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No licensed production. Article 8 of Law 97-025 bans growing the cannabis plant anywhere in the country.
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No legal products.
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No patient programme is documented. The 1997 Act forbids using drugs and the retained sources do not establish whether aset no medical cannabis programme operatesroute.[@idpc17]
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The retained sources do not establish collateral consequencesdescribe no consequence beyond the penalties described abovesentence itself: the 1997 Act fixes minimum fines and prison terms with no alternatives to prison.[@idpc17]
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label Unauthorised possession of a narcotic · treatment criminal · prison min 2 years · prison 5 years · fine 5000000 · note Reported figures; fine of 500,000–5,000,000 CFA francs
label Export, import and international transport (Article 96) · treatment criminal · prison min 5 years · prison 10 years · note Fine of three times the value seized
The death penalty, abolished in 2016, no longer applies to any drug offence.[@idpc17,wiki]
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There is no legal way to get cannabis. Possession is reported to carry two to five years and a fine of 500,000 to 5 million CFA francs; there is some informal tolerance outside the cities, but raids and arrests are active in Cotonou and at borders.[@wiki]
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