The State Public Prosecution clarifies the penalty for possessing publications or drawings calling for the commission of drug crimes
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The Public Prosecution of the State, through a tweet published today on its accounts on social media, clarified the penalty for possessing publications or drawings calling for the commission of drug crimes.
The Public Prosecution indicated that according to Article 55 of Federal Decree-Law No. 30 of 2021 regarding combating narcotics and psychotropic substances, whoever manufactures, imports, brings, sells or possesses with the intention of promoting goods or publications a fine of no less than fifty thousand dirhams. Carrying pictures, drawings, writings or ideas that invite or incite the commission of any of the crimes of narcotics or psychotropic substances stipulated in this Decree-Law.
Whoever wears any clothing or uses any merchandise or printed matter of the preceding paragraph shall be punished with a fine of no less than five thousand dirhams.
In the event of return, the penalty shall be imprisonment for a period not exceeding two years, and in all cases, the seizures shall be confiscated.
The dissemination of this information comes within the framework of the State Public Prosecution’s ongoing campaign to enhance the legal culture among members of society, publish all the new and updated legislation in the country, and raise the level of public awareness of the law, with the aim of spreading the culture of law as a way of life.
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