Armenia: plant-count cultivation, 2026 hemp licensing and 7 history entries

1934-10-27

Собрание законов и распоряжений Рабоче-Крестьянского Правительства СССР за 1934 г., № 56, ст. 422 — О запрещении посевов опийного мака и индийской конопли Wikipedia — Cannabis in Russia

Small possession and use are administrative offences with heavy fines, doubledraised sharply in May 2026; sale and largelarger-scale growing are criminal. Industrial hemp is licensed at 0.3% THC, while psychoactive cannabis has no medical route.

Small and significant cultivationGrowing one to five plants is an administrative, not criminal: up to 500 g of plant material brings offence with an 80,000 to –100,000 dram fine, and 500 g; six to 2.5 kg anine plants bring 100,000 to –120,000 dram finedrams.[@admin,amounts] Above 2.5 kgFrom ten plants the offence becomesis criminal: 10–100 plants carry up to two years for 2.5 to 12.5 kg, more than 100 plants or a group two to five years above 12.5 kg, and four to eight years for an organised group or involving minors four to eight years.[@criminal] Licensed companies may grow industrial hemp with no more than 0.3% THC and CBD greater than THC; individuals may not.[@hempact]

upto 500 g · treatment civil · term Small amountcultivation, Article 110.2(1) · fine min 80000 · fine 100000, over 500 g · upto 2.5 kg ·label One to five plants, treatment civil · term Significant amountcultivation, Article 110.2(2) · fine min 100000 · fine 120000, over 2.5 kg · upto 12.5 kg ·label Six to nine plants, treatment criminal · term Article 404(1) · prison 2 years · label 10–100 plants · note Fine, community work, restriction of liberty or short-term imprisonment also available, over 12.5 kg · treatment criminal · term Especially large amount, Article 404(2) · prison min 2 years · prison 5 years, · label Organised groupMore than 100 plants or involving minors ·a group, treatment criminal · term Article 404(3) · prison min 4 years · prison 8 years · label Organised group or involving minors

The verified production route is licensed industrial hemp with CBD greater than THC and no more than 0.3% THC; products are export-only.[@hempact] Only legal entities may hold a production licence, for up to ten years, with a minimum charter capitalfacilities and nursery, greenhouse, warehouse and laboratory requirements; production must start withina two years-year start requirement.[@hempact] SixIn January 2026 two companies held licences by January 2022, one operating; no domestic hemp product was verified.[@evn22sputnik26] Cannabis outside that hemp category remains on List No. 1, but Article 11 permits licensed scientific use of prohibit … Article 14 separately requires a substance-specific production licence and state quotas; the sources reviewed establish no cannabis-specific medical manufacturing licence under that provisionwas established.[@hempact]

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Industrial-hemp seed and planting material are available only within the licensed producer … ive cannabis is on List No. 1, and its seeds and clones fall under the general prohibition; no explicit seed rule was found, so the psychoactive-seed status is grey.[@list1129] No open seed or clone market was found.

In 2024 the authorities seized about 426427 kg of all drugs, roughly 200 kg more than in 2023.[@azat25]; UNODC records 327 kg of herbal cannabis seized in 2024, against 13 kg in 2023.[@azat25,unodc_szr] Recorded drug crimes rose from 2In 2025 police seized 768.9 kg of all drugs,266 in 2022 to 5 up 80%,070 in 2023, and drug-trafficking cases rose 83% in the first half of 20252026 320.6 kg.[@azat23armenpress26] Recorded drug crimes were 3,azat25639 in 2024 and 4,170 in 2025; registered drug users stood at 7,650 on 1 January 2026, mostly cannabis users.[@armenpress26] No price or purity data were found.

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No published annual arrest count by drug was found. The available figures are seizures and recorded offences:Recorded drug crimes were 5,070 drug crimes in 2023, 3,639 in 2024 and a 83% rise4,170 in drug-2025; 1,545 trafficking cases were recorded in the first half of 20252026.[@azat23,azat25armenpress26] In 2024 there were 252 drug-trafficking cases involving information or communication technology.[@azat25] The figures cover all drugs, not cannabis alone.[@armenpress26]

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Sputnik Armenia — Two licensed hemp producers in January 2026 (19 January 2026) Armenpress — Police drug statistics for 2025 and H1 2026 (18 August 2026) 18 unchanged