If someone in the venue hands you "something," leave right away: harboring and supplying are not "helping a friend"
- High value
- Evidence A
- Keeps you free
- Free
- Takes minutes
- Some willpower
In plain words
Entertainment venues may not sell or supply drugs and may not let people use them on the premises. Violators are ordered to suspend business for rectification for 3 to 6 months, and in serious cases lose their license. If you use drugs yourself, you face public-security punishment. If you let someone "use it for a bit" in a room you booked or in your home, that is harboring others to use drugs, which is a crime. If someone takes out unknown powder, tablets or vape cartridges and invites you to try, leave on the spot.
- Cost
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Free. Stand up and walk out. The hard part is leaving in front of a table of people.
- What you get
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The regulations expressly forbid entertainment venues from "selling or supplying drugs, or organizing, forcing, instigating, luring, deceiving or harboring others to take or inject drugs." Staff may not use drugs, and may not create conditions for customers to do the above. For violations, the public security department confiscates illegal gains and unlawful property and orders a suspension of business for rectification for 3 to 6 months. In serious cases the entertainment business license is revoked. The regulations also require venues to hang warning signs against drugs, gambling, prostitution and soliciting prostitution in prominent places in the lobby, rooms and private rooms, with the reporting phone number.
- Notes
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If anyone takes out unknown powder, tablets or e-cigarette cartridges and asks you to "try," leave on the spot, and don't stay to watch. The risk you carry personally is heavier than the venue's. Using drugs yourself already brings public-security punishment. Letting a friend "use it here" in a room you booked or in your own home amounts to harboring others to use drugs, which is a crime.
- Evidence grade
- A : Specific numbers from meta-analyses, large cohorts or randomized trials; for law and policy, the statute or official text.
- Sources
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- 国务院 (2006). 娱乐场所管理条例（国令第 458 号，第十四、三十、四十二条）. http://www.gov.cn/zhengce/zhengceku/2008-03/28/content_6297.htm
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Translated from the Chinese original. Original book, section 22, tip 3. Content may be out of date and rules differ by place. When you actually deal with an agency, a doctor or a court, follow what local officials, doctors and lawyers tell you. Disclaimer