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descriptionLaw 285, approved 6 April and published 15 and 16 April 1999, rewrote the earlier1994 Law 177 on narcotics and, psychotropic substances, with penalties of five and other controlled substances. Internal trafficking drew 5 to twenty-five20 years in prison, cultivation 5 to 15, inducing others to consume 5 to 10, and heavyfinancing 10 to 25, all with fines running into millions of cordobas. Prevention, treatment and rehabilitation chapters sat alongside the penalties.
unscoredRewrote the 1964/1994 prohibition with multi-year presidio throughout and no personal-use threshold; no established user-band movement beyond the already-scored ban.
sourcesUN — E/NL.1973/55, Nicaraguan cannabis and opium-poppy provisions (English translation)
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+# Nicaragua — Ley 285 text found via OAS MLA
+
+The OAS MLA PDF previously treated as a dead link now downloads:
+https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/Files/MLA/Nica_ajm_leg_esp_1.pdf
+(28 pp, Ley No. 285, approved 6 April 1999, La Gaceta Nos. 69-70 of 15-16
+April 1999). Key penalty articles read in full (local copy /tmp/nica285.txt):
+
+- Art. 50 financing: presidio 10-25 years, fine 5-10 million cordobas.
+- Art. 51 internal trafficking (acquiring for distribution/sale): 5-20 years,
+ fine 1-5 million.
+- Art. 52 international trafficking: 20-30 years.
+- Art. 53 industrialisation: 20-25 years.
+- Art. 54 illegal transport: 10-15 years.
+- Art. 55 production/cultivation (sowing, growing, harvesting): 5-15 years,
+ fine 0.5-2 million.
+- Art. 56 storage: 6-12 years. Art. 58 inducing consumption: 5-10 years.
+- Arts. 71-73: aggravating (up to double), mitigating (half minimum for
+ cooperation), exempting circumstances.
+- Prevention/treatment/rehabilitation chapters (arts. 14-22 etc.); Ministry
+ of Health treatment centres for consumers.
+
+No personal-use quantity threshold found in the text (searched dosis,
+consumo personal, tenencia para, eximentes). Entry triaged unscored: a
+rewrite of the prohibition with multi-year presidio throughout.
+
+Also added as second source to `nicaragua-marihuana-law-1964`: UN
+E/NL.1973/55 English translation of the 1964 provisions (fifth-degree
+presidio for cannabis traffic, third degree for possession in cigarettes,
+60-180 days detention for influence/addiction).
+
+## Open
+
+- Quinto/tercer grado to years under the 1964 Penal Code (needed only if the
+ 1964-1999 comparison is ever scored; currently not).
+- Law 177 (1994) Art. 49 (6-20 years per LatinAlliance, not yet read).
+- The 2010 Law 735 moderation (<5 g minor offence) has no scored entry;
+ chain NI currently only scores 1964.