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Expand Montenegro (me): August 2026 law article, research and customs sources, statutory terms

Adds the article for the August 2026 drug-law amendment, links the hemp definition and medical border rule in the profile, adds article 25 research authorisation, a customs source and three Montenegrin terms, and records the batch progress.

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Montenegro countries/me.yaml

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Food and industrial hemp needs a cultivation permit plus a contract for the whole crop, co … p] A scientific legal entity may grow under a separate land-registration exception.[@law] The [August 2026 law](/history/montenegro-drug-warning-amendment-2026/) expressly defines industrial hemp at no more than 0.2% THC and outside the drug list.[@law] [Hemp permits were introduced in 2014.](/history/montenegro-hemp-permits-2014/)

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Personal drug possession is punishable by a €100–€2,000 misdemeanour fine, and selling can … ] Bringing drugs into Montenegro for the supply offence carries two to twelve years.[@cc] Drug-containing medicines have a separate border rule: up to thirty days of personal treatment, with a doctor’s certificate no more than ninety days old.[@law]

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Scientific legal entities can cultivate hemp after registering the land with the phytosani … owing route uses the 2014 permit rules, including certified-seed and land details.[@hemp] Separately, article 25 allows scientific, research and educational legal entities and specialist laboratories to cultivate, produce, obtain and use controlled drugs under a Health Ministry authorisation lasting one year, limited to quantities needed for their work.[@law]

sources

Montenegro Government — Foreign-trade control list decision of 10 March 2016 CINMED — Montenegro’s drug law, consolidated through August 2026 CINMED — Montenegro’s drug law, consolidated through October 2024 10 unchanged

words

word konoplja · lang Montenegrin · meaning hemp or cannabis; statutory plant name · sources law, word kanabis · lang Montenegrin · meaning cannabis; official drug-list terminology · sources customs16, word indijska konoplja · lang Montenegrin · meaning Indian hemp; official synonym for cannabis · sources customs16

Articles and atlas entries 1

Code, design and documents 1 file

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 | Northern Cyprus | Planting, zero-threshold driving, seizure context; three events; 1956 article | Original 1982/1989/1991 amendments; national cannabis arrest series; colonial commencement notice | a86a8de |
-| Kosovo | Aggravated penalty tiers; licensed research; cultivation-laboratory context; three events and market article | Original 1930 law and early Yugoslav decades; 2026 schedule text; additional local terms | This country’s commit |
-| Montenegro | Pending | | |
+| Kosovo | Aggravated penalty tiers; licensed research; cultivation-laboratory context; three events and market article | Original 1930 law and early Yugoslav decades; 2026 schedule text; additional local terms | 2a1ddf6 |
+| Montenegro | August law and article; reporting/schedule/customs history; research and medical travel; statutory terms | Original early laws; full current criminal-code amendment; cannabis-only arrest series | This country’s commit |
 | Isle of Man | Pending | | |
 | Croatia | Pending | | |

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