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The 2000 pharmacy law, Articles 134–135, provides one to six years in prison, a fine of 300,000 to three million CFA francs, or both for possessing narcotics without a legitimate reason.[@pharmacy2000] Its relationship with the separate 1995 drug law and subsequent changes has not been verified.
label Possessing narcotics without legitimate reason (Articles 134–135) · treatment criminal · term Possession · prison min 1 year · prison 6 years · fine 3000000 · note Fine of 300,000–3,000,000 CFA francs; consolidation with the 1995 drug law unverified
Article 136 of the 2000 pharmacy law doubles the ordinary narcotics penalties for illicit cultivation: two to twelve years in prison, a doubled fine, or both.[@pharmacy2000] Current consolidated penalties remain unverified; see possession.
label Illicit cultivation (Article 136, doubled penalties) · treatment criminal · term Cultivation · prison min 2 years · prison 12 years · fine 6000000 · note Doubled fine of 600,000–6,000,000 CFA francs; consolidation unverified
Article 38 of the 2017 Penal Code allows up to two years of confinement in a special health institution for a person with drug dependence convicted of an offence punishable by at least two years in prison.[@pc2017] Under Article 41 it begins after the principal prison sentence ends or is suspended.[@pc2017] The court may shorten confinement after medical advice that release no longer threatens public order.[@pc2017] Current drug-offence penalties remain unverified; see possession. The 2017 confinement rule is traced in the [confinement entry](/history/chad-convicted-drug-users-confinement-2017/).
The 2000 pharmacy law punishes helping someone else use narcotics, even free of charge, with one to six years in prison, a fine, or both.[@pharmacy2000] It also requires a five to twenty year residence restriction for facilitating use.[@pharmacy2000] Current consolidated penalties remain unverified; see possession.
label Helping someone else use narcotics, free or paid · treatment criminal · term Supply · prison min 1 year · prison 6 years · note Fine and/or prison; five-to-twenty-year residence restriction; consolidation unverified
The 1966 decree expressly prohibited cannabis use.[@decree1966] Article 134 of the 2000 pharmacy law sets one to six years in prison, a fine, or both for using narcotics together.[@pharmacy2000] Current consolidated penalties remain unverified; see possession.
No operating cannabis supply programme was established by the retained sources.[@decree1966] The 1966 decree allowed the health minister to grant exceptions for scientific research; the 2000 law regulated controlled medicines and adopted treaty drug lists.[@decree1966,pharmacy2000]
There is no legal way to get cannabis. Possessing narcotics without a legitimate reason br … harmacy law, whose consolidation with the 1995 drug law remains unverified.[@pharmacy2000] British travel advice calls the penalties severe and usually custodial.[@fcdo]
pharmacy2000, fcdo
No licensed production. Illicit cultivation carries two to twelve years and a doubled fine.[@pharmacy2000]
The 2000 pharmacy law requires a five to twenty year residence restriction for facilitating narcotics use and provides confiscation and professional bans in specified cases.[@pharmacy2000] Its present application alongside the 1995 drug law remains unverified.
The retained sources establish no authorised cannabis clubs.[@pharmacy2000] The 2000 pharmacy law punishes using narcotics together and helping others use them, including providing premises.[@pharmacy2000]
There is no legal recreational supplyseparate rule for anyone. British travel advice says penalties for drug usevisitors and possession are severe and usually include a prison sentenceno lawful supply: the pharmacy law's narcotics penalties apply to anyone, and that conditions in local prisons are harshfacilitating use brings a five to twenty year residence restriction.[@pharmacy2000]
pc2017, fcdopharmacy2000
Figures reported by the government to the UN drugs office record 400 kg of herbal cannabis seized in 2024, against 125 kg in 2023.[@unodc_szr] The UN publishes them as kilogram equivalents, and countries count seizures differently, so the figures are not comparable across borders.[@unodc_szr] Police still destroy seizures publicly: in November 2025 they burned 32 kg of herb and 34 balls of cannabis in N'Djamena under the 1995 drug law (see the [2025 burn](/history/chad-police-burn-2025/)).
GOV.UK (FCDO) — Foreign travel advice: Chad, safety and security
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word Chanvre · lang French · meaning hemp; the 1966 decree's word for cannabis · sources decree1966
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No industrial-hemp exception was verified: the 1966 decree prohibits cannabis without distinction, the 2000 pharmacy law lists narcotics with no low-THC carve-out, and no hemp production is documented.[@decree1966,pharmacy2000]
decree1966, pharmacy2000