COMPREHENSIVE DANGEROUS DRUGS ACT

(RA 9165)
Sec. Crime Punishable Acts
1) Importing or bringing into the
Philippines any dangerous drug, regardless
of the quantity and purity involved,
Importation of Dangerous
including any and all species of opium
Drugs and/or Controlled
4 poppy or any part thereof or substances
Precursors and Essential
derived therefrom even for floral,
Chemicals
decorative and culinary purposes;
2) Importing any controlled precursor (CP)
and essential chemical (EC).
Sale, Trading, 1) Selling, trading, administering,
Administration, dispensing, delivering, giving away to
Dispensation, Delivery, another, distributing dispatch in transit or
Distribution and transporting any dangerous drug or any
5 manages or acts as a "financier"
Transportation of Dangerous CP/EC;
Drugs and/or Controlled 2) Acting as broker in any such
Precursors and Essential transactions;
Chemicals
Who are Liable Qualifying Circumstances
1) If importation is done
through the use of a diplomatic
passport, diplomatic facilities or
1) Any person;
any other means involving
2) Financier;
his/her official status intended
3) Protector/Coddler
to facilitate the unlawful entry
of the same;
2) Acting as a financier
1) If the transaction transpires
within 100 meters from the
school;
2) If the pushers use minors or
mentally incapacitated
individuals as runners, couriers
1) Any person and messengers, or in any other
2) Any person who organizes, capacity directly connected to
the dangerous drugs;
of any of the illegal activities; 3) If the victim of the offense is
3) Protector/Coddler a minor or a mentally
incapacitated individual;
4) If a DD/CP/EC be the
proximate cause of death of a
victim thereof;
5) Acting as financier

1) Where any dangerous drug is

Maintenance of a Den, Dive
6 2) Owner; and/or
or Resort
administered, delivered or sold
to a minor who is allowed to use
1) Maintainer;
Maintaining a den, dive or resort where any the same in such a place;
DD/CP/EC is used or sold in any form; 2) Should any dangerous drug
3) Operator
be the proximate cause of the
death of a person using the same
in such den, dive or resort

Employees and Visitors of a
7 place as such;
Den, Dive or Resort
Manufacture of Dangerous
Drugs and/or Controlled
8 school premises;
Precursors and Essential
Chemicals
Illegal Chemical Diversion
9 of Controlled Precursors and
Essential Chemicals
Manufacture or Delivery of
Equipment, Instrument,
Apparatus, and Other
10 Paraphernalia for Dangerous
Drugs and/or Controlled
Precursors and Essential
Chemicals
Possession of Dangerous
11
Drugs
1) Being employed in a drug den, dive or
resort and being aware of the nature of the
2) Knowingly visiting the den, dive or
resort, being aware of its nature as such.
Engaging in the manufacture of any
DD/CP/EC
Illegally diverting any controlled precursor
and essential chemical
1) Delivering;
2) Possessing with intent to deliver; or
3) Manufacturing with intent to deliver:
equipment, instrument, apparatus and other
paraphernalia for dangerous drugs,
knowing, or under circumstances where
one reasonably should know, that it will be
used to plant, propagate, cultivate, grow,
harvest, manufacture, compound, convert,
produce, process, prepare, test, analyze,
pack, repack, store, contain or conceal any
DD and/or CP and EC.
Possessing any dangerous drug in the
specified quantities
Employee
Any person
(AGGRAVATING)
1) Any phase of the
manufacturing process was
conducted in the presence or
with the help of minor/s:
2) Any phase or manufacturing
process was established or
1) Any person
undertaken within 100 meters of
2) Any person who organizes,
a residential, business, church or
manages or acts as a "financier"
of any of the illegal activities;
3) Any clandestine laboratory
3) Protector/Coddler
was secured or protected with
booby traps;
4) Any clandestine laboratory
was concealed with legitimate
business operations; or
5) Any employment of a
practitioner, chemical engineer,
public official or foreigner.
Any person
1) If it will be used to inject,
ingest, inhale or otherwise
introduce into the human body a
dangerous drug;
2) Using a minor or a mentally
incapacitated individual to
Any person
deliver such equipment,
instrument, apparatus and other
paraphernalia for dangerous
drugs.
Any person found possessing
Any person
any dangerous drug during a
 party, or at a social gathering or
meeting, or in the proximate
company of at least 2 persons.
Possessing or having under his/her control
If the equipment, etc. are
Possession of Equipment, any equipment, instrument, apparatus and
possessed during parties, social
Instrument, Apparatus and other paraphernalia fit or intended for
12 Any person gatherings or meetings, or in the
Other Paraphernalia for smoking, consuming, administering,
proximate company of at least 2
Dangerous Drugs injecting, ingesting, or introducing any
persons.
dangerous drug into the body.
Being found to be positive for use of any Any person apprehended or
15 Use of Dangerous Drugs
dangerous drug, after a confirmatory test arrested
1) Planting;
2) Cultivating; or 1) Any person
Cultivation or Culture of 3) Culturing marijuana, opium poppy or 2) Any person who organizes,
Plants Classified as any other plant regardless of quantity, manages or acts as a "financier"
16 Acting as financier
Dangerous Drugs or are which is or may hereafter be classified as a of any of the illegal activities;
Sources Thereof dangerous drug or as a source from which 3) Protector/Coddler
any dangerous drug may be manufactured
or derived.
1) Practitioner;
Maintenance and Keeping of
2) Manufacturer;
Original Records of 1) Violating; or
3) Wholesaler;
Transactions on Dangerous 2) Failing to comply with the maintenance
17 4) Importer;
Drugs and/or Controlled and keeping of the original records of
5) Distributor;
Precursors and Essential transactions on any DD and/or CP/EC.
6) Dealer; or
Chemicals
7) Retailer
Prescribing any dangerous drug to any
Unnecessary Prescription of person whose physical or physiological
18 Practitioner
Dangerous Drugs condition does not require the use or in the
dosage prescribed therein
Making or issuing a prescription or any
Unlawful Prescription of
19 other writing purporting to be a Any person
Dangerous Drugs
prescription for any dangerous drug.