Legal basis: The Constitution stipulates that "the state respects and protects human rights", and criminal suspects and defendants enjoy the right to personal safety, the right to know, the right to appeal and accuse, the right to defense or the right to entrust a lawyer and the right to receive a fair trial by the court according to law. Lawyers are precisely to safeguard the above-mentioned legitimate rights and interests of criminal suspects and defendants. Article 347 of the Criminal Law Whoever smuggles, sells, transports or manufactures drugs, regardless of the quantity, shall be investigated for criminal responsibility and punished.
Whoever smuggles, sells, transports or manufactures drugs under any of the following circumstances shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than 15 years, life imprisonment or death, and shall also have his property confiscated:
(1) Smuggling, selling, transporting or manufacturing X-rays of more than one kilogram, X-factor of more than fifty grams, X-amine or other drugs in relatively large quantities;
(2) ringleaders of drug smuggling, trafficking, transporting and manufacturing groups;
(3) Armed cover for smuggling, trafficking, transporting or manufacturing drugs;
(4) resisting inspection, detention or arrest by violence, if the circumstances are serious;
(5) Participating in organized international drug trafficking activities.