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Article 141 of Law 97-039 sets two to six months in prison, a fine of FMG 10,000 to 250,000, or both for small personal quantities of cannabis derivatives other than oil. Cannabis oil falls under a three-month to one-year range, also with athe same fine alternative. The general trafficking provisions can apply to holdings outside the small-personal-quantity rule and allow forced labour or a fine.
label Small personal quantity, non-oil derivatives · treatment criminal · prison min 2 months · prison 6 months · fine 50000 · note TwoUp to six months in50,000 ariary; the law states FMG 10,000–250,000 (5 FMG = 1 ariary); prison, a fine, or both; fine amount not stated in the retained text, label Small personal quantity, cannabis oil · treatment criminal · prison min 3 months · prison 1 year · fine 50000 · note Three months to one year inLaw states FMG 10,000–250,000; prison, a fine, or both; fine amount not stated in the retained text
General trafficking offences allow forced labour, a fine, or both. Offering or giving high-risk drugs directly for another person's consumption has a separate one-to-five-year prison range, and a fine of FMG 10,000 to 1,000,000, or both, under Article 99, doubled in Article 108 cases such as organised gangs or supply to minors.
label Offering or giving drugs for another person's consumption (Article 99) · treatment criminal · prison min 1 year · prison 5 years · fine 200000 · note OneUp to five years in prison200, a fine000 ariary; the law states FMG 10, or both000–1,000,000; fine amount not stateddoubled in the retained textArticle 108 cases
Reliable national information about lawful cannabisNo licensed production was not established by the retained sources. The law punishes growing or producing high-risk drugs with forced labour, a fine, or both.
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Reliable national information about legally available cannabis products was not established by the retained sources.
No patient programme is documented. The retained sources do not establish whether alaw bans drug use outside medical prescription but sets up no route for patients to obtain cannabis programme operates.[@law]
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The retained sources do not establish collateral consequences beyondConviction brings mandatory confiscation of seized plants and substances, equipment used for the penalties described aboveoffence and its proceeds; drugs found on an illicit user are seized and confiscated even without prosecution.[@law]
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La conception malgache du monde, du surnaturel et de l’homme en Imerina, tome 1 Amnesty International — Death sentences and executions 2015 (Madagascar promulgated abolition in January) 2 unchanged
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label Culture or production of high-risk drugs (Article 95) · treatment criminal · fine 1000000 · note Forced labour and/or a fine; the law states FMG 50,000–5,000,000; small personal growing falls under Article 141
Madagascar abolished the death penalty, voted by the National Assembly in December 2014 and promulgated in January 2015; no cannabis offence carries a capital sentence.[@amn15]
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Cannabis has been grown and used long enough to carry its own Malagasy name, rongony: the 1997 law still repeals the 1960 ordinance on the consumption of *chanvre indien dit rongony*.[@law] It was already prohibited under the Merina kingdom in [1787](/history/madagascar-merina-ban-1787/).[@molet]
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