Question & AnswerQ&A (Republic Act No. 2060)
Republic Act No. 2060 amends Article 190 of the Revised Penal Code to include marihuana and similar drugs among prohibited drugs, penalizing their possession, preparation, use, and maintenance of opium dens.
'Prohibited drug' includes opium, cocaine, alpha and beta eucaine, Indian hemp (marihuana), their derivatives, and all preparations made from any of them, as well as other natural or synthetic drugs with narcotic physiological action.
The penalty is arresto mayor in its medium period to prision correccional in its minimum period, plus a fine ranging from three hundred to ten thousand pesos.
It includes every kind, class, and character of opium, whether crude or prepared, ashes or refuse, narcotic preparations thereof, morphine or any alkaloid of opium, preparations containing opium or its alkaloids, and opium leaves or wrappings.
Indian hemp or marihuana includes every kind, class, and character of the pistillate plant cannabis sativa, whether dried or fresh flowering or fruiting tops from which resin has not been extracted, including all geographic varieties and forms such as reefers, resin, extract, tincture, or others.
A narcotic drug is a drug that produces insensibility and dullness of mind with delusions and may be habit-forming.
Any person who maintains a dive or resort where prohibited drugs are used in any form, in violation of the law, is subject to penalties under this act.
The Act took effect upon its approval on June 13, 1958.
Yes, the act includes synthetic drugs having physiological action as narcotic drugs under the definition of prohibited drugs.
It amends Article 190 of the Revised Penal Code of the Philippines.