Georgia: correct seizure series and add 4 history entries

2025-04-16

The April package expanded drug-testing and treatment rules, but the cannabis score movement is carried by the 2 July 2025 possession law.

1974-04-25

upto 5 g · treatment civil · term Small amount, Article 45¹(1) · fine 500 · note Dried can … tment criminal · term Especially large amount, Article 260(3) · prison min 8 years · note EightLife is an alternative to the twenty-year maximum · prison 20 years or· life imprisonmentpossible

Private consumption itself is not punished.[@idpc] Since July 2025, prison is again possib … r a prior drug conviction. It left criminal liability in place.[@cc882,cc882judgment] The police seized 3,017UNODC series records 212 kg of herbal cannabis and 2,805 plants in 2022; the 3, and recorded017 kg figure in some summaries adds plants as kilograms. Recorded drug charges fell from 6,922 in 2019 to 2,622 in 2022.[@mgebrishvili,unodc_szr] The Interior Ministry registered 5,598 drug crimes in 2024, 10,475 in 2025 and 7,533 in January–June 2026; more than half were purchase or possession.[@meduza26]

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Sale of the cannabis plant or marijuana is punished with five to ten years in prison; a la … elve, and an especially large quantity or organised group twelve to seventeen.[@criminal] Transfer without payment carries three to eight years, six to ten for aggravated cases and seven to twelve for especially large or organised cases; facilitating a sale carries five to ten, six to twelve or twelve to seventeen.[@criminal] Production or transport of drugs carries three to seven years, six to nine for aggravated cases and nine to twenty or life for especially large or organised cases.[@criminal] The Court'’s reasoning protects only the consumer'’s own choice; supply remains a crime.[@idpc]

label Sale of cannabis or marijuana, Article 260³(1) · treatment criminal · term Sale · pr … , Article 260³(3) · treatment criminal · term Sale · prison min 12 years · prison 17 years, label Transfer without payment, Article 260²(4) · treatment criminal · term Gift · prison min 3 years · prison 8 years, label Facilitating a sale, Article 260⁴(1) · treatment criminal · term Facilitation · prison min 5 years · prison 10 years

No approved cannabis medicine, prescription route, clinical trial or production licence was found.[@nlaw] Cannabis is a ScheduleList I drug, and the law permits circulation only for teaching, scientific, expert and forensi … cannabis and a formal medical-cannabis industry.[@mgebrishvili] Medical status stays none.

No industrial-hemp licensing scheme, THC limit, planted area or harvest figure was found. Cannabis is a ScheduleList I drug, and sowing or growing it is criminal under Article 265¹.[@nlaw,criminal] No separate CBD exemption was found in the sources read.[@nlaw]

No licensed production was found. Cannabis is a ScheduleList I drug, and production, transport and sale are criminal.[@nlaw,criminal] No medical, fibre or export production route was found in the sources read.[@nlaw]

Administrative fines leave no criminal record.[@admin] A drug conviction can bar certain professionscosts the driving licence and several other rights for five years under the Law on Combating Drug-related Crime, and; an administrative cannabis offence costs the same law provides five years' deprivation of a driving licence for a drugthree years and teaching, public-influenced driving convictionservice and weapons rights for five.[@trafficrights] APassive suffrage is also affected, and a criminal record also affects sentencing for later drug offences.[@criminal]

There is no lawful recreational supply: buying, growing and selling remain prohibited.[@id … ents restored prison above 5 g and for repeat small-quantity possession.[@admin,criminal] The law makes no exception for visitorsA conviction can lead to deportation and an entry ban; a foreign resident received two years and a 20-year ban in a 2026 case reported by Meduza.[@adminmeduza26]

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The illicit market is well established. The Interior Ministry seized 3,017UNODC series records 212 kg of herbal cannabis and 2,805 plants seized in 2022; summaries that call this “3, and researchers describe easier access alongside rising seizures017 kg” add plants as kilograms.[@mgebrishvili,unodc_szr] Home growing supplies a large share of regular users: 43% obtained cannabis that way aft … for personal use and only 3% for sale.[@mgebrishvili] No price or purity data were found.

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Recorded drug charges fell from 6,922 in 2019 to 2,622 in 2022.[@mgebrishvili] No official arrest or prosecution figures forThe Interior Ministry registered 5,598 drug crimes in 2024, 10,475 in 2025 and 7,533 in January–June 2026; more than half were found in the sources readpurchase or possession under Article 260.[@meduza26] The 2025 amendments lengthened severalProsecutor General’s Office opened 119 drug sentencescases against Russian citizens in 2024, 196 in 2025 and made refusing a drug test an offence234 in January–September 2026, and prisons held 12,344 people in June 2026.[@ocmmeduza26] The figures cover all drugs, not cannabis alone.[@meduza26]

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UNODC Data Portal — Drug seizures, reported seizures in kilogram equivalents Meduza — Russian emigrants face drug charges in Georgia (16 October 2026) 11 unchanged