Article 3 of the Saudi Anti-Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances Law

This article is the basis of criminalization in the Law; it specifies the acts that are offenses, and other articles of the Law set out the penalty for each. The criminalized acts fall into seven groups:

1. Smuggling narcotic or psychotropic substances, or receiving them from smugglers.
2. A wide list of dealings including: importation, exportation, production, manufacture, extraction, conversion and extraction, possession and holding, sale, purchase, distribution, delivery, receipt, transport and barter, use, brokering, facilitating use, giving as a gift, financing, and supplying them. Excluded from this is what is done in the cases provided for by the Law and subject to its conditions and procedures, such as licensed medical use.
3. Cultivating plants listed in Table (4), or importing, exporting, owning, possessing, holding or disposing of any part of them, at all stages of their growth, as well as their seeds, bartering with them or participating in that, except in the cases provided for by the Law. A cultivator is anyone who does any work necessary for the growth of seeds or seedlings or caring for the crop until it ripens and is harvested.
4. Making equipment or materials, or selling, transporting or distributing them, with the intention of using them in cultivating, producing or manufacturing narcotics illicitly.
5. Laundering funds derived from any offense under the Law.
6. Participation by agreement, incitement or assistance in any of the acts in paragraphs 1 to 5.
7. Attempt to commit any of the acts in paragraphs 1 to 6.

The meanings of these terms are found in the definitions of Article One, such as the definitions of brokering and money laundering. Note that the text criminalizes the act even if it is not completed (attempt), and criminalizes the person who assisted or incited even if he did not carry out the act himself. Anyone facing an accusation of one of these acts needs to consult a lawyer specialized in criminal cases.