CrimeaPRESS reports:
From July 12 to July 21, 2023, the first stage of the annual operational and preventive operation «Poppy» started throughout the territory of the Republic of Crimea. Its main task is to identify the places of growth of drug-containing plants. As part of the ongoing activities, both spontaneously growing shoots of poppy and hemp are identified, and the facts of their deliberate cultivation are suppressed.
The coordinator of the operation is the internal affairs bodies, traditionally it is carried out in cooperation with other law enforcement agencies, state authorities, local governments, public organizations, as well as the leadership of agricultural enterprises in the region, dacha cooperatives and garden associations.
During the operation, a lot of work is assigned to landowners and land users. They must carry out all measures for the destruction of wild-growing drug plants. The law provides for administrative liability for failure to comply with relevant orders issued by employees of the internal affairs bodies— reported in the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Crimea.
The police remind: the cultivation of plants containing narcotic components is a criminal offense. The sanction of article 231 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation provides for liability in the form of imprisonment for up to 8 years. At the same time, for the illegal sale of drugs obtained by cultivating drug plants, Article 228.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation provides for liability in the form of imprisonment, under various aggravating circumstances, up to 20 years.
For enterprises and organizations that do not want to participate in the destruction of drug plants that spontaneously grew on their territory and repeatedly do not comply with the instructions issued by the internal affairs bodies, administrative liability is provided in accordance with Art. 10.5. Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation. Therefore, the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Crimea calls on the heads of agricultural enterprises to inform them in a timely manner about the appearance of dangerous plants in order to avoid problems with the Law.
Police officers appeal to the population with an appeal to report about the places where drug-containing plants grow, as well as about the facts of cultivation that have become known, to the duty unit of the nearest police department, or by calling 102.
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