Parliamentary question | Legalisation of drugs in the Czech Republic | E-1106/2010 | European Parliament (2024)

FAQs

When did Czech Republic legalize drugs? ›

While recreational use remains illegal, the possession of cannabis for personal use was decriminalized in 2010, and medical cannabis was legalized in 2013.

Drug laws and drug law offences

Drug use is not an offence in the Czech Republic, and possession of small quantities for personal use is a non-criminal offence under the Act of Violations, punishable by a fine of up to CZK 15 000 (EUR 550) (Figure 3).

Ecstasy use has been reported by 4-6% of adults, hallucinogens use by 5-6% and methamphetamine and cocaine use by 2-3% of adults. An estimated 45 thousand people are high-risk drug users, mostly users of methamphetamine (35 thousand) or opioids (10 thousand).

Prohibited medicines include counterfeit medicines or prohibited doping substances such as testosterone or nandrolone. Intoxicating substances such as morphine may only be imported on medical prescription and with a special certificate issued by the attending physician (in a dose for a maximum of 30 days).

In 1996 California passed Proposition 215 allowing for the sale and medical use of marijuana for patients with AIDS, cancer, and other serious painful diseases. Thus the tension between federal laws criminalizing marijuana and state laws permitting marijuana in certain circ*mstances began which continues today.

In the Czech Republic, hemp products like marijuana, hashish and cannabis oil have been available in pharmacies for years. Prague is now planning full legalization for 2023 and wants to coordinate the step with Berlin.

From 2004, Denmark has therefore had a zero-tolerance policy on possession of illicit drugs, and only dependent drug users with very few economic resources are exempt from punishment. In 2007, heroin maintenance treatment was introduced, followed by drug consumption facilities in 2012.

Public drug use has skyrocketed across the state and many blame a law that went into effect in 2021. This law made Oregon the first state in the country to decriminalize small amounts of hard drugs like heroin, fentanyl, and cocaine. It's called Measure 110, and it effectively made all drugs legal.

Atorvastatin calcium was the most prescribed drug in 2022, with 2.8% of claims. Atorvastatin is a statin used to treat abnormal lipid levels and prevent cardiovascular disease.

Dissolution of Czechoslovakia, 1992.

On December 31, 1992, the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic ceased to exist and was succeeded by two new states: the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Does Czech Republic have socialized medicine? ›

Health insurance is compulsory, and health care access virtually universal. All Czechs enjoy a broad benefits package, but the health insurance funds may differ in additional services offered to those insured (such as payment contributions for non-mandatory immunisations).

It was occupied by Nazi Germany in 1938–45 and was under Soviet domination from 1948 to 1989. On January 1, 1993, Czechoslovakia separated peacefully into two new countries, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

March 15, 1939

Occupation of Czechoslovakia / Start date

In the 1980s, the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic was regarded as one of the most tightly controlled Communist regimes in the entire Eastern Bloc, even resisting the easing of controls signaled by the Soviet Union's Mikhail Gorbachev.

In 2013, Czech president Miloš Zeman recommended the wider official use of Czechia in English sources, and on 14 April 2016 the government passed a resolution to make Czechia the official short name of the country. The new name was approved by the Czech cabinet on 2 May 2016 and registered on 5 July 2016.