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Iran

Asia

Severe prohibition

#153 of 196 worldwide
#24 of 48 in Asia

Recreational: IllegalMedical: None

Possession is punished with fines and lashes; large-scale trafficking can carry the death penalty.

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Possession · 25%1/10

adds 2.5 of 25 points

Under the Anti-Narcotics Law, possessing a small quantity of cannabis or hashish — roughly under 50 g — is punished with a fine and up to 50 lashes rather than prison. Penalties climb steeply with quantity, to long imprisonment.

Personal cultivation · 25%0/10

adds 0.0 of 25 points

Cultivating cannabis for drug production is prohibited, with fines and flogging that escalate on repeat offences.

Punishment & enforcement · 20%0/10

adds 0.0 of 20 points

Corporal punishment for small amounts and the death penalty for large ones. A 2017 amendment raised the capital threshold for hashish and opium from 5 kg to 50 kg and limited it mainly to armed or organised trafficking, though drug executions have since risen again.

Sharing & gifting · 10%0/10

adds 0.0 of 10 points

Supply is trafficking, with flogging, prison and at the top end execution.

Consumption · 10%1/10

adds 1.0 of 10 points

Use is an offence, but dependent users who enter treatment are exempt from punishment. Hashish use is common and, in private, often overlooked.