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Under Law 143/2000, possessing a 'risk drug' such as cannabisCannabis plant or resin held for personal use is a crime punished withfalls under the risk-drug offence, carrying three months to two years in prison or a fine.[@drlaw143] Since the 2014 criminal code, users can often end up with a fine or community serviceThe provision specifies no gram threshold.[@lclaw143] A wrinkle: cannabis plant and resin are 'risk drugs', but THCPersonal-use offences involving substances classified as a compound is listed as 'high-risk', which can raise the penalty carry six months to three years.[@dr,lclaw143]
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label Personal-use possession of a risk drug · treatment criminal · term Possession · prison min 3 months · prison 2 years · note OrPrison or a fine; users often end withArticle 4(1), label Personal possession of a fine or community service; THC-preparation classified as-compound high-risk listing can raise· treatment criminal · term Personal-use possession · prison min 6 months · prison 3 years · note Article 4(2); classification depends on the penaltyscheduled substance
Unauthorised growing of risk-drug cannabis for personal useconsumption carries three months to two years or a fine.[@law143] Growing for supply instead falls under the three-months-to-twoten-years provisionyear trafficking offence.[@lc,drlaw143] Licensed agricultural fibreAgricultural hemp has a separate route, withrequires county authorisation, and approved seed and THC testing, with the agricultural 0.3% checks applied under the support rules.[@hemp125]
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label Unauthorised growing for personal use · treatment criminal · term Cultivation · prison min 3 months · prison 2 years · note OrPrison or a fine; users often end with a fine or community servicepersonal consumption only, label Unauthorised growing for supply · treatment criminal · term Trafficking · prison min 3 years · prison 10 years · note Risk-drug cannabis; Article 2(1), label Licensed fibre hemp · treatment legal · term Hemp · note County authorisation, approved EU seed, 0.3% THC checks
Fines and suspended sentences are common for users; prisonPersonal-use possession remains criminal, with a fine available and is usedas an alternative for repeat casesrisk drugs.[@drlaw143] A court may waive or defer punishment for an eligible person complying with the integrated assistance programme.[@law143] DIICOT’s 2025 drug chapter records 3,lc397 defendants sent to trial, including 1,472 in pre-trial detention; those totals cover all drugs.[@diicot2025]
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Supplying risk-drug cannabis plant or resin falls under risk-drug trafficking:carries three to ten years in prison and disqualification of certain rights under Article 2after the [2023 amendment](1), as amended in /history/romania-trafficking-sentences-raised-2023/).[@trafficking2023] Unauthorised import or export carries five to fifteen years; the corresponding high-risk ranges are five to fifteen for supply and ten to twenty for import or export.[@law143] Providing publicly accessible premises for drug use carries two to seven years, and specified drug offences causing death carry fifteen to twenty-five years.[@law143]
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label Supply of risk-drug cannabis · treatment criminal · term Trafficking in· prison min 3 years · prison 10 years · note Article 2(1); disqualification of certain rights, label Import/export of risk drugs · treatment criminal · term Trafficking · prison min 5 years · prison 15 years · note Article 3(1); disqualification of certain rights, label Supply involving a high-risk preparation · treatment criminal · term Trafficking · prison min 5 years · prison 1015 years · note RiskArticle 2(2); disqualification of certain rights, label Import/export involving a high-risk preparation · treatment criminal · term Trafficking · prison min 10 years · prison 20 years · note Article 3(2); disqualification of certain rights, label Providing publicly accessible premises for use · treatment criminal · term Facilitating use · prison min 2 years · prison 7 years · note Article 5; disqualification of certain rights, label Specified drug cannabis plant or resinoffences causing death · treatment criminal · term Aggravated drug offence · prison min 15 years · prison 25 years · note Article 11; specified offences, including Article 2 supply; disqualification of certain rights
NoneThere is no authorised recreational retail route under the drug-control law.[@pplaw143] Medical prescribing is restricted to pharmaceutical preparations under the controlled-medicines framework.[@medical339]
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word Cânepă · lang Romanian · meaning the standard word; kin to hemp and hanf · atlas cann … flowers as a narcotic (DEX) · sources dex-marijuana, word Hașiș · lang Romanian · meaning dried leaves of a hemp kind, chewed or smoked (DEX)hashish; dictionary term · sources dex-hasis
There is no legal recreational supply. Personal-use cannabis possession bringsand growing carry three months to two years or a fine, though users often end withwithout a fine or community service; growing for personal use falls under the same provisionstatutory gram exemption.[@dr,lclaw143] A wrinkle:Giving or selling cannabis to others falls under the plant and resin are 'risk drugs' but THC as a compound is 'high-risk', which can raise the penalty.[@dr,lc] Risk-drugseparate supply carriesoffence, carrying three to ten years under the for risk drugs.[2023 amendment@law143](/history/romania Treatment-traffickingprogramme compliance can permit waiver or deferral of punishment for personal-sentences-raised-2023/)use offences.[@trafficking2023law143] Only CBD products with negligible THC circulate lawfully.[@cms]
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Cultivation, import and sale of cannabis for technical, medical use are allowed under Law 339/2005 with strict governmentor scientific processing requires authorisation through the county agricultural directorates, within annual estimates.[@medical339] Manufacturing and supervisionhandling controlled substances require separate authorisations and checks of premises, personnel and technical means.[@cmsmedical339] Health authorities approve annual quantities for authorised operators.[@medical339]
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Cannabis may be prescribed for medical useThe controlled-medicines law permits prescribing Table II and III substances only as a pharmaceutical productpreparations manufactured industrially or in a pharmacy.[@cmsmedical339] The controlled-substances law requires a prescription and permits patients to holdPatients may possess the prescribed quantity on the basis of their controlled medicineprescription.[@medical339] The [February 2026 cabinet proposal](/history/romania-controlled-preparations-proposal-2026/) sought to clarify preparations and pharmacists’ responsibilities.[@proposal2026]
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A conviction is a criminal recordDrugs and items connected with the specified offences are subject to confiscation under Article 16.[@lclaw143] No spent-convictionUnder Articles 19–20, complying with an integrated assistance programme can allow a court to waive or expungement routedefer punishment for drugpersonal-use offences was found in.[@law143] Failure to follow the retained sourcesprogramme during supervision can trigger the Penal Code’s revocation provisions.[@law143]
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CannabisThe controlled-medicines law excludes separated seeds are sold openlyfrom its definition of cannabis, including as souvenirs, while unauthorised psychoactive cultivation is criminalremains subject to authorisation.[@adv17medical339] Suppliers of cannabis seed for cultivation must deliver it to holders of growing authorisations,cdep and authorised growers must use registered varieties.[@medical339] AuthorisedCounty authorisation and the agricultural hemp is different: county licences, approved seed and THC checks provide arules govern lawful growing routefibre crops.[@hemp125]
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There is no legal recreational supply for anyone. Under Law 143/2000, possessing cannabis forUnauthorised personal usepossession is a crime punished withcriminal, carrying three months to two years in prison or a fine for risk-drug cannabis.[@dr,lclaw143] Unauthorised import or export carries the separate five-to-fifteen-year range.[@law143] The controlled-medicines framework separately recognises possession of prescribed pharmaceutical quantities under its conditions.[@medical339]
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DIICOT'’s [2025 activity report](/history/romania-diicot-drug-results-2025/) records 13,969.9 kg of cannabis seized and 2397 defendants sent to trial for drug offences,258 cannabis crops or plants discovered including 1, with traffickers bringing drugs from Western Europe472 in parcels sent to pre-trial detention.[@actmedia26diicot2025] No account of routine userThese are all-level arrests was founddrug prosecution figures.[@diicot2025] Its cannabis seizures are recorded separately from the defendant counts.[@diicot2025]
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The EU drugs agency's statistical bulletin records 861 kg of herbal cannabis and 43 kg of cannabis resin seized in Romania in 2024, against 940 kg and 43 kg in 2023.[@euda_szr] Herbal cannabis was seized on 3,529 occasions and resin on 285. DIICOT'’s 2025 report addsrecords 1,969.9 kg of cannabis andseized.[@diicot2025] It separately lists 2,258 cannabis crops or /plants seized nationallyand 881.02 kg of green plant material, equivalent to 264.31 kg dry material.[@actmedia26diicot2025] Countries record seizures differentlyThe report describes supply from Western Europe, so the figures are not comparable across bordersincluding apparently ordinary international parcels.[@euda_szrdiicot2025]
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Romanian Legislative Portal — Law 339/2005, consolidated text
Romanian Legislative Portal — Law 143/2000, consolidated 29 March 2025
DIICOT — Activity report for 2025, February 2026
Romanian government — Cabinet decisions, 12 February 2026
Romania — Law 339/2005, original text reproduced by a family medical practice
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