Holding narcotics without a legitimate reason carried six days to six months in prison, a fine, or both under the health code adopted by parliament. Group use and helping someone else use drugs carried one to five years, a fine, or both, with doubled penalties for illicit growing or manufacture. These national health-law offences preceded the 1996 Penal Code and the more detailed drug code adopted in 1999.[1]
Listed for context. No score change is recorded for Burkina Faso here.
References
- Burkina Faso — Public Health Code of 19 May 1994, justice ministry legal compilationPrinted pp. 369 and 397–399, Articles 273 and 291–296archived
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