🇸🇬 Cannabis status in Singapore
Misuse of Drugs Act categorises all cannabis as Class A. Mandatory death penalty for trafficking 500+ g; minimum 5 years imprisonment + caning for personal-use possession. Singapore prosecutes residents who use cannabis abroad before returning.
Legal status (4 axes)
- Recreational
- illegal-mandatory-death
- 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.