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Cannabis and cannabis resin appear in Table I, the high-risk category.[@law] Article 145 gives a separate tier for small quantities held, bought or grown for personal … nnabis oil, carry two months to one year, a fine of 500,000–1 million CFA francs, or both.[@law,compilation] Non-oil cannabis derivatives carry one to six months, a fine of 250,000–500,000 francs, or both.[@law,compilation] No gram limit is given.
label Small personal quantity, high-risk incl. cannabis oil (Article 145) · treatment criminal · term Possession · prison min 2 months · prison 1 year · fine 1000000 · note Fine of 500,000–1,000,000 CFA francs; no gram limit, label Small personal quantity, non-oil cannabis derivatives · treatment criminal · term Possession · prison min 1 month · prison 6 months · fine 500000 · note Fine of 250,000–500,000 CFA francs
Article 8 prohibits growing cannabis and requires landowners, operators and occupiers to destroy plants growing on their land.[@law] Article 145 expressly includes a small personal crop in the shorter penalty tiers described for possession, without a fixed plant limit.[@law]
label Small personal crop (Article 145) · treatment criminal · term Cultivation · prison min 1 month · prison 1 year · fine 1000000 · note Same short tiers as possession; fine up to 1,000,000 CFA francs; no plant limit
The law allows prison or a fine alone for small personal quantities.[@law] Courts may invite a dependent person convicted of specified offences to undergo treatment instead of or alongside punishment; evading those measures carries one to five years, a fine, or both.[@law] The retained sources do not establish typical sentencing for cannabis users.
Giving or offering a high-risk drug directly for another person's consumption carries one to five years, a fine of 100,000–500,000 CFA francs, or both.[@law] General high-risk trafficking under Article 96 carries ten to twenty years, a fine of 1–20 million francs, or both.[@law]
label Giving or offering for another person's consumption · treatment criminal · term Supply · prison min 1 year · prison 5 years · fine 500000 · note Fine of 100,000–500,000 CFA francs, label General high-risk trafficking (Article 96) · treatment criminal · term Trafficking · prison min 10 years · prison 20 years · fine 20000000 · note Fine of 1–20 million CFA francs
Article 144 prohibits using controlled drugs outside a medical prescription and permits confiscation even without prosecution.[@law] The separate penalty in Article 145 expressly covers possession, purchase and growing for personal consumption.[@law]
None found. Growing, selling and holding high-risk drugs are banned (Articles 8, 96).[@law]
No licensed production. Article 8 prohibits growing cannabis and requires destruction of plants on occupied land.[@law]
For the production, trafficking and related offences listed in Articles 94–102, courts may add restrictions on residence, civic rights, travel, driving or professional activity.[@law] They may exclude a convicted foreigner permanently or for ten to twenty years.[@law] Small personal quantities are dealt with separately in Article 145.[@law]
Article 8 prohibits growing cannabis and requires destruction of plants on occupied land.[@law] Small personal cultivation still carries criminal penalties under Article 145.[@law] The retained clauses do not settle ungerminated seed possession or trade separately.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.[@law]
Visitors have no lawful recreational supply route.[@law] For specified production and trafficking offences, Article 113 permits permanent exclusion or exclusion for ten to twenty years of a convicted foreigner.[@law] That clause covers Articles 94–102; small personal quantities are addressed separately in Article 145.[@law]
Figures reported by the government to the UN drugs office record 10,762 kg of herbal cannabis seized in 2023, against 4,272 kg in 2022, and 77.5 kg of cannabis resin seized in 2023, against 10.5 kg in 2022.[@unodc_szr] The UN publishes them as kilogram equivalents, and countries count seizures differently, so the figures are not comparable across borders.[@unodc_szr] Niger is also a transit country: five seizures in 2006–2007 netted 5.7 tons of Moroccan resin moving toward Chad, Egypt or Sudan (see the [2007 resin seizures](/history/niger-resin-seizures-2006-2007/)).[@incb07]
unodc_szr, incb07
Report of the International Narcotics Control Board for 2007 (E/INCB/2007/1) 3 unchanged
word Cannabis · lang French · meaning cannabis; the law's word in the 1999 ordinance · sources law
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No industrial-hemp exception was verified: the ordinance lists cannabis and cannabis resin in Table I with no low-THC distinction, and no hemp production is documented.[@law]
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