Austria Marijuana Laws - Cannabis Legal Status in Austria

Offences and penalties related to personal use

As with all drugs, cannabis-related offences are punishable by up to six months' imprisonment. If certain conditions are fulfilled, reports must be withdrawn in cases involving small quantities. According to the law, the conditions for withdrawal of reports in connection with 'first consumers' of cannabis are easier to fulfil (no health report is necessary).

Legislation

SMG, s.35(4)

Level of prosecution

A small quantity is 2g of THC or less, being 10% of the serious quantity limit of 20g defined in the Ordinance 378/1997. (Prosecutors continue to follow a Committee of Health recommendation in 1980 that a small quantity should be 10% of the serious quantity.)

Distinguished from other substances? How?

Distinction by law

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