Jordan: hemp status, life/death fields and 5 history entries

Jordan’s first restricts cannabis restriction, estimated 1925–1961

No first Jordanian cannabis law was recovered. The earliest domestic drug statute located is recorded here for Jordanthe Dangerous Drugs Law No. Its4 of 1937, but the UN filing read contains only its 1947 amendment and does not list the scheduled substances. The first restrictions on cannabis are assumed to date fromrestriction is therefore dated as an estimate between the 1925 Geneva convention, which put Indian hemp under international control, and the 1961 Single Convention, which required a ban on non-medical use; the 1937 law may be the actual date if its text lists Indian hemp.

United Nations — Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, treaty status Wikipedia — International Opium Convention

1925, 1961

Cannabis remains criminal: personal plant possession can bring one to six months, a JOD200–500 fine, or both; resin carries one to three years plus a fine. First personal-use offences leave no criminal precedent or security record. Separate rules cover prescription CBD products and hemp seed foods.

label Personal possession of cannabis plant (table 3) · treatment criminal · term Personal … months · note One to six months, JOD200–500 fine, or both; first offence leaves no record · fine min 200, label Personal possession of cannabis resin (table 1) · treatment criminal · term Personal possession · fine 3000 · prison min 1 year · prison 3 years · note One to three years and a JOD1,000–3,000 fine · fine min 1000

label Growing for personal use (table 3) · treatment criminal · term Personal cultivation … 20000 · fine 30000 · note Life imprisonment with hard labour and a JOD20,000–30,000 fine · life mandatory

label Distribution or promotion, including gifts · treatment criminal · term Distribution … trafficking · treatment criminal · term Trafficking · fine min 20000 · fine 30000 · note Life imprisonment with hardHard labour and a fine · life mandatory, label International drug gang or linked international crime · treatment criminal · term Trafficking · death true · note Mandatory death under Article 20

Article 20 requires death for specified aggravated trafficking offences involving international drug gangs or links to other international crimes.[@l23] Article 19(b) requires life with hard labour for repeat trafficking, trafficking by officials or trafficking involving a minor, and article 12(1)(d) provides death where an assault on an enforcement official causes death.[@l23] Ordinary personal use is dealt with separately under article 9 and cannot carry death or life.[@l23] The international-gang death clause also appeared in the law replaced in 2016.[@oldlaw]

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The legal medical route is limited toa 2023 framework for approved CBD medicines and natural preparations containing no more than 0.3% THC, dispens … documentation; imports and exports require the regulator’s stamped invoice.[@cbd_reprint] Prescribing follows the official controlled-prescription formNo approved product or patient count was verified.[@cbd_reprint]

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No THC limit makes a cannabis plant legal hemp: controlled plants and their seeds remain prohibited except through thea licensing authority.[@l23] The regulator'sproduct schedules do exclude CBD-dominant oils, extracts and preparations containing no more than 0.3% delta-9 THC frombelow the controlled-drug tables;table threshold, but that line applies to productsis a product rule, not to a hemp crop-growing regime.[@schedules26] The 2023 instructions require product approval and prescriptions for CBD medicines, regulate external-use cosmetics and devices, and permit specified hemp seed foods with THC and CBD limits; these are product rules, not a licence to growno hemp-crop licence or regulation was found.[@cbd23]

OpenAlex — Cannabis papers affiliated with Jordan (repository extract) 11 unchanged

licensed

Article 5 lets the health minister license scientific institutes and research centres to import or possess controlled substances for medical or scientific use.[@l23] Jordan-affiliated cannabis papers in OpenAlex rose to 19 in 2024 and 13 in 2025, but no specific landmark study was verified.[@openalex]

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