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Article 30 of the drug law exempts from punishment a person holding a small amount exclusively for personal use, with 10 g of cannabis as the guideline.[@iba] It is not automatic: a judge, advised by a forensic doctor, decides whether it was personal use, so arrest and prosecution remain possible.[@iba]
Illegal for personal use, and enforced — in 2024 a woman in her sixties was jailed over two plants.[@ln] A bill letting patients with a medical certificate grow at home was passed by Congress in August 2020[@uh] and vetoed by the president that September;[@lnveto] the Senate voted for it again in November 2020,[@lnsen] and in April 2022 it was still pending in the Chamber of Deputies. No report that it took effect was found.[@uh]
The personal-use exemption depends on a judge,[@iba] and small growers are still imprisoned.[@ln] Trafficking carries long sentences.[@iba]
Supply is trafficking under the drug law.[@iba]
Personal use within the exemption is not punished; public use risks arrest.[@iba]
The medical pilot requires licensed production, approved industrial plans, certified seed … a cap of thirteen, lifted in 2022; in 2022 patients said none was growing in the country.[@fer22, uh] Hemp has been authorised since October 2019, and a Paraguayan firm began exporting hemp foods in 2021.[@ln21] The illicit crop dwarfs both: an estimated 6,000 to 8,000 hectares, mostly in Amambay and Canindeyú, with 77% of the harvest going to Brazil.[@iba,fer22,lnsen,ln21,unav21]
The pilot covers medicinal products with variable proportions of THC, CBD and other cannabinoids, made by licensed producers and supplied under specialist prescription and traceability. These pilot products have an exceptional registration regime; the rules do not demonstrate named products currently in stock.[@pilot488]
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Law 6007 created PROINCUMEC and its patient registry.[@ferrere] Resolution 488/2025, effective on signature on 19 December 2025 under Health Ministry Resolution 902/2025, establishessets up a two-year exceptional pilot for medicinal combinations of THC, CBD and other cannabinoids.[@pilot488] Prescribers must be registered specialists and patients must also register; the rules cove … forty patients is historical.[@uh] Patient home cultivation was vetoed in 2020.[@lnveto] The pilot covers medicinal products with variable proportions of THC, CBD and other cannabinoids, made by licensed producers and supplied under specialist prescription and traceability. These pilot products have an exceptional registration regime; the rules do not demonstrate named products currently in stock.[@pilot488]
No record if the exemption is applied; pre-trial detention is the real risk.[@ln]
Decree 2725 of 2019 regulates importing propagation material for industrial hemp, along wi … from the agriculture ministry working with the anti-drug secretariat and the seed service.[@d2725] It covers non- psychoactive cannabis only.[@d2725]
Paraguay grows cannabis mainly for export: the anti-drug agency says most production is aimed at the Brazilian market and run by large criminal organisations.[@ln26] Between August 2023 and April 2026 the agency reported destroying close to 21 million kilos of marijuana, counting both seized product and crops in the field, a loss it valued at 629 million dollars at domestic prices.[@ln26] That included more than 1,913 tonnes of processed marijuana and 6,322 hectares of plantations, with the border department of Amambay far ahead (3,177 hectares), followed by Canindeyú and Caaguazú.[@ln26] Much of the eradication is done jointly with Brazil's federal police.[@ln26]
No law provides for clubs, but one operates in the open. In January 2023 the Cooperativa d … intment; the cooperative said it also registers people buying flower for recreational use.[@abc23] It signed up 431 people in a single morning in an Asunción square and said more than 3,000 forms had been filled in before.[@abc23] No action by the authorities against it was reported, and in April 2025 the Club de Cannab … 4/20 gathering in Asunción ahead of a congressional hearing on a cannabis regulation bill.[@abc25]
There is no legal recreational supply for anyone. Article 30 of the drug law exempts from … e guideline, but a judge advised by a forensic doctor decides whether it was personal use.[@iba]
National Traffic Law article 66(a), as amended by Law 6868, prohibits driving after consuming narcotics or medicines that diminish driving aptitude, whatever the concentration per litre of blood.[@traffic6868] This wording does not establish a particular THC detection cutoff.[@traffic6868] Article 113(g), amended by Law 6842, separately classifies laboratory-established intoxication from drugs altering normal driving capacity as a very serious administrative offence; article 113(h) covers test refusal.[@traffic6842] The published Law 5016 sets very serious fines at eleven to twenty legal minimum daily wages, with points or disqualification where applicable; this is not a fixed guaraní tariff.[@traffic5016] Articles 106–107 permit retention/removal of the vehicle and require authorised intoxication tests.[@traffic5016] Criminal unsafe-driving provisions can apply in addition; the 2014 amendment to Penal Code article 217 specifies up to two years' imprisonment or a fine.[@traffic5016] Municipal enforcement and current licence-ban periods remain to be checked rather than inferred from the alcohol limits.[@traffic5016]
Wiktionary — faso (Lunfardo slang: a marijuana cigarette) Wiktionary — porro (a marijuana cigarette) Wiktionary — yerba (grass; slang: marijuana) 18 unchanged
word Faso · lang Paraguayan Spanish · meaning Lunfardo slang for a marijuana cigarette · sources wiktionary-faso, word Porro · lang Paraguayan Spanish · meaning a marijuana cigarette (joint, spliff, blunt) · sources wiktionary-porro, word Hierba · lang Paraguayan Spanish · meaning literally grass; slang for marijuana · sources wiktionary-yerba
Paraguay is the region's growing house: an estimated 6,000 to 8,000 hectares, mostly in Amambay and Canindeyú, with 77% of the harvest going to Brazil.[@iba,fer22,lnsen,ln21,unav21] The pressed form it travels in is [brick weed](/culture/traditions/brick-weed/).
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Industrial hemp has been authorised since October 2019 under Decree 2725, covering import of propagation material, cultivation, processing and sale under agriculture-ministry authorisation.[@d2725, iba] A Paraguayan firm began exporting hemp foods in 2021.[@ln21]
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No arrest totals were found in reachable sources. Enforcement visibly reaches small growers: in 2024 a woman in her sixties was jailed over two plants.[@ln] The weight of enforcement falls on the crop in the field (see black market).[@ln26]
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