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Malaysia: consequences beyond the penalty from the Act

Replaced the Wikipedia-only supervision and deportation claims with the criminal record, mandatory caning and discretionary death sentence, linked to the 2023 reform.

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Registered drug users face supervision ordersA cannabis conviction is a criminal record. At 20 g or more, possession also carries mandatory caning; foreigners are deported after serving their sentencea trafficking conviction can bring life imprisonment and at least twelve strokes, or death.[@wikidda] Since the [2023 reform](/history/malaysia-mandatory-death-abolished-2023/) death is discretionary rather than mandatory.[@dda]

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