Cannabis is illegal in Cuba. Small amounts of possession are punishable by six months to two years in prison. "Cultivation, production, and transit" of large amounts of any illegal drug, including cannabis, results, in a sentence of four to twenty years. International trafficking of the same carries a sentence of 15 to 30 years in prison or, in more severe cases, death.[1]
History
Cannabis was introduced to Cuba as a textile crop in 1793, but planters on the island found sugarcane to be a more lucrative crop.[2]
In 1949, prior to the Cuban Revolution, a journal noted that most of the cannabis found in Cuba was imported from Mexico, but it was increasingly grown on the island, and was receiving attention in medical, judicial, and police publications.[3]
Cannabis laws in Cuba are extremely strict, even for tourists. Cultivation or transit will also lead to heavy penalties.[4]
Growing Cannabis and any form of transit can lead you 4 to 20 years in prison,
International trafficking of these illegal drugs will result in 15 to 20 years in prison, and selling these drugs to minors may result in the death penalty (Never applied: Cuba has a de facto moratorium on death penalty since its last execution in April 11, 2003 [5]).
†Physiographically, these continental islands are not part of the volcanic Windward Islands arc, although sometimes grouped with them culturally and politically.
#Bermuda is an isolated North Atlanticoceanic island, physiographically not part of the Lucayan Archipelago, Antilles, Caribbean Sea nor North American continental nor South American continental islands. It is grouped with the Northern American region, but occasionally also with the Caribbean region culturally.
