Macau countries/mo.yaml
label Personal acquisition or possession · treatment criminal · term Personal use · prison min 3 months · prison 1 year · note Or a fine of 60–240 day-rates (income-based), over 5 g · treatment criminal · term Trafficking · prison min 1 year · prison 5 years · note Above five daily reference quantities (1 g per day for herbal cannabis), production or trafficking rules apply including a; lesser tier one -to -five-year tier years, ordinary five to fifteen
label Growing for personal use · treatment criminal · term Cultivation · prison min 3 months · prison 1 year · note Or a fine; larger quantities fall under production rules, label Growing, lesser production tier (2022 case: one plant) · treatment criminal · term Cultivation · prison min 1 year · prison 5 years, label Unauthorised cultivation, ordinary tier · treatment criminal · term Cultivation · prison min 5 years · prison 15 years · note Aggravating facts add one third
label Giving, selling or handing to another person (trafficking) · treatment criminal · term Trafficking · prison min 5 years · prison 15 years, label Trafficking, lesser cases · treatment criminal · term Trafficking · prison min 1 year · prison 5 years · note Cost-sharing supply counts as trafficking
Macau abolished the death penalty in 1976 under the Portuguese Constitution and retains no capital punishment; no cannabis offence carries a capital sentence.[@wikipdpamnestyhk]
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There is a limited licensed-No operating patient programme or registered cannabis medicine route: thewas found. The lawful-drug rules cover medicalallow licensed chemical and pharmaceutical firms to extract or manufacture of scheduled substances for medical or scientific purposes, including the cannabis table, and supply through pharmacies or hospitals may dispense them on special prescriptions. Cultivation, but cultivation of scheduled plants remains prohibited.[@med] Medical cannabis is therefore a licensing framework on paper, not a patient route.[@med]
A conviction is a criminal record. Article 21 adds two-to-ten-year bans on public office and professions, two-to-five-year driving bans and, for non-residents, a five-to-ten-year expulsion and entry ban.[@law] Since January 2017 larger personal stocks can be charged under production or trafficking rules.[@l16] The, and the five-day reference quantity does not exclude the lesser tier: in 2022 the top court reduced two growers’ combined sentences from five years nine months each to one year nine months and two years.[@l16,c22]
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Amnesty International Hong Kong — Death penalty in Macau
Macau — Road Traffic Law 3/2007, article 90
Macau Judiciary Police — 2026 first-half figures
Macao News — Record 30 kg cannabis seizure at the airport (28 September 2025)
Macau Daily Times — Record 35 kg cannabis seizure (June 2026)
Wikipedia — Capital punishment in Macau (abolished 1976)
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MOP
label Illicit consumption · treatment criminal · term Personal use · prison min 3 months · prison 1 year · note Or a fine of 60–240 day-rates
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No hemp or CBD regime and no THC threshold. Table I-C lists hemp and its derivatives, and article 19 bans cultivation of scheduled plants.[@law,med] CBD has no separate rule and falls under the cannabis derivatives in Table I-C unless authorised as a medicine.[@law]
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unclear
illegal
banned
The schedules list the cannabis plant rather than its seeds, so holding or selling seed is not expressly an offence, but sowing it is cultivation.[@law] A cutting is a living plant, and selling a plant is trafficking.[@law] The seed status is therefore an inference.[@law]
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impairment
Road Traffic Law 3/2007, article 90(2), punishes driving under the influence of narcotics or psychotropics whose consumption is a crime with up to one year in prison and a one-to-three year driving ban.[@road90] There is no numeric THC cutoff; the test is influence.[@road90]
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Seizures are overwhelmingly herbal cannabis at the airport. The Judiciary Police recorded 9.30 kg of herb and 419 g of THC in 2024, and 51.54 kg of herb and 3.34 kg of THC in 2025; no resin line is published.[@pj25] Major cases include more than 30 kg in September 2025 and about 35 kg in June 2026, both records at the time.[@macaonews25,mdt26] Police valuations imply about MOP1,000 a gram.[@pj25]
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The Judiciary Police recorded 61 trafficking cases and 29 consumption cases in 2025, against 49 and 15 in 2024, and 30 and 10 in the first half of 2026.[@pj25,pj26] The figures cover all drugs, not cannabis alone.[@pj25] The Social Welfare Bureau recorded 132 registered drug users in 2025 and 88 dependency cases in the first half of 2026, of which cannabis was 3.1%.[@mdt26]
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