Article 354c
(New, SG No. 95/1975, amended, SG No. 62/1997, SG No. 21/2000)
(1) (Amended, SG No. 75/2006) A person who sows or cultivates the opium poppy, the coca bush plants and those of the genus cannabis, in violation of the rules established in the Narcotic Substances and Precursors Control Act, shall be punished by imprisonment for two to five years and by a fine from five thousand up to BGN 10,000.
(2) (Amended, SG No. 75/2006) A person who organises, leads or finances an organised criminal group for the purposes of cultivating plants under paragraph 1, or of extracting, producing, or processing drugs, shall be punished by imprisonment from ten to twenty years and by a fine from BGN 50,000 to BGN 200,000.
(3) (Supplemented, SG No. 75/2006) A person who participates in an organised criminal group under the preceding paragraph, shall be punished by imprisonment for three to ten years and by a fine from BGN 5,000 to BGN 10,000.
(4) (Supplemented, SG No. 75/2006) A person participating in an organised criminal group shall not be punished if he or she voluntarily has disclosed to the authorities all the facts and circumstances of his knowledge about the activity of the criminal group.
(5) In minor cases under Paragraph (1) the punishment shall be imprisonment for up to one year and a fine from up to BGN 1,000.
