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What travelers need to know about drugs in Bolivia. What is legal at home can be a serious crime here — each rule links to its official source.

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Drugs in Bolivia: prohibited — what is legal at home can be a serious crime here.

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Under Bolivian law carrying any amount of an illegal drug is considered drug trafficking, the minimum sentence is 8 years, and every passenger on a departing international flight has their hold and hand baggage — and their person — searched.

Minimum sentence 8 years; carrying any quantity is treated as trafficking.

§ UK FCDO — Bolivia
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