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A smaller quantity for one-time personal use is a non-criminal misdemeanour with a fine.[@zpppd,zp1] The Celje appeal court stated the euro range as €41.73–208.65 in 2023; the Act sets no gram threshold.[@fine2023] NIJZ’s 2025 report confirms that the general Minor Offences Act removed imprisonment as a sentence for these possession misdemeanours in 2005.[@nijz2025] Voluntary treatment or an approved social-care programme can support a milder penalty; the drugs are confiscated.[@zpppd]
Not legal. Growing cannabis with THC is prohibited and can be prosecuted as production, which carries one to ten years under Article 186 of the Criminal Code.[@kz1bwc] A government-backed draft notified to the EU in July 2025 would allow four plants per adult (six per household), but it has not been enacted.[@tris,boc] Licensed cultivation for medical and scientific purposes is separately lawful under the 2025 Act.[@medical_act]
tris, boc, kz1bwc, medical_act
Minor personal possession is handled by a fine and confiscation. Since 2005, imprisonment cannot be imposed as the sentence for that misdemeanour.[@nijz2025] Production and dealing remain separate criminal offences under Article 186, with prison terms of one to ten years.[@kz1bwc]
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Unlawfully manufacturing or selling a narcotic, or buying or keeping it in order to resell it, is a criminal offence carrying one to ten years under Article 186.[@kz1bwc] The 2025 draft would permit limited unpaid sharing between adults, but it is not law.[@tris]
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Article 33 punishes possession, including a smaller quantity kept for one-time personal use. It does not create a separate offence of use.[@zpppd]
No adult-use source. In a June 2024 consultative referendum 51.6% of voters backed cannabis for limited personal use, and a bill followed, but there are still no clubs or shops.[@boc] The medical route opened in August 2025.[@medical_act]
There is no legal recreational supply. A smaller quantity for one-time personal use is a n … Growing cannabis with THC stays prohibited and can be prosecuted as production.[@tris] A [2025 draft for four plants per adult](/history/slovenia-personal-use-bill-2025/) has not been enacted.[@boc] The personal-use vote itself came from the [June 2024 referendum](/history/slovenia-referendum-2024/).[@boc]
The [2025 Medical and Scientific Cannabis Act](/history/slovenia-medical-law-2025/) allows licensed cultivation and processing for medical and research purposes. Nothing for adult use.[@medical_act]
Medical flower and preparations on prescription; low-THC hemp products.
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Since 20 August 2025 any physician may prescribe cannabis for any condition on their professional judgment, for up to a month at a time, either reimbursed by health insurance or self-paid.[@medical_act] Medical flower and preparations are available on prescription. This is one of Europe's most open medical laws on paper; supply is still being built up.[@medical_act] The programme follows the 2024 referendum, in which 66.7% backed growing and processing cannabis for medical purposes.[@boc]
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Possession of a smaller quantity for one-time personal use is a misdemeanour under the drugs Act.[@zpppd] Unlawfully manufacturing or selling a narcotic is a separate criminal offence carrying one to ten years.[@kz1bwc]
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The controlled-cannabis definition excludes seeds, so possessing seed is not itself a drug offence, but germinating a high-THC variety remains unlawful outside licensed medical or scientific production.[@definition,medical_act] Seed intended for lawful hemp planting must meet agricultural seed and variety rules. Livi … may be produced or marketed only through authorised hemp, medical or scientific channels.[@hemp_rule]
No THC limit is set: the offence is committed if a drug is detected.[@euda_dd] Police may stop at random and test on suspicion, with a roadside oral-fluid test and blood … he licence and re-taking the test after six months to a year; there is no prison sentence.[@euda_dd]
The EU drugs agency's statistical bulletin records 2,981 cannabis-related drug law offences in Slovenia in 2024, against 2,782 in 2023.[@euda_dlo] Of the 2024 total, 2,733 were for use or possession for use. Countries count these differently (offences or offenders, criminal or administrative), so the figure is not comparable across borders.[@euda_dlo]
The 2025 Medical and Scientific Cannabis Act opens licensed cultivation and processing for … rate research programme, trial or published study was established by the retained sources.[@tris]
Clubs exist without any legal basis. A Europe-wide survey of cannabis social clubs carried out in 2018 and 2019 received answers from two clubs in Slovenia, and its authors could not say how many more were active.[@pardal20] The study notes that clubs sit in a legally sensitive position and that many have been dis … many (since 2024) license non-profit cannabis associations, but only under their own laws.[@de_cang,mt_cap628] Nothing more recent was found.[@pardal20]
There is no legal recreational supply. A smaller quantity for one-time personal use is a non-criminal misdemeanour with a fine and confiscation; the Celje appeal court gave the range as €41.73–208.65 in 2023.[@fine2023] Imprisonment as a sentence for this misdemeanour was removed in 2005.[@nijz2025]
The EU drugs agency's statistical bulletin records 564 kg of herbal cannabis and 1.3 kg of cannabis resin seized in Slovenia in 2024, against 794 kg and 11 kg in 2023.[@euda_szr] Herbal cannabis was seized on 2,714 occasions and resin on 64. Plant seizures came to 14,563 plants. Countries record seizures differently, so the figures are not comparable across borders.[@euda_szr]
Criminal Code of the Republic of Slovenia (KZ-1), English translation (BWC implementation resource) Culture of Slovenia — Metelkova mesto Autonomous Cultural Zone 16 unchanged
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label Smaller quantity for one-time personal use · treatment civil · term Minor offence · fine min 41.73 · fine 208.65 · note Non-criminal misdemeanour; no prison since 2005; drugs confiscated
label Unlicensed growing · treatment criminal · term Production · prison min 1 year · prison 10 years · note Prosecuted as production under Article 186, label Licensed medical or scientific growing · treatment legal · term Licensed cultivation · note Only under the 2025 Medical and Scientific Cannabis Act
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Hemp sits inside agricultural rules rather than drug law: seed and seedlings may move only through authorised channels under the 2022 propagation-material rules, and low-THC hemp products are sold.[@hemp_rule] Growing high-THC cannabis outside licensed medical or scientific production stays prohibited and can be prosecuted as production.[@medical_act]
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Ljubljana's [Metelkova](/culture/traditions/metelkova/) autonomous zone grew out of the [1993 barracks occupation](/history/slovenia-metelkova-occupation-1993/); cannabis appears in accounts of its nightlife, though autonomy never meant a separate drug law.[@metelkova] The zone's personal-use politics belong to the national story, including the [2024 referendum](/history/slovenia-referendum-2024/).[@metelkova]
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