Recently, a special alarm call was received from the police station of the gang river police station in hangzhou city, where there was a childish voice: "can i call the police if i found a poppy downstairs?"
Once the police officer accurately identified the location of the opium poppy, the police officer told him to stay where he was and wait for the police to be present。
The police said, "i've taken pictures to preserve the evidence. Ai says opium poppy."
Upon being called to the police, the auxiliary police immediately proceeded to the scene。
The plant was confirmed by unodc as opium poppy. The police conducted a visit to verify that the opium poppy was of natural wild growth and that there was no person responsible for planting it. The police officers then removed them on the spot and re-screened the surrounding areas。
It is understood that the police reporter is li, a 13-year-old student。
On the same day, he went to the district to find his classmates to write his homework and found this special plant in the green belt downstairs. There is a clear difference between the leaves, fruit and ordinary green plantings. Through the anti-drug security education received at school, li is familiar with the description, habits and legal provisions of drug plants such as opium poppy, and is immediately vigilant and invites students to use it together。
After confirming that the plant had been planted as a national opium poppy, which was expressly prohibited from private cultivation, the two individuals chose to call the police first。
The two classmates, who were skilled in drug control, were calm and well dealt with, helped the police to clear their security concerns in a timely manner and received praise from the police uncle, setting a good example for their peers。
Public information+
My country has strict legal provisions for poppy cultivation. With the exception of pharmacological, scientific and general education, cultivation is prohibited for any purpose whatsoever. In reality, however, there are still areas of perception of opium poppy, which is one of the reasons for the high incidence of illicit opium poppy cultivation。
Mistake i: consider small cultivation illegal
Poppy cultivation is a drug plant explicitly prohibited by the state and should be eliminated regardless of the amount of illicit cultivation。
Mistake ii: it is considered illegal to plant opium poppy for the purpose of “sicking” people or livestock
Many rural older persons still have a “preference” that superstition opium poppy can cure, leading to illicit cultivation。
Mistake iii: consider it illegal to use it for observation
Following the flowering of the opium poppy, the flowers are beautiful, attractive and valuable, and many people grow the opium poppy for their benefit. However, opium poppy was an original plant with multiple toxins and was extremely socially harmful, and illicit cultivation was punishable by law。
Legal link
Article 71 of the law of the people's republic of china on administrative penalties for security orders shall be punishable by detention for 10 to 15 days and a fine of up to $3,000; if the circumstances are less serious, by detention for up to five days or a fine of up to $500:
(i) illicit cultivation of less than 500 or other small quantities of narcotic plants
(ii) illicit trade in, transport, carry and hold small amounts of raw drug plant seeds, such as raw opium poppy, or seedlings
(iii) the illicit transport, trade, storage and use of small quantities of opium poppy shells。
The first act in the preceding paragraph shall not be punishable if it is self-destructed before maturity。
Article 151 of the criminal code of the people's republic of china provides for the crime of illicit cultivation of narcotic plants: all illicit cultivation of narcotic plants such as opium poppy and cannabis shall be forcibly eradicated. A term of imprisonment of up to five years, detention or control and a fine shall be imposed if:
(i) the cultivation of more than 500 opium poppy plants and less than 3,000 or larger quantities of other drugs
(ii) growed after treatment by public security organs
(iii) resistance to eradication。
The illicit cultivation of more than 3,000 opium poppy or other drug plants is punishable by a term of imprisonment of more than five years and a fine or confiscation of property。
The illicit cultivation of opium poppy or other narcotic plants, which is automatically eradicated before harvest, is exempt from punishment。
Police alert
The harmful effects of opium poppy, a drug plant, are not personal. The law explicitly prohibits the cultivation of plants that are the source of drugs such as opium poppy and cannabis, and not a single plant! If you grow it, you will! If this type of behaviour is detected, call 110 for reporting。
