The Legislative Council of the Macao Special Administrative Region passes amendments to the "Anti-Drug Law" to add 10 controlled substances

　　China News Service, Macau, October 16 (Reporter Long Tuyou) The Legislative Council of the Macao Special Administrative Region held a plenary meeting on the 16th to pass the bill to amend the "Prohibition of Unlawful Production, Trafficking, and Smoking of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances" (hereinafter referred to as the "Anti-Drug Law") .

The bill adds 10 new substances to the "Anti-Drug Law" annex regulation, of which 7 are narcotics and psychotropic substances, and 3 are drug precursors.

　　When introducing the bill, Huang Shaoze, Director of the Security Department who attended the meeting, said that the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs listed 12 substances as internationally controlled substances in 2019, and it was confirmed that 10 of these substances were not listed in the schedule of Macau’s Anti-Drug Law.

Therefore, the SAR government proposed to amend the "Anti-Drug Law" to include related substances in the schedule of the "Anti-Drug Law", but the original legal provisions have not been added or removed.

　　Huang Shaoze stated that the purpose of this amendment to the law is to fulfill the obligations of international conventions and improve the effectiveness of simultaneous prevention and combat of drug crimes.

In view of the far-reaching scourge of drug crimes to society, this revision of the law is urgent, so it is necessary to adopt emergency procedures to legislate to include new internationally controlled substances as soon as possible into the schedule of the "Anti-Drug Law" so that law enforcement agencies have laws when fighting related drug crimes. Can rely on.

　　Macau has vigorously cracked down on drug trafficking and drug abuse crimes in recent years.

According to the data registered by the "Macao Drug Abusers Central Registration System", in the past five years, the overall number of reported drug abusers in Macao has continued to decline, but the proportion of young people who use cocaine and marijuana has increased significantly. At the same time, the problem of concealment of drug abuse has caused people Worry.

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