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Methamphetamine Hydrochloride
scientific name for shabu
Cannabis sativa
scientific name for marijuana
Dangerous Drugs Board and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency
two government agencies directly answer to the regulation, apprehension, and monitoring of the use and sale of illegal drugs
Dangerous Drugs Board
An agency that monitors the use, sale, production, and consumption of illicit drugs and other paraphernalia
Illicit drugs
drugs which are prohibited by law
Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency
an agency that monitors and penalizes the use, sell, and processing of illicit drugs and other paraphernalia
Regulated drugs
Drugs which are monitored by the PDEA for illegal importation
pusher
Any person who sells, trades, administers, dispenses, delivers or gives away to another, on any terms whatsoever, or distributes, dispatches in transit or transports dangerous drugs or who acts as a broker in any of such transactions, in violation of this Act
Republic Act No. 6425
Dangerous Drugs Act of 1972
Republic Act No. 9165
Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002
Narcotic Drug
Refers to any drug which produces insensibility, stupor, melancholy or dullness of mind with delusions and which may be habit-forming, and shall include opium, opium derivatives and synthetic opiates
Opium
refers to coagulated juice of the opium poppy (papaver somniferum) and embraces every kind and class of opium
Methamphetamine Hydrochloride
immediate effect of this drug id the blocking in the brain of a neurotransmitter known as dopamine
Marijuana
impairs the ability of a person to focus
Tetrahydrocannabinol
active ingredient in marijuana
Inhalants
cheap and easily accessible
Rugby
a common inhalant
November 14, 1972
when was the Dangerous Drugs board established?
Secretary Benjamin R. Reyes
current head of the DDB
Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency
Is the arm of the government which is responsible for the enforcement of the provisions on the use of the prohibited drugs
April 4, 1972
When was RA 6425 signed?