Narcotics has serious impact on personal mental and physical health and those who convicted of possessing narcotics will have criminal or administrative penalties which are listed in the “Narcotics Hazard Prevention Act".  

According article 11-1 of the prevention act: ” Persons convicted of possessing or using Category three or Category four narcotics shall be punished with a fine of more than ten thousand and less than fifty thousand New Taiwan dollars, and shall be ordered to attend a narcotics hazard seminar of more than four hours and less than eight hours within a specific time frame.”  As thus, those who possess the narcotics in ROC, no matter what your identity is, will all be bounded by the “Narcotics Hazard Prevention Act”. 

Furthermore, according to the article 11 of the Act: 
Persons convicted of possessing pure Category three narcotics of more than 20 grams shall be punished with a maximum three-year fixed-term imprisonment, and may be fined no more than three hundred thousand New Taiwan dollars.

Persons convicted of possessing pure Category four narcotics of more than 20 grams shall be punished with a maximum one-year fixed-term imprisonment, and may be fined no more than one hundred thousand New Taiwan dollars.  To protect your health, it is high recommended not to try the narcotics or break the prevention act which will cause you the price and being penalized for criminal behaviors or offending the administrative rules.  

And, article 2 of the Prevention Act defines the category of narcotics as such:
The term Narcotics in this Act refers to those narcotic drugs and their derivative products that are habit-forming, cause abusive usage, and are a danger to society, and other substances and their products that affect psychological behavior.
The narcotics are divided into four categories based on their extent of causing habitual usage, abusive usage, and danger to the society. The categories and their items are described as follows: 
1. Category one: Heroin, Morphine, Opium, Cocaine, and their derivative products (as shown in Appendix 1).
2. Category two: Opium poppy, Coca, Cannabis, Amphetamines, Pethidine, Pentazocine, and their derivative products (as shown in Appendix 2).
3. Category 3: Secobarbital, Amobarbital, Nalorphine, and their derivative products (as shown in Appendix 3).
4. Category 4: Allobarbital, Alprazolam, and their derivative products (as shown in Appendix 4).