Guinea-Bissau countries/gw.yaml
Article 20 of [Decree-Law 2-B/93](/history/guinea-bissau-drug-law-1993/) separates small quantities intended for personal consumption from ordinary trafficking. It … sly including cannabis oil, and one to six months for cannabis derivatives other than oil.[@dl2b93] It does not state a gram threshold or a fine alternative in that article. The earlier three-month-or-fine claim was unsupported; representative sentencing practice remains unverified, so the possession rating is provisional.[@dl2b93]
Small-quantity cultivation for personal consumption falls within article 20, with the same substance-dependent prison bands as personal possession.[@dl2b93] Other unauthorised cultivation of Table I/II plants falls under article 3, whose maximum is twelve years. The; the compilation prints an editorial two-year minimum but notes that the official gazette omitted that number. No legal home-growing allowance or fixed plant limit was established.[@dl2b93]
The law permits custody for personal use. A discretionary waiver under article 20(2) requi … hood, has no repeat offence, and solemnly undertakes before a magistrate not to repeat it.[@dl2b93] Article 22 allows a dependent offender’'s sentence to be suspended on treatment conditions, with revocation for culpable noncompliance. These are statutory routes, not evidence that adult users usually receive fines; the enforcement rating remains provisional pending actual outcomes.[@dl2b93]
Article 3 includes offering, distributing, transferring or providing high-risk drugs to another person, with no general exemption for an unpaid gift.[@dl2b93] Its maximum is twelve years; the printed two-year minimum is flagged by the editor as absent from the official gazette.[@dl2b93] Article 12 separately punishes inciting or facilitating illicit use. Passing cannabis to another adult is not a lawful sharing route.[@dl2b93]
Use itself is an offence under article 20. The text distinguishes high-risk plants or substances including cannabis oil (two months to one year) from other cannabis derivatives (one to six months). It should not be reduced to a single one-to-six-month tariff for all cannabis.[@dl2b93] The waiver is restricted to qualifying minors, not all first offenders. Article 21 protects anonymity and medical confidentiality for people voluntarily seeking health assistance.[@dl2b93]
No lawful recreational supply route or operating cannabis patient service was established.[@dl2b93] Article 3 distinguishes authorised conduct from illicit supply, but does not itself show that cannabis licences or medicines are available. Voluntary addiction care under article 21 is not a permission to obtain cannabis.[@dl2b93]
Article 3 distinguishes unauthorised cultivation and manufacture from conduct under an authorisation; licence-holders acting outside their authorisation face separate penalties.[@dl2b93] This recognises an authorisation framework, but the reviewed text does not establish issued cannabis production licences for medical purposes, an industrial-hemp exemption or lawful production volumes.[@dl2b93]
Table I expressly lists cannabis and cannabis resin. Article 20 distinguishes cannabis oil from other derivatives when setting personal-use penalties. These statutory categories do not establish any product currently available through legal retail or patient supply.
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Articles 21–23 regulate care for people using drugs: voluntary attendance carries anonymity and professional secrecy, while treatment ordered within proceedings involves reports to the court, normally every three months.[@dl2b93] These addiction-treatment provisions do not establish a cannabis prescribing programme or patient supply service.[@dl2b93]
Articles 16–17 provide forfeiture of drug-related equipment, proceeds and associated assets.[@dl2b93] Under article 19, a court may expel a foreign national convicted of trafficking for at least ten years; this is not an automatic consequence of every small personal-possession conviction. Specified premises offences can also lead to closure for one to five years.[@dl2b93]
Article 20 covers small personal cultivation without legalising it, while article 3 covers other unauthorised cultivation.[@dl2b93] Table I lists cannabis and resin, but the reviewed text does not expressly settle isolated seed possession or seed trading. The grey seed label records that unresolved scope, not a verified permission. Growing cuttings has no recreational exemption.[@dl2b93]
The reviewed law establishesprovides no recreational collective-growing or supply permission: personal cultivation remains an offence under article 20 and transferring cannabis to another person falls under article 3. This legal restriction does not establish whether informal associations exist.[@dl2b93]
No recreational visitor supply route was established.[@dl2b93] Article 20 permits custody for small personal possession or use, and its waiver requires minority, no repeat offence and a solemn undertaking. Foreign nationals convicted of trafficking may additionally face expulsion for at least ten years under article 19.[@dl2b93]
Figures reported by the government to the UN drugs office record 9,579 kg of herbal cannabis seized in 2023, against 291 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]
label Cannabis oil, small amount for personal use · treatment criminal · term Personal use · prison min 2 months · prison 1 year · note Or waiver for qualifying minors, label Other cannabis derivatives, small amount for personal use · treatment criminal · term Personal use · prison min 1 month · prison 6 months · note Or waiver for qualifying minors
label Cannabis oil, small amount grown for personal use · treatment criminal · term Personal use · prison min 2 months · prison 1 year · note Or waiver for qualifying minors, label Other derivatives, small amount grown for personal use · treatment criminal · term Personal use · prison min 1 month · prison 6 months · note Or waiver for qualifying minors, label Other unauthorised cultivation (article 3) · treatment criminal · term Unlicensed cultivation · prison 12 years · note Maximum twelve years; printed minimum omitted in the gazette
label Offering or providing high-risk drugs to another person · treatment criminal · term Trafficking · prison 12 years · note Maximum twelve years; printed minimum omitted in the gazette
label Cannabis oil, personal use · treatment criminal · term Drug use · prison min 2 months · prison 1 year · note Or waiver for qualifying minors, label Other cannabis derivatives, personal use · treatment criminal · term Drug use · prison min 1 month · prison 6 months · note Or waiver for qualifying minors
Cannabis is prohibited: small personal possession, cultivation and use carry custody bands, and supply carries up to twelve years.[@dl2b93] The youth waiver needs minority, no repeat offence and a solemn undertaking together, so it is no general first-offender exemption.[@dl2b93]
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The provisions reviewed set no THC line for hemp and no fibre or food exception: cannabis and resin sit in Table I, and unauthorised cultivation is punished regardless of claimed use.[@dl2b93]
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