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Since 1 January 2013, small-amountPersonal possession for personal use is handled as a misdemeanour.[@wiki] under Article 54(3), as amended in 2019, provideswith a fine or up to 90 days’ detention; the legacy HRK5,000–20,000 fine converts toof €663.61–€2,654.46 under the Euro Introduction Actor up to 90 days’ detention.[@zszd,nn39,eurocourt] There isThe possession provision sets no fixed gram threshold; courts assess personal use.[@wikizszd] Possession had been a crime from April 1996 until 2013, with a fine or up to a year in prison.The [@tripalo,wiki] [Croatia makes personal possession a misdemeanour in 2013. change](/history/croatia-misdemeanour-2013/) separated personal possession from the criminal production and supply offences.[@kz]
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SellingSale, offering or brokering a sale carriesimport, holding for supply and other trafficking carry three to twelve years in prison under Article 190 of, following the Criminal Code[November 2025 increase in the minimum](/history/croatia-trafficking-minimum-raised-2025/).[@kz, andamend2025] Specified child, school or other protected-setting cases carry three to fifteen whereyears; organising a childdealer network carries at least three years, and specified supply causing death or a school is involvedwidespread serious injury at least five.[@kz] Giving a drug to another person todrugs for use, or providing a place to use it,premises carries six months to five years under Article 191; aggravated facilitation carries one to ten years, or three to fifteen if it causes death.[@kz]
label Selling, offering or brokering (Article 190)Ordinary trafficking · treatment criminal · term Supply · prison min 3 years · prison 12 years · note Up to fifteenArticle 190(2), label Protected persons or settings · treatment criminal · term Aggravated supply · prison min 3 years where a child· prison 15 years · note Article 190(3): children, specified vulnerable persons, schools, prisons or abuse of office, label Organising a school is involveddealer network · treatment criminal · term Organised supply · prison min 3 years · note Article 190(4), label Supply causing death or widespread serious injury · treatment criminal · term Aggravated supply · prison min 5 years · note Article 190(5), label Giving for use or providing a place (Article 191)premises · treatment criminal · term Facilitation · prison min 6 months · prison 5 years · note For enabling useArticle 191(1), label Aggravated facilitation · treatment criminal · term Facilitation · prison min 1 year · prison 10 years · note Article 191(2): protected persons, multiple people or providing premisesspecified settings/positions, label Facilitation causing death · treatment criminal · term Facilitation · prison min 3 years · prison 15 years · note Article 191(3)
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Use is handled underThe drug-abuse Act prohibits unauthorised use, while Article 54(3) provides the same misdemeanour as personal-possession: a misdemeanour penalty of €663.61–€2,654.46 fine or up to 90 days’ detention.[@zszd,eurocourt] Tourists are regularly fined in summerIts possession provision does not create a separate tariff for the act of consuming.[@wikizszd] Giving drugs to another person to consume is separately criminal under Article 191.[@kz]
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There is no legal recreational supply. Since 2013 small-amount personalPersonal possession is a misdemeanour, not with a crime: €663.61–€2,654.46 fine or up to 90 days'’ detention, withand Article 54 specifies no fixed gram threshold — courts assess personal use.[@zszd,nn39,wikieurocourt] Growing even a few plants for yourself staysUnauthorised growing remains criminal: production, carrying six months to five years, or three to twelve where the drug is meant for sale.[@kz] The euroGrowing for supply attracts the separate three-to-twelve-year range followsfollowing the domestic court’s application of the conversion law.[@eurocourt2025 amendment] [Croatia makes personal possession a misdemeanour in 2013.](/history/croatia-misdemeanourtrafficking-2013minimum-raised-2025/).[@kz,amend2025]
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Hemp cultivation is permitted, and a 2019 change allowed domestic production of medical cannabis.The [@pp,zszd] [Croatia allowed domestic production of medical cannabis in 2019. amendment](/history/croatia-medical-production-2019/) permits domestic medical cannabis cultivation by legal entities with a medicines or active-substance manufacturing licence.[@nn39] Cultivation requires Health Ministry approval, and production requires approval from [HALMED](https://www.halmed.hr/).[@nn39] Industrial hemp follows a separate registration route before sowing.[@nn39]
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Legal since October The [2015 prescription rules](/history/croatia-medical-2015/) cover THC, dronabinol and nabilone for conditions such as multiple sclerosis, cancer, epilepsy and AIDS, on.[@prescription2015] A prescription, capped may cover up to thirty days and at most 7.5 g of THC per 30 days, with no home growingstandardised preparations and specified prescription details.[@prescription2015,wiki] In practice there is little to prescribe: pharmacies ran out in March 2018 and the importer did not reorder, the health fund does not reimburse, and a The [2025 market survey found no cannabis medicine on sale and no company fully authorised to produce or distribute one.[@mjb,wiki,n118,pp25] The 7.5 g cap measures THC over thirty days, rather than the weight of cannabis flower.[@prescription2015] [Pharmacies ran out of cannabis medicine in 2018.](/history/croatia-pharmacies-run-out-2018/) [Croatia allowed domestic production of medical cannabis in 2019.](/history/croatia-medicalmarket-production-20192025/) [No medicalreported no cannabis product wasmedicine on sale in 2025and no fully authorised producer or distributor.[@pp25](/history/croatia-medical-market-2025/)
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A misdemeanour is not a criminal recordThe drug-abuse Act requires confiscation of drugs, plants and manufacturing materials involved in its offences.[@wikinn39] The court can imposeA drug-dependent offender may also receive compulsory treatment for three months to one year alongside the fine or up to 90 days' detention, and an unpaid fine can be converted.[@zszdnn39] [Croatia makes personal possession a misdemeanourThe Criminal Code separately provides confiscation of drugs, plants and production or consumption equipment in 2013production and facilitation cases.[@kz](/history/croatia-misdemeanour-2013/)
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DrugScientific institutions may cultivate drug-ban exemptions cover medical, veterinary, scientificproducing plants and teaching usemanufacture drugs with Health Ministry approval under Article 16.[@zszd] Teaching, analytical and the 2019 change allowed domestic medical-cannabis production — but no authorised producer or distributor was on sale by 2025, leaving research without a domestic supply chainother specified activities have separate permissions for possessing samples.[@zszd,pp25] No separate research programme, trial or published study was established byMedical commercial production instead follows the retained sourcesmedicines-licence route introduced in 2019.[@nn39]
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The EU drugs agency'Interior Ministry’s [2025 statistical bulletinreview](/history/croatia-cannabis-seizures-2025/) records 2nationwide seizures of 1,082059.54 kg of herbal cannabismarijuana and 7619.45 kg of cannabis resin seized in Croatia in 2024, against 6,030 kg and 72 kg in 2023hashish.[@euda_szrpolice2025] Herbal cannabis was seized on 6It separately lists 3,485 occasions and resin on 500.[@euda_szr] Plant seizures came to 14,954978 cannabis plants.[@euda_szrpolice2025] Countries record seizures differentlyThe 11, so927 seizure incidents in the figures are not comparable across bordersreport cover all drug types.[@euda_szrpolice2025]
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Official Gazette — Criminal Code amendment, NN 136/2025 Croatia Interior Ministry — Statistical review for 2025, February 2026 24 unchanged