Saudi Arabia countries/sa.yaml
label Possession for personal use (Article 41) · treatment criminal · term Possession · pr … note Flogging remains in the statute, though discretionary flogging was abolished in 2020 · caning 1, 50
label Dealing, including giving without payment (Article 38) · treatment criminal · term D … fine 50000 · note Aggravated or repeat trafficking can bring longer imprisonment or death · caning 1, 50, label Smuggling, import, manufacture or cultivation to promote (Article 37) · treatment cr … term of years and a fine in mitigating cases, or impose 25 years with aggravating factors
No medical cannabis programme.[@law] The law licenses some medicines containing controlled drugs, but cannabis itself remains on the prohibited-plant schedule rather than a patient-access pathway.[@schedule] The 2026 general provisions allow certified synthetic CBD with no THC and controlled medical CBD preparations, but no cannabis medicine or patient route was found.[@uqn26]
law, schedule, uqn26
A drug conviction carries a criminal record and the penalties in the tables.[@law] Foreign Hajj or Umrah visitors caught with a personal-use amount may be deported instead of prosecuted under Article 47; general.[@law] Article 56 requires deportation of foreign convicts rests ona non-Saudi after sentence and bars return except for Hajj and Umrah; it also bans a convicted Saudi from travelling abroad for the residency lawprison term or at least two years, which was not verified hereand article 57 revokes professional and trade licences.[@law] Discretionary flogging was abolished in 2020, but the drug statute still prescribes it and judges have reportedly continued to impose it in some drug cases.[@law]
Wiktionary — حشيش Wiktionary — قنب 11 unchanged
word حشيش · lang Arabic · say ḥashīsh · meaning hashish; cannabis resin and, generally, cannabis · atlas hashish · sources schedule, wikt_hashish, word قنب هندي · lang Arabic · say qinnab hindī · meaning Indian hemp; the law’s botanical name for Cannabis sativa in all forms · sources schedule, word مارجوانا · lang Arabic · say mārjwānā · meaning marijuana; borrowed name listed alongside hashish · sources schedule, word قنب · lang Arabic · say qinnab · meaning hemp, cannabis; the general plant and fibre word · sources schedule, wikt_qinnab