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Cultivating a drug-producing plant with intent to traffic carries death or life imprisonme … ersonal use falls under Article 32, with one to three years and a fine.[@law2017] Article 2423 bans the cannabis plant at every stage, including seeds, except for medical or scientific purposes under the law.[@law2017]
label Cultivation with intent to traffic, Article 27(3) · treatment criminal · term Cultivation · death true · note Death or · life imprisonmentpossible, label Cultivation for personal use, Article 32 · treatment criminal · term Personal use · prison min 1 year · prison 3 years · fine min 5000000 · fine 10000000
The law sets prison terms for personal-use offences and severe penalties for trafficking.[ … s] In 2024 the interior ministry reported 14,438 drug arrests and 8,930 convictions, with 6,183 kgmore than six tonnes of narcotics seized; the figures cover all drugs.[@shafaq24]
Importing, exporting, producing or manufacturing with intent to traffic carries death or l … s or a school or place of worship, can attract the higher Article 29 penalties, including death or life or temporary imprisonment.[@law2017]
label Import, export, production or manufacture with intent to traffic, Article 27 · treatment criminal · term Trafficking · death true · note Death or · life imprisonmentpossible, label Possession, sale, transport or delivery with intent to traffic, Article 28 · treat … l Aggravated trafficking, Article 29 · treatment criminal · term Aggravated trafficking · death truelife possible · note Enhanced penalties; death or life or temporary imprisonment available
There is no legal way to buy cannabis. Personal use carries one to three years and a fine, … ntity threshold.[@law2017] The interior ministry reported 14,438 drug arrests in 2024 and 6,183 kgmore than six tonnes seized, all drugs combined.[@shafaq24] No price or purity data were found.
No licensed cannabis production exists. Article 2423 bans cultivating, importing, exporting, possessing or selling the cannabis plant at every … r fibre-and-seed exception, and no industrial-hemp licensing regime replaced it.[@law2017]
No industrial-hemp exception, THC limit or licensing scheme was found. Article 2423 bans the cannabis plant at every stage, including seeds.[@law2017] CBD has no separate ex … e unless the health ministry authorises it, and no such authorisation was found.[@law2017]
Article 2423 expressly bans the cannabis plant at every growth stage, including seeds, except for medi … anting them falls under the same prohibition.[@law2017] No seed or clone market was found.
The market is illegal and the authorities report large seizures. In 2024 the interior ministry reported 6,183 kgmore than six tonnes of narcotics seized and 14,438 arrests, all drugs combined.[@shafaq24] In 2025 the minist … e three years before that.[@hri2025] No cannabis-specific price or purity data were found.
In 2024 the interior ministry reported 14,438 drug arrests, 8,930 convictions, 6,183 kgmore than six tonnes seized, 144 death sentences and 454 life sentences; Shafaq reported 434 life sentences, a … nd 236 life sentences.[@tnr26] The figures cover all drugs and give no cannabis breakdown.
Wiktionary — حشيش Wiktionary — قنب Wiktionary — heşîş (Kurdish) 964media — Iraqi police reports using ماريجوانا (23 March 2025) 9 unchanged
word حشيش · lang Arabic (Iraqi) · say ḥashīsh · meaning hashish; also cannabis generally · atlas hashish · sources wikt_hashish, word حشيشة · lang Arabic (Iraqi) · say ḥāshīsha · meaning singulative of حشيش; cannabis as a substance in media reports · sources wikt_hashish, word قنب · lang Arabic · say qinnab · meaning hemp/cannabis plant; the law’s formal term · sources wikt_qinnab, law2017, word ماريجوانا · lang Arabic (Iraqi) · say mārījwāna · meaning marijuana; loanword used by police and media · sources media_iq, word حەشیش · lang Kurdish (Sorani) · say heşîş · meaning hashish/cannabis; everyday and media · sources wikt_ku_hashish