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label Under 300 g marijuana or 5 g resin · treatment criminal · term Possession · prison min 12 years · prison 20 years · fine 400000 · note Twelve years and one day to twenty years and ₱300,000–400,000, label 300 g to under 500 g, or 5 g to under 10 g resin · treatment criminal · term Possession · prison min 20 years · fine 500000 · note Twenty years and one day to life and ₱400,000–500,000, label 500 g or more, or 10 g or more resin · treatment criminal · term Possession · fine 10000000 · note Life imprisonment and ₱500,000–10 million; maximum at gatherings regardless of amount
Cultivating any marijuana plant carries life imprisonment and a fine of ₱500,000–10 million.[@ra] The land or greenhouse can also be confiscated.[@ra]
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label Cultivating any plant · treatment criminal · term Cultivation · fine 10000000 · note Life imprisonment and ₱500,000–10 million; land or greenhouse confiscated
Selling, delivering or giving away cannabis carries life imprisonment and a ₱500,000–10 million fine, with no lower quantity tier.[@ra]
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label Sale, delivery or gift · treatment criminal · term Sale · fine 10000000 · note Life imprisonment and ₱500,000–10 million, no lower tier
Use is a separate offence. After a confirmatory positive test, a first offence means at le … e; a second brings six years and one day to 12 years in prison and a ₱50,000–200,000 fine.[@ra]
label First use offence · treatment civil · term Use · note At least sixSix months in a government rehabilitation centre, label Second use offence · treatment criminal · term Use · prison min 6 years · prison 12 years · fine 200000 · note Six years and one day to twelve years and ₱50,000–200,000
No dispensary or ordinary pharmacy route exists.[@pna] For a seriously ill patient, a treating physician or health institution may seek an FDA compassionate special permit to import an unregistered cannabis-based medicine for restricted use.[@fda] CBD products with no more than 0.1% THC are in Schedule 4, but they remain prescription-only and are not a consumer route.[@ddb_cbd]
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None. Republic Act 9165 prohibits every form of unauthorised cannabis cultivation.[@ra]
There is no medical-cannabis programme and no lawful cannabis or CBD consumer products; th … remains illegal unless an FDA compassionate special permit covers its use and importation.[@pna,fda] A 2020 DDB regulation places CBD products with no more than 0.1% THC in Schedule 4, but access still requires a specialist prescription and an FDA compassionate permit; it is not a consumer route.[@ddb_cbd,fda] On 24 February 2026, two House committees approved a consolidated medical-cannabis bill subject to style and amendments, but it has not become law.[@house,ddb]
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Foreign nationals are deported after serving their sentence.[@ra] Qualifying defendants may seek a plea bargain under the Supreme Court's drug-case framework, but acceptance is discretionary rather than a right.[@sc]
Republic Act 9165 defines cannabis as any part of the plant "and seeds thereof", so seeds fall under the same possession and sale offences as the drug.[@ra] Section 16 punishes planting or cultivating marijuana "regardless of quantity" with life imprisonment.[@ra]
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.[@ra]
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The Anti-Drunk and Drugged Driving Act defines drugged driving by a positive confirmatory test for dangerous-drug use, without a numerical THC allowance or separate requirement to prove impairment.[@ra10586] With probable cause, police bring the driver for drug screening and, if necessary, confirmation; a crash causing injury or death also requires testing.[@ra10586] The Act provides three months in prison and a PHP20,000–80,000 fine without injury or homicide.[@ra10586] Injury raises the fine to PHP100,000–200,000 and homicide to PHP300,000–500,000, alongside the respective statutory prison penalties.[@ra10586] A nonprofessional licence is suspended for twelve months on the first conviction and permanently revoked on the second.[@ra10586] A professional licence is permanently revoked on the first conviction, barring any future licence.[@ra10586] Refusal of mandatory field sobriety and drug tests brings confiscation and automatic licence revocation, in addition to other applicable penalties.[@ra10586]
Figures reported by the government to the UN drugs office record 5,920 kg of herbal cannabis seized in 2024, against 2,124 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]
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency reported that it and its partner agencies carried out 10,161 anti-drug operations and arrested 13,497 people in the first three months of 2025.[@journal25] Over the five years from 2020 the agency counted 183,149 operations and 253,776 arrests, with seizures of 13.5 tonnes of shabu, 14.54 tonnes of dried marijuana leaves and 1,033 kg of marijuana kush.[@journal25] The figures cover all drugs; methamphetamine dominates the seizures by value, and the report does not say how many of the arrests were for cannabis.[@journal25]
Philippines Dangerous Drugs Board — Board Regulation No. 3, s. 2020 on CBD products 13 unchanged
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No industrial-hemp category or THC threshold. Republic Act 9165 defines cannabis as any part of the plant and its seeds, resin, extract and tincture, and bans cultivation, with no fibre or low-THC exception.[@ra] A 2020 DDB regulation places CBD products with no more than 0.1% THC in Schedule 4, but this is a controlled medical listing, not a hemp or consumer-CBD market; access still needs a prescription and an FDA compassionate permit.[@ddb_cbd,fda] Hemp food, fibre and cosmetics have no general exemption.[@ra]
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