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Article 138 of the [2001 drug law](/history/mali-drug-law-2001/) covers small quantities possessed, bought or grown for personal use.[@law] A high-risk plant or substance, including cannabis oil, carries three months to one year, a fine of 25,000–100,000 CFA francs, or both.[@law] A cannabis derivative other than oil carries two to six months, a fine of 15,000–75,000 francs, or both; a lower-risk tier carries one to three months and 10,000–50,000 francs, with waiver for minors and first-time offenders.[@law] The law gives no numeric quantity threshold.[@law]
Article 9 prohibits cannabis cultivation and requires landholders to destroy plants growing on their land.[@law] Article 94 sets five to ten years and a fine of 200,000–2 million CFA francs for ordinary high-risk drug cultivation.[@law] Article 138 gives athe lighter tier, including a finepersonal-only option,use tiers for small personal quantities.[@law]
Small personal quantities can attract imprisonment, a fine alone, or both under Article 138.[@law] Ordinary high-risk drug cultivation and international trafficking require prison and a fine under Articles 94–95.[@law] The retained sources do not establish how consistently these rules are enforced across the country.[@law]
Article 98 sets six months to three years, a fine of 20,000–200,000 CFA francs, or both for giving or offering a high-risk drug directly for another person's consumption.[@law] General local trafficking carries five to ten years, a fine, or both under Article 96.[@law] International trafficking carries five to ten years and a fine of 5 to 50 million francs (Article 95).[@law]
Article 137 prohibits using controlled drugs outside a medical prescription and provides for seizure and confiscation. Article 138 sets the[@law] The personal-use tiers of Article 138 cover possession penalties described above, purchase and cultivation, not use as such.[@law]
The retained sources establishThere is no operating cannabis supply programme for patients or recreational usersroute: unauthorised growing, handling and use are all offences.[@law] The authorities granted a limited2017 industrial-hemp production authorisation for medical exports was withdrawn in 20172020, and withdrew itno operating patient supply was found in February 2020the sources reviewed.[@hemp2020,law]
The law provides for authorised medical growing, and African Seeds received permission in 2017 for a supervised industrial-hemp project intended for medical exports.[@law,hemp2019] In MayFebruary 2020, the central drug office's director confirmed that withdrew the authorisation had been withdrawn on 25 February after the producers sought changes to the agreed terms, and no current licensed production was found in the sources reviewed.[@hemp2020]
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The reported industrial-hemp authorisation initially covered seed exports, with a 2018 amendment adding oil. The authorisation was withdrawn in 2020; the retained sources establish no current consumer product supply.
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The retained sources do notreviewed establish whether ano operating medical cannabis programme operates: the 2017 authorisation served exports only and was withdrawn in 2020, and use outside a medical prescription is prohibited.[@hemp2020,law]
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For the offences listed in Articles 94–102, Article 112 allows courts to ban a foreigner from the territory for ten to twenty years and restrict civic rights or driving for one to five years.[@law] A professional ban can last five to ten years or permanently.[@law] The personal-use offence in Article 138 is outside that stated list.[@law]
Article 9 of Law 01-078 bans growing the cannabis plant anywhere in the country and obliges whoever owns or occupies land to destroy any plants that come up. The [@law defines a narcotic by reference to the schedules of the 1961 convention. A limited authorisation for industrial-hemp seed production and export was granted in 2017 and withdrawn in 2020; the retained sources] The offence articles read do not settle general seed salesmention seeds.[@law]
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The retained sources establish no authorisedNo cannabis clubs. The are known, and the law prohibitsleaves no room for them: cannabis cultivation is prohibited, and punishes giving or offering high-risk drugs for another person's consumption is punished.[@law]
There is no legal recreational supply for anyone, so a visitor has no lawful way to buy cannabis.[@law] Article 112 permits a ten-to-twenty-year territorial ban on foreigners convicted of the specified offences in Articles 94–102.[@law]
Figures reported by the government to the UN drugs office record 32,000 kg of herbal cannabis seized in 2023, against 22,217 kg in 2022, and 440 kg of cannabis resin seized in 2023, against 1,874 kg in 2022.[@unodc_szr] The UN publishes them as kilogram equivalents, and countries count seizures differently, so the figures are not comparable across borders.[@unodc_szr]
Loi n° 01-078 du 18 juillet 2001 portant sur le contrôle des drogues et des précurseurs, UN document E/NL.2008/21 (UNODC SHERLOC, scanned PDF)
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label Cannabis oil, small amount for personal use · treatment criminal · term Personal use · prison min 3 months · prison 1 year · fine min 25000 · fine 100000 · note Prison or a fine, or both, label Other cannabis derivatives, small amount for personal use · treatment criminal · term Personal use · prison min 2 months · prison 6 months · fine min 15000 · fine 75000 · note Prison or a fine, or both, label Lower-risk tier, small amount for personal use · treatment criminal · term Personal use · prison min 1 month · prison 3 months · fine min 10000 · fine 50000 · note Prison or a fine, or both. Waiver for minors and first offenders
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label Cannabis oil, small amount grown for personal use · treatment criminal · term Personal use · prison min 3 months · prison 1 year · fine min 25000 · fine 100000 · note Prison or a fine, or both, label Other derivatives, small amount grown for personal use · treatment criminal · term Personal use · prison min 2 months · prison 6 months · fine min 15000 · fine 75000 · note Prison or a fine, or both, label Ordinary high-risk cultivation (article 94) · treatment criminal · term Unlicensed cultivation · prison min 5 years · prison 10 years · fine min 200000 · fine 2000000 · note Prison and a fine
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label Giving or offering for another person's own use (article 98) · treatment criminal · term Supply to a user · prison min 6 months · prison 3 years · fine min 20000 · fine 200000 · note Prison or a fine, or both, label Local trafficking (article 96) · treatment criminal · term Trafficking · prison min 5 years · prison 10 years · note Prison or a fine, or both, label International trafficking (article 95) · treatment criminal · term Trafficking · prison min 5 years · prison 10 years · fine min 5000000 · fine 50000000 · note Prison and a fine
label Use outside a medical prescription · treatment criminal · term Illicit use · note Seizure and confiscation ordered
Cannabis is prohibited, but small personal supplies, including cultivation, fall under the lighter Article 138 tiers with a fine-only option, while ordinary cultivation and trafficking draw five to ten years.[@law] Minors and first-time offenders may be excused punishment.[@law] The industrial-hemp project that briefly supplied a medical-export channel closed in 2020, as [its withdrawal](/history/mali-hemp-authorisation-withdrawn-2020/) records.[@hemp2020]
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No hemp exception operates today: the 2017 industrial-hemp authorisation for medical exports, capped at a reported two-tenths of one percent THC, was withdrawn in February 2020 after the producers sought to change the agreed terms.[@hemp2019,hemp2020] The reviewed law sets no general hemp line and bans cannabis cultivation everywhere.[@law]
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