Cameroon creates a national committee against drugs

Cameroon set up a National Committee for the Fight against Drugs, a year after ratifying the 1988 UN trafficking convention on 28 October 1991. It had ratified the Single Convention on 15 January 1962 and the 1971 psychotropics convention on 5 June 1981. A justice ministry magistrate noted in 2017 that the Penal Code itself does not punish growing, selling or using cannabis; those acts fall under the special law of 1997.^[1]

Enforcement

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References

Cameroon, Prime Minister's Office — presentation by magistrate Bikele Noah Lambert on the legal framework and penalties for cannabis, Yaoundé, 23 August 2017 (PDF)archived

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