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Equatorial Guinea

Africa

Prohibition

#82 of 196 worldwide
#9 of 54 in Africa

Recreational: IllegalMedical: None

Illegal on paper with long sentences, but smoked openly and rarely prosecuted among locals.

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Possession · 25%1/10

adds 2.5 of 25 points

Illegal on paper under drug laws of 1980 and 1991, with prison of one to twenty years across possession, cultivation and sale. In practice cannabis has long been smoked openly at all levels of society: a 2000 report said nobody had been arrested for smoking or dealing in living memory.

Personal cultivation · 25%1/10

adds 2.5 of 25 points

Cultivation is a crime on paper and common in practice.

Punishment & enforcement · 20%2/10

adds 4.0 of 20 points

Tolerance is informal and can be withdrawn; foreign nationals in particular are reported to be prosecuted.