Cannabis — Guatemala

El cannabis es ilegal en Guatemala, incluso en cantidades pequenas para uso propio. Comprarlo o poseerlo para el consumo personal es un delito segun la Ley contra la Narcoactividad (Decreto 48-92), castigado con cuatro meses a dos anos de prision mas una multa. No existe una cantidad publicada en la que puedas confiar: si lo que llevas cuenta como consumo personal lo determinan las autoridades despues de incautarlo, y si no se acepta como uso personal se aplica el articulo de trafico, mucho mas grave. El Departamento de Estado de EE. UU. tambien incluye el cannabis y los medicamentos con CBD entre los productos prohibidos para entrar al pais.

Original (EN): Cannabis is illegal in Guatemala, including small amounts for your own use. Buying or possessing it for personal consumption is a crime under the Ley contra la Narcoactividad (Decreto 48-92), punishable by four months to two years in prison plus a fine. There is no published quantity you can rely on: whether what you are carrying counts as personal consumption is judged by the authorities after they seize it, and if it is not accepted as personal use the far heavier trafficking article applies. The US State Department also lists cannabis and medicines containing CBD among the products prohibited from entering the country.

Possession for personal consumption (art. 39, Decreto 48-92): four months to two years in prison plus a fine of Q200 to Q10,000. If the quantity is not accepted as personal use, the trafficking article applies instead: art. 38, covering acquiring, storing, transporting, supplying or selling, carries twelve to twenty years plus a fine of Q50,000 to Q1,000,000. Growing cannabis (art. 36) carries five to twenty years plus a fine of Q10,000 to Q100,000. The UK Foreign Office states that there are severe penalties for drug trafficking and the use of drugs, and that Guatemalan prisons are overcrowded, violent and dirty.