Officials: Driving on drugs should be crime

Driving under the influence of narcotics should be punishable under the Criminal Law, the China National Narcotics Control Commission said in a recent statement.

It is urgent to write statutes on the issue, the statement said, adding that those who drive under the influence of illicit drugs should be given jail sentences regardless of whether they have caused a traffic accident or not.

Traffic accidents involving driving under the influence of narcotics have surged in recent years.