The term Narcotics in this Act refers to those narcotic drugs and their derivative products that are habit-forming, cause abusive usage, and are a danger to society, and other substances and their products that affect psychological behavior.
The narcotics are divided into four categories based on their extent of causing habitual usage, abusive usage, and danger to the society. The categories and their items are described as follows:
1.Category one: Heroin, Morphine, Opium, Cocaine, and their derivative products (as shown in Appendix 1).
2.Category two: Opium poppy, Coca, Cannabis, Amphetamines, Pethidine, Pentazocine, and their derivative products (as shown in Appendix 2).
3.Category 3: Secobarbital, Amobarbital, Nalorphine, and their derivative products (as shown in Appendix 3).
4.Category 4: Allobarbital, Alprazolam, and their derivative products (as shown in Appendix 4).
The categories and items described in the preceding Paragraph are to be assessed every three months by the review committee as set up by the Ministry of Justice in conjunction with the Ministry of Health and Welfare. The review committee shall assess those narcotic drugs and their derivative products that are habit-forming, cause abusive usage, and are a danger to society, and other such substances and their products that affect psychological behavior, as well as those substances with chemical structures that are similar to these drugs, substances or their derivative products. After this review and approval, the assessment results are to be reported to the Executive Yuan for revision, addition, deletion and promulgation, and then forwarded to the Legislative Yuan for reference.
The management of narcotics and their derivative products as used for medical and scientific purposes, as well as substances that affect psychological behavior and their products, is regulated under separate provisions.

• Appendix 1 Category one narcotics.PDF
• Appendix 2 Category two narcotics.PDF
• Appendix 3 Category three narcotics.PDF
• Appendix 4 Category four narcotics.PDF

Persons convicted of cultivating poppies or coca with intentions to supply for manufacturing narcotics shall be punished with life imprisonment or a minimum seven-year fixed-term imprisonment, and may be fined no more than seven million New Taiwan dollars.
Persons convicted of cultivating Cannabis with intentions to supply for manufacturing narcotics shall be punished with a minimum five-year fixed-term imprisonment, and may be fined no more than five million New Taiwan dollars.
Persons convicted the crime specified in the preceding paragraph for personal use and with a minor violation shall be punished with a minimum one-year to a maximum seven-year fixed-term imprisonment;and in addition thereto, a fine of not more than one million dollars may be imposed.
Persons guilty of attempting to commit the offenses as described in the preceding three Paragraphs are subject to a fine.

Persons convicted of transporting or selling poppy seeds or coca seeds with intentions to supply for cultivation shall be punished with a minimum five-year fixed-term imprisonment, and may be fined no more than five hundred thousand New Taiwan dollars.
Persons convicted of transporting or selling Cannabis seeds with intentions to supply for cultivation shall be punished with a minimum two-year fixed-term imprisonment, and may be fined no more than two hundred thousand New Taiwan dollars.

Persons convicted of possessing or transferring poppy seeds or coca seeds with intentions to sell shall be punished with a maximum three-year fixed-term imprisonment.
Persons convicted of possessing or transferring Cannabis seeds with intentions to sell shall be punished with a maximum two-year fixed-term imprisonment.
Persons convicted of possessing poppy seeds or coca seeds shall be punished with a maximum two-year fixed-term imprisonment, detention, or a fine of no more than thirty thousand New Taiwan dollars.
Persons convicted of possessing Cannabis seeds shall be punished with a maximum one-year fixed-term imprisonment, detention, or a fine of no more than ten thousand New Taiwan dollars.