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A reform ofAct 40/2024 split the criminal code reduced the penalties for possessing small quantities ofold drug offence into four and replaced "usual doses" with fixed amounts. Possessing cannabis for personal use, in a country that had been jailing peoplenegligible amount, up to 2 g, now carries up to one year in prison and growing up to two plants for a few gramsone's own use up to six months; larger tiers carry more. The milder text, applied by prosecutors from 6 August 2024, also covers earlier acts.

Slov-Lex — Zákon č. 40/2024 Z. z. (novela Trestného zákona) Okresná prokuratúra Košice I — uznesenie 2 Pv 206/24/8802 (21 August 2024) 1 unchanged

Federal Office of Public Health — Overview of authorised pilot trials with cannabis 2 unchanged

L'Express via AllAfrica — Le DUAP au cœur de la réforme attendue de la NADC (17 July 2026) Support. Don't Punish — The Drug User's Administrative Panel through the lens of PWUD (2023) 1 unchanged

Prison Insider — Guyana: government tables bill to remove prison time for small amounts of cannabis (2 February 2021) Guyana High Commission, South Africa (DPI release) — Custodial sentences for 30 grammes or less of cannabis will be removed (9 November 2022) 1 unchanged

An amendment to the Narcotics Act passed on 19 March 2021 took effect. Doctors may prescribe cannabis without asking the federal health office for an exceptional permit each time, and growing and trade for medicine are licensed by Swissmedic.

Bundesamt für Gesundheit — Gesetzesänderung Cannabisarzneimittel 1 unchanged

Norges Høyesterett — HR-2022-731-A (8 April 2022) Riksadvokaten — retningslinjer om rusavhengiges befatning med narkotika til egen bruk (13 May 2022) 1 unchanged

2021-10-13

Panama became the first country in Central America to regulateLaw 242, sanctioned on 13 October 2021, regulates cannabis for medical use, with a national patient registry, licences issued by the Ministry of Public Security and licensed producerssale only through authorised pharmacies. The regulations followed on 30 August 2022.

Panamá América — A partir de hoy empieza a regir el uso medicinal y terapéutico del cannabis en Panamá (October 2021) El Mercurio (EFE) — Panamá reglamenta ley sobre el uso medicinal y terapéutico del cannabis (1 September 2022) 1 unchanged

2021-07-14

Law 13-21, promulgated by dahir on 14 July 2021, created a state agency to licensethat authorises growing in three Rif provinces, processing and sale for medicinesmedical, cosmeticspharmaceutical and industryindustrial purposes, in provinces listed by decree. Recreational kif stayed illegalGrowers must be Moroccan adults in a cooperative and deliver the whole harvest. Unlicensed activity stays under the 1974 drug law.

Dahir n° 1-21-59 du 14 juillet 2021 portant promulgation de la loi n° 13-21 relative aux usages licites du cannabis (Ministry of Justice, Adala, PDF) 1 unchanged

2020-07-01

After a Constitutional Court rulingRegulations signed on 28 February 2020 and in force from 1 July let specialists apply to the year before, regulations allowedPublic Health Authority for a permit to prescribe cannabidiol-based products to be prescribed for medical purposeswith THC no higher than 2% of the cannabidiol. Regulation 19 restates that nobody may grow or smoke cannabis.

Misuse of Drugs (Cannabidiol-based Products for Medical Purposes) Regulations 2020, S.I. 25 of 2020 (Seychelles Official Gazette, PDF) 1 unchanged

Anvisa — Resolução da Diretoria Colegiada RDC nº 327, de 9 de dezembro de 2019 (text hosted by Poder360, PDF) 1 unchanged

possession 4 · cultivation 14 · enforcement 6 · sharing 1 · consumption 3 · access 0

The Misuse of Drugs (Amendments) (Cannabis and Licence Fees) (England, Wales and Scotland) Regulations 2018, S.I. 2018/1055 (legislation.gov.uk) 3 unchanged

2018-03-05

Antigua and Barbuda legalises 15 g and four plants

An amendment to theThe Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Act means, 2018 (No. 3 of 2018) says a person holding up to 15 g of cannabis or resin is no longernot guilty of an offence. Households were later allowed, lets each household grow up to four plants on its property and expunges earlier convictions for 15 g or less. Smoking in a public place brings a warning, then a $500 ticket, then a fine of up to $1,500. Assented on 1 March 2018 and Rastafari sacramental use was recognisedgazetted on 5 March.

Swiss Federal Supreme Court — judgment 6B_1273/2016 of 6 September 2017 (text, University of Bern) ch.ch (Swiss authorities) — Cannabis 1 unchanged

Samoa Law Reform Commission — Review of the Narcotics Act 1967 (Drugs Reform), Final Report 21/17, December 2017 (PDF) 1 unchanged

Deutscher Bundestag — Bundestag lässt Cannabis-Arzneimittel für schwerkranke Patienten zu (19 January 2017) 1 unchanged

Constitutional Court of Georgia — Judgment N1/4/592, Beka Tsikarishvili v. the Parliament of Georgia Constitutional Court of Georgia — judicial acts 1 unchanged

Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, 2015, Act No. I of 2015, Government Gazette of Malta No. 19,385 (Legislation Malta, PDF) 1 unchanged

The Law on Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances prohibitednarcotics law of 20 April 1983, in force from 30 July, banned growing hemp for narcotics and making or circulating hashish. Dealing and possession carried up to three years, producingand one to twenty in serious cases; consumption or selling cannabis with more than 1% THCacts for one's own use up to six months or a fine, which a court could waive in minor cases.

Betäubungsmittelgesetz vom 20. April 1983, Liechtensteinisches Landesgesetzblatt 1983 Nr. 38, original text (Gesetze.li, PDF) 1 unchanged

Law 17/77, the Law on Drugs, was the country's principalfirst act on narcotic drugs,. It was passed the year a person was arrested with 350 grams of hashish, as drugs firstdrug use appeared withalongside tourism in the 1970s.

Shazly, M. and Zilaal, H. — Drug Offender Treatment in the Maldives, UNAFEI Resource Material Series No. 85 (PDF) 1 unchanged

IMPO — Decreto-Ley N° 14.294 de 31/10/1974 (texto actualizado) TNI — About drug law reform in Uruguay 1 unchanged

The Act made, modelled on New Zealand's 1965 law, prohibited growing cannabis a Class B narcoticor holding its seed, and prohibited possessing, growing, sellingusing and producingsupplying it. The three drug classes, with cannabis in Class B, were added in 2009.

Samoa Law Reform Commission — Review of the Narcotics Act 1967 (Drugs Reform), Final Report 21/17, December 2017 (PDF) 1 unchanged

1964-06-10

Dangerous Drugs Act 1964, chapter 36, as enacted (legislation.gov.uk, PDF) 2 unchanged

Narcotic Control Act of 1956, Public Law 728, 70 Stat. 567, approved 18 July 1956 (GovInfo, PDF) 1 unchanged

1952-11-01

Malaya passes the's Dangerous Drugs Ordinance comes into force

The colonial ordinanceOrdinance No. 30 of 1952 came into operation in the peninsula on 1 November 1952 and was extended to Sabah and Sarawak in 1978. It is still the core of Malaysian drug law. Later amendments made it one of the harshest anywhere, with a presumption of trafficking for 200 g of cannabis.

Malaysia — Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 (Act 234), incorporating amendments up to Act 846 (Ministry of Health, Pharmaceutical Services, PDF) 1 unchanged

Gulf News — UAE's Traffic Law: severe penalties for drunk driving and narcotic substance use (5 November 2024) 4 unchanged

impairment

Federal Decree-Law No. 14 of 2024 on traffic regulation, in force from 29 March 2025, makes it an offence to drive or attempt to drive a vehicle while under the influence of narcotic or psychotropic substances. The penalty is imprisonment, a fine of 30,000 to 200,000 dirhams, or both, heavier than for alcohol. The licence is suspended for six months on a first offence and a year on a second, and cancelled on a third. Causing a death while under the influence brings at least a year in prison and a fine of at least 100,000 dirhams.

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Chequeado — Plan Argentina sin narcotráfico: datos sobre consumo y tenencia personal en la Argentina (31 August 2016) 7 unchanged

The last national breakdown found dates from 2015: the federal prosecutors' narcotics unit Procunar counted 22,020 cases opened in the federal courts under the drug law that year, of which 8,125, or 36.9 per cent, were for possession for personal use, the single most common offence; with simple possession the share reached about half.

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None: the Narcotics Control Act 2018 makes growing cannabis a crime whatever the number of plants. A legal, state-licensed ganja trade existed until 1989.

wikinca18

None. Law No. 15 of 2007 forbids buying, selling, holding or consuming the plants on its banned list except as the law provides. Import licences go only to government bodies, hospitals, laboratories, pharmaceutical factories and pharmacies, and pharmacies may sell narcotics only to hospitals, clinics and patients with a prescription.

wikil15

No legal source: the Penal Code's drug articles make growing narcotic plants and holding or supplying narcotics offences.

wikicp17

No legal source: the 1997 Act forbids using drugs and punishes import, export and transport.

wikiidpc17

None: the Misuse of Drugs Act makes consumption itself an offence, proved by urine test.

wikimda

Cultivation is a crime, and the anti-narcotics police count marijuana found in plantations in their seizures: about 139 tonnes, planted or ready for sale, in the first seven months of 2024.

lt24, wiki

No legal source: Law 1008 of 1988 treats cannabis like cocaine and charges anything beyond an amount for immediate personal use as trafficking.

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Los Tiempos — Confiscan alrededor de 169 toneladas de marihuana y cocaína en lo que va del año en el país (16 July 2024) 7 unchanged

The anti-narcotics police force FELCN reported 1,877 people arrested in 5,670 operations between January and July 2024, when it seized about 139 tonnes of marijuana, counted both in plantations and ready for sale, and about 30 tonnes of cocaine. Over the 1,500 days from November 2020 to December 2024 the government counted 13,359 people arrested for drug trafficking and 1,269 tonnes of marijuana seized. The arrests are not split by drug.

lt24, eju24

Cultivation is illegal, although cannabis grows prolifically across Bhutan and was traditionally used to fatten pigs and, less often, for textile fibre. The sources read give no penaltynational broadcaster reports that growing is allowed only for medical and scientific research, not for medical use. Seizures rose from 4 kgLocal leaders in 2010 to 75 kgSamdrup Jongkhar, where it grows wild, asked Parliament in 20112023 to allow sale for medicinal purposes.

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The Bhutanese — 2024 records arrest of 3,319 individuals related to substance abuse (15 February 2025) BBS — Samdrup Jongkhar local leaders call for marijuana legalisation for medicinal purposes (19 September 2023) 8 unchanged

The Royal Bhutan Police arrested 3,319 people for drug offences in 2024, down from 3,667 in 2023. Of those, 343 were under 18 and 1,406 were aged 18 to 24; 2,578 were referred for treatment and 229 were convicted. The police named cannabis products, both hashish and leaves, among the three substances most often seized, with SP Plus and solvents, and gave no separate count for cannabis.

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No lawful source at all: cannabis may be possessed but neither grown nor bought, since the 2017 amendment covers possession and use only and supply of any kind remains a crime. A 2022 law to license a commercial industry was passed by parliament but put on hold after church groups demanded a referendum.

wikiact, tni

Greater Belize Media — police year-end figures on drugs and firearms (31 December 2025) 7 unchanged

The police reported that 1,562 people were charged with drug offences in 2025, which they described as a record year, and that they seized 705,638 grams of cannabis, about 706 kg, along with 41,784 grams of cocaine. The figures are not split between possession and trafficking.

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Bundesamt für Statistik — Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik 2024 (Medienmitteilung, 24 March 2025) 7 unchanged

The Federal Statistical Office's police crime statistics recorded 48,208 offences against the Narcotics Act in 2024, 11.5 per cent fewer than the year before, continuing a decline that has run since 2015. The headline release gives no split by substance or by type of offence.

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Radio Universidad de Chile — Ana María Gazmuri: Cannabis y seguridad, la urgencia de regular (22 April 2025) 10 unchanged

Figures the Supreme Court gave in early 2025 to the deputy Ana María Gazmuri, who published them, show 31,048 people charged with offences under the drug law, Ley 20.000, during 2024. Of those, 12,328, about four in ten, were charged with small- scale dealing (microtráfico), and 759 specifically with growing cannabis. The reply did not separate cannabis from other drugs beyond that.

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Official figures released in November 2023 counted 689 people sanctioned for drug- trafficking offences that year to date, 92 per cent of them with prison, and 1,213 Cubans and 13 foreigners prosecuted between January and September. The interior ministry reported 2,290 kg of drugs seized in those nine months and 77 cases of marijuana growing, concentrated in the eastern provinces; its anti-drug chief called marijuana the most consumed drug. In three weeks of October and November 193 people were detained for trafficking and possession. The Penal Code provides four to thirty years, life imprisonment or death for possession and trafficking.

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Possession can bringUse carries a fineyear in prison and holding or selling up to about five years in prisonten under the Penal Code; cannabis use is rare, khat being the local drug.

Illegal. Possession orThe Penal Code's section on trafficking and use of narcotics punishes illicit use with one year in prison and a personal amount can bring a fine or up to about fiveof 200,000 francs (Article 359). Holding narcotics falls under Article 356, with transport, offer and sale: ten years in prison and a fine of 500 million francs. The code sets no personal-use amount.

wikicp

Cultivation is a crimeThe Penal Code does not single out growing; theproducing narcotics falls under Article 355 with importing, manufacturing and exporting: twenty years of criminal imprisonment and a fine of 500 million francs. The climate makes itcultivation rare.

cp, wiki

ByThe code's penalties are heavy on paper: one summaryyear for use, offenders may be finedten for holding or sentenced to up to five years in prisonselling, twenty for producing, selling or possessing cannabisimporting, and life for leading a trafficking group. No account of enforcementhow cases are handled in practice was found; use is low, since the legal stimulant khat is preferred.

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SaleSelling or offering narcotics to a person for their own use carries the same range,five years in prison and a fine or upof 5 million francs, rising to fiveten years by one summarywhere minors, schools or government premises are involved (Article 358). Other sale, offer and transport carries ten years (Article 356). The port is a transit point for cannabis moving from Asia to Africa, the Middle East and Europe.

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UseIllicit use of narcotics is an offence under Article 359 of the Penal Code: one year in prison and a fine of 200,000 francs. Cannabis use is uncommon; the legal stimulant khat is the country's drug of choice.

cp, wiki

No legal source: the Penal Code punishes acquiring, holding, offering and selling narcotics alike.

wikicp

Code pénal de la République de Djibouti, articles 355–368, trafic et usage de stupéfiants (2002 text, Equipo Nizkor) 2 unchanged

No lawful place to buy: the 2020 amendment covers possession and home growing only, and supplying cannabis to another person remains an offence. The government has spoken of building a cannabis industry, but no licensing regime for sales is in force.

wikiact2020, act1988

Use is prosecuted through possession: Law 50-88 has no separate offence for use, and up to 20 g of marijuana is 'simple possession', with six months to two years in prison.

wikifc

None. Law 50-88 punishes even simple possession of up to 20 g with prison and treats growing without authorisation as trafficking.

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elDinero — República Dominicana decomisó más de 44 toneladas de drogas en 2024 (2 January 2025) 6 unchanged

The National Directorate for Drug Control (DNCD) reported that 49,073 people were arrested for drug-related crimes in 2024, nine in ten of them Dominican. The authorities seized 44,348 kg of drugs that year, a record: 37,714 kg of cocaine and 6,377 kg of marijuana. The directorate did not say how many of the arrests were for possession or for cannabis.

eldinero25

Use is a crime, with: the May 2023 amendment to Law 04-18 sets a penalty range for buying, using or holding for personal use, and courts can order detoxification treatment alternativein place of the sentence for users who comply.

wikitsa23

None: Law 04-18, as amended in May 2023, punishes buying or holding for personal use and growing cannabis.

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Radio Algérie — أمن وطني: حجز ما يربو عن 7 أطنان من القنب الهندي وأكثر من 665 كغ من الكوكايين سنة 2025 (7 April 2026) 7 unchanged

The national police directorate (DGSN) reported handling at least 175,920 drug cases in 2025, in which 192,252 people were implicated. Its seizures that year included just over 7 tonnes of cannabis, more than 665 kg of cocaine and over 20 million psychotropic pills. The figures are those of the national police and are not split by drug.

radioalg26

Growing even one plant is a criminal offence, regardless of purpose. Section 188 of the Penal Code punishes illegal growing of cannabis with a fine or up to five years in prison.

wikinarko, cann

Supply is a crime. Passing on or brokering even a small amount carries a fine or up to three years in prison under section 183 of the Penal Code, handling a large quantity one to ten years, and passing drugs to a minor up to five years.

narko, wiki

Egyptian Streets — Egypt introduces new harsher penalties for traffic violations (24 November 2014) 5 unchanged

impairment

Amendments to the traffic law published in November 2014 made driving under the influence punishable by at least one year in prison. If the driver injures someone the minimum is two years and a fine of 10,000 pounds; if someone is killed or permanently disabled, three to seven years and 20,000 pounds, with the licence revoked. The report of the amendments does not distinguish drugs from alcohol.

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Statistics Finland — Rikos- ja pakkokeinotilasto 2024 9 unchanged

Statistics Finland counted 25,600 narcotics offences coming to the attention of the police, customs and border guard in 2024, 1,200 more than in 2023. Of these, 17,100, about two thirds, were drug use offences, the lesser offence that covers use and possession of a small amount for one's own use; that was 1,600 fewer than the year before. The clearance rate for narcotics offences was 89.5 per cent. The figures are not split by substance.

statfi24

None: possession, cultivation and supply are all offences under the Illicit Drugs Control Act 2004.

wikisulua

PINA — Coups, corruption and lack of good governance: the origins of Fiji's meth crisis (29 November 2024) 5 unchanged

Fiji recorded 6,659 drug cases between 2019 and 2023, and marijuana accounted for 94 per cent of them, with methamphetamine and cocaine making up the rest, according to figures reported by the Pacific Islands News Association.

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Gabon Media Time — Le cannabis, la drogue la plus interceptée par la Police nationale en 2025 (13 January 2026) 3 unchanged

Cannabis is the drug Gabon's police intercept most. The commander of the National Police Forces reported in January 2026 that seizures rose from 433 kg in 2024 to 975 kg in 2025, and that the anti-drug office OCLAD took part in operations accounting for nearly a tonne. He presented the increase as a sign of growing use and trafficking.

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Home Office — Seizures of drugs in England and Wales, financial year ending 2025 15 unchanged

Home Office statistics for England and Wales count 269,321 drug seizures by police forces and Border Force in the year ending March 2025, the most since the series began in 1973, and cannabis was present in 72 per cent of them: 194,682 seizures, up 28 per cent on the year before. Most police seizures are small. Of herbal cannabis seizures, 12 per cent weighed under one gram and 54 per cent between one gram and 500 g, and three quarters of plant seizures involved ten plants or fewer. Police recorded 204,664 drug offences in the same year, up 12 per cent; the Home Office notes that each seizure also generates a recorded offence, so the two series move together. The figures do not cover Scotland or Northern Ireland.

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The law is described as carrying severe penalties for productionDrug laws of 1980 and 1991 are reported to set prison of one to twenty years across possession, cultivation and sale; the sources read give no sentences. A report in 2000 said nobody had been arrested for smoking or dealing cannabis in living memory, and some of what is grown is trafficked to Gabon.

wikiiol

Cultivation isSection 8 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) Act punishes cultivating a criminal offenceprohibited plant, or letting land be used for it, with a fine and three to five years in prison on summary conviction, or five to ten years on indictment.

actcap1010

Supply is trafficking. Section 5 of the Act sets a fine and three to five years in prison on summary conviction, and a fine with imprisonment for life on indictment.

actcap1010

Department of Public Information, Guyana — $5.6B worth of narcotics seized in Guyana in 2024 (13 January 2025) 9 unchanged

The Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit reported 82 people arrested in its operations in 2024, 54 charged with drug trafficking offences and 68 convicted. It seized 1,643 kg of cannabis that year, alongside 5,095 kg of cocaine. The figures are those of the anti-narcotic unit.

dpi25

Growing even a few plants for yourself remains a criminal offence: Article 190 of the Criminal Code counts unauthorised cultivation as production, punished with prison of upsix months to five years in prison, and three to twelve years; cultivation when the drug is meant for sale carries a mandatory minimum. A multiple sclerosis patient who grew eleven plants for oil was sentenced to two years in 2017 and escaped prison only by a presidential pardon in 2019.

wikikz, index19, nl19

Users face large fines rather than prison. Growing and dealing are feloniescrimes under Article 190 of the Criminal Code, with prison terms starting at six months for production and three years for sale.

kz, wiki

SupplySelling, offering or brokering a sale carries three to twelve years in prison under Article 190 of the Criminal Code, and three to fifteen where a child or a school is involved. Giving a crimedrug to another person to use, or providing a place to use it, carries six months to five years under Article 191.

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Kazneni zakon (Criminal Code), articles 190–191, consolidated text (Zakon.hr) 14 unchanged

Growing a small amount for yourself falls underSection 178 of the Criminal Code puts growing in the same offence as producing, acquiring and holding: two to eight years in prison, or up -to -two -years offence; morewhere the amount is productionsmall. Under section 180 a person who grows a small amount for their own use is not punished if they admit the act, complete six months of treatment or a prevention programme, and help identify the seller.

wikibtk

SupplyOffering, handing over or selling is drug trafficking, with under section 176 of the Criminal Code: two to eight years in prison, five to twenty years or morelife for a significant amount, and up to two years where a small amount is offered or handed over. Supplying a person under 18, or near a school, carries five to ten years under section 177.

wikibtk

None. The Criminal Code punishes acquiring, holding and consuming a drug as well as supplying it, and names no lawful source.

wikibtk

2012. évi C. törvény a Büntető Törvénykönyvről (Criminal Code), §§ 176–180, consolidated text (Jogtár) 8 unchanged

Central Statistics Office — Recorded Crime Q4 2024: key findings Citywide Drugs Crisis Campaign — Law enforcement (decriminalisation briefing, CSO and Courts Service data) 10 unchanged

The Central Statistics Office recorded 16,119 controlled drug incidents in 2024, 7 per cent fewer than in 2023, a fall it put largely down to fewer incidents of possession for sale or supply and for personal use. A breakdown of the same series published by the community drugs network Citywide gives 10,701 incidents of possession for personal use in 2024, about two thirds of the total, against 4,551 for sale or supply and 85 for cultivation or manufacture. The figures cover all drugs and are not split by substance.

cso_rc24, citywide_le

Growing cannabis without a licence from the health ministry's Director-General is a criminal offence, including a single plant at home. Section 6 of the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance sets a maximum of twenty years in prison or a fine.

wikiddo

Supply of any kind, including unpaid sharing, is treated as dealing: section 13 of the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance forbids supplying a drug in any way, "whether for payment or not", and section 19A sets a maximum of twenty years in prison or a fine.

wikiddo

Israel — Dangerous Drugs Ordinance [New Version] 1973, sections 6, 7, 13 and 19A (Hebrew Wikisource) 7 unchanged

None. The Anti-Narcotics Law authorises prohibited substances only exceptionally, for medical and industrial purposes with the permission of the Ministry of Health.

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Harm Reduction International — Jamaica case study: Divesting from Prohibition, Investing in the HIV Response (2025) 11 unchanged

Before the reform of April 2015, Jamaican police arrested about 15,000 people a year for possessing cannabis, a quarter of all court cases concerned cannabis, and arrests and prosecutions were estimated to cost 64 million US dollars a year, according to a case study by Harm Reduction International. After possession of small amounts became a ticketable matter, court cases for possessing or smoking cannabis fell by more than 90 per cent, and criminal cases referred to the courts in 2016 were 25 per cent fewer than in 2014.

hri25

None: under Article 9 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law No. 23 of 2016 even possession for personal use carries prison.

wikijl

Roya News — Controversial traffic law set to take effect Tuesday (11 September 2023) Jordan News — Amended Traffic Law to take effect on Tuesday, what you need to know (12 September 2023) 5 unchanged

impairment

The amended Traffic Law No. 18 of 2023, in force from 12 September 2023, punishes driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs with one to three months in prison, a fine of 250 to 500 dinars, or both, as the judge decides; the judge may also confiscate the licence for two months. The law gives public security officers the power to test a detained driver for alcohol and drugs.

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24.kg — Более 15 тонн наркотиков изъяли в КР в 2024 году: в СБНОН подвели итоги (15 January 2025) 4 unchanged

The interior ministry's anti-drug service reported 1,163 drug crimes detected in 2024, 154 of them committed online, and 961 people prosecuted, among them 17 minors. A further 89 drug-related administrative violations brought fines. More than 15 tonnes of narcotics, psychotropic substances and precursors were seized. The report gives no separate figures for cannabis.

kg24

None: the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance makes possessing, cultivating, giving and selling Indian hemp offences.

wikicase

Use is a crime; people have been arrested simply for being found intoxicated. Use and addiction made up 77.2 per cent of the 2,666 narcotics cases the anti-drug prosecution handled in 2023.

gn_kw24, wiki

None: possession and use are crimes under the 2025 narcotics decree-law.

wikikwt

Gulf News — Kuwait busted KD74m drugs in 2023 (29 September 2024) 9 unchanged

A report by the anti-drug prosecution counted 2,666 narcotics cases involving 3,554 defendants in 2023, against 2,687 cases the year before. Use and addiction accounted for 77.2 per cent of the cases and trafficking for 22.5 per cent. Twelve death sentences and 59 life sentences were passed for smuggling or dealing that year. The figures cover all drugs.

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Inbusiness.kz — Более 20 тонн наркотиков изъяли казахстанские полицейские с начала июня 2024 года (11 November 2024) 13 unchanged

In the interior ministry's operation Karasora-2024, between 1 June and 31 October 2024, police recorded 1,607 drug crimes: 799 of sale, 245 of cultivation and 194 of possession. They seized 21.5 tonnes of drugs, among them about 4.5 tonnes of marijuana and more than 16 tonnes of cannabis plants, and destroyed over 380 hectares of wild hemp in the Shu district of Zhambyl region. The ministry gave no total for arrests.

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Fines are the norm for users;. Under article 21 of the Narcotics Act, consumption and offences committed for one's own use carry a fine of up to 50,000 francs, with up to six months in prison is possibleonly if the fine cannot be collected, and the court may waive punishment in lawminor cases. Other offences under article 20 carry up to three years.

betmg, wiki

SupplySelling, supplying to others or putting on the market carries up to three years in prison or a fine under article 20 of the Narcotics Act, and one to twenty years in serious cases such as commercial dealing.

betmg, wiki

PlantingSection 27 of the Poisons, Opium and Dangerous Drugs Ordinance forbids anyone, without a licence from the Minister, to sow, plant, cultivate, obtain or cultivatingpossess the hemp plant is prohibited, or to collect or hold its seeds, leaves, flowers or any other part.

laword

Consumption is prohibited bySection 29 of the Ordinance forbids anyone without the Minister's licence to consume or use the resin of the hemp plant or its preparations known as bhang, hashish or ganja.

laword

No adult-use source. The Ordinance carves out exceptions under which licensed Ayurvedic practitioners may obtainbans importing the plant and dispense cannabis in traditionalrequires the Minister's licence to possess or use its preparations; it saves only galenical preparations of hemp (extract and tincture) under its dangerous-drugs chapter, and hemp rope and fibre.

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National Dangerous Drugs Control Board — Drug related statistics, January to June 2023 Ada Derana — Nearly 8,000 drug addicted children and youths under 21 arrested in 2024 (28 February 2026) 8 unchanged

Cannabis accounts for the largest share of drug arrests. The National Dangerous Drugs Control Board counted 74,444 people arrested for drug offences in the first half of 2023, of whom 32,908, or 44 per cent, were arrested for cannabis and 30,804 for heroin. The police narcotics bureau reported seizing 8,359 kg of cannabis in 2024 and 17,189 kg in 2025.

nddcb23, derana26

Growing any number of plants is a criminal offence. Section 256 of the Criminal Law punishes unauthorised sowing or growing of plants containing narcotic substances with up to two years in prison, short-term detention, probation, community service or a fine, and up to five years for a large area grown by an organised group.

wikikl

Supply is a crime with prison. Section 253.1 of upthe Criminal Law sets two to eight years in prison for unauthorised sale, and five to fifteen years for large amounts, organised groups or supply to minors or in serious casesschools, bars and public events. Selling a small amount carries up to three years under Section 253.2.

wikikl

No legal source: Section 253.2 of the Criminal Law covers acquiring or storing even a small amount, and unauthorised use.

wikikl

Criminal Law of Latvia, sections 253–256, official English translation (Likumi.lv) 14 unchanged

UpSix months to a yearthree years in prison for use or possession, usually suspended or fined; even CBD is prohibited.

Article 5 of Law 890 of 1970 on narcotics punishes unlawful use, and possession for personal use, with upsix months to one yearthree years in prison and, a fine, or one of the two. Courts usually impose suspended sentences or fines — one heavy user received ten months suspended — and police sometimes settle for a warning.

wikil890, mt2

Trafficking carries upArticle 2 of Law 890 punishes offering, selling, buying, transporting or supplying narcotics on any basis, and helping another person to use them, with five to ten years in prison and a fine. The penalties double where a minor is involved or the offence takes place in or near a school or prison.

wikil890

Use is itself an offence under Law 890, and it is prosecuted: in April 2025 a pensioner with a clean record was tried for possession and use over about 15 g found at his home and given one month in prison, suspended, with an obligation to undergo care.

mt25, wiki

None. In a 2025 trial the prosecutor cited a ministerial order banning cannabis and its derivatives, CBD products included, even at low THC levels.

mt25, wiki

Monaco Tribune — Un retraité jugé pour détention de cannabis et produits à base de CBD (24 April 2025) 5 unchanged

Cultivation is a criminal offence under Article 217 of the Criminal Code, with prison terms. Article 14 of Law 201/2025 forbids growing controlled plants, cannabis included, to obtain narcotic substances; industrial hemp may be grown with an authorisation from the food safety agency.

cann, wikil201

Supply is a crime. Law 201/2025 lets controlled substances and plants circulate only for scientific, forensic or medical purposes.

wiki, l201

Under the 1987 Act a first offence involving one ounce or less carries a fine of at least $1,000 or at least six months in prison. The minimum fine alone is large relative to local incomes, and prison is an option even for a first small offence.

wikilaw

None: the Narcotic Drugs (Prohibition and Control) Act 1987 makes possession itself an offence.

wikilaw

Cultivation is prohibited; Law 01-078 punishes production with heavy prison terms.

wikilaw

None: Law 01-078 of 2001 makes possession, sale and use offences.

wikilaw

None: the drug law punishes even simple use and possession for personal use with prison.

wikigdpo

Adhadhu — Drugs worth over MVR 100 million seized so far this year: police (13 May 2024) 3 unchanged

Police told a press conference in May 2024 that so far that year they had arrested 260 Maldivians and 16 foreigners with drugs in 56 operations, investigated 257 drug cases and sent 95 to the prosecutor general, and seized about 19 kg of drugs. No breakdown by drug was given.

adhadhu24

None. The Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 allows cannabis to be imported only with the Minister's authorisation, punishes possession without such authority, and lets only an authorised public officer grow the plant.

wikidda

Free Malaysia Today — 102 tonnes of drugs seized in 1 year, say police (19 February 2025) 7 unchanged

The federal police narcotics department reported 248,885 arrests for drug offences of all kinds between March 2024 and 16 February 2025, including 719 civil servants, and seizures of 102 tonnes of drugs. Cannabis accounted for 3,203 kg of that, far behind methamphetamine at 39,397 kg and ketum at 53,879 kg. The police gave no breakdown of the arrests by drug or by offence.

fmt25

None: Law 3/97 punishes use and possession of drugs with prison.

wikiref

RTP Notícias (Lusa) — Moçambique apreendeu droga avaliada em 22,5 milhões de euros em 2024 4 unchanged

The annual report of the Central Office for Drug Prevention and Combat, presented by the public prosecutor's office in Maputo, counted at least 732 people detained for drug use and trafficking in 2024, 229 fewer than in 2023; Sofala province had the most, 199. Seizures of cannabis were almost unchanged at 1,856 kg, against 1,853 kg the year before, with 44 kg of hashish.

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New Era — Police seize drugs worth N$3.5 million in March 2025 (16 April 2025) 6 unchanged

The Namibian Police's media statement for March 2025 counted 160 suspects arrested for drugs that month, 151 of them Namibian, and valued the cannabis seized at about 3.1 million Namibian dollars out of a total of over 3.5 million. The statement prints the cannabis weight as 312,560 kilogrammes, which on its own valuation would price cannabis at ten Namibian dollars a kilogram, so the unit is probably grams.

newera25

None: the NDLEA Act punishes possession, growing and dealing alike, with no lawful channel for adults.

omidpc17

Growing cannabis is a crime, prosecuted as drug production: section 231 of the Penal Code punishes anyone who unlawfully manufactures a narcotic with a fine or up to two years in prison, and section 232 raises the maximum to ten years for an aggravated offence.

wikistrl

Supply is a crime. When the Supreme Court ended punishment for dependent users in 2022, the Director of Public Prosecutions stressed that the judgments do not touch drugs meant for resale.

ra22, wiki

No legal source: section 231 of the Penal Code makes it an offence to acquire, store, import or hand over a narcotic unlawfully.

wikistrl

Straffeloven (Penal Code) §§ 231–232, narkotikaovertredelse (Lovdata) Kripos — Narkotikastatistikk 2024 Riksadvokaten — retningslinjer om rusavhengiges befatning med narkotika til egen bruk (13 May 2022) 6 unchanged

The national police statistics kept by Kripos count drug cases, not people: 18,273 in 2024, 12 per cent more than in 2023, after a decline that ran from 2014 to 2022. A case is counted once whatever it is charged as, so the series does not separate use and possession from sale. Cannabis accounted for 40 per cent of drug seizures: 7,547 seizures of hashish, marijuana and plants, 8 per cent more than the year before, weighing 3,678 kg in all. Kripos notes that minor cases are often settled by a fine without the substance being analysed, which makes the seizure counts uncertain.

kripos24

No legal source. The government-licensed shops were closed in 1973, and the 1976 Act still bans sale; a 2026 law in Gandaki Province licenses growing for medicinal and industrial purposes only.

nt26, wiki

myRepublica — 1,768 drug traffickers arrested in Nepal in one year, 1,325 charged Nepali Times — Nepal is moving to decriminalise cannabis (22 August 2026) 4 unchanged

Narcotics Control Bureau figures for the last full fiscal year show 1,768 people arrested in the police's anti-trafficking operations nationwide and 993 cases registered, with 1,325 people charged; arrests were 5.55 per cent up on 2024/25. Seizures included 1,603 kg of cannabis, 204 kg of imported Thai cannabis and 41.5 kg of hashish.

republica_ncb

Cannabis is grown illegally across Nepal; one campaigner quoted by Nepali Times in 2026 called it an open secret. Narcotics Control Bureau figures for the last full fiscal year show police seizing 1,603 kg of cannabis and 41.5 kg of hashish, and also 204 kg of cannabis imported from Thailand.

republica_ncb, nt26

Panamá América — Panamá incauta 58.5 toneladas de drogas en el primer semestre del año (30 June 2024) 8 unchanged

The Ministry of Public Security reported that in the first six months of 2024 it carried out 80 operations against drug trafficking, seizing 58.5 tonnes of drugs, and arrested 181 people for trafficking and 1,730 for micro-trafficking, meaning small-scale selling. The figures are not split by drug.

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Panamericana Televisión — Récord histórico: PNP decomisó más de 160 toneladas de droga en el año 2024 (3 January 2025) 10 unchanged

The anti-drug directorate of the National Police, Dirandro, reported more than 11,700 people detained in over 18,700 operations in 2024 and 122 criminal organisations dismantled. It seized more than 165 tonnes of drugs, a record against 104.6 tonnes in 2023, of which more than 56 tonnes were marijuana. The detentions are counted for drug trafficking as a whole and are not split by drug.

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People's Journal — Less blood, big hits: PDEA first-quarter report (13 April 2025) 10 unchanged

The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency reported that it and its partner agencies carried out 10,161 anti-drug operations and arrested 13,497 people in the first three months of 2025. Over the five years from 2020 the agency counted 183,149 operations and 253,776 arrests, with seizures of 13.5 tonnes of shabu, 14.54 tonnes of dried marijuana leaves and 1,033 kg of marijuana kush. The figures cover all drugs; methamphetamine dominates the seizures by value, and the report does not say how many of the arrests were for cannabis.

journal25

No legal source for adults: Section 6 of the Control of Narcotic Substances Act forbids possessing any narcotic and Section 4 forbids cultivating any cannabis plant without a government licence.

wikicnsa23

No legal source: any sale or transfer, including a gift, falls under Article 228.1 of the Criminal Code, and using a narcotic without a doctor's prescription is an administrative offence under Article 6.9.

wikiuk2281, koap69

Cultivation carries a maximum of twenty years. The 2020 medical regulations restate the ban: regulation 19 says no person shall cultivate cannabis of any form or type, and lets police arrest without a warrant.

reg, wiki

Fines and suspended sentences are common for users; very, but prison is used too: in January 2023 the Seychelles Kanabis Association protested the custodial sentences given to two men for cannabis offences, calling them excessive. Very long maximums remain for growing and trafficking.

nation23, wiki

Use is an offence; the 2016 Act allows treatment-oriented outcomes for dependent users. Regulation 19 of the 2020 medical regulations forbids smoking cannabis of any form, and using even the permitted cannabidiol products without authorisation is an offence.

reg, wiki

Seychelles Nation — Seychelles Kanabis Association decries sentencing for cannabis-related offences (30 January 2023) 5 unchanged

Unverified; seeThe narcotics act introduced in July 1989 provides for the death penalty for producing and trading in hashish. Amnesty International recorded death sentences passed by special courts for dealing in hashish in 1990, and Reuters reported nine women sentenced to death for trafficking in hashish in 1995. How possession for personal use is handled in practice could not be verified.

amnesty95, wiki

Brå — Anmälda brott 2025, slutlig statistik (Rapport 2026:9) 8 unchanged

The crime prevention council Brå counted 125,142 reported offences against the Narcotics Penal Act in 2025, 4 per cent fewer than in 2024. Possession made up 57 per cent and personal use 36 per cent. Reported possession has almost doubled since 2016, and the total is 38 per cent higher than that year. Brå notes that the number of reported drug offences mainly reflects how much the police search and intervene. The statistics are not split by substance.

bra26

Users get a small fine. Production and dealing are crimes punishable by: Article 186 of the Criminal Code sets one to ten years in prison for unlawfully manufacturing or selling a narcotic, or buying or keeping it in order to resell, and three to fifteen years where it is sold or handed out free of charge to a minor or in a school, prison or public place.

wikikz1

Criminal Code of the Republic of Slovenia (KZ-1), Articles 186–187, English translation (Slovenian Police, PDF) 10 unchanged

Historically among the EU's harshest laws; a 2024 penal-code reform has reducedcut sentences for small amounts, but possession and growing remain crimes. CBD is legal.

Possession is a crime under section 171 of the Criminal Code as rewritten by Act 40/2024, measured in 'usual single doses'force from 6 August 2024. AfterHolding cannabis in a reform softening what had been central Europe"negligible amount", which the Act's toughest drug law,annex sets at up to three doses carries a maximum2 g of material or 200 mg of THC, carries up to one year in prison and; a "small amount", up to ten dosesfive times that, six months to three years; and a maximum of twolarger amount or a repeat offence within 24 months, one to six years. Above ten dosesFor other drugs the range is threelowest tier carries up to seventwo years.

sptz40, wikigp24

Growing cannabis is treated as drug production, with multi-year sentences evena separate offence under section 172 since August 2024. Cannabis grown only for one's own use in a fewnegligible amount, at most two plants, carries up to six months in prison; a small amount, up to two and a half times that, up to two years; a larger amount, six months to three years, and the ranges rise to five to fifteen years for the largest. Production and trafficking under section 173 start at one to five years.

rsi, wikitz40

Supply is a serious crimeProduction and trafficking fall under section 173 of the Criminal Code: one to five years in prison for the smallest amounts, rising in steps to ten to twenty-five years or life for the largest.

tz40, wiki

Use is not itself an offence, but possession is, and the Criminal Code counts acquiring a drug for one's own use as possession.

tz40, wiki

Slov-Lex — Zákon č. 40/2024 Z. z. (novela Trestného zákona) Okresná prokuratúra Košice I — uznesenie 2 Pv 206/24/8802 (21 August 2024), applying the Criminal Code as in force from 6 August 2024 9 unchanged

Up to fourthirteen years for possession, with no Dutch-style tolerance; industrial hemp was legalised in 2022.

Illegal underCannabis is on List II of the narcotics law1998 Narcotics Act, withand Article 4 forbids possessing, holding or using anything on that list. Article 11 sets up to fourthirteen years in prison and a fine for possession plus fines. Despite the country's Dutch tiesdoing so intentionally, there isand up to seven years otherwise. The Act names no tolerance policytolerated or decriminalised amount.

wikiwvm

The Narcotics Act sets the same maximum, up to fourthirteen years in prison, for possession and up to thirteenpossessing cannabis as for selling or supplying it, with no tolerated amount. No figures on how small cases are dealt with were found.

wvm, wiki

Use is prosecuted through possessionArticle 4 of the Narcotics Act forbids using a List II substance as well as possessing it, with the same penalties under Article 11.

wikiwvm

None. The Narcotics Act lifts its bans only for pharmacists, dispensing doctors and vets acting for a medical purpose, for people who can show a medical need for what they hold, and for those with the Minister's written permission.

wikiwvm

There is no legal recreational supply for anyone. The Narcotics Act punishes importing or exporting cannabis with up to twenty years or life in prison and heavy fines, and possession with up to four yearsthirteen.

None: Law 98-008 of 1998 prohibits use, possession, transport and sale of narcotics, cannabis included.

wikilaw

Pattaya Mail — Thailand unleashes massive anti-drug offensive with record seizures and arrests (27 June 2026) 9 unchanged

The Royal Thai Police reported 203,637 people arrested for drug offences between 1 October 2025 and 31 May 2026, over 20 per cent more than a year earlier, and 16,419 drug networks broken up. The seizures it listed were of methamphetamine tablets, crystal methamphetamine, ecstasy and ketamine; cannabis, removed from the narcotics list in 2022, does not appear in the report.

pm26

Illegal under Articles 200–204. In the English translation of the Criminal Code. Acquiring read for this profile, Article 201 punishes illegally buying or storing drugs in personal-use quantities carrieskeeping narcotics, without the aim of selling, with up to five years in prison, and five to ten years for a large amount. The translation is an older text; later amendments were not checked.

wikicc

Illegal. No reliable figure forArticle 204 of the penalty was foundCriminal Code, in the translation read, punishes illegally planting or growing plants that contain narcotics with five to ten years in prison, and ten to fifteen for a field of more than 0.10 hectares. A UN report for 2006 counted about 31 hectares of wild cannabis and just over one hectare of illicit cultivation, most of it for personal use.

cc, wiki

A summaryArticle 200 of Tajik law gives twenty-five yearsthe Criminal Code, in the translation read, punishes selling narcotics, or deathmaking, buying or keeping them in order to sell, with five to ten years in prison for selling; thesmall amounts and twelve to fifteen for large amounts. Its heaviest tier names fifteen to twenty years or death penalty figure could; that wording comes from an older text and was not be checked against the Criminal Codecode in force.

wikicc

None: the Criminal Code punishes buying and keeping narcotics as well as selling them.

wikicc

Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan, articles 200–204, unofficial English translation (Legislationline text, copy held by Antislaverylaw.ac.uk, PDF) 4 unchanged

None. Law 2/2017 treats unauthorised growing and supply as trafficking and punishes growing for one's own use as well.

wikil2

Illegal underArticle 19 of the Criminal Codenarcotics law forbids growing listed plants; only enterprises and institutions may be permitted to grow them, which the country describes as a zero-tolerance policywithin state quotas and solely for industrial, medical and scientific purposes. The sources read give no penalties for growing.

wikilaw17

Illegal underUnder the Criminal Code's zero-tolerance policynarcotics law only licensed enterprises and institutions may release, sell or distribute narcotics (Article 23). The sources read give no sentences for unlawful supply.

wikilaw17

Use is punishedArticle 45 of the narcotics law forbids consuming narcotics without a doctor's prescription. British travel advice says anyone found guilty of possessing or using illegal drugs could face a lengthy prison sentence in very basic conditions.

law17, fcdo

None. The narcotics law lets only enterprises and institutions acquire narcotics, for the purposes the law provides (Article 24), and forbids consuming them without a doctor's prescription (Article 45).

wikilaw17

No legal source for THC cannabis: Article 23 of the 1933 narcotics law prohibits growing hemp without a permit, and buying, receiving or possessing cannabis for personal use is a crime under Article 191 of the Penal Code.

wikilaw2313, bh

Taipei Times — 'Zombie vape' use increases 58-fold: prosecutors (28 October 2024) 5 unchanged

The Taiwan High Prosecutors' Office reported in October 2024 that seizures of cannabis reached 2.3 tonnes in 2023, 9.7 times the 240.5 kg of 2021, and that 15,360 plants were seized in the first eight months of 2024. It described cannabis as one of the most popular narcotics in Taiwan and increasingly used by young people. Prosecutors said they would keep offering drug users deferred prosecution with addiction treatment, after which 22.5 per cent reoffend, a lower rate than after the other measures. The report gave no count of people charged over cannabis.

tt24

The Taiwan High Prosecutors' Office reported 2.3 tonnes of cannabis seized in 2023, against 240.5 kg in 2021, and 15,360 plants in the first eight months of 2024. Prosecutors called cannabis one of the most popular narcotics in Taiwan.

tt24

Fines for small amounts, prison above the threshold, and very long sentences for dealing. The Drug Control and Enforcement Authority reported seizing a record 2.3 million kg of drugs in 2024, with marijuana at the top of the list.

citizen25, wiki

Use is an offence, fined for: possession or use of a small amountsquantity, under 50 g of plant, is punished with a large fine.

wikiuk

The Citizen — DCEA seizes record-breaking 2,300 tonnes of drugs in 2024 (10 January 2025) 6 unchanged

Texty.org.ua — Імітація наркоборотьби: чому правоохоронна система карає споживачів, а не продавців (17 July 2025) 16 unchanged

A data analysis by Texty.org.ua, drawing on court statistics and the National Police's annual report, found more than 20,000 proceedings in 2024 under article 309 of the Criminal Code, possession without intent to sell, against about 17,000 under article 307 for sale. Over 2014 to 2024 about 106,000 people were convicted under article 309, of whom more than 43,000 were released from punishment; the most common sentence is a fine, and convictions for possession were almost eight times as frequent as for sale. One in four servicemen convicted in 2024 was convicted of a drug offence, 95 per cent of them under article 309. The figures cover all drugs.

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Anhor.uz — В Узбекистане осудили почти 3 тысячи человек за незаконный оборот наркотиков с начала 2025 года (17 December 2025) 5 unchanged

The Supreme Court's press service reported that courts convicted 2,889 people of drug offences in the first eleven months of 2025. Almost all, 2,875, were convicted under article 273 of the Criminal Code, which covers making, acquiring, keeping and selling drugs, and 2,650 of them were sent to prison; 225 received fines, corrective labour or other alternatives. Only 14 people were convicted under article 271, the lesser offence of illegal acquisition or possession, 13 of whom were imprisoned. In 2024 the courts convicted 3,020 people under article 273. The figures are not split by drug.

anhor25

Cannabis is a Class B narcotic under the Narcotics Act 1967. Possession carries aSection 7 makes it an offence to knowingly possess it, and the maximum ofis 14 years in prison. Courts sentence well belowThe Law Reform Commission called that for small amounts"highly disproportionate" beside New Zealand's three months, but custodialand noted that sentences for a few joints or seedsimposed are not unusuallower than the maximum.

wikilrc17

Cultivating cannabis,Section 6 of the Narcotics Act prohibits cultivating a prohibited plant or even possessing aany of its seed, carries a; the Law Reform Commission gives the maximum ofas 14 years in prison.

wikilrc17

Supply carries heavier penaltiesSupplying or administering an illegal drug to another person is an offence under section 7 of the Narcotics Act, as is attempting to.

wikilrc17

Use is an offence under section 7 of the Narcotics Act, which covers procuring, consuming and smoking as well as possession.

wikilrc17

None: the Narcotics Act makes possessing, using, supplying and growing cannabis offences, apart from the exemptions the Act itself provides.

wikilrc17

Samoa Law Reform Commission — Review of the Narcotics Act 1967 (Drugs Reform), Final Report 21/17, December 2017 (PDF) 6 unchanged

The Law Reform Commission's 2017 review gives no national arrest total but reports police figures on which offences are charged. The most common drug offence is possession of marijuana, and police told the Commission that most of those cases involve small quantities. Possession of seeds comes second and cultivation third; methamphetamine possession is less common. Reported cases peaked in 2012, 2014 and 2015.

lrc17

Supply is a crime with prison. Kosovo Police charge suspects with the unauthorised purchase, possession, distribution and sale of narcotics, as in a January 2025 operation in Pristina in which four men were arrested over 25 kg of marijuana.

kp25, wiki

None: Kosovo Police charge the unauthorised purchase, possession, distribution and sale of narcotics alike.

wikikp25

Kosovo Police — About 25 kg of narcotics confiscated and four suspects arrested (22 January 2025) 6 unchanged

No legal source: possession, growing and supply are all prosecuted as criminal offences.

wikikg

No legal source: possession and growing are criminal offences under the Somali penal code that Somaliland still applies.

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