🇸🇦 Cannabis status in Saudi Arabia
Cannabis is comprehensively prohibited. Trafficking attracts the death penalty in some cases; personal-use offences carry imprisonment + corporal punishment.
Legal status (4 axes)
- Recreational
- illegal
- Medical
- illegal
- CBD / hemp
- illegal
- THC limit
- 0% THC
Cross-border carriage
Cross-border carriage of cannabis is illegal under the UN Single Convention 1961 in every signatory country regardless of domestic legal status. Even where domestic possession is legal, taking cannabis across the border is a separate prosecutable offence.
Last verified 2026-04-28.