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The 1993 decree’s article 4 expressly included possession and prescribed medium-term imprisonment plus a CFA fine.[@decree1993] Current British travel advice still warns of severe penalties including prison.[@fcdo] The decree’s exact relationship to the Penal Code effective in December 2022 has not been verified, so the former one-to-twenty-year claim is removed and no current numerical custody range is asserted.[@decree1993,un2023] The possession rating remains provisional.[@un2023]
Article 4 of the 1993 decree expressly criminalised unauthorised cultivation alongside manufacture and trafficking.[@decree1993] No recreational home-growing exemption was established.[@decree1993] The later Penal Code and representative sentencing need further review before a current tariff or typical outcome can be stated; the numerical rating remains provisional.[@un2023]
Current British travel advice describes drug possession as a serious offence punishable by prison.[@fcdo] An AFP report dated 6 January 2000 described open cannabis use and quoted local claims of little enforcement; that is historical reporting, not a current arrest or sentencing survey.[@iol] The enforcement rating remains provisional pending recent cannabis-specific outcomes.[@fcdo]
The 1993 decree expressly included donation and facilitating illegal use within article 4, without a general unpaid-gift exemption.[@decree1993] The reviewed evidence does not establish a current lawful recreational gifting route.[@decree1993] Precise penalties and the numerical rating require reconciliation with the later Penal Code and enforcement evidence.[@un2023]
Articles 1 and 4 of the 1993 decree expressly prohibited and punished use.[@decree1993] The 2000 report of open smoking is retained as historical context, not proof of present-day tolerance.[@iol] Current cannabis-specific prosecutions and the effect of the 2022 Penal Code remain gaps; the numerical rating is provisional.[@un2023]
No functioning legal recreational or cannabis patient supply route was established.[@decree1993] Article 2 of the 1993 decree permitted Health Ministry authorisation for medical and scien … l controlled-medicines power is not proof of cannabis prescriptions or available products.[@decree1993]
There is no legal way to get cannabis. The 1993 decree criminalised cultivation, possession, use and gifts, and current British travel advice still calls possession a serious offence punishable by prison; how the 1993 tariffs interact with the Penal Code in force since December 2022 is unverified.[@decree1993,fcdo,un2023]
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The 1993 decree criminalised cultivation and manufacture, while article 2 reserved medical and scientific authorisations to the Health Ministry.[@decree1993] It does not establish that a cannabis production licence was issued or that a lawful hemp industry operates.[@decree1993] The later legislative position remains under review.[@un2023]
Articles 2–3 of the 1993 decree expressly contemplated authorised medical and scientific u … ferred prescription and dispensing requirements to the pharmaceutical selection committee.[@decree1993] This is a general medicines framework rather than evidence of a cannabis-specific patient programme.[@decree1993] The none label records that no such programme or supply route has been established.
Article 5(2) of the 1993 decree prescribed professional disqualification for a physician or public official abusing their position, including specified health and pharmacy personnel.[@decree1993] That is not a general employment ban for every cannabis user.[@decree1993] Its present application must be checked against the later Penal Code.[@un2023]
No recreational club authorisation was established.[@decree1993] The 1993 decree expressly prohibited cultivation and donation, so its medical/scientific exception cannot be read as collective recreational-growing permission.[@decree1993] Current informal club activity was not verified.
There is no legal recreational supply for anyone. British travel advice says possession of drugs is a serious offence[@decree1993] Possession, use, cultivation and that punishments can be severegifts remain criminal offences under the 1993 decree, including prison sentencespending reconciliation with the 2022 Penal Code.[@decree1993,un2023]
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No industrial-hemp exception was verified: the 1993 decree covers cannabis with no low-THC distinction, and no hemp production is documented.[@decree1993] Whether the 2022 Penal Code changes that position remains under review.[@un2023]
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