Aruba countries/aw.yaml
Cannabis possession is prohibited under the ordinance.[@amendment] The revised prosecution … specified settings.[@om25] The next 30–100 g band has a proposed fine of AWG 250.[@om25] The country traces its drug law to the Netherlands Antilles' ordinance of 30 July 1929, shared with Curaçao and Sint Maarten.(/history/curacao-first-drug-ordinance-1929/)
The 2019 rules designated CBD and its preparations as medicines, including preparations combined with THC, and excluded CBD preparations with no more than 0.2% THC from a narcotics designation.[@cbd82, cbd83] The separate exception for specified supplements, foods and external-use products was withdrawn in January 2020.[@repeal] Current commercial guidance applies a 0.2% THC maximum to the CBD medicinal import route.[@iva]
cbd82, cbd83, repeal, iva
CBD products with no more than 0.2% THC are treated as medicines under the health inspectorate’s import rules.[@iva] The supplement-food exception had been withdrawn in January 2020.(/history/aruba-cbd-supplement-exemption-withdrawn-2020/) The government’s medicinal-cannabis production proposals required further legislative changes … documents one business being refused growing and manufacturing permission in 2023.[@court]
treatment tolerated · term Dismissal after surrender · upto 30 g · note Prosecution request; exceptions for minors, repeat offending, another offence, carnival, work, government buildings, treatment criminal · term AWG 250 fine requested · over 30 g · upto 100 g · note Prosecution request, not the statutory maximum, treatment criminal · term AWG 750 fine requested · over 100 g · upto 300 g · note Prosecution request, treatment criminal · term AWG 1,500 fine requested · over 300 g · upto 500 g · note Prosecution request; from 500 g, requests halve the hard-drug table
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No hemp programme exists: the Bureau Medicinale Cannabis Aruba invitation sought proposals for medicinal cultivation, processing, or both, but awards were contingent on legislation and agreements that have not materialised, and a 2023 business cultivation permission was refused.[@bureau, rfp, court]
bureau, rfp, court
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unclear
grey
unclear
Seeds and clones are not addressed separately in the retained sources, but planting them falls under the ordinance’s growing and manufacturing controls: the only contemplated permissions are licensed medicinal-production operators selected under agreements and exemptions.[@amendment, rfp]
amendment, rfp