Cannabis in Kiribati is illegal with severe punishments for the production, sale, and possession of marijuana for medicinal or recreational purposes.

[1][2] A 2011 survey of young people, found that 6.8% of males and 1.6% of females had ever used cannabis.

[3] Kiribati, like other island nations in the West Pacific is utilised as a staging point in the illicit drug trade, between Southeast Asia and Australia.

[4] Fishermen turned to drug trafficking and gun running via organized crime due to overfishing decreasing the value of fish so low that their previous lifestyles were unsustainable.

[5] In December 2019, a 3kg package of marijuana, along with 1.5kg of cocaine, was found in the Line Islands.