Guinea: value-based fine ladders, culture, death-penalty exception

The retained sources do not identify cannabis products available through a lawful patient supply programme.

No patient programme is documented. The retained sources do not establish an operating2016 code prohibits use outside a medical prescription but sets up no route for patients to obtain cannabis programme.[@cp16]

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The African Roots of Marijuana Human Rights Watch — submission on Guinea to the Universal Periodic Review (2016 abolition) 2 unchanged

label Small personal buying or possession (Article 832) · treatment criminal · prison min 1 year · prison 3 years · note Fine equal to three times the value seized, or either punishment alone; no gram limit

label Small quantity grown for personal consumption (Article 832) · treatment criminal · prison min 1 year · prison 3 years · note Fine equal to three times the value seized; no plant limit, label Ordinary high-risk cultivation and production (Article 819) · treatment criminal · prison min 10 years · prison 20 years · note Fine of three times the value seized, or either punishment alone

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label Giving narcotics for another person's use (Article 835) · treatment criminal · prison min 1 year · prison 3 years · fine 5000000 · note Fine of 1–5 million Guinean francs, or either punishment alone, label Directly supplying high-risk drugs (Article 821) · treatment criminal · prison min 5 years · prison 10 years · note Fine of three times the value seized, or either alone, label Ordinary high-risk trafficking · treatment criminal · prison min 10 years · prison 20 years · note Value-based fine, or either punishment alone

Guinea abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes in the 2016 criminal code and under military law in 2017; no cannabis offence carries a capital sentence.[@hrw_gn]

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There is no legal way to get cannabis. Small personal buying or possession brings one to three years and a fine of three times the value seized; convicted foreigners can also be permanently excluded from the country.[@cp16]

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An [1891 French-Mandingo dictionary](/history/guinea-mandingo-dictionary-diamba-1891/) translated *diamba* specifically as tobacco for smoking, while *sira* meant tobacco in general — one of many European records of the cannabis word as tobacco across Manding languages.[@duvall]

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