If someone in the venue hands you "something," leave right away: harboring and supplying are not "helping a friend"

Cost

Free. Stand up and walk out. The hard part is leaving in front of a table of people.

What you get

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. On the individual side, the Criminal Law provides: "Anyone who harbors others to take or inject drugs is sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of up to 3 years, criminal detention or public surveillance, and is also fined." The Supreme People's Court's judicial interpretation lists the situations that amount to a crime, including harboring several people at once, harboring repeatedly within 2 years, harboring minors, and harboring for profit. Where it does not amount to a crime, the Public Security Administration Punishments Law (治安管理处罚法) imposes 10 to 15 days of detention and may add a fine of up to 3000 yuan. In lighter cases, it is up to 5 days of detention or a fine of up to 1000 yuan. Taking or injecting drugs yourself likewise brings 10 to 15 days of detention and possibly a fine of up to 3000 yuan.

Notes

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

1. State Council (2006). Regulations on the Administration of Entertainment Venues (State Council Order No. 458, Articles 14, 30 and 42) [in Chinese]. http://www.gov.cn/zhengce/zhengceku/2008-03/28/content_6297.htm
2. National People's Congress (1997). Criminal Law (Article 354) [in Chinese]. https://www.spp.gov.cn/spp/fl/201802/t20180206_364975.shtml
3. Supreme People's Court (2016). Interpretation on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Law in Hearing Drug Crime Cases ([2016] No. 8, Article 12) [in Chinese]. https://www.sc.jcy.gov.cn/zlxx/sfjs/201606/t20160617_1809560.shtml (republished by the People's Procuratorate of Sichuan Province)
4. Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (2025). Law on Public Security Administration Punishments (2025 revision, Articles 84 and 85) [in Chinese]. https://www.spp.gov.cn/spp/fl/202506/t20250627_699863.shtml

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