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The smallA first personal-possession tier permits a fine for a first offence below three grams, with can still bring imprisonment also available.[@code2019] Police continue to investigate supply:National police data record 443 marijuana trafficking and possession cases and 584 arrested suspects in the 2024.[January 2025 Pristina seizure@socta2025](/history/kosovo The 2025 annual report records 553 marijuana cases and 21 cannabis-operationplant cultivation cases, without a cannabis-starti-2025/) they arrested four men after seizing 25only arrest total.2 kg of suspected marijuana.[@kp25annual2025]
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TheCannabis cultivation is prohibited by the [2008 drug law prohibits cultivating plants from which ](/history/kosovo-narcotics can be obtained-law-2008/), and places cannabis in Table I, cannabis activities are restricted to scientific research, educationaleducation and police purposeswork.[@l128] Growing cannabisArticle 16 permits licensed institutions to acquire, possess and use Table I substances for research, with Interior Ministry authorisation after committee approval; it does not establish a commercial growing licence.[@l128] Unauthorised cultivation for drug production carries one to ten years in prison.[@code2019]
No hemp regime was found: cannabisCannabis, resin, extracts and tinctures sit in any form sits in Table I of the drug law, restricted towhose exceptions concern scientific research, education and police purposes, with.[@l128] The law also prohibits cultivating plants from which narcotics can be obtained.[@l128] These provisions provide no THC threshold, licence, or fibre-based industrial growing exemption located.[@l128]
In the JanuaryKosovo Police’s 2025 Pristina operation policethreat assessment describes both imports from Albania and domestic cultivation.[@socta2025] Its 2024 table records 1,279.8 kg of marijuana seized 25.2[@socta2025] The [2025 annual report](/history/kosovo-police-cannabis-results-2025/) records 1,315.8691 kg of suspected marijuana and arrested four men6, the largest recent seizure in the retained sources587 cannabis plants seized during that year; weight and plant counts are separate measures.[@kp25annual2025] No wider seizure series was found.
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PoliceThe police threat assessment records 443 marijuana trafficking and possession cases and 584 arrested four mensuspects in Pristina in January 2025 after seizing 252024.2 kg[@socta2025] It combines possession and trafficking, so these are not counts of suspected marijuanapersonal-use arrests or convictions.[@kp25socta2025] No account of routine userThe 2025 annual report lists 553 marijuana cases and another 21 cannabis-levelplant cultivation cases, while its 961 drug-related arrests was foundcover all drugs.[@annual2025]
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Kosovo Police — Serious and Organised Crime Threat Assessment 2025 Kosovo Police — Annual work report, January–December 2025 5 unchanged
label Holding or buying with intent to supply · treatment criminal · term Purchase or possession with intent to sell or distribute · prison min 2 years · prison 8 years · note Fine and imprisonment; drugs and relevant means confiscated, label Distribution or sale · treatment criminal · term Distribution and sale · prison min 2 years · prison 12 years · note Fine and imprisonment; drugs and relevant means confiscated, label Import or export · treatment criminal · term Unauthorised import or export · prison min 3 years · prison 10 years · note Fine and imprisonment; drugs and relevant means confiscated