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The Narcotic Drugs (Control) Act of 1976 treats use and storage as different offences.[@ndca] Use can bring up to one month in prison or a fine of up to 2,000 rupees.[@ndca] Storing, buying or selling up to 50 grams can bring up to three months or a fine of up to 3,000 rupees.[@ndca] From 50 grams to 500 grams the sentence is one month to one year and a fine of 1,000 to 5,000 rupees. From; from 500 grams to 2 kilograms it is six months to two years and a fine of 2,000 to 10,000 rupees. From; from 2 to 10 kilograms it is one to three years and a fine of 5,000 to 25,000 rupees,; and 10 kilograms or more is two to ten years and a fine of 15,000 to 100,000 rupees.[@ndca] The Act writes the 50-gram and 500-gram points into the neighbouring bands.[@ndca] Enforcement is relaxed in much of the country, where the plant grows wild.[@ok]
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label Use · treatment criminal · term Use · prison 1 month · fine 2000 · note Up to one month or up to 2,000 rupees, label Up to 50 g stored, bought or sold · treatment criminal · term Storage or sale · prison 3 months · fine 3000, label 50 g to 500 g · treatment criminal · term Storage or sale · prison min 1 month · prison 1 year · fine 5000min 1000 · note One month to one year and 1fine 5000,000 to 5,000 rupees, label 500 g to 2 kg · treatment criminal · term Storage or sale · prison min 6 months · prison 2 years · fine 10000min 2000 · note Six months to two years and 2fine 10000,000 to 10,000 rupees, label 2 kg to 10 kg · treatment criminal · term Storage or sale · prison min 1 year · prison 3 years · fine 25000min 5000 · note One to three years and 5fine 25000,000 to 25,000 rupees, label 10 kg or more · treatment criminal · term Storage or sale · prison min 2 years · prison 10 years · fine 100000min 15000 · note Two to ten years and 15,000 to 100,000 rupeesfine 100000
label Up to 25 plants · treatment criminal · term Cultivation · prison 3 months · fine 3000, label More than 25 plants · treatment criminal · term Cultivation · prison 3 years · fine min 5000 · fine 25000 · note Up to three years and 5,000 toThe Act sets the 25,000 rupees-plant line
Use can bring up to a month in prison or a fine of up to 2,000 rupees.[@ndca] Storage and sale follow quantity bands that reach two to ten years for 10 kilograms or more.[@ndca] Enforcement is uneven: the plant grows wild, and police have tolerated open smoking at Shivaratri while announcing arrests in other years.[@ok]
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Sale and distribution sit in the same quantity bands as storage: up to three months or a fine of up to 3,000 rupees for up to 50 grams, and two to ten years plus a fine for 10 kilograms or more.[@ndca]
Use can bring up to one month in prison or a fine of up to 2,000 rupees.[@ndca] During Maha Shivaratri devotees smoke openly at Shiva temples such as Pashupatinath and police lookhave often looked the other way, though arrests were announced in 2018.[@ok]
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The federal budget for 2024/25 announced legal arrangements for commercial cultivation for medicinal purposes.[@b360] Gandaki authenticated a cultivation law on 3 August 2026. Farmers cannot obtain a licenceNo grower may start until the Act commences and the province writes the rules.[@ktm12, png] A national framework is still pending.
A drug conviction carries a criminal record.[@ok]
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.[@ok,ap]
There is no legal recreational supply for anyone.[@wiki] Use can bring up to one month in prison or a fine of up to 2,000 rupees. Storing up to 50 … 0 rupees, and from 50 grams to 500 grams the sentence is one month to one year and a fine.[@ndca]
Narcotics Control Bureau figures for the last full fiscal year show 1,768 people arrested … es included 1,603 kg of cannabis, 204 kg of imported Thai cannabis and 41.5 kg of hashish.[@republica_ncb]
Cannabis is grown illegally across Nepal; one campaigner quoted by Nepali Times in 2026 called it an open secret.[@nt26] Narcotics Control Bureau figures for the last full fiscal year show police seizing 1,603 kg of cannabis and 41.5 kg of hashish, and also 204 kg of cannabis imported from Thailand.[@republica_ncb]
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No industrial-hemp exemption was found: the 1976 Act controls cannabis and cultivation is prohibited.[@ndca] A 2011 fair-trade project linked Himalayan hemp craft with Italian textile buyers, but it created no cultivation licence.[@italy] Gandaki's 2026 framework covers medicinal and industrial cannabis; it has not commenced and sets no THC limit yet.[@ktm12,png]
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The 1976 Act controls the cannabis plant and names no seed exception; sowing is cultivation and is punished under section 14.[@ndca] Clones are plants, so keeping or trading them falls under the same offence.[@ndca] No seed-sale or clone market was found.
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The Narcotic Drugs (Control) Act contains no driving offence, and the sources read did not identify a cannabis-specific traffic rule or THC limit.[@ndca] The status is left unverified rather than treating a general careless-driving rule as a drug-driving offence.[@ok]
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Nepal's cannabis culture is bound up with Shaiva devotion.[@fisher1975] [Sadhus](/culture/traditions/sadhus-and-the-chillum/) smoke [charas](/culture/language/charas/) and [hashish](/culture/language/hashish/) in clay chillums, especially at Pashupatinath, where the [Shivaratri festival](/culture/traditions/shivaratri-at-pashupatinath/) draws holy men and open smoking.[@fisher1975] Householders in Kathmandu's [bhajan circles](/culture/traditions/bhajan-circles-in-kathmandu/) shared hymns and sometimes a pipe.[@fisher1975] [Freak Street](/culture/traditions/freak-street/) became the travellers' quarter where licensed hashish shops traded until 1973.[@wiki] The plant grows wild in the hills, and charas is rubbed by hand from the living plant.[@fisher1975]
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