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Guinea

Recreational Marijuana Status:
Illegal
Medical Marijuana Status:
Illegal

Seed Legality

Total prohibition; Penal Code arts. 819-821 criminalize all dealings incl. free transfer; no seed or hemp carve-out.
Hemp seeds
Illegal
Marijuana seeds
Illegal
Sale
Illegal
Transacting
Illegal
Gifting
Illegal

Guinea's Penal Code (Law No. 2016/059/AN) punishes unauthorized cultivation, production, import/export, offer, sale, distribution, transport, purchase or possession of schedule I-II 'high-risk drugs' with 10-20 years' imprisonment (art. 819), and punishes ceding or offering drugs for personal consumption, even free of charge, with 5-10 years (arts. 820-821). Cannabis is treated as a high-risk drug with no THC threshold, so viable seeds — the means of criminal cultivation — have no lawful commercial, personal or gratuitous channel, though seeds are not expressly named in the verified articles. A predecessor narcotics law (cited elsewhere as L/97/037) could not be located in primary form. No industrial-hemp licensing or certified-variety regime exists, so low-THC hemp seed is captured by the same prohibition.

Key law:
Penal Code, Law No. 2016/059/AN (2016), arts. 819-821
Last reviewed:
July 3, 2026
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