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Liberia

Africa

Prohibition

#129 of 196 worldwide
#32 of 54 in Africa

Recreational: IllegalMedical: None

Since 2023, personal use carries three to eighteen months and is bailable; dealing carries ten to twenty years.

Score breakdown ▏world average

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Possession · 25%1/10
adds 2.5 of 25 points

The 2023 amendments to the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act separated users from traffickers. Use or possession for personal use is a bailable second-degree felony with three to eighteen months in prison — down from five to twenty years under the old law.

Personal cultivation · 25%1/10
adds 2.5 of 25 points

Cultivation is a non-bailable first-degree felony with ten to twenty years.

Punishment & enforcement · 20%1/10
adds 2.0 of 20 points

Much lighter for users than before 2023, but still prison, and far heavier for anything classed as dealing.

Sharing & gifting · 10%1/10
adds 1.0 of 10 points

Sale and trafficking are non-bailable, with ten to twenty years.

Consumption · 10%1/10
adds 1.0 of 10 points

Consumption is covered by the same three-to-eighteen-month offence.

Legal access · 10%0/10
adds 0.0 of 10 points

None.

More context not part of the score

Commercial production

None.

Products

None.

Medical use

No medical cannabis.

Other consequences

A felony conviction is a criminal record.

All sources

  1. The New Dawn — Lawmakers pass non-bailable drug law
  2. IDPC — Liberia: legislative committee reports to Senate on Controlled Drug and Substance Act (amended)

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