Luxembourg
Europe
#8 of 196 worldwide
#4 of 45 in Europe
Since 2023 adults may grow four plants per household and consume at home. Carrying up to 3 g in public is a fine. There is no legal recreational market.
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Possession · 25%4/10adds 10.0 of 25 points
At home there is no gram limit on what your own plants produce. In public, cannabis is still prohibited: carrying up to 3 g is no longer a crime but brings a €145 fine, and anything above 3 g is a criminal offence. So possession is only really free inside your own home.
Personal cultivation · 25%4/10adds 10.0 of 25 points
Since 21 July 2023 adults may grow up to four plants per household — not per person — from seed, at their usual residence, indoors or out as long as the plants cannot be seen from the public road. Exceeding four plants or growing elsewhere is a criminal offence with fines.
Punishment & enforcement · 20%6/10adds 12.0 of 20 points
Home use and growing within the limits are unpunished, and small public possession is a fixed fine rather than a prosecution. Above 3 g in public, more than four plants, and any supply remain criminal.
Sharing & gifting · 10%1/10adds 1.0 of 10 points
Not allowed. Home-grown cannabis is for the household's own use, and handing it to anyone else, paid or not, remains a supply offence.
Consumption · 10%3/10adds 3.0 of 10 points
Legal at home only. Consumption in public remains prohibited, and using in front of minors is an aggravating circumstance.
Legal access · 10%1/10adds 1.0 of 10 points
There is no legal place to buy cannabis. Seeds can be bought in shops or online; a planned second phase with state-regulated production and sale has not been enacted. Medical cannabis is dispensed through hospital pharmacies.
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No commercial production of recreational cannabis is permitted. Medical cannabis is imported under state contract.
Whatever a household makes from its four plants for its own use. Nothing may be sold; low-THC hemp products are sold under separate rules.
Medical cannabis has been available since 2018 for a short list of conditions such as chronic pain, chemotherapy-related nausea and multiple-sclerosis spasticity, prescribed by trained doctors and dispensed free of charge by hospital pharmacies.
The €145 fine leaves no criminal record. Drug-driving law uses a very low THC blood threshold, so a home user can be over the limit well after use.
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