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Madagascar is about cannabis in Madagascar. Its cannabis material is the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime's bulletin of 2021 on the cannabis market, Law n° 97-039, and the Dzamal seed lines of The Real Seed Company. Its accessions are listed on the page.
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- Legal status. "Illegal" with 1997, on Loi n° 97-039. The law's own text is in UNODC's SHERLOC database. It schedules by risk category rather than naming plants, so which schedule cannabis falls under is not stated from the statute; that cannabis is illegal under Law 97-039 is cited to the Global Initiative, which says so directly.
- Enforcement reads "Eradication and seizure". It no longer adds "growing areas policed as armed territory", a characterisation of the bulletin stored as data.
Where the sources disagree
- The district names. The Real Seed Company's listings, as accessed in September 2026, describe the northern and southern Dzamal lines only as from "the humid highlands of northern Madagascar" and "the dry interior highlands of southern Madagascar". Its listings archived in April 2026, and those of its sister shop Kwik Seeds, name the highlands of Ambanja District ("Sambarino Highlands" on Kwik Seeds) and the Betroka highlands. The page gives both and cites each to the version that carries it, as RSC-MDG-DIA-0120250001 and RSC-MDG-ANO-0120250001 do.
Sources
- Global Initiative 2021 (East and Southern Africa Risk Bulletin 18) is the source for the production regions, prices, prevalence figures, seizures and the armed trafficking networks. Its prevalence figures are a government figure from 2004 reported to UNODC and a 2019 figure from the cannabis consultancy New Frontier Data.
Statements removed and why
- "The largest cannabis producer among the western Indian Ocean islands": the bulletin says "the most significant producer". The page now attributes that ranking.
- "The wiki documents five Malagasy landrace accessions ... Two of the five carry a district" and "Those are the same two areas the Global Initiative's 2021 survey of the market names as its production centres": statements about the wiki's holdings and the article's own juxtaposition of a seed company with the bulletin. Both sources' places are given in Geography.
- That the two Dzamal lines were "collected a year apart": both are dated 2025.
- That Antsahabe lies "in the centre-north": the bulletin places it in the Ambanja district, in the north.
- That the crop goes to "Antananarivo above all, then" abroad: the bulletin says it largely supplies the urban centres, "including the capital", and that some is smuggled to other islands.
- "Which of the two schedules cannabis falls under is not stated in the articles read for this page": see Infobox fields.
Open questions
- History is a section stub. The precolonial and colonial thread (Flacourt in 1661, the vernacular names, the Merina royal prohibition and a quotation attributed to the king) circulates in blogs and aggregators and has not been traced to a reliable source. Duvall 2016 first, then Flacourt's Histoire de la grande isle Madagascar on Gallica. The general Malagasy word for the plant is widely given as rongony, but only in sources of the same kind; The Real Seed Company lists its lines as Dzamal.
- Demographics is a section stub. The bulletin describes growers as subsistence farmers and young people working the fields or carrying the crop; no source describes who uses cannabis in Madagascar or any customary relationship to the plant.
- Conservation status is a section stub. No source assesses Malagasy landrace populations, by genetic or chemotype characterisation or for hybrid displacement. Eradication is recorded as enforcement, which is not a conservation assessment. The deforestation attributed to cannabis cultivation in the northern forests (reported by Mongabay in 2020 and noted in the bulletin's sources) would belong there if it can be reliably sourced.