Article 353 of the Chinese Criminal Law stipulates the crime of inducing, instigating, and deceiving others to take drugs and forcing others to take drugs. Anyone who commits the crime of luring, instigating or deceiving others to take drugs shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or surveillance, and shall also be fined; if the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years and not more than seven years, and shall also be fined. Anyone who commits the crime of forcing others to take drugs shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years, and shall also be fined.
Criminal law is a law that stipulates crimes and penalties. In order to safeguard the interests of its own class, the ruling class in power stipulates which behaviors are crimes and what criminal penalties are imposed in the name of the country according to its own will. The general term for legal norms.
Criminal law can be divided into broad and narrow senses. Criminal law in the broad sense is the general term for all criminal legal norms, while criminal law in the narrow sense only refers to the criminal code, which in China is the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China. Related to criminal law in the broad sense and criminal law in the narrow sense, criminal law can also be divided into ordinary criminal law and special criminal law. Ordinary criminal law refers to criminal law with universal application, which actually refers to the criminal code. Special criminal law refers to criminal law that only applies to specific people, times, places, and things (crimes). In our country, it is also called separate criminal law and subsidiary criminal law.
On December 26, 2020, the 24th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China passed the “Amendment to the Criminal Law of the People’s Republic of China ( 11)", effective from March 1, 2021.
Adopted at the second session of the Fifth National People's Congress on July 1, 1979, revised at the fifth session of the Eighth National People's Congress on March 14, 1997, according to December 1998 The "Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Punishing the Crimes of Fraudulent Purchase of Foreign Exchange, Evasion of Foreign Exchange and Illegal Purchase and Sale of Foreign Exchange" passed at the sixth meeting of the Standing Committee of the Ninth National People's Congress on December 29, 1999. The "Amendment to the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China" passed by the 13th Session of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, and the "Amendment to the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China" passed by the 23rd Session of the Standing Committee of the Ninth National People's Congress on August 31, 2001 "Amendment to the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China (II)", the "Amendment to the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China (II)" adopted at the 25th Session of the Standing Committee of the Ninth National People's Congress on December 29, 2001 3)", "Amendment to the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China (4)" adopted at the 31st Session of the Standing Committee of the Ninth National People's Congress on December 28, 2002, No. 4 on February 28, 2005 "Amendment to the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China (V)" passed by the 14th Session of the Standing Committee of the 10th National People's Congress, June 29, 2006, 22nd Session of the Standing Committee of the 10th National People's Congress The "Amendment (6) to the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China and the People's Republic of China" passed at the 11th meeting, and the "Amendment (6) to the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China and the People's Republic of China" passed at the 7th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 11th National People's Congress on February 28, 2009. "Criminal Law Amendment (7)", "Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Amending Some Laws" adopted at the 10th meeting of the Standing Committee of the Eleventh National People's Congress on August 27, 2009, February 25, 2011 The "Amendment (8)" to the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China and the People's Republic of China was adopted at the 19th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 11th National People's Congress on August 29, 2015. The Standing Committee of the 12th National People's Congress The "Amendment (9) to the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China and the People's Republic of China" passed at the 16th session, and the "Amendment to the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China (9)" passed at the 30th session of the Standing Committee of the 12th National People's Congress on November 4, 2017 "Amendment to the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China (10)" and the "Amendment to the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China (10)" adopted at the 24th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress on December 26, 2020 )》Correction.
Legal Basis
"Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China"
Article 353: Luring, instigating, and deceiving others to take drugs. Anyone who instigates or deceives others to take or inject drugs shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or surveillance, and shall also be fined; if the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years and not more than seven years, and shall also be fined.
Forcing others to take drugs. Whoever forces others to take or inject drugs shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years, and shall also be fined.
Those who seduce, instigate, deceive or force minors to take or inject drugs shall be severely punished.