Oman raises personal-use fines and unpaid-supply prison terms
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Oman retained one to three years for personal use while raising the fine to 1,000–5,000 ri … ten, and the separate trading offence’s minimum rose from ten to fifteen years.[@1,3] The law also raised trading fines from 3,000–15,000 to 10,000–25,000 rials, unpaid-supply fines from 3,000–10,000 to 5,000–15,000, and top-tier import or production fines from 25,000–50,000 to 35,000–60,000.[@1] The replacement law kept treatment alternatives and death or life imprisonment for specified s … atives.[@1] It took effect on 7 September 2026, replacing the 1999 law and amendments.[@1]