Personal drug possession and use carried six months to two years, a fine, or both under the new Penal Code, compared with two months to a year in the 1989 ordinance. Ordinary cultivation and trafficking carried ten to twenty years, a fine, or both, adding an explicit fine-only alternative to the earlier combined punishment. Prosecutors could still withhold prosecution after a user completed prescribed treatment.[1][2]
Listed for context. No score change is recorded for Guinea here.
References
- Guinea — Penal Code of 31 December 1998, text held by UNODCArticles 379–385 and 391; signature at the end corrects the first-page 1988 typoarchived
- Guinea — Ordinance 027 of 10 April 1989Articles 5 and 11archived
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