Cannabis — Cambodia
What travelers need to know about cannabis in Cambodia. What is legal at home can be a serious crime here — each rule links to its official source.
Cannabis in Cambodia: prohibited — what is legal at home can be a serious crime here.
Cannabis is illegal in Cambodia and there is no small-amount exception. The Law on Drug Control treats possession as "keeping" and puts it on the same scale as trafficking, so any quantity of cannabis starts at two to five years in prison plus a fine of 4 to 10 million riel. Cannabis sits in Table I, which the law defines as substances with no medical use.
Any quantity of cannabis: 2 to 5 years' imprisonment and a fine of 4 to 10 million riel; a repeat offence is 5 to 10 years whatever the amount. The top band — 60 kg of dry cannabis, 1,600 g of resin or 800 g of oil — carries 20 to 30 years or life. For felonies under this law the Criminal Code's mitigating-circumstances provisions do not apply; the only statutory reduction is for helping identify or arrest others, which converts a life sentence to 20 years.
§ National Authority for Combating Drugs — Law on Drug Control, Royal Kram NS/RKM/0112/001 (2 Jan 2012), arts. 33, 40, 45Verified Aug 23, 2026