Crimes punishable under RA 9165
AUTHORIZED BY LAW
1. Importation of Dangerous Drugs and/or
Controlled Precursors and Essential
Chemicals
Acts:
import or bring into the Philippines any
dangerous drugs, regardless of quantity and
purity involved, including opium poppy or any
part thereof even for floral, decorative or
culinary purpose
import any controlled precursor or essential
chemical
UNLESS AUTHORIZED BY LAW
2. Sale, Trading, Administration, Dispensation,
Delivery, Distribution and Transportation of
Dangerous Drugs and/or Controlled
Precursors and Essential Chemicals
Acts:
sell, trade, administer, dispense, deliver, give
away to another, distribute, dispatch in transit
or transport any dangerous drug or act as
broker UNLESS AUTHORIZED BY LAW
sell, trade, administerany controlled
precursor and essential chemical or act as a
broker UNLESS AUTHORIZED BY LAW
3. Maintenance of a Den, Dive or Resort
Acts
maintain a den, dive or resort where any DD
is used in any form
maintain a den, dive or resort where any
CPEC is used or sold
*owner, employees and visitors( if have the
knowledge of the den) are penalized
4. Manufacture of Dangerous Drugs and/or
Controlled Precursors and Essential
Chemicals
Acts:
manufacture any of the DD & CPEC UNLESS
-presence of any CPEC or laboratory equipment
is prima facie proof of manufacture
5. Illegal Chemical Diversion of Controlled
Precursors and Essential Chemicals
Acts:
illegally divert any CPEC UNLESS
AUTHORIZED BY LAW
6. Manufacture or Delivery of Equipment,
Instrument, Apparatus, and Other
Paraphernalia for Dangerous Drugs and/or
Controlled Precursors and Essential
Chemicals
Acts:
deliver, possess with intent to deliver,
manufacture with intent to deliver equipment,
instrument, apparatus and other paraphernalia
knowing that it will be used to plant, propagate,
cultivate, grow, harvest, manufacture, etc. any
CPEC
if (equipment, etc) will be used to inject,
ingest, inhale or introduce into the body a DD
7. Possession of Dangerous Drugs
Acts:
possession of any DD in the ff. quantities:
opium, morphine, heroin: 10g +;
cocaine or shabu 50g +;
marijuana resin or resin oil 10g +;
marijuana 500g +;
ecstasy etc 10g +
8. Possession of Equipment, Instrument,
Apparatus and Other Paraphernalia for
Dangerous Drug
Acts:
 possess or have under his/her control for
smoking, consuming, administering, injecting,
ingesting, introducing any DD into the body
**medical practitioners and various
professionals who are required to carry them
shall abide by the guidelines set by the Board
**possession of equipment=prima facie
evidence that the possessor has used a DD in
violation of Sec 15
9. Use of Dangerous Drug
Acts:
a person apprehended/arrested, who is
found to be positive for use of any DD, after
confirmatory test
**not applicable where the person tested is
also found to have in his/her possession same
quantity of any DD; it shall fall under Sec 11
(possession)
10. Cultivation or Culture of Plants Classified as
Dangerous Drugs or are Sources Thereof.
Acts:
any person, who shall plant, cultivate or
culture marijuana, opium poppy or any other
plant regardless of quantity, which is classified
as DD or source thereof
**Medical labs & research centers who
cultivate for medical experiments and research
shall abide by the guidelines set forth by the
Board
**The land, portions or greenhouses used
therefor shall be confiscated in favor of the
State, unless the owner can prove lack of
knowledge
11. Maintenance and Keeping of Original
Records of Transactions on Dangerous
Drugs and/or Controlled Precursors and
Essential Chemicals
Acts:
practitioner, manufacturer, wholesaler,
importer, distributor, dealer, retailer
violates/fails to comply with the
maintenance and keeping of original records of
transactions on any DD CPEC
**additional penalty: revocation of license to
practice or of the business
12. Unnecessary Prescription of Dangerous
Drugs
Acts:
prescribe any DD to any person whose
physical/physiological condition does not
require the use or in the dosage prescribed
**additional penalty: revocation of license
13. Unlawful Prescription of Dangerous Drugs
Acts:
make or issue an prescription or any writing
purporting to be a prescription for any DD
UNLESS AUTHORIZED BY LAW
14. Planting Evidence
Acts:
Planting: willful act by any person of maliciously
and surreptitiously inserting, placing, adding or
attaching directly or indirectly, through any
over or covert act, whatever quantity of DD
and/or CPEC in the person, house, effects or in
the immediate vicinity of an innocent
individual for the purpose of implicating,
incriminating or imputing the commission of
any violation