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Expand Montenegro: correct fine ranges, supply table and national police report

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segments › possession › penalties

label Personal possession (misdemeanour) · treatment civil · term Holding drugs for personal use · fine 1002000 · note €100–€2,000 misdemeanourMisdemeanour · fine min 100

segments › cultivation › penalties

label Breach of hemp permit-and-contract rules · treatment civil · term Unlicensed hemp cultivation · fine 1002000 · note €Misdemeanour · fine min 100–€2,000 misdemeanour fine, label Unlawful drug production · treatment criminal · term Unlawful production of drugs · prison min 2 years · prison 10 years · note Two to ten years in prison

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Drugs found in unlawful possession are confiscated under the drug law, including in personal-possession cases.[@law] The Criminal Code requires the confiscation and destruction of drugs and production equipment under its production-and-supply offence.[@cc] A person convicted under that offence who reveals their supplier may be excused punishment.[@cc]

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A scientificScientific legal entity may growentities can cultivate hemp under a separateafter registering the land-registration with the phytosanitary authority, using the drug law’s exception to the ordinary cultivation permit -and purchase-contract routerequirements.[@law] No separate research programme, trial or published study was established byThe ordinary food and industrial growing route uses the retained sources2014 permit rules, including certified-seed and land details.[@hemp]

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Montenegro Interior Ministry — Work report for 2025, published 23 July 2026 10 unchanged

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label Giving for consumption or providing premises · treatment criminal · term Facilitating drug use · prison min 6 months · prison 5 years · note Article 301(1), label Aggravated facilitation · treatment criminal · term Facilitating drug use · prison min 2 years · prison 10 years · note Article 301(2): protected persons, multiple people, specified premises or abuse of professional position, label Sale, holding or transport for sale · treatment criminal · term Unauthorised production, possession and supply · prison min 2 years · prison 10 years · note Article 300(1), label Bringing into Montenegro for supply · treatment criminal · term Unauthorised import for supply · prison min 2 years · prison 12 years · note Article 300(2): intent to commit the supply offence, label Organising a dealer network · treatment criminal · term Organised supply · prison min 3 years · prison 15 years · note Article 300(3)

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The Interior Ministry’s [report for 2025](/history/montenegro-police-drug-results-2025/) records 247 criminal complaints covering 308 people for drug offences across all substances.[@annual2025] It separately records 955 misdemeanour complaints against 957 people.[@annual2025] These are complaint and suspect counts, rather than cannabis-only arrests or convictions.[@annual2025]

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annual2025

context › black market › text

The Interior Ministry’s 2025 seizure table records 400.35285 kg of marijuana and 0.39 kg of hashish.[@annual2025] Its narrative reports 13,191 cannabis plants, including the [Trnovo plantation](/history/montenegro-operation-trnovo-2025/) with about 13,100 plants.[@annual2025] The report describes plantations and indoor growing laboratories alongside border seizures.[@annual2025]

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annual2025

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+| Montenegro | Correct €100–€2,000 structured ranges; five supply/facilitation rows; national market and complaints sections; research and confiscation; 2011 framework article; one report event | Early Yugoslav decades; local words; full enacted 2026 amendment text | this commit |
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+Montenegro: read government 2013 consolidation, CINMED 2024 consolidation,
+Criminal Code arts. 300–301, 2014 hemp regulation, July 2026 proposal and August
+Gazette registry, and original national 2025 report. Scores/statuses unchanged.
+The 2011 article distinguishes publication from provisions visible by 2013,
+rather than dating the personal-possession fine to the original act. Research
+section explains the land-registration exception; no invented clinical study.
+The July proposal leaves possession ranges intact, but full enacted amendment
+text was not accessible from the Gazette registry. No proposal provision promoted
+to current law. Report seizure table gives 400.35285 kg marijuana, while narrative
+rounds incorrectly to about 410 kg; used table. Plant narrative says 13,191 versus
+13,254 in table: profile explicitly attributes the narrative count. Complaint
+totals cover all drugs, not cannabis-only convictions or arrests.
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