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890 moments from the history told in full, oldest first: what the law was, what changed, and what it meant for the score. Every one belongs to an entry in the history.
Cairo’s Cafour garden cannabis is destroyed by 1244
🇪🇬 Egypt · gpt-6.1-sol
Baybars prohibits hashish in Damascus
🇸🇾 Syria · gpt-6.1-sol
Pipe residues suggest cannabis smoking in medieval Ethiopia
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · gpt-6
Cairo’s governor confiscates and burns hashish
🇪🇬 Egypt · gpt-6.1-sol
Egyptian authorities destroy cannabis fields and punish hashish users
🇪🇬 Egypt · gpt-6.1-sol
Tahmasp’s prohibition of bang is publicized in Safavid Iran
🇮🇷 Iran · gpt-6.1-sol
Rabelais celebrates the herb Pantagruelion
🇫🇷 France · gpt-6
Jahangir orders bang sales stopped in the bazaars
🇮🇳 India · gpt-6.1-sol
Culpeper describes hemp remedies in an English herbal
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · gpt-6.1-sol
Burns publishes a Scottish hemp-seed courtship charm
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · gpt-6
Madagascar’s Merina king bans cannabis smoking
🇲🇬 Madagascar · gpt-6.1-sol
Bengal’s Board recommends taxation rather than total prohibition
🇮🇳 India · gpt-6.1-sol
The French occupation bans hashish in Egypt
🇪🇬 Egypt · gpt-6.1-sol
A French scholar ties hashish to the Assassins
🇫🇷 France · opus-5.5
Rio de Janeiro's council bans pito de pango
🇧🇷 Brazil · gpt-6.1-sol
A doctor in Calcutta introduces cannabis to Western medicine
🇮🇳 India
Mauritius bans cannabis
🇲🇺 Mauritius · gpt-6.1-sol
Paris writers found the Club of the Hashish-Eaters
🇫🇷 France · gpt-6
A Paris psychiatrist proposes hashish as a tool for studying madness
🇫🇷 France · opus-5.5
A botanical journal reports established diamba cultivation in Sierra Leone
🇸🇱 Sierra Leone · gpt-6
Bengal confines ganja growing to a single supervised tract
🇮🇳 India · opus-5.5
Baudelaire publishes Les Paradis artificiels
🇫🇷 France · gpt-6
New York regulates cannabis sales under its poison law
🇺🇸 United States · gpt-6.1-sol
Spain lists hashish as a poison under pharmacy sales rules
🇪🇸 Spain · gpt-6.1-sol
British Guiana regulates the sale of bhang
🇬🇾 Guyana · gpt-6
Wisconsin brings cannabis under poison-sales controls
🇺🇸 United States · gpt-6.1-sol
New York removes a sales witness rule and its poison schedule
🇺🇸 United States · gpt-6.1-sol
Ottoman herbalists are barred from selling hashish
🇹🇷 Türkiye · grok-4.7
Ceylon restricts cannabis sales to licensed dealers
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · gpt-6
Egypt introduces a nineteenth-century cannabis prohibition
🇪🇬 Egypt · opus-5.5
New Zealand prohibits cannabis in brewing and restricts supply to brewers
🇳🇿 New Zealand · gpt-6.1-sol
Natal authorizes cannabis restrictions targeting Indian immigrants
🇿🇦 South Africa · gpt-6.1-sol
The Straits Settlements regulate bhang through a licensed monopoly
🇸🇬 Singapore · gpt-6.1-sol
Penang and Malacca come under the Straits bhang monopoly law
🇲🇾 Malaysia · gpt-6.1-sol
India gathers provincial opinions on restricting hemp drugs
🇮🇳 India · gpt-6.1-sol
India directs provincial governments to restrict and tax hemp drugs
🇮🇳 India · gpt-6.1-sol
Egypt taxes cannabis imports it had already banned
🇪🇬 Egypt · opus-5.5
British India prohibits hemp drugs in Burma
🇲🇲 Myanmar · opus-5.5
Berar requires licences to cultivate ganja and bhang
🇮🇳 India · gpt-6.1-sol
Bengal puts ganja growers, stores and exports under licence
🇮🇳 India · opus-5.5
Sweden penalises unauthorised cannabis sales and supply
🇸🇪 Sweden · gpt-6.1-sol
Portugal approves cannabis standards in its official pharmacopoeia
🇵🇹 Portugal · gpt-6.1-sol
Ceylon’s bhang licensing law preserves a medicinal exception
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · gpt-6.1-sol
Bengal licences ganja growing and caps how much a person may keep
🇧🇩 Bangladesh · grok-4.7
A pharmacy journal reports Russia’s cannabis-cigarette import ban
🇷🇺 Russia · gpt-6.1-sol
Egypt prohibits hashish importation and cultivation
🇪🇬 Egypt · gpt-6.1-sol
Pogge and Wissmann encounter the Bena Riamba movement
🇨🇩 DR Congo · gpt-6
Austria bans imports of Grimault hemp cigarettes
🇦🇹 Austria · gpt-6.1-sol
Mauritius repeals its cannabis prohibition
🇲🇺 Mauritius · opus-5.5
A Natal medical officer’s cannabis prohibition proposal stalls
🇿🇦 South Africa · gpt-6.1-sol
Berar replaces a flat cannabis licence fee with an acreage charge
🇮🇳 India · gpt-6.1-sol
Egypt allows confiscated hashish to be sold for export to fund enforcement
🇪🇬 Egypt · gpt-6.1-sol
Egypt’s convention with Greece reserves hashish controls and search powers
🇪🇬 Egypt · gpt-6.1-sol
Trinidad imposes heavy licence duties on cannabis cultivation
🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago · opus-5.5
The United States accepts Egypt’s customs rules covering hashish
🇪🇬 Egypt · gpt-6.1-sol
Darmstadt police republishes a warning about cannabis cigarettes
🇩🇪 Germany · gpt-6.1-sol
Natal’s immigration commission recommends cannabis prohibition
🇿🇦 South Africa · gpt-6.1-sol
Missouri fines the keeper of a place for smoking hasheesh
🇺🇸 United States · grok-4.7
Accounts attribute Rif cannabis privileges to Hassan I
🇲🇦 Morocco · gpt-6.1-sol
Greece’s Interior Ministry seeks local orders against hashish use
🇬🇷 Greece · gpt-6.1-sol
Germany renews the pharmacy-only rule for Indian hemp
🇩🇪 Germany · gpt-6.1-sol
North Borneo authorizes a bhang and ganja sales monopoly
🇲🇾 Malaysia · gpt-6.1-sol
Athens and Piraeus police restrict public hashish use and smoking premises
🇬🇷 Greece · gpt-6.1-sol
Court protects the name of a cannabis-containing medicine
🇺🇸 United States · gpt-6.1-sol
An MP tells the House of Commons that India's asylums are filled with ganja smokers
🇮🇳 India · gpt-6
Baroda restricts cannabis sales, transport and larger possession
🇮🇳 India · gpt-6.1-sol
Britain agrees to a commission on hemp drugs in India
🇮🇳 India · opus-5.5
Bengal drops the order to destroy wild hemp
🇧🇩 Bangladesh · grok-4.7
Colombo advertises four opium and bhang retail licences
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · gpt-6.1-sol
Ceylon limits opium and bhang retail licences in designated towns
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · gpt-6.1-sol
Trinidad prohibits cannabis cultivation, sale and possession with a medical exception
🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago · gpt-6.1-sol
The Indian Hemp Drugs Commission reports
🇮🇳 India · opus-5.5
A British doctor takes over Egypt's asylums and blames hashish for insanity
🇪🇬 Egypt · opus-5.5
Hesse revises cannabis dispensing rules and excepts external-use extract
🇩🇪 Germany · gpt-6.1-sol
British chemists isolate and name cannabinol
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Athens and Piraeus police repeat the hashish-premises restriction
🇬🇷 Greece · gpt-6.1-sol
Ceylon prohibits bhang and ganja imports, possession and sale
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · gpt-6.1-sol
Berar’s 1897 Hemp Drugs Law comes into force
🇮🇳 India · gpt-6.1-sol
Trinidad revises its prohibitory ganja regime
🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago · gpt-6.1-sol
Ceylon’s consolidated opium law retains the bhang and ganja prohibition
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · gpt-6.1-sol
Western Australia names cannabis in its poison-sales schedule
🇦🇺 Australia · gpt-6.1-sol
Sudan restricts cannabis imports under its contraband law
🇸🇩 Sudan · gpt-6
The Orange River Colony bans giving and receiving dagga
🇿🇦 South Africa · gpt-6
The Congo Free State bans growing and holding cannabis for smoking
🇨🇩 DR Congo · gpt-6
Bengal finally stores its whole ganja crop in government warehouses
🇮🇳 India · opus-5.5
The Cape Colony lists dagga as a poison
🇿🇦 South Africa · gpt-6
Austria distinguishes domestic hemp-cigarette sales from controlled imports
🇦🇹 Austria · gpt-6.1-sol
Ceylon bans growing and possessing cannabis plants
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · gpt-6
U.S. cannabis labelling requirements take effect under the 1906 Act
🇺🇸 United States · gpt-6.1-sol
Austria authorizes Trnkóczy’s hemp cigarettes for prescription pharmacy supply
🇦🇹 Austria · gpt-6.1-sol
Germany restricts Bromidia dispensing and bans public advertising
🇩🇪 Germany · gpt-6.1-sol
Transvaal mine managers see no need to ban dagga
🇿🇦 South Africa · gpt-6
A provincial commissioner in Kenya asks for a law against cannabis
🇰🇪 Kenya · gpt-6
Ceylon assents to restrictions on possessing and supplying bhang and ganja
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · gpt-6
A second Transvaal survey again finds no dagga crisis
🇿🇦 South Africa · gpt-6
The Hague Opium Convention
🌐 International
Jamaica passes the Ganja Law
🇯🇲 Jamaica · opus-5.5
Bombay limits how much ganja and bhang a person may hold
🇮🇳 India · opus-5.5
Portugal bans cannabis in Angola
🇦🇴 Angola · opus-5.5
The East Africa Protectorate bans cannabis
🇰🇪 Kenya · gpt-6
Portuguese Mozambique brings cannabis under control
🇲🇿 Mozambique · opus-5.5
Trinidad puts ganja under licence
🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago · opus-5.5
The United States bars cannabis imports except for medicine
🇺🇸 United States · opus-5.5
Madagascar's colonial government bans rongony smoking and sales
🇲🇬 Madagascar · gpt-6
South Africa drafts a national ban on cannabis use, possession and growing
🇿🇦 South Africa · gpt-6
Britain's Army Council restricts cannabis sales to service members
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
France passes its first drug law
🇫🇷 France · opus-5.5
USDA publishes trials of paper made from hemp hurds
🇺🇸 United States · gpt-6.1-sol-medium
France extends its poisonous substances law to French West Africa
🇸🇳 Senegal · opus-5.5
France extends its poisonous substances law to French West Africa
🇳🇪 Niger · opus-5.5
France extends its poisonous substances law to French West Africa
🇲🇷 Mauritania · opus-5.5
France extends its poisonous substances law to French West Africa
🇲🇱 Mali · opus-5.5
France extends its poisonous substances law to French West Africa
🇬🇳 Guinea · opus-5.5
France extends its poisonous substances law to French West Africa
🇨🇮 Côte d'Ivoire · opus-5.5
France extends its poisonous substances law to French West Africa
🇧🇯 Benin · opus-5.5
France extends its poisonous substances law to French West Africa
🇧🇫 Burkina Faso · opus-5.5
Colorado bans growing and selling marijuana
🇺🇸 United States · opus-5.5
Naogaon's ganja growers are organised in a cooperative
🇧🇩 Bangladesh
France extends its narcotics controls to colonial Algeria
🇩🇿 Algeria · gpt-6
Belgian Congo makes cannabis consumption an explicit offence
🇨🇩 DR Congo · gpt-6
British military rule in Palestine bans hashish
🇮🇱 Israel · opus-5.5
Schlichten receives a patent for processing fibre-bearing plants
🇺🇸 United States · gpt-6.1-sol-medium
Britain's first Dangerous Drugs Act does not cover cannabis
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · opus-5.5
Mexico bans marijuana
🇲🇽 Mexico · opus-5.5
Swaziland's Opium and Habit-forming Drugs Act takes effect
🇸🇿 Eswatini · opus-5.5
South Africa bans dagga nationwide
🇿🇦 South Africa
Bechuanaland restricts habit-forming drugs
🇧🇼 Botswana · opus-5.5
Basutoland brings cannabis under its habit-forming drugs law
🇱🇸 Lesotho · opus-5.5
South Africa tells police to go easy on dagga in remote African areas
🇿🇦 South Africa · opus-5.5
South Africa asks the League of Nations to control cannabis
🇿🇦 South Africa · opus-5.5
Italy passes its first drug law
🇮🇹 Italy · gpt-6
Canada places cannabis under its narcotics law
🇨🇦 Canada
Poland bans hashish in its first drug law
🇵🇱 Poland · opus-5.5
A mistaken London hashish prosecution ends in acquittal
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Afghanistan's Penal Code forbids domestic cannabis production and use
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · gpt-6
Sudan replaces its hashish law and keeps medical exceptions
🇸🇩 Sudan
Egypt puts cannabis on the Geneva agenda
🌐 International · opus-5.5
Trinidad and Tobago bans ganja
🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago · opus-5.5
Cannabis enters international drug control
🌐 International · opus-5.5
Britain places cannabis under its first general-public sales controls
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
New Orleans police round up marijuana sellers after a newspaper campaign
🇺🇸 United States · opus-5.5
Northern Rhodesia passes its Dangerous Drugs Ordinance
🇿🇲 Zambia · opus-5.5
Lebanon prohibits hashish
🇱🇧 Lebanon · opus-5.5
Australia limits cannabis imports to medicine and research
🇦🇺 Australia · gpt-6
Sierra Leone bans cannabis growing and possession under colonial drug law
🇸🇱 Sierra Leone · gpt-6
Argentina makes drug possession a crime
🇦🇷 Argentina · gpt-6
French Cameroon restricts hashish supplies and punishes group use
🇨🇲 Cameroon · gpt-6
Nigeria's first Dangerous Drugs Ordinance restricts cannabis
🇳🇬 Nigeria · gpt-6
The Dutch East Indies ban cannabis
🇮🇩 Indonesia · opus-5.5
New Zealand passes the Dangerous Drugs Act's cannabis controls
🇳🇿 New Zealand · gpt-6
Victoria passes a law penalising unauthorised cannabis use
🇦🇺 Australia · gpt-6
Norway's Opium Act reaches beyond opium
🇳🇴 Norway · opus-5.5
Hong Kong votes to ban possession of the cannabis plant
🇭🇰 Hong Kong · gpt-6
Spain reserves Indian hemp to the state and fines illicit holding
🇪🇸 Spain · grok-4.7
Britain bans cannabis
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Costa Rica prohibits marijuana
🇨🇷 Costa Rica · opus-5.5
Federal raids on Chicago's marijuana wholesalers
🇺🇸 United States · opus-5.5
A bill to bring cannabis under federal import law dies
🇺🇸 United States · opus-5.5
Germany adds cannabis to its Opium Law
🇩🇪 Germany · opus-5.5
Sweden punishes unauthorised cannabis possession and bans hashish
🇸🇪 Sweden · gpt-6
Cairo's police chief tells the League that hashish does little harm
🇪🇬 Egypt · gpt-6
Belgium issues a narcotics order
🇧🇪 Belgium · gpt-6
Pakistan keeps licensed ganja and requires a licence for hemp extract
🇵🇰 Pakistan · grok-4.7
Burma requires a licence to make hemp extract or to import it
🇲🇲 Myanmar · grok-4.7
Bengal ganja stays under excise as hemp extract needs a licence
🇧🇩 Bangladesh · grok-4.7
A model state narcotics law is drafted for all American states
🇺🇸 United States · opus-5.5
Brazil bans cannabis nationwide
🇧🇷 Brazil · opus-5.5
Djibouti's colonial rules put cannabis behind permits and prescriptions
🇩🇯 Djibouti · gpt-6
Army cannabis report recommends no further Canal Zone legislation
🇺🇸 United States · gpt-6.1-sol-medium
Sierra Leone identifies diamba as cannabis in its official drug report
🇸🇱 Sierra Leone · gpt-6
Turkey passes its narcotics control law
🇹🇷 Türkiye · opus-5.5
Saudi Arabia enacts its first anti-drug law
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · opus-5.5
The Soviet Union bans growing cannabis
🇷🇺 Russia · gpt-6
A League of Nations report estimates 200 million cannabis users
🌐 International · gpt-6
China ends the legal hashish trade from Xinjiang
🇨🇳 China · opus-5.5
Italy's new drug law lets users be forcibly confined for treatment
🇮🇹 Italy · gpt-6
Tajikistan comes under Soviet restrictions on growing Indian hemp
🇹🇯 Tajikistan
The Gold Coast replaces its Dangerous Drugs Ordinance
🇬🇭 Ghana · gpt-6
Siam publishes its Cannabis Act
🇹🇭 Thailand · gpt-6
Nyasaland outlaws growing cannabis
🇲🇼 Malawi · opus-5.5
Chile's Narcotics Regulation requires a prescription
🇨🇱 Chile · opus-5.5
A Cuban anti-drug book casts cannabis as a threat
🇨🇺 Cuba · gpt-6
Ireland bans cannabis
🇮🇪 Ireland · opus-5.5
Anslinger presents marijuana as an assassin of youth
🇺🇸 United States · gpt-6
Uruguay puts hashish under a state monopoly
🇺🇾 Uruguay · opus-5.5
The United States passes the Marihuana Tax Act
🇺🇸 United States · opus-5.5
Reefer Madness turns cannabis alarm into screen melodrama
🇺🇸 United States · gpt-6
Iraq restricts cannabis possession and trade to authorised channels
🇮🇶 Iraq · gpt-6
Canada prohibits unlicensed cannabis cultivation
🇨🇦 Canada
Czechoslovakia's Opium Act covers Slovakia
🇸🇰 Slovakia · opus-5.5
Czechoslovakia passes its Opium Act
🇨🇿 Czechia
Popular Mechanics presents hemp as a new industrial cash crop
🇺🇸 United States · gpt-6.1-sol-medium
Egypt's police chief contradicts the American case at the League
🌐 International · gpt-6
A Mexican health official tells the Academy of Medicine that marijuana is harmless
🇲🇽 Mexico · opus-5.5
The United Provinces raise the duty on charas and cut hemp shops
🇮🇳 India · grok-4.7
Bihar bans ganja and bhang where prohibition was extended
🇮🇳 India · grok-4.7
Smugglers hide hashish inside camels' stomachs on the way into Egypt
🇪🇬 Egypt · opus-5.5
Bombay prohibits charas in the city and in Ahmedabad
🇮🇳 India · grok-4.7
India controls preparations made from Indian hemp extract
🇮🇳 India · grok-4.7
Mexico briefly treats drug use as a health matter
🇲🇽 Mexico
Mexico suspends its health-based drug rule
🇲🇽 Mexico · opus-5.5
Solomon Islands’ Dangerous Drugs Act commences
🇸🇧 Solomon Islands
The US government asks farmers to grow hemp for the war
🇺🇸 United States · gpt-6.1-sol-medium
Ethiopia restricts cannabis imports and sales to a licensed medical trade
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · gpt-6
New York's La Guardia report contradicts the official line
🇺🇸 United States · opus-5.5
Mexico sets one to ten years for enervating-drug crimes
🇲🇽 Mexico · grok-4.7
Japan passes the Cannabis Control Act
🇯🇵 Japan · opus-5.5
The Gilbert Islands ban cannabis growing, possession and gifts
🇰🇮 Kiribati
The Ellice Islands' Dangerous Drugs Ordinance takes effect
🇹🇻 Tuvalu
Peru makes growing cannabis a trafficking crime
🇵🇪 Peru · gpt-6
Iran raises the penalty for using bang or charas in public
🇮🇷 Iran · grok-4.7
West Punjab punishes consuming ganja or charas in breach of excise law
🇵🇰 Pakistan · grok-4.7
East Bengal extends its excise law to the district of Sylhet
🇧🇩 Bangladesh · grok-4.7
Mauritius prohibits cannabis again
🇲🇺 Mauritius · opus-5.5
Poland lists cannabis herb as a narcotic
🇵🇱 Poland · opus-5.5
Gibraltar makes cannabis possession punishable by a fine or a month in jail
🇬🇮 Gibraltar · gpt-6
The United States introduces mandatory minimum sentences
🇺🇸 United States · opus-5.5
Switzerland puts cannabis under federal narcotics controls
🇨🇭 Switzerland · gpt-6
Malaya's Dangerous Drugs Ordinance comes into force
🇲🇾 Malaysia · opus-5.5
Nigeria's police set up a squad against cannabis
🇳🇬 Nigeria · gpt-6
The Netherlands bans possession of cannabis
🇳🇱 Netherlands · opus-5.5
The narcotics commission publishes Brazil's case against maconha
🇧🇷 Brazil · opus-5.5
Tunisia ends legal cannabis sales
🇹🇳 Tunisia · opus-5.5
The Philippines adopts its first national marijuana controls
🇵🇭 Philippines · opus-5.5
A hashish fudge recipe is cut from the American edition of Alice B. Toklas's cookbook
🇺🇸 United States · opus-5.5
Italy punishes holding drugs as harshly as selling them
🇮🇹 Italy · gpt-6
Punjab prohibits import and possession of ganja
🇮🇳 India · grok-4.7
Denmark passes the Euphoriant Substances Act
🇩🇰 Denmark · gpt-6
Southern Rhodesia reports 285 cannabis prosecutions for 1952
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe · gpt-6
Bahrain extends cannabis controls to people under British jurisdiction
🇧🇭 Bahrain
Taiwan makes possession of narcotics a crime
🇹🇼 Taiwan · opus-5.5
Punjab prohibits a hemp-plant substitute for charas
🇮🇳 India · grok-4.7
Independent Morocco bans kif
🇲🇦 Morocco · opus-5.5
The United States raises penalties again
🇺🇸 United States · opus-5.5
Ethiopia's new penal code punishes drug supply and hosting drug use
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · gpt-6
São Tomé and Príncipe targets medical cannabis with a colonial ban
🇸🇹 São Tomé and Príncipe
The Philippines explicitly criminalises marijuana possession and use
🇵🇭 Philippines · opus-5.5
Iran declares cannabis illegal
🇮🇷 Iran · opus-5.5
West Pakistan lets druggists sell medicinal hemp only as medicine
🇵🇰 Pakistan · grok-4.7
Puerto Rico makes cannabis possession a felony carrying five to twenty years
🇵🇷 Puerto Rico · gpt-6
Kuwait places Indian hemp under licensed drug controls
🇰🇼 Kuwait
Madagascar raises rongony penalties to as much as five years
🇲🇬 Madagascar · gpt-6
Sri Lanka lets Ayurvedic physicians use cannabis
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · opus-5.5
The Single Convention turns Soviet hemp into a drug plant
🇷🇺 Russia
Jamaica raises the penalties for growing and dealing ganja
🇯🇲 Jamaica · opus-5.5
Canada passes the Narcotic Control Act
🇨🇦 Canada · opus-5.5
The UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs
🌐 International · opus-5.5
Cannabis seizures in Nigeria rise ninefold in a year
🇳🇬 Nigeria · gpt-6
Czechoslovakia's criminal code punishes possession in Slovakia
🇸🇰 Slovakia · opus-5.5
Czechoslovakia's new criminal code punishes possession
🇨🇿 Czechia
Bolivia punishes unlawful cannabis possession with three to five years
🇧🇴 Bolivia · gpt-6
Cuba joins the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs
🇨🇺 Cuba · gpt-6
Jamaica sets an 18-month minimum for ganja possession
🇯🇲 Jamaica · opus-5.5
An Israeli chemist isolates THC from hashish supplied by the police
🇮🇱 Israel
A new Somali penal code punishes drug supply in what is now Somaliland
🏳️ Somaliland · gpt-6
Britain makes growing cannabis an offence
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · opus-5.5
Nicaragua makes marihuana a crime against public security
🇳🇮 Nicaragua · opus-5.5
A Nigerian psychiatrist describes cannabis use as a medical problem
🇳🇬 Nigeria · gpt-6
Kyrgyzstan ends southern Chuy hemp cultivation and converts its farms
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan
Iraq keeps cannabis under drug controls but permits licensed fibre crops
🇮🇶 Iraq · gpt-6
Nigeria's military government issues the Indian Hemp Decree
🇳🇬 Nigeria · opus-5.5
Chad prohibits cannabis use and growing, with a research exception
🇹🇩 Chad · gpt-6
Samoa passes the Narcotics Act
🇼🇸 Samoa · opus-5.5
Cannabis becomes the Netherlands' main drug offence
🇳🇱 Netherlands · gpt-6
Iraq raises penalties for cannabis users and suppliers
🇮🇶 Iraq · gpt-6
Britain gives police the power to stop and search for drugs
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · opus-5.5
South Vietnam orders provincial chiefs to stop cannabis cultivation
🇻🇳 Vietnam · gpt-6
Hong Kong replaces its drug law and keeps cannabis prohibition
🇭🇰 Hong Kong · gpt-6
Brazil's military government punishes users like traffickers
🇧🇷 Brazil · opus-5.5
Iraq adds death penalties for specified drug-trafficking cases
🇮🇶 Iraq · gpt-6
Cannabis growing takes root on Paraguay's border with Brazil
🇵🇾 Paraguay · gpt-6
Afghanistan's king urges farmers to grow more hashish
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · gpt-6
The US Supreme Court strikes down the Marihuana Tax Act
🇺🇸 United States · opus-5.5
A Danish parliamentary committee calls for cannabis research and review of personal-use offences
🇩🇰 Denmark · gpt-6
Denmark tells police to warn, not prosecute
🇩🇰 Denmark · opus-5.5
Canada lets possession be dealt with by a fine
🇨🇦 Canada · opus-5.5
The US all but closes the Mexican border over marijuana
🇲🇽 Mexico · gpt-6
East Germany finds itself a transit route for hashish
🇩🇪 Germany · gpt-6
Somalia places northern drug possession and growing under health licences
🏳️ Somaliland · gpt-6
Somalia places narcotics under a health-ministry licensing system
🇸🇴 Somalia
Afghanistan arrests thirteen foreigners in a Kabul hotel drug raid
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · gpt-6
São Tomé and Príncipe comes under Portugal’s wider drug ban
🇸🇹 São Tomé and Príncipe
Mozambique receives Portugal's prison terms for cannabis offences
🇲🇿 Mozambique · gpt-6
The United States passes the Controlled Substances Act
🇺🇸 United States · opus-5.5
East Germany's party newspaper says hashers do not read Marx
🇩🇪 Germany · gpt-6
France makes private use a crime
🇫🇷 France
Most American states cut their marijuana possession penalties
🇺🇸 United States · opus-5.5
Soueif publishes a behavioural study of Egyptian cannabis users in prison
🇪🇬 Egypt · gpt-6
Djibouti publishes French drug penalties and treatment rules
🇩🇯 Djibouti · gpt-6
Puerto Rico cuts personal-possession penalties and offers probation
🇵🇷 Puerto Rico · gpt-6
Afghanistan promises drug-control cooperation while describing weak enforcement
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · gpt-6
West Germany replaces the Opium Law with the Narcotics Law
🇩🇪 Germany · opus-5.5
The Shafer Commission recommends decriminalisation
🇺🇸 United States · opus-5.5
The Baan Commission proposes separating the drug markets
🇳🇱 Netherlands · opus-5.5
Jamaica drops mandatory prison for ganja
🇯🇲 Jamaica · opus-5.5
Finland makes personal use a crime
🇫🇮 Finland · opus-5.5
Afghanistan begins arresting drug smugglers in earnest
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · gpt-6
The US embassy reports a press campaign for Afghan narcotics control
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · gpt-6
The Philippines pass the Dangerous Drugs Act
🇵🇭 Philippines · opus-5.5
Peru separates individual drug consumers from the earlier trafficking rule
🇵🇪 Peru · gpt-6
Dutch court rejects a narrow reading of the hashish prohibition
🇳🇱 Netherlands · gpt-6.1-sol-medium
Artists save Ruigoord from demolition
🇳🇱 Netherlands · gpt-6
East Germany passes a Narcotic Drugs Act
🇩🇪 Germany · gpt-6.1-sol-medium
A field study finds marijuana farming in Colombia's Sierra Nevada
🇨🇴 Colombia · opus-5.5
Britain's Misuse of Drugs Act takes effect
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · opus-5.5
Nepal closes its legal cannabis shops
🇳🇵 Nepal
Anthropologists compare cannabis traditions at a Chicago conference
🌐 International · gpt-6
Guatemala sets prison terms for cannabis growing, supply and possession
🇬🇹 Guatemala · gpt-6
Oregon becomes the first US state to decriminalise
🇺🇸 United States · opus-5.5
Dutch navy pursues the hashish-carrying fishing boat Lammie
🇳🇱 Netherlands · gpt-6.1-sol-medium
Ukraine makes personal drug possession punishable by prison
🇺🇦 Ukraine
Northern Mariana Islands’ court throws out marijuana possession and sale charges
🇲🇵 Northern Mariana Islands
Uruguay stops punishing possession for personal use
🇺🇾 Uruguay · opus-5.5
Alaska's Supreme Court protects cannabis at home
🇺🇸 United States · opus-5.5
Rubin examines Jamaican accounts of a ganja vision
🇯🇲 Jamaica · gpt-6
The Comoros legalise cannabis
🇰🇲 Comoros · opus-5.5
Algeria allows capital punishment under a sweeping drug ordinance
🇩🇿 Algeria · gpt-6
Nigeria removes the death penalty for growing cannabis
🇳🇬 Nigeria · opus-5.5
South Korea arrests its pop stars for marijuana
🇰🇷 South Korea
Italy stops punishing users for a "modest quantity" of drugs
🇮🇹 Italy · gpt-6
American parents organise against marijuana
🇺🇸 United States · opus-5.5
Tanzania stops the sale of seed that contains bhang
🇹🇿 Tanzania · grok-4.7
South Korea passes the Cannabis Control Act
🇰🇷 South Korea · opus-5.5
The Netherlands separates cannabis from hard drugs
🇳🇱 Netherlands · opus-5.5
Liberia punishes cannabis possession and orders plants destroyed
🇱🇷 Liberia · gpt-6
Guinea-Bissau adopts an early post-independence narcotics law
🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau
Gilberto Gil is arrested for cannabis in Florianópolis
🇧🇷 Brazil · opus-5.5
Independent Indonesia passes its first narcotics law
🇮🇩 Indonesia · opus-5.5
Nepal passes the Narcotic Drugs (Control) Act
🇳🇵 Nepal · opus-5.5
D.C. Superior Court accepts Randall’s medical-necessity defence
🇺🇸 United States · gpt-6
The Maldives passes its Law on Drugs
🇲🇻 Maldives · opus-5.5
Ireland passes the Misuse of Drugs Act
🇮🇪 Ireland · opus-5.5
Cayman raises cannabis possession penalties to seven years
🇰🇾 Cayman Islands
Rwanda’s criminal code allows a fine alone for drug use
🇷🇼 Rwanda · gpt-6
The Comoros ban cannabis again
🇰🇲 Comoros · opus-5.5
Christiania drives out hard drugs and keeps cannabis
🇩🇰 Denmark · gpt-6
Pakistan prohibits cannabis
🇵🇰 Pakistan · opus-5.5
Iraq raises personal-use penalties but lets some offenders receive treatment
🇮🇶 Iraq · gpt-6
Marshall Islands’ earlier territorial code records a $50 small-possession fine
🇲🇭 Marshall Islands
Paul McCartney is arrested at Tokyo airport with 219 grams
🇯🇵 Japan
Kiribati regulates prescription supply of cannabis extracts and tinctures
🇰🇮 Kiribati
A water-pipe patent later prompts a comparison with African designs
🇺🇸 United States · gpt-6
Italy's Constitutional Court blocks a referendum to free cannabis from the drug law
🇮🇹 Italy · opus-5.5
Burundi sets three to five years for drug use
🇧🇮 Burundi · gpt-6
The Philippines makes six years the minimum for marijuana possession
🇵🇭 Philippines · opus-5.5
Italy's top court keeps punishing users with more than a "modest quantity" like dealers
🇮🇹 Italy · opus-5.5
Malaysia makes death mandatory for trafficking
🇲🇾 Malaysia · opus-5.5
Liechtenstein passes its narcotics law
🇱🇮 Liechtenstein · opus-5.5
Spain confirms the personal-use exception in its Penal Code
🇪🇸 Spain
Mali sets long forced-labour sentences for drug use and production
🇲🇱 Mali · gpt-6
Somalia raises northern drug-supply penalties to ten years in prison
🏳️ Somaliland · gpt-6
Bahrain introduces death or life imprisonment for drug supply
🇧🇭 Bahrain
Jack Herer publishes The Emperor Wears No Clothes
🇺🇸 United States · gpt-6.1-sol-medium
Algeria offers treatment without prosecution and narrows drug death penalties
🇩🇿 Algeria · gpt-6
Poland passes a drug act that does not punish possession
🇵🇱 Poland · opus-5.5
China classes cannabis as a narcotic
🇨🇳 China · opus-5.5
India bans ganja and charas nationwide
🇮🇳 India · opus-5.5
Argentina's Supreme Court first protects personal use
🇦🇷 Argentina · opus-5.5
The United States brings back mandatory minimums
🇺🇸 United States · opus-5.5
Qatar passes its narcotics law
🇶🇦 Qatar · opus-5.5
Northern Mariana Islands’ court upholds a pest inspection that found cannabis
🇲🇵 Northern Mariana Islands · gpt-6
Marshall Islands prohibits cannabis under its national narcotics law
🇲🇭 Marshall Islands
Uzbekistan's hemp growers face up to five years in prison
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · grok-4.7
Ukraine threatens repeat cannabis users with prison
🇺🇦 Ukraine
Thousands of tins of cannabis wash up on Brazil's beaches
🇧🇷 Brazil
A DEA judge says cannabis should be rescheduled
🇺🇸 United States · opus-5.5
The Dominican Republic passes Law 50-88
🇩🇴 Dominican Republic
Sweden makes drug use itself a crime
🇸🇪 Sweden · opus-5.5
Bolivia orders treatment for small cannabis possession
🇧🇴 Bolivia · gpt-6
Paraguay exempts 10 g for personal use
🇵🇾 Paraguay · opus-5.5
The first Cannabis Cup is held in Amsterdam
🇳🇱 Netherlands · gpt-6
Bolivia defines personal possession as two days of consumption
🇧🇴 Bolivia · gpt-6
California research panel proposes limited home cultivation
🇺🇸 United States · gpt-6.1-sol-medium
Bangladesh bans cannabis outright
🇧🇩 Bangladesh · opus-5.5
Guinea separates personal drug use from trafficking in its drug ordinance
🇬🇳 Guinea · gpt-6
Bhutan records its first cannabis arrest
🇧🇹 Bhutan
Sudan allows death sentences for hashish trafficking after the coup
🇸🇩 Sudan · gpt-6
Gibraltar presumes 20 grams of cannabis is held for supply
🇬🇮 Gibraltar · gpt-6
Argentina criminalises personal possession again
🇦🇷 Argentina · opus-5.5
Marshall Islands overturns a cannabis conviction after denial of a lawyer
🇲🇭 Marshall Islands
Italy makes personal use punishable
🇮🇹 Italy · opus-5.5
Ghana's military government passes a drug law with ten-year minimums
🇬🇭 Ghana · opus-5.5
East Berlin police establish a narcotics working group
🇩🇪 Germany · gpt-6
Vietnam introduces the death penalty for drug crimes
🇻🇳 Vietnam · opus-5.5
Bangladesh sets prison terms for ganja and death for cannabis resin
🇧🇩 Bangladesh · grok-4.7
Czechoslovakia's decriminalisation covers Slovakia
🇸🇰 Slovakia · opus-5.5
Czechoslovakia stops punishing possession for personal use
🇨🇿 Czechia
China names cannabis as a drug and punishes using it
🇨🇳 China · opus-5.5
Ukraine removes penalties for drug use itself
🇺🇦 Ukraine
Macau gives personal possession a fine-only alternative to prison
🇲🇴 Macau · gpt-6
Eritrea retains an older criminal code during its legal transition
🇪🇷 Eritrea · gpt-6
Peru exempts possession for personal use
🇵🇪 Peru · opus-5.5
Pohnpei establishes a distinct state controlled-substances framework
🇫🇲 Micronesia
British patients form the Alliance for Cannabis Therapeutics
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · gpt-6.1-sol-medium
South Africa replaces its apartheid-era drug law
🇿🇦 South Africa · opus-5.5
Spain starts fining possession and use in public
🇪🇸 Spain · opus-5.5
Cyprus caps prison at one year for young first-time drug users
🇨🇾 Cyprus · gpt-6
Tunisia's Law 52 makes a year in prison mandatory
🇹🇳 Tunisia · opus-5.5
Hong Kong raises drug-possession penalties and removes trafficking presumptions
🇭🇰 Hong Kong
Guatemala sets separate prison terms for personal cannabis possession
🇬🇹 Guatemala · gpt-6
Yemen's narcotics law provides for the death penalty
🇾🇪 Yemen
Hungary introduces treatment instead of punishment
🇭🇺 Hungary · opus-5.5
Myanmar's replacement drug law keeps prison for cannabis possession
🇲🇲 Myanmar · gpt-6
Syria allows the death penalty for drugs
🇸🇾 Syria
Italy votes to decriminalise personal use
🇮🇹 Italy
Sweden adds prison as a penalty for drug use
🇸🇪 Sweden · opus-5.5
Cabo Verde publishes its drug-offences law
🇨🇻 Cabo Verde
Mauritania sets death penalties for repeat and aggravated drug offences
🇲🇷 Mauritania · gpt-6
Gabon separates drug use from possession and supply in its Penal Code
🇬🇦 Gabon · gpt-6
Artists and activists occupy Metelkova's barracks
🇸🇮 Slovenia · gpt-6
Equatorial Guinea signs its drug prohibition decree
🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea
Venezuela replaces prison with treatment for a personal dose
🇻🇪 Venezuela · opus-5.5
Guinea-Bissau replaces its 1976 narcotics law
🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau
Uganda places cannabis controls under its new drug authority
🇺🇬 Uganda · gpt-6
Patient advocates press the health department for medical cannabis access
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · gpt-6.1-sol-medium
Germany's Constitutional Court limits prosecution of small amounts
🇩🇪 Germany
Colombia's Constitutional Court protects the personal dose
🇨🇴 Colombia
The US Supreme Court stops Montana taxing marijuana it had already destroyed
🇺🇸 United States · opus-5.5
Sudan replaces its hashish law with a narcotics and psychotropic substances act
🇸🇩 Sudan
Independent Slovakia makes possession a crime
🇸🇰 Slovakia · opus-5.5
Congo creates a committee to coordinate prevention and drug treatment
🇨🇬 Congo · gpt-6
Ukraine eases growing penalties but criminalises public drug use
🇺🇦 Ukraine
Pashupatinath's trust stops handing out cannabis to holy men
🇳🇵 Nepal · opus-5.5
Djibouti's new penal code sets separate penalties for use and supply
🇩🇯 Djibouti · gpt-6
Gibraltar’s appeal court rejects a charge for intended cannabis supply abroad
🇬🇮 Gibraltar · gpt-6
Supreme Court upholds random drug tests for student athletes
🇺🇸 United States · gpt-6.1-sol-medium
Kuwait expands death penalties for drug trafficking and repeat offences
🇰🇼 Kuwait
Tanzania replaces colonial drug laws and separates small personal-use offences
🇹🇿 Tanzania · gpt-6
Croatia makes possession of drugs a crime
🇭🇷 Croatia
California legalises medical cannabis
🇺🇸 United States · opus-5.5
Burkina Faso separates personal drug possession from supply
🇧🇫 Burkina Faso · gpt-6
Cambodia's parliament votes to ban cannabis cultivation
🇰🇭 Cambodia · gpt-6
Patient and professional groups organise a cannabis-trials conference
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · gpt-6.1-sol-medium
Pakistan passes the Control of Narcotic Substances Act
🇵🇰 Pakistan · opus-5.5
Russia's new criminal code punishes only "large" amounts, and ten grams is large
🇷🇺 Russia
Niger keeps narcotic medicines behind prescriptions in its pharmacy law
🇳🇪 Niger · gpt-6
Mozambique raises trafficking penalties and gives growers shorter terms
🇲🇿 Mozambique · gpt-6
Cameroon sets lighter penalties for small personal cannabis supplies
🇨🇲 Cameroon · gpt-6
Indonesia introduces Class I and the death penalty
🇮🇩 Indonesia · opus-5.5
Poland criminalises possession, with an exception
🇵🇱 Poland · opus-5.5
Madagascar distinguishes personal cannabis supplies from trafficking
🇲🇬 Madagascar · gpt-6
Canada starts its licensed industrial-hemp programme
🇨🇦 Canada
Togo sets a shorter personal-use penalty for cannabis
🇹🇬 Togo · gpt-6
Belgium gives cannabis possession the lowest priority
🇧🇪 Belgium · opus-5.5
House of Lords recommends prescription access to cannabis
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · gpt-6.1-sol-medium
Czechia makes possession a crime again
🇨🇿 Czechia
Turkmenistan bars courts from imposing death sentences
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan
Hungary restricts diversion to addicts
🇭🇺 Hungary · opus-5.5
Cuba extends the death penalty to drug trafficking
🇨🇺 Cuba · gpt-6
Burkina Faso gives small personal supplies and growing a separate penalty
🇧🇫 Burkina Faso · gpt-6
Ethiopia sets up to fifteen years for allowing drug use on premises
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · gpt-6
Uzbekistan passes its narcotics law
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan
Niger gives small personal supplies and growing a separate penalty
🇳🇪 Niger · gpt-6
Angola cuts personal-use penalties and raises trafficking terms
🇦🇴 Angola · gpt-6
Angola requires licences for controlled-drug growers and suppliers
🇦🇴 Angola · gpt-6
Tajikistan adopts a drug law linking licensing, policing and treatment
🇹🇯 Tajikistan
Cyprus bans seed sales made with knowledge of illegal growing plans
🇨🇾 Cyprus · gpt-6
Chad's pharmacy law punishes group drug use and doubles grower penalties
🇹🇩 Chad · gpt-6
Poland makes all possession a crime
🇵🇱 Poland · opus-5.5
Lords committee calls for faster progress on cannabis medicines
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · gpt-6.1-sol-medium
Lambeth trials cannabis warnings instead of arrests
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · gpt-6
Portugal decriminalises all drugs
🇵🇹 Portugal · opus-5.5
Mali replaces long drug sentences with a lighter personal-use tier
🇲🇱 Mali · gpt-6
Central African Republic gives small personal supplies a separate penalty
🇨🇫 Central African Republic · gpt-6
Canada opens legal medical access
🇨🇦 Canada · gpt-5.6-sol-medium
Hong Kong keeps a two-month sentence for selling two cannabis cigarettes
🇭🇰 Hong Kong
Ukraine rewrites penalties for small possession and home growing
🇺🇦 Ukraine
Azerbaijan makes small-scale drug-plant cultivation an administrative offence
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan
Sierra Leone sets at least 15 years in prison for cannabis offences
🇸🇱 Sierra Leone · gpt-6
Transnistria restricts cannabis growing under its own drug law
🏳️ Transnistria
Costa Rica replaces public drug-use fines with voluntary treatment
🇨🇷 Costa Rica · opus-5.5
Supreme Court upholds drug tests beyond student athletics
🇺🇸 United States · gpt-6.1-sol-medium
Mongolia passes its narcotics control law
🇲🇳 Mongolia · gpt-6
Swiss police end the hemp-shop boom in Ticino
🇨🇭 Switzerland
Hungary reopens diversion for all users
🇭🇺 Hungary · opus-5.5
Cyprus presumes 30 grams or three cannabis plants are for supply
🇨🇾 Cyprus · gpt-6
Health Canada starts selling cannabis grown in a Manitoba mine
🇨🇦 Canada · opus-5.5
Portugal puts non-sowing cannabis seed under its drug law
🇵🇹 Portugal · opus-5.5
Gambia replaces its drug-control decree with a new law
🇬🇲 Gambia · gpt-6
Ontario's appeal court confirms that possessing cannabis was no offence for two years
🇨🇦 Canada · opus-5.5
CAMS trial reports different results for clinical and patient-rated symptoms
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · gpt-6.1-sol-medium
The United Kingdom downgrades cannabis to Class C
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · opus-5.5
Russia decriminalises small amounts
🇷🇺 Russia · opus-5.5
Tajikistan’s top court tells judges to apply lighter laws to old sentences
🇹🇯 Tajikistan
Denmark replaces warnings with fines
🇩🇰 Denmark · opus-5.5
Fiji adopts shared penalties for cannabis use, growing and supply
🇫🇯 Fiji · gpt-6
Transnistria’s top court tells judges to treat drug gifts as supply
🏳️ Transnistria
Algeria repeals its drug-law death clause but keeps life sentences
🇩🇿 Algeria · gpt-6
Romania cuts cannabis possession penalties and lets courts impose fines
🇷🇴 Romania · gpt-6
Cambodia rewrites prison and fine penalties for personal drug use
🇰🇭 Cambodia · gpt-6
Afghanistan separates personal cannabis use from trafficking penalties
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · gpt-6
Russia cuts the decriminalised amount to 6 g
🇷🇺 Russia · opus-5.5
Italy puts cannabis in the same class as hard drugs
🇮🇹 Italy · opus-5.5
Romania requires prescriptions and licences for cannabis medicines
🇷🇴 Romania · gpt-6
Brazil ends prison for users
🇧🇷 Brazil · opus-5.5
Bulgaria sets one to six years for possession
🇧🇬 Bulgaria
Algeria sets a medical route for drug users to avoid prosecution
🇩🇿 Algeria · gpt-6
Bahrain keeps capital drug penalties and offers users a treatment route
🇧🇭 Bahrain
Sierra Leone gives drug officers powers to destroy cannabis crops
🇸🇱 Sierra Leone · gpt-6
Mauritania's senators back drug controls despite fears about cultivation
🇲🇷 Mauritania · gpt-6
Kosovo restricts cannabis to research, education and police work
🇽🇰 Kosovo
Ukraine moves the ordinary growing crime above 100 plants
🇺🇦 Ukraine
Southern Sudan sets prison or fines for cannabis possession and use
🇸🇸 South Sudan
The United Kingdom moves cannabis back to Class B
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · opus-5.5
A Latin American commission calls for rethinking drug prohibition
🌐 International · gpt-6
Ukraine cuts the criminal-growing threshold to ten cannabis plants
🇺🇦 Ukraine
Burundi lowers the minimum for drug use but toughens production penalties
🇧🇮 Burundi · gpt-6
Mexico stops prosecuting up to 5 g
🇲🇽 Mexico
Argentina's Supreme Court protects private use
🇦🇷 Argentina
Serbia creates a separate offence for small personal drug possession
🇷🇸 Serbia · gpt-6
Tajikistan’s drug-policy reviewers urge treatment and stronger patient privacy
🇹🇯 Tajikistan
Czechia sets decriminalised amounts
🇨🇿 Czechia
Congo sets penalties for involving children in drug use and trade
🇨🇬 Congo · gpt-6
Afghanistan lowers prison terms for hashish trafficking
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · gpt-6
Serbia keeps hemp growing under licence and bans high-THC crops
🇷🇸 Serbia · gpt-6
An Italy–Nepal project links Himalayan hemp craft with fair-trade textiles
🇳🇵 Nepal
Kazakhstan moves large personal drug holdings out of criminal law
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan
Gambia raises the minimum trafficking fine tenfold
🇬🇲 Gambia · gpt-6
The Global Commission urges experiments with legal cannabis regulation
🌐 International · gpt-6
Quebrando o Tabu brings the drug-policy debate to Brazilian cinemas
🇧🇷 Brazil · gpt-6
Ruigoord hosts the Highlife Cup
🇳🇱 Netherlands · gpt-6
A Welshman gets eleven years in Malta for growing cannabis
🇲🇹 Malta · opus-5.5
Poland lets prosecutors drop small cases
🇵🇱 Poland · opus-5.5
The Netherlands restricts coffeeshops to residents
🇳🇱 Netherlands · gpt-6
Cambodia raises drug-possession penalties and sets treatment rules
🇰🇭 Cambodia · gpt-6
A Spanish village votes on growing cannabis to pay its debt
🇪🇸 Spain
Fiji’s appeal court favours sentences outside prison for up to 100 g
🇫🇯 Fiji · gpt-6
Rwanda sets prison plus a fine for illicit drug use
🇷🇼 Rwanda · gpt-6
Transnistria limits the growing crime and adds alternatives to prison
🏳️ Transnistria
Italy's top court rules that selling cannabis seeds is not a crime
🇮🇹 Italy · opus-5.5
Colorado and Washington become the first US states to legalise
🇺🇸 United States · opus-5.5
São Tomé and Príncipe cuts user penalties and raises trafficking terms
🇸🇹 São Tomé and Príncipe
Gibraltar drops a supply presumption and raises the possession prison limit
🇬🇮 Gibraltar · gpt-6
Kosovo sets a lower penalty for first-time users with under three grams
🇽🇰 Kosovo
Qatar sentences a smuggler to death for a boatload of hashish and opium
🇶🇦 Qatar
Laos adds hashish and THC penalties reaching life imprisonment
🇱🇦 Laos
Czechia legalises medical cannabis
🇨🇿 Czechia
Jordan sends first-time drug users to treatment without prosecution
🇯🇴 Jordan · gpt-6
France allows cannabis-based medicines to be authorised
🇫🇷 France
Ecuador sets personal-use thresholds
🇪🇨 Ecuador · opus-5.5
Vermont replaces criminal penalties for small adult possession with civil fines
🇺🇸 United States
The Czech Constitutional Court strikes down the threshold table
🇨🇿 Czechia
Vanuatu’s appeal court separates personal growing from commercial crops
🇻🇺 Vanuatu · gpt-6
Serbia sets annual hemp permits and a THC limit below 0.3%
🇷🇸 Serbia · gpt-6
The Cole memo sets priorities for federal cannabis enforcement
🇺🇸 United States · gpt-6
Switzerland introduces a CHF 100 fine
🇨🇭 Switzerland
Romanian agencies deny reports of a new medical cannabis legalisation
🇷🇴 Romania · gpt-6
Fibre analysis identifies hemp in fine Scandinavian medieval textiles
🇸🇪 Sweden · gpt-6.1-sol
Uruguay becomes the first country to legalise
🇺🇾 Uruguay · opus-5.5
Transnistria puts small drug offences in its new administrative code
🏳️ Transnistria
Italy gives its army the job of growing medical cannabis
🇮🇹 Italy
Kyrgyzstan’s addiction doctor proposes a legal cannabis pilot
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan
Romania lowers the cannabis prison minimum and opens a treatment route
🇷🇴 Romania · gpt-6
Italy's Constitutional Court strikes down the 2006 drug law
🇮🇹 Italy · opus-5.5
The Czech Supreme Court lowers the threshold to 10 g
🇨🇿 Czechia
Albanian police take the cannabis village of Lazarat
🇦🇱 Albania
Montenegro sets permit rules for hemp farmers and their whole harvest
🇲🇪 Montenegro
Gambia gives first-time cannabis offenders a lower penalty scale
🇬🇲 Gambia · gpt-6
Montenegro’s Liberal Party proposes cannabis for patients in severe pain
🇲🇪 Montenegro
Liberia makes personal possession a felony and offers users treatment
🇱🇷 Liberia · gpt-6
Guam voters approve cannabis for patients with serious illnesses
🇬🇺 Guam · gpt-6
US Virgin Islands replace jail with a fine for an ounce of cannabis
🇻🇮 US Virgin Islands
The Faroe Islands toughen sentencing for drug sales at youth events
🇫🇴 Faroe Islands · gpt-6
Bermuda allows three cannabinoid medicines on prescription
🇧🇲 Bermuda · gpt-6
Oman widens the death penalty for drug dealing
🇴🇲 Oman · opus-5.5
Eritrea publishes a new code separating personal drug use from trafficking
🇪🇷 Eritrea · gpt-6
Brazil moves cannabidiol from prohibition to special control
🇧🇷 Brazil · gpt-6
Kazakhstan makes personal drug possession and public use criminal offences
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan
Belarus toughens drug-supply penalties and lowers the prosecution age
🇧🇾 Belarus · gpt-6
Washington, DC legalises possessing and giving away cannabis, but not selling it
🇺🇸 United States · opus-5.5
Malta stops prosecuting small possession
🇲🇹 Malta · opus-5.5
Jamaica decriminalises ganja
🇯🇲 Jamaica · gpt-5.6-sol-medium
Spain raises fines for public possession
🇪🇸 Spain · opus-5.5
Colombia's Supreme Court protects growing up to 20 plants
🇨🇴 Colombia · opus-5.5
Russia blocks Wikipedia over an article about hashish
🇷🇺 Russia
Tanzania sets at least thirty years for growing cannabis
🇹🇿 Tanzania · gpt-6
Croatia legalises medical cannabis
🇭🇷 Croatia · opus-5.5
Georgia's Constitutional Court rules out prison for 70 g
🇬🇪 Georgia · opus-5.5
Togo raises personal-use prison terms from months to years
🇹🇬 Togo · gpt-6
Mongolia adopts a new Criminal Code
🇲🇳 Mongolia · gpt-6
The UK becomes the largest producer of legal cannabis while denying its medical value
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Italy's hemp law opens the door to 'cannabis light'
🇮🇹 Italy · gpt-6
Guatemala’s congressional committee opposes adult cannabis regulation
🇬🇹 Guatemala · gpt-6
Brazilian families win the right to grow cannabis for their children
🇧🇷 Brazil · opus-5.5
Austria sends users to the health authority, not court
🇦🇹 Austria · opus-5.5
Uganda raises possession penalties and imposes life for cannabis trafficking
🇺🇬 Uganda · gpt-6
The first Czech-grown medical cannabis reaches distribution
🇨🇿 Czechia
Cyprus licenses hemp farming and trade at up to 0.2% THC
🇨🇾 Cyprus · gpt-6
Guatemala’s lawmakers propose adult cannabis use and five home plants
🇬🇹 Guatemala · gpt-6
Tanzania defines small personal-use quantities as up to fifty grams of cannabis
🇹🇿 Tanzania · gpt-6
Northern Cyprus offers drug users supervised treatment instead of a sentence
🏳️ Northern Cyprus
Seychelles gives judges more discretion over cannabis sentences
🇸🇨 Seychelles · gpt-6
Kiribati fines a sailor whose prescribed marijuana was a prohibited import
🇰🇮 Kiribati
Jordan restores prosecution for first-time drug use
🇯🇴 Jordan · gpt-6
Jordan retains death for international drug-gang trafficking
🇯🇴 Jordan · gpt-6
US Virgin Islands court rejects a vague cannabis-smell stop
🇻🇮 US Virgin Islands
Seychelles suspends a cannabis sentence that once carried a 16-year minimum
🇸🇨 Seychelles · gpt-6
Guinea sets a separate penalty for small personal possession and growing
🇬🇳 Guinea · gpt-6
Four more US states legalise, including California
🇺🇸 United States · opus-5.5
Cayman lets doctors prescribe cannabis extracts and tinctures
🇰🇾 Cayman Islands
Belarus lists hemp among plants barred from introduction and establishment
🇧🇾 Belarus · gpt-6
Iraq lowers personal-use sentences and protects people seeking treatment
🇮🇶 Iraq · gpt-6
Cyprus offers cannabis oil to patients with advanced cancer
🇨🇾 Cyprus · gpt-6
Cambodia launches an anti-drug campaign
🇰🇭 Cambodia · gpt-6
Lithuania makes any possession a crime
🇱🇹 Lithuania · opus-5.5
Northern Cyprus lawyer warns that drug treatment lacks staff and tests
🏳️ Northern Cyprus
Timor-Leste sets separate penalties for personal cannabis use
🇹🇱 Timor-Leste
Macau raises personal-use penalties and exposes larger stocks to prison
🇲🇴 Macau · gpt-6
Kenya's Senate hears a cannabis legalisation petition
🇰🇪 Kenya · gpt-6
Mali authorises a company's hemp-growing project for medical exports
🇲🇱 Mali · gpt-6
Mongolia approves a national drug-control programme
🇲🇳 Mongolia · gpt-6
Germany legalises medical cannabis
🇩🇪 Germany · opus-5.5
Bolivia rewrites drug controls and requires medical-use authorisations
🇧🇴 Bolivia · gpt-6
Tunisia gives judges discretion in drug cases
🇹🇳 Tunisia · opus-5.5
Vanuatu gives community work to a man who grew cannabis to deter rats
🇻🇺 Vanuatu · gpt-6
Serbia’s Green Party proposes medical cannabis
🇷🇸 Serbia · gpt-6
Iran's drug chief names cannabis flower the second most used drug
🇮🇷 Iran · gpt-6
Puerto Rico gives its medical cannabis programme a statutory base
🇵🇷 Puerto Rico · gpt-6
Uruguay's pharmacies start selling cannabis
🇺🇾 Uruguay · gpt-5.6-sol-medium
A man is jailed for growing cannabis to treat his wife
🇮🇩 Indonesia · opus-5.5
Cameroon reports drug-dog seizures and raids on cannabis crops
🇨🇲 Cameroon · gpt-6
Cameroon drafts harsher cannabis penalties
🇨🇲 Cameroon · gpt-6
Swiss Federal Court: possessing up to 10 g is not punishable
🇨🇭 Switzerland · opus-5.5
Guatemala’s health committee rejects a medical cannabis bill
🇬🇹 Guatemala · gpt-6
Belize decriminalises 10 g
🇧🇿 Belize · opus-5.5
Poland legalises medical cannabis from pharmacies
🇵🇱 Poland · opus-5.5
São Tomé port police seize over a kilogram of cannabis on a Lagos ship
🇸🇹 São Tomé and Príncipe
Peru legalises medical cannabis
🇵🇪 Peru · opus-5.5
Georgia's Constitutional Court ends criminal penalties for use
🇬🇪 Georgia · opus-5.5
Tanzania splits cannabis trafficking penalties at fifty kilograms
🇹🇿 Tanzania · gpt-6
Bermuda decriminalises possession of up to 7 g
🇧🇲 Bermuda · gpt-6
Burundi keeps prison or a fine for drug possession and use
🇧🇮 Burundi · gpt-6
Bangladesh's new narcotics act sets up to ten years for cannabis and death for harder drugs
🇧🇩 Bangladesh · opus-5.5
Turkmenistan reserves controlled cannabis growing for permitted enterprises
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan
Denmark starts a medical cannabis pilot
🇩🇰 Denmark · opus-5.5
Iraq corrects its drug law so courts can treat personal-use offenders
🇮🇶 Iraq · gpt-6
Myanmar replaces drug-registration prison terms with a treatment process
🇲🇲 Myanmar · gpt-6
Antigua and Barbuda legalises 15 g and four plants
🇦🇬 Antigua and Barbuda · opus-5.5
Malta legalises medical cannabis
🇲🇹 Malta · opus-5.5
Zimbabwe lets licensed producers grow cannabis for medicine and research
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe · gpt-6
Belarus’s drug prisoners’ mothers go on hunger strike for shorter sentences
🇧🇾 Belarus · gpt-6
Burkina Faso keeps small-quantity tiers but raises drug fines
🇧🇫 Burkina Faso · gpt-6
Most of Iran's senior clerics tell researchers cannabis is not forbidden outright
🇮🇷 Iran
Transnistrian police seize a woman’s cannabis grown for rubbing tinctures
🏳️ Transnistria
A new Faroese party campaigns for the right to grow and use cannabis
🇫🇴 Faroe Islands · gpt-6
Georgia's Constitutional Court ends punishment for use
🇬🇪 Georgia
Latvian police pull up a pensioner's 363 hemp plants
🇱🇻 Latvia
A Kenyan MP proposes legalising cannabis
🇰🇪 Kenya · gpt-6
South Africa's top court protects private use and growing
🇿🇦 South Africa · opus-5.5
Northern Mariana Islands legalise adult use, home growing and gifts
🇲🇵 Northern Mariana Islands · gpt-6
Rwanda allows community service for drug use and raises supply penalties
🇷🇼 Rwanda · gpt-6
Guam lets medical patients apply to grow cannabis at home
🇬🇺 Guam · gpt-6
Canada legalises cannabis nationwide
🇨🇦 Canada · opus-5.5
The United Kingdom allows medical cannabis
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · opus-5.5
Laos sets treatment and prison bands for personal cannabis possession
🇱🇦 Laos
The first medical cannabis reaches Polish pharmacies
🇵🇱 Poland
Sint Maarten tells prosecutors to drop many cannabis cases up to 25 g
🇸🇽 Sint Maarten · gpt-6
Curaçao renews guidance to drop most cases involving up to 25 grams
🇨🇼 Curaçao
Kyrgyzstan puts small drug possession under fines and probation rules
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan
Jersey brings its wider medical cannabis prescribing rules into force
🇯🇪 Jersey · gpt-6
US Virgin Islands approve medical cannabis for registered patients
🇻🇮 US Virgin Islands
Bahrain jails a home cannabis grower and acquits him of selling
🇧🇭 Bahrain
Antigua and Barbuda passes its Cannabis Act
🇦🇬 Antigua and Barbuda · opus-5.5
Serbia’s top court keeps three years for preparing cannabis to sell
🇷🇸 Serbia · gpt-6
Thailand legalises medical cannabis
🇹🇭 Thailand · opus-5.5
Croatia's president pardons a patient jailed for growing cannabis
🇭🇷 Croatia
Ethiopia sets fifteen-day prescription checks for controlled medicines
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · gpt-6
Cyprus creates licences for medical cannabis farms and pharmacy supply
🇨🇾 Cyprus · gpt-6
Faroese doctors can prescribe cannabis through a medical trial scheme
🇫🇴 Faroe Islands · gpt-6
Israel replaces prosecution with fines
🇮🇱 Israel · opus-5.5
Guam legalises adult use of cannabis
🇬🇺 Guam · gpt-6
Kosovo keeps prison possible for first-time cannabis possession
🇽🇰 Kosovo
Seychelles court orders medical drug rules after a mother’s access case
🇸🇨 Seychelles · gpt-6
Braziers from a 2,500-year-old cemetery give the earliest clear evidence of cannabis smoked for its effect
🇨🇳 China
Ireland starts its Medical Cannabis Access Programme
🇮🇪 Ireland · opus-5.5
Gabon rewrites penalties for drug use, possession and direct supply
🇬🇦 Gabon · gpt-6
Curaçao’s advisers question financing of a medical cannabis industry
🇨🇼 Curaçao
Saint Kitts and Nevis decriminalises after a court ruling
🇰🇳 Saint Kitts and Nevis · opus-5.5
New Zealand tells police to consider health first
🇳🇿 New Zealand · opus-5.5
Northern Mariana Islands protect home growers while filling licensing gaps
🇲🇵 Northern Mariana Islands · gpt-6
Zimbabwe lets approved farmers grow industrial hemp
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe · gpt-6
Gibraltar lets public health doctors supply cannabis-based medicines
🇬🇮 Gibraltar · gpt-6
Belarus cuts minimum prison terms for drug supply by two years
🇧🇾 Belarus · gpt-6
Bermuda excludes hemp with up to one per cent THC from cannabis controls
🇧🇲 Bermuda · gpt-6
Barbados legalises medical and sacramental cannabis
🇧🇧 Barbados · opus-5.5
Serbia raises cannabis-growing sentences and punishes large drug stocks
🇷🇸 Serbia · gpt-6
Brazil allows cannabis products in pharmacies
🇧🇷 Brazil · opus-5.5
Italy's top court allows minimal home growing
🇮🇹 Italy · opus-5.5
Trinidad and Tobago decriminalises cannabis
🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago · opus-5.5
Aruba recognises CBD medicines and exempts low-THC CBD from narcotics rules
🇦🇼 Aruba · gpt-6
Czech health insurers start paying for medical cannabis
🇨🇿 Czechia
Mongolia raises the organised-group drug penalty
🇲🇳 Mongolia · gpt-6
Abkhazia allows life or death for the most serious drug dealing
🏳️ Abkhazia
Saint Vincent's two-ounce reform enters force
🇻🇨 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · opus-5.5
Uzbekistan licenses industrial cannabis below 0.2% THC
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan
Ghana treats drug use as a health issue
🇬🇭 Ghana · opus-5.5
Amnesty calls for Cambodia to end punishment for personal drug use
🇰🇭 Cambodia · gpt-6
Aruba creates an agency to oversee medicinal cannabis production
🇦🇼 Aruba · gpt-6
BVI lawmakers approve a medical cannabis licensing bill
🇻🇬 British Virgin Islands · gpt-6
Seychelles allows cannabidiol medicines
🇸🇨 Seychelles · gpt-6
BVI lawmakers approve a bill to clear some old cannabis convictions
🇻🇬 British Virgin Islands · gpt-6
France introduces a €200 on-the-spot fine
🇫🇷 France · opus-5.5
Paraguay's president vetoes home growing for patients
🇵🇾 Paraguay
Togo seizes 1.5 tonnes of cannabis hidden in a bus
🇹🇬 Togo · gpt-6
Zimbabwe sets permits and testing rules for hemp growers and traders
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe · gpt-6
New Zealand votes against legalisation
🇳🇿 New Zealand · opus-5.5
Dominica legalises possession and home growing
🇩🇲 Dominica · opus-5.5
Argentina lets registered patients grow their own
🇦🇷 Argentina · opus-5.5
Puerto Rico’s appeal court upholds a dispensary closure over its use permit
🇵🇷 Puerto Rico · gpt-6
The UN removes cannabis from its strictest schedule
🌐 International · opus-5.5
Ireland lets police caution for cannabis possession
🇮🇪 Ireland · opus-5.5
Mexico issues its medical cannabis regulation
🇲🇽 Mexico · opus-5.5
Isle of Man cannabis licensing regulations take effect
🇮🇲 Isle of Man · gpt-6
A Tunisian court gives three men 30 years for smoking cannabis
🇹🇳 Tunisia · opus-5.5
Aruba tells prosecutors to drop many cannabis cases up to 5 grams
🇦🇼 Aruba · gpt-6
The Comoros adopt a new Penal Code with 10 to 15 years for holding or using narcotics
🇰🇲 Comoros · opus-5.5
Barbados decriminalises 14 g
🇧🇧 Barbados · opus-5.5
Bermuda lets people apply to clear old cannabis possession convictions
🇧🇲 Bermuda · gpt-6
Cyprus receives imported cannabis oils for approved patients
🇨🇾 Cyprus · gpt-6
France begins a medical cannabis experiment
🇫🇷 France · opus-5.5
Armenia legalises industrial hemp
🇦🇲 Armenia
Rwanda licenses medical cannabis and sets prescription rules
🇷🇼 Rwanda · gpt-6
Mexico's Supreme Court strikes down the ban on personal use
🇲🇽 Mexico · gpt-5.6-sol-medium
Morocco legalises cannabis for medical and industrial use
🇲🇦 Morocco · opus-5.5
Northern Mariana Islands’ first cannabis shop opens in Saipan
🇲🇵 Northern Mariana Islands · gpt-6
Genome research proposes an East Asian origin for cannabis domestication
🇨🇳 China · gpt-6.1-sol
Puerto Rico protects registered cannabis patients against job discrimination
🇵🇷 Puerto Rico · gpt-6
Saint Lucia legalises 30 g and home growing
🇱🇨 Saint Lucia · opus-5.5
Tanzania moves the cannabis trafficking boundary to one hundred kilograms
🇹🇿 Tanzania · gpt-6
Panama legalises medical cannabis
🇵🇦 Panama · opus-5.5
Jordan grades drug penalties and widens first-offence record protection
🇯🇴 Jordan · gpt-6
Bolivia authorises a child’s compassionate cannabis import
🇧🇴 Bolivia · gpt-6
Kiribati fines a man A$250 for keeping one cannabis plant
🇰🇮 Kiribati
The UAE reduces penalties for drug offences
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates · opus-5.5
Kyrgyzstan moves small possession and cultivation to administrative fines
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan
Malta becomes the first EU country to legalise
🇲🇹 Malta · opus-5.5
Zimbabwe opens applications for hemp-based CBD medicines
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe · gpt-6
Czechia opens medical cultivation to multiple licensees
🇨🇿 Czechia
Czechia raises the hemp limit to 1% THC
🇨🇿 Czechia
Vanuatu starts licensing medical cannabis for export and industrial hemp
🇻🇺 Vanuatu · gpt-6
Italy's Constitutional Court blocks a legalisation referendum
🇮🇹 Italy · opus-5.5
Costa Rica legalises medical cannabis and hemp
🇨🇷 Costa Rica · opus-5.5
Kenya lowers the penalty for cannabis for personal use
🇰🇪 Kenya · opus-5.5
Tanzania upholds thirty years for growing cannabis but drops a possession count
🇹🇿 Tanzania · gpt-6
Norway's Supreme Court ends punishment for addicts
🇳🇴 Norway · opus-5.5
Bor court gives five young men prison terms and fines five over bhang
🇸🇸 South Sudan
Thailand removes cannabis from its narcotics list
🇹🇭 Thailand · opus-5.5
Montenegro’s cannabis petition draws parties and patients into reform debate
🇲🇪 Montenegro
Ivory Coast treats drug use as a health matter
🇨🇮 Côte d'Ivoire · opus-5.5
Tanzania overturns a thirty-year cannabis sentence over gaps in the evidence
🇹🇿 Tanzania · gpt-6
Fiji approves a hemp exemption at up to 1% THC
🇫🇯 Fiji · gpt-6
Russia jails an American athlete for cannabis oil
🇷🇺 Russia · opus-5.5
Switzerland lifts its ban on medical cannabis
🇨🇭 Switzerland · opus-5.5
Bermuda’s governor blocks cannabis licensing on UK instructions
🇧🇲 Bermuda · gpt-6
Sint Maarten seeks studies before deciding how to legalise cannabis
🇸🇽 Sint Maarten · gpt-6
Timor-Leste’s president urges a different approach to cannabis
🇹🇱 Timor-Leste
Mauritius allows medical cannabis and diverts users to treatment
🇲🇺 Mauritius · opus-5.5
Botswana's Court of Appeal overturns the ruling that restored a cannabis exemption
🇧🇼 Botswana · opus-5.5
Macau’s top court cuts two home growers’ sentences for a single plant
🇲🇴 Macau · gpt-6
Guyana ends jail for small amounts
🇬🇾 Guyana · opus-5.5
Isle of Man opens a local pharmacy pilot for medical cannabis prescriptions
🇮🇲 Isle of Man · gpt-6
Cuba replaces its Penal Code and broadens aggravated drug offences
🇨🇺 Cuba · gpt-6
France's top administrative court legalises CBD flower
🇫🇷 France · gpt-6
Transnistria adds a year without driving rights to drug-use penalties
🏳️ Transnistria
Jordan allows hemp seed foods with THC limits and label restrictions
🇯🇴 Jordan · gpt-6
Jordan sets approval and prescription rules for CBD medicines
🇯🇴 Jordan · gpt-6
Turkmenistan sets five-to-twelve-year prison terms for drug supply
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan
Greenland allows low-THC cannabis through authorised importers
🇬🇱 Greenland · gpt-6
US Virgin Islands sign adult-use cannabis and patient growing into law
🇻🇮 US Virgin Islands
Hong Kong ends lighter trafficking sentences for herbal cannabis
🇭🇰 Hong Kong
Switzerland starts regulated pilot sales
🇨🇭 Switzerland · opus-5.5
Hong Kong brings CBD under dangerous-drug controls
🇭🇰 Hong Kong
Abkhazia cuts arrest for cannabis use to three days
🏳️ Abkhazia
Saint Kitts and Nevis activates its medicinal cannabis law
🇰🇳 Saint Kitts and Nevis · opus-5.5
Algeria lowers personal growing penalties while raising drug fines
🇩🇿 Algeria · gpt-6
Fiji’s appeal court sentences growers by plant count and their role
🇫🇯 Fiji · gpt-6
Swiss Federal Court: up to 10 g may not be confiscated
🇨🇭 Switzerland · opus-5.5
Liberia adds prison minimums for cannabis use and bars trafficking bail
🇱🇷 Liberia · gpt-6
Zimbabwe excludes industrial hemp up to 1% THC from its cannabis-plant ban
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe · gpt-6
Luxembourg legalises home growing
🇱🇺 Luxembourg · opus-5.5
Romania’s Senate rejects replacing cannabis charges with a three-gram fine
🇷🇴 Romania · gpt-6
Angola's top court upholds a cannabis sentence and applies a pardon
🇦🇴 Angola · gpt-6
Somaliland police report a cannabis-cultivation arrest
🏳️ Somaliland
Bermuda helps clear cannabis records that omit the amount possessed
🇧🇲 Bermuda · gpt-6
Ecuador repeals its personal-use thresholds
🇪🇨 Ecuador · opus-5.5
Bronze Age cannabis seeds illuminate cultivation at Haimenkou
🇨🇳 China · gpt-6.1-sol
The Netherlands starts supplying coffeeshops legally
🇳🇱 Netherlands · gpt-6
Malta's first cannabis associations open
🇲🇹 Malta · opus-5.5
Serbia’s top court keeps three years for 372 grams of personal cannabis
🇷🇸 Serbia · gpt-6
Uganda's president assents to a replacement narcotics law
🇺🇬 Uganda · opus-5.5
Cyprus raises its agricultural hemp definition to the EU’s 0.3% limit
🇨🇾 Cyprus · gpt-6
Sint Maarten forms a committee to prepare cannabis legalisation
🇸🇽 Sint Maarten · gpt-6
Germany legalises possession and home growing
🇩🇪 Germany · opus-5.5
Sierra Leone declares a national emergency over drug abuse
🇸🇱 Sierra Leone · gpt-6
Christiania closes Pusher Street
🇩🇰 Denmark · opus-5.5
Greenland requires low-THC imports to pass through local distribution
🇬🇱 Greenland · gpt-6
Mozambique's top court cuts a cannabis seller's sentence to six years
🇲🇿 Mozambique · gpt-6
Cabo Verde’s health regulator clarifies its ban on cannabinoid cosmetics
🇨🇻 Cabo Verde
Macau’s top court keeps one drug conviction for linked growing and selling
🇲🇴 Macau · gpt-6
Sierra Leone sets licensing rules for medical cannabis growers
🇸🇱 Sierra Leone · gpt-6
Vanuatu suspends a five-plant sentence after months already spent in custody
🇻🇺 Vanuatu · gpt-6
Fiji’s appeal court cuts two cannabis growers’ prison terms by four years
🇫🇯 Fiji · gpt-6
Nauru fines two adults after a one-gram cannabis case
🇳🇷 Nauru
Brazil's Supreme Court decriminalises personal possession
🇧🇷 Brazil · gpt-5.6-sol-medium
German cultivation associations become legal
🇩🇪 Germany · opus-5.5
Curaçao keeps its cannabis ban and prohibits sales advertising
🇨🇼 Curaçao
Slovakia cuts sentences for small amounts
🇸🇰 Slovakia · opus-5.5
Ukraine legalises medical cannabis
🇺🇦 Ukraine · opus-5.5
Morocco's king pardons more than 4,800 cannabis growers
🇲🇦 Morocco · opus-5.5
Guam lets licensed cannabis sellers use a temporary testing exemption
🇬🇺 Guam · gpt-6
Japan makes cannabis use a crime
🇯🇵 Japan · opus-5.5
Nauru makes prison mandatory for cannabis possession and raises other penalties
🇳🇷 Nauru
Czechia passes its cannabis reform
🇨🇿 Czechia
Burundi's drug users face gaps in court supervision and care
🇧🇮 Burundi · gpt-6
Kosovo police seize 25 kg of suspected marijuana in Pristina
🇽🇰 Kosovo
Belarus adds shorter custody and supervision options for drug offences
🇧🇾 Belarus · gpt-6
Czechia lets general practitioners prescribe medical cannabis
🇨🇿 Czechia
Dutch coffeeshops enter the regulated-supply phase
🇳🇱 Netherlands · gpt-6
Belarus widens amnesty eligibility for first-time drug offenders
🇧🇾 Belarus · gpt-6
Malta tightens the rules for its cannabis associations
🇲🇹 Malta · opus-5.5
A London commission calls for decriminalising cannabis possession
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · gpt-6
Thailand goes prescription-only
🇹🇭 Thailand · opus-5.5
Vietnam makes repeat drug use a crime again
🇻🇳 Vietnam · opus-5.5
Algeria restores drug death penalties and expands maximum sentences
🇩🇿 Algeria · gpt-6
Georgia brings back prison for possessing more than 5 g
🇬🇪 Georgia · opus-5.5
Tuvalu introduces minimum prison terms for cannabis offences
🇹🇻 Tuvalu · gpt-6
Aruba raises the cannabis dismissal band from 5 to 30 grams
🇦🇼 Aruba · gpt-6
Lebanon finally appoints its cannabis regulator
🇱🇧 Lebanon · opus-5.5
São Tomé police arrest three in a park with cannabis and amphetamines
🇸🇹 São Tomé and Príncipe
Slovenia's medical cannabis law takes effect
🇸🇮 Slovenia · opus-5.5
Congo separates small personal quantities from wider drug trafficking
🇨🇬 Congo · gpt-6
Montenegro police find about 13,100 cannabis plants near Bar
🇲🇪 Montenegro
Marshall Islands requires reports of witnessed drug activity
🇲🇭 Marshall Islands
Abkhazia’s top court treats cannabis gifts as supply and limits death sentences
🏳️ Abkhazia
The US Congress closes the hemp loophole for intoxicating products
🇺🇸 United States · opus-5.5
Kyrgyzstan’s top court says cannabis gifts count as drug supply
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan
Kuwait combines its drug laws and keeps death for trafficking
🇰🇼 Kuwait
Botswana excludes imprisonment for possession of 60 grams or less
🇧🇼 Botswana · gpt-6
Botswana's Cannabis Act takes effect, legalising cannabis under licence
🇧🇼 Botswana · opus-5.5
Bosnia and Herzegovina approves cannabis-based medicines
🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina · opus-5.5
Czechia legalises possession and home growing
🇨🇿 Czechia · opus-5.5
US Virgin Islands require cannabis licences for intoxicating hemp products
🇻🇮 US Virgin Islands
Bahrain appeal court cuts a cannabis-seed sentence to ten years
🇧🇭 Bahrain
Solomon Islands MPs examine tougher general drug-offence penalties
🇸🇧 Solomon Islands · gpt-5.6-sol-medium
Grenada legalises possession and home growing
🇬🇩 Grenada · opus-5.5
Moldova's new drug law takes effect
🇲🇩 Moldova · gpt-5.6-sol-medium
Ghana opens licensing for low-THC cannabis
🇬🇭 Ghana · gpt-5.6-sol-medium
A bill to stop punishing 15 grams and one plant is filed in Poland's Sejm
🇵🇱 Poland · opus-5.5
Ecuador's Assembly admits a citizens' cannabis bill
🇪🇨 Ecuador · gpt-5.6-sol-medium
Bolivia considers medical cannabis prescriptions and licensed supply
🇧🇴 Bolivia · gpt-6
Chilean deputies ask the Constitutional Court to stop a tougher drug law
🇨🇱 Chile · gpt-5.6-sol-medium
Singapore carries out another cannabis execution
🇸🇬 Singapore · gpt-5.6-sol-medium
The US moves state-licensed medical cannabis to Schedule III
🇺🇸 United States · gpt-5.6-sol-medium
Palau toughens its drug law
🇵🇼 Palau · gpt-5.6-sol-medium
Swiss committee continues work on the cannabis market bill
🇨🇭 Switzerland · gpt-5.6-sol-medium
A Colombian House committee backs a legal cannabis market
🇨🇴 Colombia · gpt-5.6-sol-medium
Algeria's replacement Road Code sets out drug-driving offences
🇩🇿 Algeria · gpt-6
A bill in Micronesia's Congress would set minimum fines for trafficking
🇫🇲 Micronesia · gpt-5.6-sol-medium
Greece bans retail sale of hemp flower
🇬🇷 Greece · gpt-5.6-sol-medium
Chile lets trafficking penalties reach small amounts
🇨🇱 Chile · opus-5.5
An Irish parliamentary committee recommends decriminalising possession
🇮🇪 Ireland · gpt-5.6-sol-medium
Czechia's new government announces a tougher drug policy
🇨🇿 Czechia
Guam clears its first commercial cannabis grower to operate
🇬🇺 Guam · gpt-6
The Bahamas still has not opened cannabis licensing
🇧🇸 Bahamas · gpt-5.6-sol-medium
Vietnam's new drug law takes effect
🇻🇳 Vietnam · gpt-5.6-sol-medium
France sends its medical cannabis decree to the Conseil d'État
🇫🇷 France · opus-5.5
Bosnia sets a deadline for its stalled medical cannabis rules
🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina · opus-5.5
Namibia's High Court declines to rule on the cannabis ban
🇳🇦 Namibia · opus-5.5
Zimbabwe reports a four-year prison term for 19.49 kg of cannabis
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe · gpt-6
Spain's cabinet backs a tobacco law that would hit cannabis clubs
🇪🇸 Spain · opus-5.5
Greece bans smokable products with added cannabinoids
🇬🇷 Greece · opus-5.5
Saudi Arabia executes ten Ethiopians in hashish cases
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · opus-5.5
German health insurers stop paying for cannabis flower
🇩🇪 Germany · opus-5.5
Gandaki authenticates a cannabis cultivation law
🇳🇵 Nepal · opus-5.5
Brazil's first legal cannabis cultivation rules take effect
🇧🇷 Brazil · opus-5.5
US Virgin Islands say cannabis sales must wait for a testing laboratory
🇻🇮 US Virgin Islands
A court sets a K30,000 fine or 20 years for marijuana
🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea · opus-5.5
Abkhazia sets a ten-plant threshold for serious cannabis-growing cases
🏳️ Abkhazia
Kuwait sets seed records and secure sites for licensed research growers
🇰🇼 Kuwait
Tanzania moves to make holding cannabis seeds a crime
🇹🇿 Tanzania · opus-5.5
Andorra prepares a licence for growing medicinal cannabis
🇦🇩 Andorra · opus-5.5
Oman replaces its drug law
🇴🇲 Oman · opus-5.5
Bosnia's medical-cannabis prescribing rules slip into 2027
🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina · gpt-5
Thailand's cabinet approves a medical-only cannabis bill
🇹🇭 Thailand · opus-5.5
A DEA judge pauses the broader cannabis-rescheduling case
🇺🇸 United States · gpt-5
Fiji signs a drug rewrite separating personal use from supply
🇫🇯 Fiji · gpt-6
An Algiers court hands down the first death sentences under the new drug law
🇩🇿 Algeria · opus-5.5
Trinidad and Tobago's Senate votes to raise the cannabis age to 25
🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago · opus-5.5
Spain's first cannabis extracts are lined up for fifty hospitals
🇪🇸 Spain · grok-4.7
Nebraska's medical cannabis growers face an unfinished route to patient sales
🇺🇸 United States · gpt-6