Burundi countries/bi.yaml
No legal products.
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The retained sources do not establish whether aNo patient route is documented. Cannabis is illegal, and the 2017 code bans growing, selling, transporting and holding controlled drugs outside health-ministry conditions, with no medical cannabis programme operatesprovided for.[@wiki,cp17]
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US House Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control — Decriminalization of Marihuana hearings (1977), p. 22 Human Rights Watch — Burundi assembly abolishes death penalty (22 November 2008 vote) World Coalition Against the Death Penalty — Burundi abolishes the death penalty (signed April 2009) 3 unchanged
BIF
label Illicit possession (Penal Code Article 510) · treatment criminal · prison min 1 year · prison 5 years · fine 100000 · note Fine of FBu 50,000–100,000
BIF
label Unauthorised growing (regulatory offence) · treatment criminal · prison min 1 year · prison 5 years · fine 250000 · note Fine of FBu 100,000–250,000, label Illicit production · treatment criminal · prison min 10 years · prison 15 years · fine 1000000 · note Fine of up to FBu 1,000,000; confiscated crops destroyed
BIF
label Helping someone else use, free or paid · treatment criminal · prison min 1 year · prison 5 years · fine 1000000 · note Fine of FBu 50,000–1,000,000; includes providing a place for use, label Production, import, manufacture or export · treatment criminal · prison min 10 years · prison 15 years · fine 1000000 · note Fine of up to FBu 1,000,000; doubled for organised groups
Burundi removed the death penalty from its law in the penal-code revision voted in November 2008 and signed in April 2009; no cannabis offence carries a capital sentence.[@hrw,wcadp]
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There is no legal way to get cannabis. Adults who use it risk one to five years in prison, a fine of 50,000 to 100,000 francs, or both, plus court-ordered supervision meant to prevent repeat use.[@cp17] A [1977 American congressional report](/history/burundi-us-report-1977/) already described the ban as rarely enforced.[@us77]
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One name is recorded: a 1977 American report noted that older and poorer Burundians sometimes called cannabis *chanvre à fumer*, smoking hemp.[@us77]
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