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5．Uprooting the Mother Plants of Narcotic Drugs, Such As Opium Poppy and Marijuana Constantly
According to the law，whoever illegally cultivates mother plants of narcotic drugs，shall be forced to uproot them．Whoever cultivates opium poppy of not less than 500 plants but less than 3,000 plants or any mother plants of other narcotic drugs in relatively large quantities，shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment, and shall be sentenced concurrently to a fine． By the end of l991，we had uprooted 3,600 thousand plants of opium poppy in the whole country．
6．Provide All Kinds of Convenient Facilities for the Drug Addicts for Quitting Their Habits or Force Them to Quit by Rehabilitation through labour．
According to the statistics given by the top official of NNCC，China had l48,539 registered drug addicts by the end of l991．In recent years，232 rehabilitation centers were established，41,227 addicts were forced to quit their addiction there．Meanwhile，40,600 were self-treated or educated．For those drug addicts，we have four measures to choose．
The first methods is to deliver a notice to those fledgling addicts or their family which requires them to quit within a certain period of time，and it also requires the help from the local communities，units．especially the addict’s family，to urge them to give up their habit．The second one is to encourage those enterprises or factories to establish rehabilitation centers of their own for their drug addicts．The third one is to establish state owned quitting centers in those addicts-heavy populated areas．Drug addicts can go and rehabilitate there voluntarily，or to be sent forcedly．The latter is to quit the addiction through labour．Persons who ingest or inject narcotic drugs again after being forced to quit may be subjected to rehabilitation through labour and shall be forced to quit during the period，according to the newly adopted Decision on the Prohibition against Narcotic Drugs．From recent years experience，the last methods seems to be more effective than others．The specific method is to connect pharmaceutical quitting with forced quitting，mainly by means of the latter．1ay stress both on their nourishment and physical training，help them to overcome their biological dependence and urge them to rectify their bad mentality，and strength-control according to the law meanwhile take care of their daily life, as an integrated quartet．The above four measures helped many addicts out of the sea，radically keeping the consuming market within limits．
7．The Work 0f the Legislative Branch
In order to provide legal weapon for the anti-drug struggle．The National People’s Congress adopted several new acts，and some articles of criminal law concerning the theme were complemented or amended． Some local congresses have also enforced several local acts according to their own situation．
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