Venezuela reduced criminal possession outside the personal-use and other exempt routes from four-to-six to one-to-two years in prison.[1][2] The twenty-gram cannabis ceiling remained in that possession offence, while the consumer procedure assessed an individual dose using tolerance, dependence and other personal characteristics.[1] Growing carried six to ten years, or three to five for wage labourers, down from the older ten-to-twenty- year range.[1][2]
Listed for context. No score change is recorded for Venezuela here.
References
- Venezuela — 2005 Organic Law against Illicit Trafficking and Consumption, December corrected reprint held by the OASArticles 31–34 and 70–71; reprint notice and final signatures date the law to October 2005. December reprint is not treated as initial commencement.
- Venezuela — 1993 drug-law reform supplied to the UNArticles 35–36 and 75–76; earlier growing and non-personal-possession ranges.
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