Belarus’s new narcotics law, signed in July 2012, prohibited sowing or growing plants and fungi containing controlled drugs, subject to exceptions in legislation. Cannabis growers remained subject to the criminal code’s separate cultivation offence. An environmental rule later listed Cannabis sativa among plants barred from introduction and establishment.[1][2][3]
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References
- Belarus narcotics law of 13 July 2012 — cultivation clause reproduced by Zakony-byArticle 11: sowing or growing drug-containing plants and fungi prohibited, subject to exceptions in legislationarchived
- Belarus Criminal Code, consolidated through 11 November 2019 — WIPO LexArticles 54–55, 328, 328² and 329: short custody, restriction of liberty, possession/supply, repeated public use and cultivation; historical consolidationarchived
- Belarus Environment Ministry — resolution of 28 October 2016, original gazette PDF via FAOLEXPage 1: revised list prohibiting plant introduction/acclimatisation, item 6 Cannabis sativa L.; removes wild-growing qualifier; effective 31 December 2016; signed I. V. Malkinaarchived
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