🇹🇳 Tunisia
4 reports of cannabis enforcement.
Totals add up only what the reports state; most operations are never reported in numbers.
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Latest reports
Tunisia counted 14,300 drug-trafficking cases in 2025
The interior ministry reported on 7 March 2026 that 2025 brought 181,998 judicial cases in total, 14,300 of them drug-trafficking cases, and 69,164 arrests, 20,289 for drug trafficking. It also reported seizures of cannabis, 479,830 tablets, 146.77 kg of cocaine and 751.25 g of heroin. The figures cover police and national guard, not customs.
Tunisia plans saliva tests for drug-driving
Colonel Sami Saoudi of the National Road Safety Observatory announced on 27 July 2025 that police would get rapid saliva tests for drugs, to be used at road checks and after traffic offences. No start date was given. The device would sit alongside alcohol tests; no THC threshold or separate penalty for cannabis was published.
A new wave of cannabis arrests hits young Tunisians
An investigation published on 18 March 2024 found cannabis users facing random street stops, house raids, phone searches and pre-trial detention, with lawyers saying the repression was the worst since Ben Ali. People were held for carrying rolling papers or filters, and activists said prosecutors treated small users as dealers.
Saied orders a harder drug crackdown
On 6 November 2023 President Kais Saied met the interior minister, the national guard commander and the director general of national security and called for more patrols and a tougher fight against drugs. The meeting followed similar remarks on 26 October. Lawyers later linked the instructions to the arrest wave of 2024.
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