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Ordinary illicit use is a criminal offence in public or private, with up to one year and €3,750; eligible ordinary-use cases can end through the national fixed-fine process.[@csp,sp_use] [France has punished any drug use with up to a year in prison since 1970.](/history/france-use-criminalised-1970/) [Ordinary use moved into an on-the-spot fine in 2020.](/history/france-fixed-fine-2020/) [The fine rose to €500 in 2026.](/history/france-fixed-fine-2026/)
No Réunion-specific patient route exists; access follows the restricted national French medical framework, limited to patients carried over from the 2021 experiment during the transition to a permanent regime.[@sp] [France's medical cannabis experiment began in 2021.](/history/france-medical-experiment-2021/) [Reimbursement rules for the permanent regime followed in 2026.](/history/france-reimbursement-decree-2026/)
CBD flower and products under 0.3% THC are lawful to sell under the national French regime; there is no other lawful cannabis product on the island.[@cx] [France's top court allowed CBD flower sales in 2022.](/history/france-cbd-flower-2022/)
No Réunion-specific patient route exists; access follows the restricted national French medical framework, limited to patients carried over from the 2021 experiment during the transition to a permanent regime.[@sp] [France's medical cannabis experiment began in 2021.](/history/france-medical-experiment-2021/) [Reimbursement rules for the permanent regime followed in 2026.](/history/france-reimbursement-decree-2026/)
Trafficking runs on small networks built on mutual acquaintance, with local production and … hile its price rose from about €0.50 to €5 a gram; imported hybrids fill the gap.[@ofdt21](/history/reunion-ofdt-trend-2021-2022/) By 2025 home-grown zamal sold at about €10 a roll of roughly 10 g with quality still declining, imported skunk at €10 a gram was supplanting it, and imported resin sold at about €20 a gram.[@ofdtre25](/history/reunion-drug-trend-2025-2026/)
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OFDT — Élodie Auzole, Substances psychoactives, usagers et marchés, Tendances récentes sur l'île de La Réunion en 2025 (September 2026) Observatoire national interministériel de la sécurité routière — Les infractions (2024 figures) 7 unchanged
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Driving after using a narcotic is an offence whatever the amount; there is no threshold.[@onisr] Police screen heavily at national level: the road-safety observatory counted about 1.2 million drug screenings in 2024, of which 11.1% were positive.[@onisr] No Réunion-specific screening count was found.[@onisr]
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In 2025 customs and police at Roland-Garros airport intercepted 58 air mules, 44 of them carrying drugs, and three operations searching all baggage seized 20 kg of cannabis resin.[@ofdtre25] No island-wide cannabis-only arrest series is published; nationally, police recorded 148,556 drug-use offences in 2024, almost three times as many as in 2017, with cannabis by far the commonest drug.[@onisr]
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