRUG SIMILAR TO AMPHETAMINE COLORED WHITE, YELLOW, OR BROWN WITH A BITTER TASTE AND COMES IN THE FORM OF TABLETS, CAPSULES, OR POWDERS IN VARIOUS STYLES AND SHAPES. EFFECTS: POSITIVE EFFECTS DESCRIBED BY USERS INCLUDE AN OVERWHELMING FEELING OF WELLBEING, INCREASED CONFIDENCE, AND THE DESIRE TO BE NEXT TO AND IN PHYSICAL CONTACT WITH OTHER PEOPLE. IT’S ALSO KNOWN TO PRODUCE INSOMNIA, DEPRESSION, AND PARANOIA AFTER THE HIGH HAS WORN OFF. USERS ARE USUALLY SENSATION- SEEKING AND SEXUALLY AGGRESSIVE. THE LONG-TERM DELETERIOUS EFFECT OF ECSTASY, ACCORDING TO THE GOVERNMENT AGENCY, IS THAT IT HARMS SEROTONIN NEURONS IN THE BRAIN.  COCAINE KNOWN AS "COKE," ALKALOIDS ARE DERIVED FROM COCA PLANT LEAVES, COMMONLY USED IN MINOR SURGERY AS LOCAL ANESTHETICS, ONE OF THE SHORTEST AND MOST POTENT STIMULANTS. A CHEAP, READILY AVAILABLE TYPE OF SMOKABLE COCAINE IS KNOWN AS CRACK. EFFECTS: THE DRUG REPORTEDLY PROVIDES INTENSE FEELINGS OF PLEASURE, MAKING THE USER FEEL EUPHORIC, ENERGETIC, TALKATIVE, AND MENTALLY ALERT. PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS INCLUDE ACCELERATED HEARTBEAT, PULSE RATE AND BREATHING, AND HIGHER BLOOD PRESSURE AND BODY TEMPERATURE. LARGE QUANTITIES (SEVERAL HUNDRED MILLIGRAMS OR MORE) INTENSIFY THE "HIGH" USER, BUT CAN ALSO LEAD TO BEHAVIOR THAT IS ERRATIC, AGGRESSIVE, AND VIOLENT. IT IS KNOWN TO BE ADDICTIVE, AND DEATH FROM A COCAINE OVERDOSE CAN OCCUR FROM CONVULSIONS, HEART FAILURE, AND IT CAN DAMAGE THE MUCOUS MEMBRANES WHEN SNORTED. HOLLYWOOD CELEBRITIES AND WESTERN ROCK START COMMONLY USE THIS DRUG.  CAFFEINE THE ACTIVE INGREDIENT IN COFFEE, TEA, COLA DRINKS, USED TO CONSTRICT THE BLOOD FLOW AND AS A CURE FOR HEADACHES, DIURETICS, AND EXTREME ASTHMA CARE. EFFECTS: CAFFEINE HAS MULTIPLE EFFECTS ON METABOLISM IN YOUR BODY. IT ACTIVATES THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM, WHICH CAN HELP YOU FEEL AWAKE MORE AND GIVE YOU AN ENERGY BOOST.  NICOTINE A POISONOUS ALKALOID THAT IS AN ACTIVE INGREDIENT IN TOBACCO AND CIGARETTES. EXTRACTED FROM TOBACCO LEAVES, IT IS COLORLESS BUT QUICKLY TURNS BROWN WHEN EXPOSED TO SUNLIGHT. IT HAS A BURNING, ACRID FLAVOR. EFFECTS: NICOTINE CAUSES A VARIETY OF EFFECTS ON THE BODY AND MIND, INCLUDING REDUCED APPETITE, INCREASED MOOD, INCREASED BOWEL ACTIVITY, INCREASED SALIVA AND PHLEGM PRODUCTION, INCREASED HEART RATE, INCREASED BLOOD PRESSURE, SWEATING, NAUSEA, DIARRHEA, IMPROVED MEMORY, AND INCREASED ALERTNESS. 4. HALLUCINOGENS KNOWN AS "PSYCHEDELICS," A COLLECTION OF NATURAL OR SYNTHETIC PSYCHOACTIVE SUBSTANCES THAT CREATE A SHIFT IN THE STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS THAT TRIGGERS REACTIONS, INCLUDING PERCEPTUAL ALTERATIONS. THEY CREATE HALLUCINATIONS OR VISIONS IN THE FORM OF SHAPES AND CHANGES OF COLOR IN THE APPEARANCE OF THE OUTSIDE WORLD, WHICH PROGRESS IN REPLACING THE ACTUAL REALITY WITH IMAGINARY BEINGS AND LANDSCAPES IN EXTREME CASES. A. LYSERGIC ACID DIETHYLAMIDE (LSD) B. MESCALINE C. PSILOCYBIN D. PHENCYCLIDINE (PCP) E. MARIJUANA  LYSERGIC ACID DIETHYLAMIDE (LSD) A FUNGAL-DERIVED CRYSTALLINE MATERIAL THAT INFECTS WHEAT OR RYE. WELL KNOWN AND MOST POTENT HALLUCINOGEN IN THE FORM OF TABLETS, GELATIN, OR IMPREGNATED PAPER TOOK ORALLY. SOME EFFECTS ARE HALLUCINATIONS, DISTORTED VISUAL AWARENESS OF SHAPES, COLORS, ALTERED SOUNDS, ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION, HALLUCINATIONS EFFECTS: THE PHYSICAL EFFECTS OF LSD FROM PERSON TO PERSON ARE UNPREDICTABLE. TYPICALLY, THE DRUG'S FIRST EFFECTS ARE FELT 30 TO 45 MINUTES AFTER IT IS TAKEN BY MOUTH, PEAK AT 2 TO 4 HOURS, AND CAN LAST FOR 12 HOURS OR MORE.  MESCALINE KNOWN AS "STP," A PRODUCT EXTRACTED FROM PEYOTE CACTUS DRIED TOPS. EFFECTS: MESCALINE MAY HAVE PHYSICAL EFFECTS: INCREASED BODY TEMPERATURE, HEART RATE INCREASED, PUPILS DILATED, SHAKING, DIZZINESS, HEAVY SWEATING, FLUSHED SKIN, LACK OF COORDINATION, VOMITING AND NAUSEA, LOSS OF APPETITE.  PSILOCYBIN A MUSHROOM-INGESTED HALLUCINOGENIC AGENT TO ACHIEVE ITS EFFECT CLOSE TO LSD AND STP. EFFECTS: THE PSILOCYBIN EFFECTS ARE USUALLY SIMILAR TO THE LSD EFFECTS. THESE INCLUDE ALTERED TIME AND SPACE PERCEPTION AND EXTREME SHIFTS IN MOOD AND FEELING. POSSIBLE IMPACTS OF PSILOCYBIN INCLUDE EUPHORIA, PEACEFULNESS, SPIRITUAL AWAKENING, RAPIDLY SHIFTING FEELINGS, DEREALIZATION OR THE SENSATION THAT THE WORLD IS NOT REAL, DEPERSONALIZATION, OR A DREAMLIKE SENSE OF DISENGAGEMENT FROM THE SURROUNDINGS, ALTERED PERCEPTION, VISUAL ALTERATION, AND DISTORTION, SUCH AS LIGHT HALOS AND BRIGHT COLORS, DILATED PUPILS, DIZZINESS, DROWSINESS, POOR FOCUS, MUSCLE FATIGUE, LACK OF COORDINATION, UNUSUAL BODY SENSATIONS, NAUSEA, ANXIETY, CONFUSION, FRIGHTENING HALLUCINATIONS, VOMITING, AND YAWNING.  PHENCYCLIDINE (PCP) CONSIDERED THREATENING AND HIGHLY DANGEROUS DRUGS BECAUSE IT CAN BE EASILY SYNTHESIZED WITH NO HUMAN MEDICAL PURPOSE BUT USED BY VETERINARIANS AS ANESTHETIC AND ANIMAL SEDATIVE. EFFECTS: HERE IS A LIST OF DISSOCIATIVE DRUG EFFECTS IN GENERAL: LOW TO MODERATE DOSES: LOSS OF COORDINATION, DISORIENTATION, CONFUSION, DIZZINESS, NAUSEA AND VOMITING, NUMBNESS, CHANGES IN SENSORY PERCEPTION, HALLUCINATIONS, FEELINGS OF DETACHMENT FROM ONESELF AND THE ENVIRONMENT, INCREASED BLOOD PRESSURE, INCREASED HEART RATE, RAPID BREATHING RATE, INCREASED BODY TEMPERATURE. HIGHER DOSES: HALLUCINATIONS, LOSS OF MEMORY, PHYSICAL PAIN, MARKED PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS, INTENSE PANIC OR FEAR, ANXIETY, HYSTERIA, INVULNERABILITY, EXCESSIVE FORCE, VIOLENCE. ASIDE FROM THE GENERAL EFFECTS DESCRIBED ABOVE, PCP USERS CAN BECOME HIGHLY AGGRESSIVE OR ABUSIVE, AND MAY EXPERIENCE SCHIZOPHRENIA-LIKE PSYCHOTIC SYMPTOMS.  MARIJUANA KNOWN AS CANNABIS, A MODERATE HALLUCINOGENIC PRODUCT EXTRACTED FROM CRUSHED LEAVES, FLOWERING TOPS, AND STEMS OF THE "CANNABIS SATIVA" HEMP PLANT. IN CENTRAL ASIA AND CHINA, THEY TYPICALLY SMOKED OR EATEN FOR PLEASURE IN JUICING AND FOLK MEDICINE. EFFECTS: USERS DESCRIBE THE FEELING OF SMOKING MARIJUANA AS RELAXED, HAPPY, AND GENERALLY HAVING A GAY MOOD. SOME SAY IT ENHANCES TENSE FEELINGS, INTENSE SITUATIONS, AND OTHERS SAY IT MAKES THEM FALL ASLEEP.  5. INHALANTS SUBSTANCES THAT ARE NOT USUALLY CONSIDERED TO BE MEDICINAL PRODUCTS BUT HAVE GREAT POTENTIAL FOR MISUSE. THEY ARE INHALED OR SNIFFED TO PRODUCE A STATE OF INTOXICATION FOR THEIR PSYCHOACTIVE (MIND/MOOD-ALTERING) EFFECTS. THE EFFECTS CAN BE FELT INSTANTLY AND LAST FOR 45 MINUTES, AND THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM BECOMES DEPRESSED.  RUGBY GASOLINE, KEROSENE (GAS) PAINT THINNER,AND SOLVENT NAIL POLISH AND CUTICLE REMOVER LIGHTER FLUID FLUOROCARBONS SUCH AS AEROSOL SPRAYS, NASAL SPRAYS, AND ORGANIC ISOAMYL NITRITE (POPPER). DRUG LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES 1. THE DANGEROUS DRUGS BOARD 2. PHILIPPINE NATIONAL POLICE – DRUG ENFORCEMENT AGENCY 3.NATIONAL DRUG LAW ENFORCEMENT & PREVENTION COORDINATING CENTER (NDLEPCC) 4. PHILIPPINE CENTER ON TRANSNATIONAL CRIME (PCTC) 5. NATIONAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (NBI) REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9165 COMPREHENSIVE DANGEROUS DRUGS ACT OF 2002 Unlawful Acts and Penalties SALE, TRADING, ADMINISTRATION, DISPENSATION, DELIVERY, DISTRIBUTION AND TRANSPORTATION OF DANGEROUS DRUGS AND/OR CONTROLLED PRECURSORS AND ESSENTIAL CHEMICALS (SEC 5, RA 9165) Penalty: Life Imprisonment fine ranging from Five hundred thousand pesos (P500,000.00) to Ten million pesos (P10,000,000.00) SALE, TRADING, ADMINISTRATION, DISPENSATION, DELIVERY, DISTRIBUTION AND TRANSPORTATION OF DANGEROUS DRUGS AND/OR CONTROLLED PRECURSORS AND ESSENTIAL CHEMICALS (SEC 5, RA 9165) Penalty: Life Imprisonment fine ranging from Five hundred thousand pesos (P500,000.00) to Ten million pesos (P10,000,000.00) Maintenance of a Den, Dive or Resort (SECTION 6, RA 9165) Penalty: Life Imprisonment fine ranging from Five hundred thousand pesos (P500,000.00) to Ten million pesos (P10,000,000.00) Employees and Visitors of a Den, Dive or Resort Penalty: Imprisonment of 12 years and 1 day to 20 years fine ranging from One hundred thousand pesos (P100,000.00) to Five Hundred Thousand pesos (P500,000.00) Any employee of den, dive or resort, who is aware of the nature of the place as such POSSESSION OF DANGEROUS DRUGS. (SEC 11, RA 9165) (1) 10 grams or more of opium; (2) 10 grams or more of morphine; (3) 10 grams or more of heroin; (4) 10 grams or more of cocaine or cocaine hydrochloride; (5) 50 grams or more of methamphetamine hydrochloride or "shabu"; (6) 10 grams or more of marijuana resin or marijuana resin oil; (7) 500 grams or more of marijuana; and 8) 10 grams or more of other dangerous drugs such as, but not limited to, methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDA) or "ecstasy", paramethoxyamphetamine (PMA), trimethoxyamphetamine (TMA), lysergic acid diethylamine (LSD), gamma hydroxyamphetamine (GHB), and those similarly designed or newly introduced drugs and their derivatives, without having any therapeutic value or if the quantity possessed is far beyond therapeutic requirements, as determined and promulgated by the Board in accordance to Section 93, Article XI of this Act.  Penalty: Life imprisonment fine ranging from Five hundred thousand pesos (P500,000.00) to Ten million pesos (P10,000,000.00) IF THE QUANTITY INVOLVED IS LESS THAN THE FOREGOING QUANTITIES, THE PENALTIES SHALL BE GRADUATED AS FOLLOWS Kinds of Drugs Grams Penalty methamphetamine hydrochloride or Shabu 10g to 49g Life imprisonment and a fine ranging from Four hundred thousand pesos (P400,000.00) to Five hundred thousand pesos (P500,000.00) Marijuana 300g to 499g Imprisonment of twenty (20) years and one (1) day to life imprisonment and a fine ranging from Four hundred thousand pesos (P400,000.00) to Five hundred thousand pesos (P500,000.00) methamphetamine hydrochloride or "shabu", 5g to 9g Imprisonment of twenty (20) years and one (1) or other dangerous drugs day to life imprisonment and a fine ranging from Four hundred thousand pesos (P400,000.00) to Five hundred thousand pesos (P500,000.00) Marijuana Below 300g Imprisonment of twelve (12) years and one (1) day to twenty (20) years and a fine ranging from Three hundred thousand pesos (P300,000.00) to Four hundred thousand pesos (P400,000.00) methamphetamine hydrochloride or "shabu", Below 5g Imprisonment of twelve (12) years and one (1) or other dangerous drugs day to twenty (20) years and a fine ranging from Three hundred thousand pesos (P300,000.00) to Four hundred thousand pesos (P400,000.00) POSSESSION OF EQUIPMENT, INSTRUMENT, APPARATUS AND OTHER PARAPHERNALIA FOR DANGEROUS DRUGS. (SEC 12, RA 9165) Penalty: imprisonment ranging from six (6) months and one (1) day to four (4) years fine ranging from Ten thousand pesos (P10,000.00) to Fifty thousand pesos (P50,000.00) POSSESSION OF DANGEROUS DRUGS DURING PARTIES, SOCIAL GATHERINGS OR MEETINGS- ANY PERSON FOUND POSSESSING ANY DANGEROUS DRUG DURING A PARTY, OR AT A SOCIAL GATHERING OR MEETING, OR IN THE PROXIMATE COMPANY OF AT LEAST TWO (2) PERSONS (SEC 13, RA 9165) Penalty: Life imprisonment fine of Ten million pesos (P10,000,000.00) A PERSON APPREHENDED OR ARRESTED, WHO IS FOUND TO BE POSITIVE FOR USE OF ANY DANGEROUS DRUG, AFTER A CONFIRMATORY TEST, SHALL BE IMPOSED A PENALTY OF A MINIMUM OF SIX (6) MONTHS REHABILITATION IN A GOVERNMENT CENTER FOR THE FIRST OFFENSE. IF APPREHENDED USING ANY DANGEROUS DRUG FOR THE SECOND TIME (SEC 15, RA 9165) Penalty: imprisonment ranging from six (6) years and one (1) day to twelve (12) years fine ranging from Fifty thousand pesos (P50,000.00) to Two hundred thousand pesos (P200,000.00) CRIMINAL LIABILITY OF GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS AND EMPLOYEES (SEC 28, RA 9165) Penalty: Life Imprisonment absolute perpetual disqualification from any public office Thank you!