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Up to 5 g of dried cannabis is an administrative offence with a fine of 500 lari.[@admin] Amendments adopted on 2 July 2025 restored prison for buying or holding more than 5 g, with up to six years for the basic offence, five to eight years for 70–250 g, and upeight to one year for a repeat offence under 5twenty years or life above 250 g.[@civilcriminal,ocm] The thresholds for fresh cannabis are 10,jam 140 and 500 g; for the cannabis plant 10, 155 and 750 g; and for resin 0.05, 0.5 and 5 g.[@nlaw] A repeat small-quantity possession after an administrative penalty is criminal under Article 273, with up to one year in prison.[@criminal] In its 24 June 2026 ruling on the code as it stood before May 2025, the Constitutional Cou … after a prior drug conviction. It left criminal liability in place.[@cc882,cc882judgment]
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Growing remains illegal, with no tolerated plant count. The 2025 amendments added a separate offence of sowing or growing, punished by a fine, community service of 200 to 400 hours, house arrest for six months to two years, or two to six years in prison depending on quantity. Aggravated growing brings four to seven years, and especially large or organised growing six to twelve.[@criminal,ocm]
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Private consumption itself is not punished.[@idpc] Since July 2025, prison is again possible for possessing more than 5 g of dried cannabis and for repeat small-quantity possession.[@civiladmin,ocm,idpccriminal] In its 24 June 2026 ruling on the code as it stood before May 2025, the Constitutional C … after a prior drug conviction. It left criminal liability in place.[@cc882,cc882judgment] The police seized 3,017 kg of cannabis in 2022, and recorded drug charges fell from 6,922 in 2019 to 2,622 in 2022.[@mgebrishvili]
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Sale and any supply remain crimes;of the cannabis plant or marijuana is punished with five to ten years in prison; a large quantity, group, official position or repeat offence brings six to twelve, and an especially large quantity or organised group 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]
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On 30 July 2018 the Constitutional Court abolished all penalties for consuming cannabis, calling it an act protected by the right to free development of personality.[@court] Parliament then restricted it: not in public places, on transport, at work in certain professions, or in the presence of children.[@admin,idpc] Article 45¹ now sets the fines: 500 to 1,000 lari for use inside a building that is not a private home, 800 to 1,200 in a public place, and 1,000 to 1,500 near minors, at a school or at work; repeats are higher.[@admin]
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None. Georgia made use legal but left no lawful way to obtain cannabis: buying, selling and growing are all still prohibited.[@idpc] No medical or retail supply route was found.[@nlaw]
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No licensed production was found. A 2018 government plan to allow cultivation forCannabis is a Schedule I drug, and production, transport and sale are criminal.[@nlaw,criminal] No medical, fibre or export production route was withdrawn after church oppositionfound in the sources read.[@nlaw]
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No legal products.
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No approved cannabis medicine, prescription route, clinical trial or production licence was found.[@nlaw] Cannabis is a Schedule I drug, and the law permits circulation only for teaching, scientific, expert and forensic activity.[@nlaw] Researchers describe Georgia as lacking legal access to regulated medical cannabis programmeand a formal medical-cannabis industry.[@mgebrishvili] Medical status stays none.
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Administrative fines leave no criminal record. Certain[@admin] A drug conviction can bar certain professions are barred from useunder the Law on Combating Drug-related Crime, and driving under the influence is an offencesame law provides five years' deprivation of a driving licence for a drug-influenced driving conviction.[@trafficrights] A criminal record also affects sentencing for later drug offences.[@criminal]
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The narcotics law defines cannabis as the flowering and fruiting tops of the hemp plant, leaving out seeds and leaves that come without tops.[@nlaw] It defines sowing as putting a seed into soil or planting a seedling, and sowing, growing and cultivating plants that contain controlled substances is among the acts the law forbids. The text read is an English consolidated version on the official gazette site[@nlaw] Clones are plants, beforeso keeping or trading them falls under the new law passed in 2025cultivation offence.[@criminal] No seed-sale or clone market was found.
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No cannabis clubs are known, and no law provides for them: the Constitutional Court's rulings protect only a person's own use, and sale or any other supply remains a crime.[@idpc,criminal]
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There is no lawful recreational supply: buying, growing and selling remain prohibited.[@id … July 2025 amendments restored prison above 5 g and for repeat small-quantity possession.[@civiladmin,ocmcriminal] In its 24 June 2026 ruling on the code as it stood before May 2025, the Constitutional Court barred imprisonmentThe law makes no exception for buying or possessing 0visitors.1315 g of cannabis resin for personal use, including after a prior drug conviction. It left criminal liability in place.[@cc882,cc882judgmentadmin]
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Criminal Code article 276(1) criminalises driving a motor vehicle under narcotic, psychotropic or new psychoactive substance influence even without a crash.[@trafficcode] Its sanctions include a fine, house arrest for six months to two years, community service of 200– to 400 hours, and/or imprisonment of up to one year, as specified in the Code.[@trafficcode] Note 2 requires clinical and laboratory reports to establish drug influence; if a laboratory test is refused, a clinical report alone can establish it. A positive trace must not be substituted for that stated evidential rule.[@trafficcode] The separate Law on Combating Drug-related Crime includes drug-influenced article 276 offenders in its drug-user definition and provides five years' deprivation of a driving licence on conviction. Plea agreements can shorten or exceptionally remove that restriction; early restoration is possible after one-third of the period. For a custodial sentence the restriction begins after imprisonment ends. More serious crash outcomes carry separate, higher criminal penalties.[@trafficrights]
Georgia — Code of Administrative Offences, Article 45¹ (Legislative Herald, English consolidated text)
Patterns of Cannabis Cultivation, Cannabis and Other Drug Use and Market Participation among Georgian Small-scale Cannabis Growers
JAMnews — Marijuana use in Georgia: what does the law say?
Wikipedia — Cannabis in Georgia (country)
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upto 5 g · treatment civil · term Small amount, Article 45¹(1) · fine 500 · note Dried cannabis; purchase, storage, carriage or transfer, over 5 g · upto 70 g · treatment criminal · term Article 260(1) · prison 6 years, over 70 g · upto 250 g · treatment criminal · term Large amount, Article 260(2) · prison min 5 years · prison 8 years, over 250 g · treatment criminal · term Especially large amount, Article 260(3) · prison min 8 years · note Eight to twenty years or life imprisonment
label Ordinary growing, Article 265¹(1) · treatment criminal · term Sowing or growing · prison min 2 years · prison 6 years · note Fine, community service, house arrest or prison, label Aggravated, Article 265¹(2) · treatment criminal · term Sowing or growing · prison min 4 years · prison 7 years, label Especially large or organised, Article 265¹(3) · treatment criminal · term Sowing or growing · prison min 6 years · prison 12 years
label Sale of cannabis or marijuana, Article 260³(1) · treatment criminal · term Sale · prison min 5 years · prison 10 years, label Large quantity, group, official position or repeat, Article 260³(2) · treatment criminal · term Sale · prison min 6 years · prison 12 years, label Especially large quantity or organised group, Article 260³(3) · treatment criminal · term Sale · prison min 12 years · prison 17 years
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label Use inside a building that is not a private home · treatment civil · term Article 45¹(2) · fine min 500 · fine 1000, label Use in a public place · treatment civil · term Article 45¹(6) · fine min 800 · fine 1200, label Use near minors or at a school · treatment civil · term Article 45¹(8) · fine min 1000 · fine 1500, label Use at work · treatment civil · term Article 45¹(10) · fine min 1000 · fine 1500 · note Repeat offences carry higher fines up to GEL 2,000
Private use is legal, but there is no legal way to buy cannabis. Up to 5 g of dried cannabis is an administrative fine; above that, possession is criminal again, with up to six years in prison and higher bands above 70 g.[@admin,criminal] Public use is fined, and use near minors or at school carries the highest administrative band.[@admin] Past-year use was about 5% of the general population, and 43% of regular users obtained cannabis by home cultivation.[@mgebrishvili] No price or purity data were found.
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No industrial-hemp licensing scheme, THC limit, planted area or harvest figure was found. Cannabis is a Schedule 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]
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The illicit market is well established. The Interior Ministry seized 3,017 kg of cannabis in 2022, and researchers describe easier access alongside rising seizures.[@mgebrishvili] Home growing supplies a large share of regular users: 43% obtained cannabis that way after liberalisation, and a survey of 218 growers found a mean of 2.5 plants, with 89% growing 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 for 2024–2026 were found in the sources read. The 2025 amendments lengthened several drug sentences and made refusing a drug test an offence.[@ocm]
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