Cannabis — Tunisia

El cannabis es ilegal en Tunez. Consumirlo, o tenerlo para consumo propio, es un delito segun el articulo 4 de la Ley N.o 92-52 castigado con de uno a cinco anos de carcel mas una multa de 1.000 a 3.000 dinares; la ley no fija ningun umbral de cantidad, de modo que ninguna cantidad se considera demasiado pequena. Una reforma de 2017 se presenta a menudo como una despenalizacion y no lo fue: solo devolvio al juez la facultad de reducir la pena, que se ejerce despues de la condena. Para un extranjero, el articulo 17 exige ademas la expulsion una vez cumplida la pena, mas una prohibicion de diez anos para volver a entrar en Tunez.

Original (EN): Cannabis is illegal in Tunisia. Consuming it, or holding it for your own consumption, is a crime under article 4 of Law No. 92-52 carrying one to five years in prison plus a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 dinars - the law sets no quantity threshold, so no amount is treated as too small. A 2017 amendment is widely reported as decriminalisation and it was not: it only restored a judge's discretion to reduce the sentence, exercised after conviction. For a foreign national, article 17 additionally requires expulsion once the sentence is served, plus a ten-year ban on returning to Tunisia.

Consumption, or possession for personal consumption (art. 4): one to five years' imprisonment plus a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 Tunisian dinars; attempts are punishable. Being in a place used for drug taking (art. 8): six months to three years plus 1,000 to 5,000 dinars. Cultivation, possession or sale for trafficking (art. 5): six to ten years plus 5,000 to 10,000 dinars; smuggling, import or export for trafficking: ten to twenty years plus 20,000 to 100,000 dinars. A foreign national convicted under this law must be expelled from Tunisia immediately after serving the sentence and is barred from entering Tunisia for ten years where the conviction is for a delit, or for life where it is for a crime (art. 17); breaching that ban carries a further one to five years plus 1,000 to 5,000 dinars.