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Myanmar

Asia

Severe prohibition

#152 of 196 worldwide
#23 of 48 in Asia

Recreational: IllegalMedical: None

Since 2018 drug use itself is not jailed, but possession still carries multi-year minimum sentences.

Score breakdown ▏world average

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Possession · 25%0/10

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Possession remains a serious crime under the 1993 narcotics law, with multi-year minimum sentences. The February 2018 amendment softened only the treatment of use, not of possession.

Personal cultivation · 25%0/10

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Cultivation carries a minimum of five years.

TNI — Guiding drug law reform in Myanmar

Punishment & enforcement · 20%1/10

adds 2.0 of 20 points

A public-health reform on paper, undermined because users are usually caught in possession. Since the 2021 coup, enforcement has become more arbitrary.

Sharing & gifting · 10%0/10

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Production, sale, import or export carries fifteen years to an unlimited term, or death.

TNI — Guiding drug law reform in Myanmar

Consumption · 10%2/10

adds 2.0 of 10 points

Since 2018 drug use itself is no longer punished with prison: users are required to register for treatment and can be ordered to do community service such as cleaning or road repair.

Legal access · 10%0/10

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None.