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Tightening 🇹🇿 Tanzania

Tanzania extends its cannabis prohibition to seeds

Mainland Tanzania brought seeds into the cannabis definition and removed the drug-production-purpose condition from the offence of possessing or supplying prohibited-plant seeds. The amendment operates within section 11’s existing minimum thirty-year sentence.[1][2] The Attorney General’s registry records commencement on 2 October.[3]

Listed for context. No score change is recorded for Tanzania here.

References

  1. Tanzania — Act 6 of 2026, Part VIII, sections 42–43archived
  2. Drug Control and Enforcement Act, Cap. 95, section 11archived
  3. Attorney General — Act registry and commencementarchived

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