Vietnam: correct production death threshold, remove deportation claim, add 11 entries

Organising the use of narcotics in any form carried six months to five years in prison und … ous consequences or dangerous repeat offending raised the term to three to ten years.[@1] Possession, use, production and domestic transport were not crimes under that code; the 1989 insertion of Article 96a was the real turning point.[@1] The 1997 amendment later replaced this organising-use rule with a separate offence in its expanded drug chapter.[@2]

label 1 g to under 500 g resin, or 1 kg to under 10 kg plant parts · treatment criminal · … 75 kg or more plant parts · treatment criminal · term Possession · prison min 15 years · prison 20 years · note Fifteen to twenty years, or life

Illegal cannabis sale can bring life imprisonment or death from 30 kg of resin or 150 kg o … parts, carries twenty years or life.[@a251] Production and transport are separate offences with similar tiers: the 2025 law removed death for transport but kept it for, while production reaches life or death only from 530 kg of cannabis resin or 75 kg ofand has no separate plant-parts tier.[@law86]

Illegal use can bring a warning or a fine of VND 1–2 million, confiscation of the drug and one-year user management; foreigners can also be deported.[@decree282] First detection leads to that monitoring, and further use can trigger addict … time and 36 months on a repeat under the 2025 drug law, in force from 1 July 2026.[@l120]

label Illegal use, administrative · treatment civil · term Use · fine min 1000000 · fine 2000000 · note Warning or fine; confiscation; one-year user management; deportation for foreigners, label Use in rehabilitation statuses, Article 256a · treatment criminal · term Use · pri … vism of Article 256a · treatment criminal · term Use · prison min 3 years · prison 5 years

From 1 July 2025, illegal sale of 5 kg to under 30 kg of cannabis resin, or 75 kg to under … ] Death is an alternative sentence in that bracket, not a required one.[@a251] Production reaches life or death from 530 kg of cannabis resin or 75 kg of, with no plant-parts can also bring deathtier, while the same law removed the death penalty for illegal transport.[@law86,mps25] Death sentences imposed before 1 July 2025 were commuted to life where the quantity was at or below the new top-band floor, or where the offender was not a mastermind and fewer than two aggravating circumstances applied.[@law86]

Local police place detected users under ordinary one-year monitoring. A further detection … mpulsory rehabilitation lasts 24 months for a first time and 36 months on a repeat.[@l120] Foreigners can also face deportation.[@decree282]

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There is no legal recreational supply for anyone. Illegal possession that is not for sale, … of the listed plant parts, and a prior penalty can make a smaller amount criminal.[@a249] Foreigners can also be deported for drugSimple use is not a ground for expulsion under the 2025 sanctions decree.[@decree282]

There is no legal hemp category and no THC threshold. The 2025 drug law treats the cannabi … out of the activities that can be licensed, so fibre hemp has no commercial route.[@l120] In March 2024 the Ministry of Public Security said fibre hemp grown for cloth, fodder or fuel was not in the banned plant lists and was not sanctioned, while using it to extract drugs could be prosecuted; that guidance predates the 2025 law and left no licensing or THC threshold.[@mpsHemp24] Decree 28/2026 keeps cannabis and its preparations in List I, absolutely prohibited in med … ](/culture/traditions/hmong-hemp-cloth/) is a surviving craft, not a licensed crop.[@l120]

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Vietnam Ministry of Public Security via Tiếng Chuông — growing fibre hemp for cloth, fodder or fuel (26 March 2024) 18 unchanged