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Since 1 January 2013, small-amount possession for personal use is a misdemeanour.[@wiki] A … a crime from April 1996 until 2013, with a fine or up to a year in prison.[@tripalo,wiki] [Croatia makes personal possession a misdemeanour in 2013.](/history/croatia-misdemeanour-2013/)

label Small amount for personal use (misdemeanour since 2013) · treatment civil · term Possession · fine 2654.46 · prison 90 days · note Fine or detention; no fixed gram threshold · fine min 663.61

Growing even a few plants for yourself remains a criminal offence: Article 190 of the Crim … months to five years in prison, and three to twelve years when the drug is meant for sale.[@kz] A multiple sclerosis patient who grew eleven plants for oil was sentenced to two years in 2017 and escaped prison only by a presidential pardon in 2019.[@index19,nl19] [A cannabis-oil patient was pardoned in 2019.](/history/croatia-luksetic-pardon-2019/)

label Unauthorised cultivation as production (Article 190) · treatment criminal · term Cultivation · prison min 6 months · prison 5 years · note Six months to five yearsEven a few plants for personal use count as production, label Cultivation where the drug is meant for sale · treatment criminal · term Cultivation · prison min 3 years · prison 12 years · note Three to twelve yearsHigher range where the drug is meant for sale

Personal possession can bring a €663.61–2,654.46 fine or up to 90 days’ detention.[@zszd,e … s, with prison terms starting at six months for production and three years for sale.[@kz] [Croatia makes personal possession a misdemeanour in 2013.](/history/croatia-misdemeanour-2013/)

Selling, offering or brokering a sale carries three to twelve years in prison under Article 190 of the Criminal Code, and three to fifteen where a child or a school is involved.[@kz] Giving a drug to another person to use, or providing a place to use it, carries six months to five years under Article 191.[@kz]

label Selling, offering or brokering (Article 190) · treatment criminal · term Supply · prison min 3 years · prison 12 years · note ThreeUp to twelve years; three to fifteen years where a child or a school is involved, label Giving for use or providing a place (Article 191) · treatment criminal · term Facilitation · prison min 6 months · prison 5 years · note Six months to five yearsFor enabling use or providing premises

No adult-use source. Legalisation bills, including one proposing nine plants per adult, have been tabled without success; the government rejected the latest after a debate in November 2022.[@wiki,pp,nl22] [Parliament debated nine plants for every adult in 2022.](/history/croatia-hemp-bill-debate-2022/)

There is no legal recreational supply. Since 2013 small-amount personal possession is a mi … he euro range follows the domestic court’s application of the conversion law.[@eurocourt] [Croatia makes personal possession a misdemeanour in 2013.](/history/croatia-misdemeanour-2013/)

Hemp cultivation is permitted, and a 2019 change allowed domestic production of medical cannabis.[@pp,zszd] [Croatia allowed domestic production of medical cannabis in 2019.](/history/croatia-medical-production-2019/)

Prescription medical preparations and low-THC hemp products.

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Legal since October 2015 for conditions such as multiple sclerosis, cancer, epilepsy and AIDS, on prescription, capped at 7.5 g of THC per 30 days, with no home growing.[@prescription2015,wiki] In practice there is little to prescribe: pharmacies ran out in March 2018 and the importe … sures THC over thirty days, rather than the weight of cannabis flower.[@prescription2015] [Pharmacies ran out of cannabis medicine in 2018.](/history/croatia-pharmacies-run-out-2018/) [Croatia allowed domestic production of medical cannabis in 2019.](/history/croatia-medical-production-2019/) [No medical cannabis product was on sale in 2025.](/history/croatia-medical-market-2025/)

A misdemeanour is not a criminal record.[@wiki] The court can impose the fine or up to 90 days' detention, and an unpaid fine can be converted.[@zszd] [Croatia makes personal possession a misdemeanour in 2013.](/history/croatia-misdemeanour-2013/)

The Act on Combating Drug Abuse defines growing a plant to obtain drugs as including "acquiring and possessing seed", sowing and planting, and Article 3 bans it outside medical, veterinary, scientific and teaching use.[@zszd] Industrial hemp of EU-listed varieties with no more than 0.2% THC is exempt, and its growers must register before sowing.[@zszd]

Industrial hemp of EU-listed varieties at no more than 0.2% THC is exempt from the growing … s are sold, but prescription medical cannabis remains practically unavailable.[@mjb,pp25] [Parliament debated nine plants for every adult in 2022.](/history/croatia-hemp-bill-debate-2022/)

Croatian law sets no THC limit. The road-safety law punishes driving under the influence o … who is not capable of driving and causes danger, so in both cases impairment is the test.[@euda_dd] Police may stop and test at random, with an oral-fluid test before a physical examination and blood and urine taken at a hospital.[@euda_dd] Penalties under the road law are a ban of six months to two years, a fine of about 1,300 to 2,660 euros and up to two months in prison; the criminal offence carries up to three years.[@euda_dd]

The EU drugs agency's statistical bulletin records 6,837 cannabis-related drug law offences in Croatia in 2024, against 6,701 in 2023.[@euda_dlo] Of the 2024 total, 5,874 were for use or possession for use.[@euda_dlo] The level has been fairly steady since a high of 8,143 in 2018.[@euda_dlo] Countries count these differently (offences or offenders, criminal or administrative), so the figure is not comparable across borders.[@euda_dlo]

No clubs are known. A: a Europe-wide survey of cannabis social clubs carried out in 2018 and 2019 found, after online searches and contact with people in the field, that there did not seem to be any active club in Croatia, and nothing more recent than that survey was found.[@pardal20] No law in Croatia provides for them; Malta (since 2021) and Germany (since 2024) license non-profit cannabis associations, but only under their own laws. Nothing more recent was found[@mt_cap628,de_cang] [Malta legalised non-profit cannabis associations in 2021.](/history/malta-legalisation-2021/) [Germany licensed them in 2024.](/history/germany-cultivation-associations-2024/)

There is no legal recreational supply for visitors.[@pp] Possession is treated as for residents: a €663.61–2,654.46 fine or up to 90 days’ detention under the misdemeanour provision.[@zszd,eurocourt] [Croatia makes personal possession a misdemeanour in 2013.](/history/croatia-misdemeanour-2013/)

The EU drugs agency's statistical bulletin records 2,082 kg of herbal cannabis and 76 kg of cannabis resin seized in Croatia in 2024, against 6,030 kg and 72 kg in 2023.[@euda_szr] Herbal cannabis was seized on 6,485 occasions and resin on 500.[@euda_szr] Plant seizures came to 14,954 plants.[@euda_szr] Countries record seizures differently, so the figures are not comparable across borders.[@euda_szr]