Countries and states 1 file
Guyana countries/gy.yaml
context › visitors › textThere is no legal recreational supply for anyone. British travel advice saysPersonal possession or trafficking canof up to 30 g remains an offence but cannot bring lengthy prison sentences and heavy finesimprisonment: up to 15 g leads to mandatory counselling, that the minimum jail sentenceand more than 15 g through 30 g to community service. The Attorney General says police should not detain people for drug offences is 3 yearsthese small amounts. Larger possession, supply and that prison conditions are toughimportation remain serious offences; the small-possession exception does not authorise bringing cannabis across the border.[@reform2022,ag2024]
context › visitors › sourcespireform2022, fcdoag2024
sourcesGuyana Ministry of Legal Affairs — Attorney General on small cannabis possession (25 September 2024)
Guyana Parliament — Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) (Amendment) Act 22 of 2022
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Code, design and documents 2 files
docs/research/issue-corrections-186-204-2026-10-27.md +10 −0
@@ -85,2 +85,12 @@ purporting to decide which provision must prevail in an individual prosecution.
Scores remain: possession 0, enforcement 1 (severe imprisonment already recorded).
No unverified new historical score step or commencement event was invented.
+
+## #196 — Guyana small-possession exception
+
+Read the Ministry of Legal Affairs Attorney General statement of 25 September 2024:
+https://www.mola.gov.gy/post/illegal-for-police-to-lock-up-persons-for-small-amounts-of-ganja-nandlall .
+It explains the enacted 2022 exception: up to 15 g counselling, above 15 through
+30 g community service, no imprisonment. Replaced the generic foreign travel
+three-year-minimum statement with local-law-specific visitor guidance. Possession
+remains an offence; supply and border import are not authorised by this exception.
+Existing scores and history already capture the reform and do not change.
scripts/profile-claims.test.mjs +8 −0
@@ -398,2 +398,10 @@ test('PNG quantity tiers cannot hide the alternative forty-year charging route (
assert.match(pg.sources.dda2021.locator, /13 January 2022/);
});
+
+// Issue #196
+test('Guyana visitors retain the noncustodial cannabis exception (#196)', () => {
+ const gy = country('gy').context.visitors.text;
+ assert.match(gy, /up to 30 g.*cannot bring imprisonment/);
+ assert.doesNotMatch(gy, /minimum jail sentence.*3 years/);
+ assert.match(gy, /does not authorise bringing cannabis across the border/);
+});