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label Holding or using narcotics (no personal-use tier) · treatment criminal · term Possession · prison min 10 years · prison 15 years · fine 20000000 · note Fine of 10,000,000 to 20,000,000 francs; maximum doubles in listed aggravating cases
Article 206 punishes illicit production or manufacture of narcotics with 10 to 20 years, and 15 to 25 when committed by an organised gang.[@pc2020] Article 205 gives life imprisonment for leading a group that grows, makes or supplies narcotics.[@pc2020]
label Illicit production or manufacture · treatment criminal · term Production · prison min 10 years · prison 20 years · note 15 to 25 years when committed by an organised gang; leading such, label Leading a group carriesthat grows, makes or supplies narcotics (article 205) · treatment criminal · term Production · life mandatory · note Life imprisonment for group leadership
The code sets 10 to 15 years for holding or using, with no personal-use tier, and doubles the maximum in listed aggravating cases (Article 214).[@pc2020] How courts apply it is not shown by the text.
Article 210 punishes giving or offering narcotics to a person for their personal consumption with 5 to 10 years and a fine of 3,000,000 to 5,000,000 francs; 7 to 10 years if offered to minors or at schools.[@pc2020] Article 208 also punishes offering or transferring (10 to 15 years).[@pc2020]
Article 208 punishes the unlawful "emploi" (use) of narcotics with 10 to 15 years.[@pc2020]
No lawful source; acquiring and holding narcotics is punished under Article 208.[@pc2020]
No licensed cannabis production exists: Article 206 punishes illicit production with ten to twenty years, rising for organised gangs, and the reviewed law shows no licensing route.[@pc2020]
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No legal products.
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The retained sources do not establish whether a medical cannabisreviewed Penal Code punishes unlawful use with ten to fifteen years and sets no patient programme operatesor supply route.[@pc2020]
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The retained sources do not establishreviewed provisions set the penalties themselves in Articles 205–214; no separate collateral consequences-consequence regime beyond thethose penalties described abovewas shown in the reviewed text.[@pc2020]
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The 2020 Penal Code punishes the illicit production of narcotics with ten to twenty years (Article 206) and does not name cultivation or seeds separately.[@pc2020] Whether growing a plant counts as production under the code was not confirmed.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.[@pc2020]
There is no legal recreational supply for anyone. British travel advice says drug trafficking and possession are serious offences that can bring a long prison sentence and a fine[@pc2020] Holding or using narcotics carries ten to fifteen years under Article 208, with no separate visitor regime in the reviewed law.[@pc2020]
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Figures reported by the government to the UN drugs office record 316 kg of herbal cannabis seized in 2024, against 2,263 kg in 2023, and 121 kg of cannabis resin seized in 2024, against 57.5 kg in 2023.[@unodc_szr] The UN publishes them as kilogram equivalents, and countries count seizures differently, so the figures are not comparable across borders.[@unodc_szr]
Comoros — Penal Code, Act 95-012/AF (English translation, policehumanrightsresources.org)
GOV.UK (FCDO) — Foreign travel advice: Comoros, safety and security
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word Indian hemp · lang French (Comoros) · meaning cannabis; named alongside hashish in article 328 of the 1995 penal code · sources pc1995
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No industrial-hemp exception was verified: the 2020 code punishes narcotics production with no low-THC distinction, and no hemp production is documented.[@pc2020] No lawful cannabis products were identified in the reviewed sources.
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Cannabis was legal from 1975 to 1978 under President [Ali Soilih](/culture/people/ali-soilih/), as that [1975 legalisation](/history/comoros-legalisation-1975/) and the [1978 re-ban](/history/comoros-ban-restored-1978/) record.[@wiki] The earlier code named the plant [Indian hemp](/culture/language/indian-hemp/) alongside hashish in article 328.[@pc1995]
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