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Cannabis clubs
Whether members' clubs that grow and share cannabis exist, and on what footing.
A cannabis club is a non-profit association whose members grow cannabis together and share the harvest, with no shop and no profit. The model grew up in Spain, where the social clubs operate in a grey zone: the Supreme Court convicted organisers in 2015, leaving the clubs tolerated but unprotected. An overview is in cannabis social club.[1]
Some countries have since written clubs into law. Uruguay made them one of the three legal routes in 2013, Malta made licensed associations the only supply besides home growing, and German associations of up to 500 members became legal in July 2024. The map shows where clubs are regulated, tolerated, underground or unknown.
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Cannabis cultivation and running premises for drug consumption are criminal offences.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
The law criminalises growing and supplying cannabis, including giving or offering it to another person for personal consumption.
Cannabis sharing has no club exception in the Criminal Code: supplying another person is punishable, and even joint use by two people carries arrest and a fine.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
There are no cannabis clubs as such.
Clubs work under the medical cannabis register REPROCANN, as civil associations or foundations growing for registered patients;
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing psychoactive cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
The ordinance prohibits growing and supplying cannabis outside its permissions.
No cannabis clubs operate legally anywhere in Australia.
A European survey conducted in 2018–19 received responses from four Austrian cannabis social clubs;
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person for gain are both prohibited.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
The law criminalises unauthorised growing, cannabis provision for use and premises prepared for drug consumption, leaving no lawful recreational…
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited, and the…
There are no cannabis clubs as such.
Collective drug cultivation and recreational supply fall under the criminal prohibitions on growing drug-containing plants and supplying drugs.
Clubs have no legal basis;
No cannabis clubs are known, and no law provides for them: the 2017 amendment covers possession and use only, and supply of any kind remains a crime.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
The seven-gram possession exemption does not permit collective growing, supplying members or unauthorised consumption.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
Recreational collective growing and supply remain subject to the offences against unlawful cultivation and supply.
Giving cannabis for someone else to use or making premises available for use falls within the entity and district enabling-use offences.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: unlicensed growing and supplying cannabis to another person are both prohibited.
Brazil's clubs are patient associations rather than recreational ones.
Supplying cannabis is controlled by the drug law, and occupiers or managers can commit an offence by knowingly permitting specified production,…
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited, and the…
No clubs are known. A Europe-wide survey of cannabis social clubs carried out in 2018 and 2019 found, after online searches and contact with people…
No cannabis clubs are known.
The reviewed framework establishes no recreational collective-growing or distribution permission.
The law criminalises unauthorised cultivation and transfer of controlled drugs between people.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
Legalisation built a system of licensed producers and shops and left no room for members' clubs: cannabis may only be sold with a federal or provincial licence.
Unauthorised supply and distribution remain offences, with no exception for supplying cannabis through a recreational club.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: cannabis cultivation is prohibited, and giving drugs to another person is…
The retained sources establish no authorised cannabis clubs.
No law licenses clubs, but small medical ones have formed on the strength of a 2015 Supreme Court ruling that growing for private use, alone or in a group, is not a crime.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited, and the…
No law provides for cannabis clubs: there is no licence or legal category for them.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
The drug law prohibits cultivation and supply and provides no recreational club exception.
Clubs have no legal basis, and the one documented attempt was pushed out.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: unauthorised growing and supply are both prohibited.
No clubs are known: a Europe-wide survey of cannabis social clubs carried out in 2018 and 2019 found, after online searches and contact with people…
No lawful cannabis-club route was established.
The ordinance provides no recreational club exemption from the cannabis possession and use bans.
Collective recreational growing and supply fall under the prohibitions on cannabis cultivation and supply.
A survey conducted in 2018–19 received responses from two Czech cannabis social clubs.
No club is confirmed.
The Penal Code criminalises illicit production, possession and supply and provides no recreational cannabis-club exception.
No cannabis clubs are known, and no law provides for them: the 2020 amendment covers possession and home growing only, and supplying cannabis to…
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
The reviewed order provides for medical and scientific licensing, not recreational social clubs.
No cannabis clubs are known, and no law provides for them: any supply counts as trafficking, graded by quantity under article 220.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited, and the…
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
No recreational club authorisation was established.
No club is confirmed.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
The reviewed regulations authorise medical and scientific handling of controlled drugs;
Unauthorised cannabis cultivation and supply, including giving it to another person, are prohibited under the drug law.
No clubs are known: a Europe-wide survey of cannabis social clubs carried out in 2018 and 2019 found, after online searches and contact with people…
Clubs have no legal footing and the one organised attempt was shut down by the courts.
No cannabis clubs are known.
No cannabis clubs are known.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
No cannabis clubs are known, and no law provides for them: the Constitutional Court's rulings protect only a person's own use, and sale or any other…
Non-commercial cultivation associations have been legal since 1 July 2024, each needing a permit from its state.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
Supplying cannabis to another person and cultivating it are offences, subject to authorised exceptions.
No club is confirmed.
The law restricts delivery, receipt and possession to pharmacy, prescription and special-permission routes.
The 2026 Act has no place for clubs: it allows an adult's own possession and exempts four plants on a household's premises, and supplying others stays an offence.
No licensed cannabis clubs or on-site consumption lounges are known.
Recreational collective growing and supply fall within the offences against unauthorised cultivation and distribution.
The Green Retreat operates a patient social lounge where entry requires proof of a cannabis prescription and identification showing the visitor is at least eighteen.
No cannabis clubs are known.
The reviewed law provides no recreational collective-growing or supply permission: personal cultivation remains an offence under article 20 and…
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
Giving away cannabis falls within trafficking, which carries up to life imprisonment and HK$5 million.
Clubs exist without any legal basis.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
No cannabis clubs are known, and no law provides for them: supply of ganja or charas is trafficking, with sentences scaled to quantity.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited, and the…
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited, and the…
Clubs exist without any legal basis.
The Green Lounge received planning approval in January 2026 for adults to vaporise their own prescribed cannabis.
No law provides for cannabis clubs, and supplying cannabis, even unpaid, is treated as dealing.
Italian law leaves no room for the Spanish model, yet a few clubs exist.
There are no members' growing clubs.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing and supplying cannabis are both crimes.
No cannabis clubs are known.
Collective recreational supply falls under offences against unauthorised distribution, including gifts.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
Cultivating cannabis for private use or otherwise, and giving it to another person, are prohibited.
The drug law restricts cannabis activities to research, education and police purposes, including restrictions on free delivery.
Unpaid supply of a controlled drug for another person’s consumption carries five to ten years and a fine.
Giving cannabis to another person counts as supply under the Supreme Court’s guidance.
The criminal rules prohibit ordinary cannabis cultivation and trading;
No clubs are known. A Europe-wide survey of cannabis social clubs carried out in 2018 and 2019 found, after online searches and contact with people…
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
No cannabis clubs are known.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
No clubs are known. A Europe-wide survey of cannabis social clubs carried out in 2018 and 2019 found, after online searches and contact with people…
No clubs are known, and the law gives them no place.
Supplying other people with cannabis is punishable under the trafficking rules, including gifts.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited, and the…
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited, and the…
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: cannabis cultivation is prohibited, and giving or offering high-risk drugs for…
Non-profit Cannabis Harm Reduction Associations are the only legal source besides home growing.
Ordinary cannabis cultivation and distribution, including gifts and transfers, are prohibited.
No cannabis clubs are known.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
No law provides for cannabis clubs, and Congress has never passed the regulation the Supreme Court called for, so clubs work in a grey zone across the country.
No recreational collective-growing permission was established in the reviewed framework.
Distributing cannabis to other people falls under the criminal supply offence.
There is no recreational club exception to the cannabis prohibition.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
Giving cannabis to another person for consumption and making premises available for drug use are criminal offences carrying six months to five years in the basic case.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: unlicensed growing and supplying cannabis to another person are both prohibited.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited, and the…
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
Giving cannabis away and cultivating it without lawful authority fall under the serious drug offence, with at least ten years to be served before parole or probation.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
The toleration policy covers coffeeshops only;
Clubs are illegal and the best-known one has been shut down repeatedly.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited, and the…
Providing drugs or premises for another person to use can bring one–five years under Article 216(1).
Allowing premises to be used for smoking or trading cannabis is expressly criminalised.
No cannabis clubs are known.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited under…
The statute provides no recreational cannabis-club route.
No cannabis clubs in the modern sense are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing and supplying cannabis are prohibited.
No cannabis clubs are known.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
No law provides for clubs, but one operates in the open.
Since July 2021 the law has allowed patient associations to grow medical cannabis together and make their own derivatives;
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
A European survey conducted in 2018–19 received a response from one Polish cannabis social club;
The sources disagree.
No cannabis clubs are known.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited, and the…
Clubs exist without any legal basis.
A collective cannot lawfully supply recreational cannabis to its members: transfers fall under the criminal supply prohibition.
No law provides for cannabis clubs.
No cannabis clubs are known, and no law provides for them: the 2021 amendment is limited to personal private use, and supplying cannabis to others remains an offence.
There are no cannabis clubs as such.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
The law provides no recreational collective-growing or gifting exception: free supply is punishable under the ordinary drug offence.
Supplying cannabis to another person falls under trafficking, and growing it for personal use is also an offence.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited, and the…
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
Collective recreational growing and supply fall under the offences against unauthorised cultivation, production and distribution.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
Personal cultivation and supplying cannabis are criminally restricted under the pharmacy law.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited, and the…
Cannabis growing remains prohibited, and the small-quantity prosecution policy excludes indications of dealing.
A European survey conducted in 2018–19 found no active cannabis social club in Slovakia after searches and contact with people in the field.
Clubs exist without any legal basis.
The published Act has no recreational collective-growing exemption: sections 7–8 prohibit private cultivation and giving cannabis to another person.
The texts reviewed do not provide a recreational club exemption: the 1970 law restricts gratuitous transfers, and the 1984 decree punishes organising…
Recreational growing and supply fall under the drug law’s authorisation requirements and criminal offences, without a club exemption.
After the 2018 ruling allowed private growing, many grow clubs appeared: members supply seed, the club grows the plants and hands back the harvest,…
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them.
The social-club model developed around private personal use and the narrow shared-consumption doctrine.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
Article 16(1)(c) criminalises preparing or managing a home or other place for drug use or dealing outside authorised cases, within the minimum-ten-year supply provision.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
No clubs are known. A Europe-wide survey of cannabis social clubs carried out in 2018 and 2019 found, after online searches and contact with people…
Cannabis social clubs are among the sales models authorised within scientific pilot trials, alongside pharmacies and other outlets.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited, and the…
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
Giving drugs to another person falls within the drug law’s definition of supply.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
No cannabis clubs are known;
The drug law provides no cannabis-club exception to its unauthorised growing and supply offences.
The cultivation ban and penalties for supplying another person also restrict collective growing and sharing through a club.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
No cannabis social clubs or consumer associations exist in Transnistria.
No cannabis clubs are known, and no law provides for them: the 2019 amendment removed penalties for possession and home growing but not for supply,…
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
Controlled cultivation is limited to permitted enterprises and institutions, within state quotas;
The 2025 licensing power is confined to medical and scientific purposes, while unlicensed cultivation, sale and use remain offences.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
Supplying cannabis to other adults remains a crime, including outside the pharmacy route.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
No law provides for clubs and cannabis remains a class B drug.
Non-profit growing clubs of the Spanish kind are not part of American law;
Membership clubs are one of three legal routes, alongside pharmacies and home growing, and a resident may register for only one.
The law provides licensed adult-use lounges and separate consumption permits.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.
The drug law prohibits cannabis supply and unlicensed cultivation remains criminal.
No lawful recreational club route is provided.
No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited, and the…
The statute provides no recreational cannabis-club route.
No cannabis clubs are known.
Unlawful recreational cultivation and supply are criminal offences under the code.
Cannabis clubs: how the 216 researched places divide
4 places have no status yet.
| Status | What it means | Places | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regulated by law | A law provides for clubs: they are licensed or registered and work within set limits | 7 | |
| Tolerated | No law provides for clubs, but they operate fairly openly and are mostly left alone | 10 | |
| Underground | Clubs exist but are treated as illegal: they are raided or their organisers prosecuted | 16 | |
| None known | No clubs are known, or the law leaves no room for them | 183 |
Country by country
The opening of each profile's section; the country's page has it in full, with sources.
| Country | Cannabis clubs | What the profile says |
|---|---|---|
| AbkhaziaAsia | None known | Cannabis cultivation and running premises for drug consumption are criminal offences. The Supreme Court treats gifts and other unpaid transfers as supply, leaving no lawful recreational growing-and-sharing club route. |
| AfghanistanAsia | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. |
| AlbaniaEurope | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. |
| AlgeriaAfrica | None known | The law criminalises growing and supplying cannabis, including giving or offering it to another person for personal consumption. It provides no authorised recreational club supply route. |
| AndorraEurope | None known | Cannabis sharing has no club exception in the Criminal Code: supplying another person is punishable, and even joint use by two people carries arrest and a fine. |
| AngolaAfrica | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. |
| Antigua and BarbudaNorth America | None known | There are no cannabis clubs as such. Giving or selling cannabis remains an offence, with one collective exception: sacramental dispensing within a registered religious body. |
| ArgentinaSouth America | Regulated by law | Clubs work under the medical cannabis register REPROCANN, as civil associations or foundations growing for registered patients; there is no recreational club model. |
| ArmeniaAsia | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing psychoactive cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. |
| ArubaNorth America | None known | The ordinance prohibits growing and supplying cannabis outside its permissions. The medicinal-production invitation concerns selected operators working under agreements and exemptions. |
| AustraliaOceania | None known | No cannabis clubs operate legally anywhere in Australia. When the Australian Capital Territory was debating its home-grow law in 2019, the head of the National Drug Research Institute proposed allowing not-for-profit clubs that… |
| AustriaEurope | Underground | A European survey conducted in 2018–19 received responses from four Austrian cannabis social clubs; its authors could not establish the full number operating in the country. |
| AzerbaijanAsia | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person for gain are both prohibited. |
| BahamasNorth America | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. |
| BahrainAsia | None known | The law criminalises unauthorised growing, cannabis provision for use and premises prepared for drug consumption, leaving no lawful recreational growing-and-sharing club route. |
| BangladeshAsia | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited, and the law provides for the death penalty for the most serious drug offences. |
| BarbadosNorth America | None known | There are no cannabis clubs as such. Supply remains an offence; the Sacramental Cannabis Act allows use only within registered Rastafari places of worship. |
| BelarusEurope | None known | Collective drug cultivation and recreational supply fall under the criminal prohibitions on growing drug-containing plants and supplying drugs. The basic supply offence includes restriction of liberty or prison. |
| BelgiumEurope | Underground | Clubs have no legal basis; they lean on the directive that gives lowest priority to an adult's possession of 3 g or one plant, arguing that members may pool their one plant each. |
| BelizeNorth America | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and no law provides for them: the 2017 amendment covers possession and use only, and supply of any kind remains a crime. |
| BeninAfrica | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. |
| BermudaNorth America | None known | The seven-gram possession exemption does not permit collective growing, supplying members or unauthorised consumption. The proposed licensing of retail and consumption premises did not become law. |
| BhutanAsia | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. |
| BoliviaSouth America | None known | Recreational collective growing and supply remain subject to the offences against unlawful cultivation and supply. The 2026 medical bill proposes licensed production and pharmacy dispensing. |
| Bosnia and HerzegovinaEurope | None known | Giving cannabis for someone else to use or making premises available for use falls within the entity and district enabling-use offences. |
| BotswanaAfrica | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: unlicensed growing and supplying cannabis to another person are both prohibited. |
| BrazilSouth America | Tolerated | Brazil's clubs are patient associations rather than recreational ones. No law licenses them to grow; they rely on court orders, usually preventive habeas corpus, obtained one association at a time. |
| British Virgin IslandsNorth America | None known | Supplying cannabis is controlled by the drug law, and occupiers or managers can commit an offence by knowingly permitting specified production, supply or smoking activities. |
| BruneiAsia | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited, and the law provides for the death penalty for the most serious trafficking offences. |
| BulgariaEurope | None known | No clubs are known. A Europe-wide survey of cannabis social clubs carried out in 2018 and 2019 found, after online searches and contact with people in the field, that there did not seem to be any active club in Bulgaria. |
| Burkina FasoAfrica | None known | No cannabis clubs are known. Growing cannabis and supplying it to another person remain prohibited; the small-personal-quantity tier still sets criminal penalties. |
| BurundiAfrica | — | Not researched yet |
| Cabo VerdeAfrica | None known | The reviewed framework establishes no recreational collective-growing or distribution permission. Personal cultivation remains criminal and article 3 includes transfers to others. |
| CambodiaAsia | None known | The law criminalises unauthorised cultivation and transfer of controlled drugs between people. Its licensing rules limit permission to research, clinical, scientific or industrial purposes. |
| CameroonAfrica | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. |
| CanadaNorth America | Underground | Legalisation built a system of licensed producers and shops and left no room for members' clubs: cannabis may only be sold with a federal or provincial licence. |
| Cayman IslandsNorth America | None known | Unauthorised supply and distribution remain offences, with no exception for supplying cannabis through a recreational club. The 2026 consultation asked whether importation, production, distribution and sale should remain illegal. |
| Central African RepublicAfrica | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: cannabis cultivation is prohibited, and giving drugs to another person is punishable even when intended for that person's own consumption. |
| ChadAfrica | None known | The retained sources establish no authorised cannabis clubs. The 2000 pharmacy law punishes using narcotics together and helping others use them, including providing premises. |
| ChileSouth America | Tolerated | No law licenses clubs, but small medical ones have formed on the strength of a 2015 Supreme Court ruling that growing for private use, alone or in a group, is not a crime. |
| ChinaAsia | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited, and the law provides for the death penalty for the most serious drug offences. |
| ColombiaSouth America | Tolerated | No law provides for cannabis clubs: there is no licence or legal category for them. An estimated 40 to 50 clubs and associations nevertheless operate, mostly in Bogotá, Cali and Medellín; there is no official count. |
| ComorosAfrica | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. |
| CongoAfrica | None known | The drug law prohibits cultivation and supply and provides no recreational club exception. Facilitating high-risk use, including through premises, carries five to ten years, a fine, or both under Article 41. |
| Costa RicaNorth America | Underground | Clubs have no legal basis, and the one documented attempt was pushed out. High Club, a private members' space in San José where people could consume products with THC and CBD, opened in December 2020 and ran for about a year; |
| Côte d'IvoireAfrica | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: unauthorised growing and supply are both prohibited. |
| CroatiaEurope | None known | No clubs are known: a Europe-wide survey of cannabis social clubs carried out in 2018 and 2019 found, after online searches and contact with people in the field, that there did not seem to be any active club in Croatia, and… |
| CubaNorth America | None known | No lawful cannabis-club route was established. Article 235 prohibits unauthorised cultivation and supply and also punishes operating premises intended for people to gather and consume illicit drugs. |
| CuraçaoNorth America | None known | The ordinance provides no recreational club exemption from the cannabis possession and use bans. Prosecutors’ small-quantity dismissal policy excludes cases with signs of dealing. |
| CyprusEurope | None known | Collective recreational growing and supply fall under the prohibitions on cannabis cultivation and supply. Volt’s 2025 policy proposes club licences as part of a wider regulated market. |
| CzechiaEurope | Underground | A survey conducted in 2018–19 received responses from two Czech cannabis social clubs. The current law permits personal growing and possession, while supplying other people remains a crime. |
| DenmarkEurope | None known | No club is confirmed. A Europe-wide survey of cannabis social clubs carried out in 2018 and 2019 received no answer from Denmark but, because of contradictory sources, could not rule out that clubs were active there. |
| DjiboutiAfrica | None known | The Penal Code criminalises illicit production, possession and supply and provides no recreational cannabis-club exception. |
| DominicaNorth America | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and no law provides for them: the 2020 amendment covers possession and home growing only, and supplying cannabis to another person remains an offence. |
| Dominican RepublicNorth America | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. Law 50-88 graded growing as trafficking. |
| DR CongoAfrica | None known | The reviewed order provides for medical and scientific licensing, not recreational social clubs. Article 97 excludes non-profit associations from its ordinary agricultural-operator provision. |
| EcuadorSouth America | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and no law provides for them: any supply counts as trafficking, graded by quantity under article 220. |
| EgyptAfrica | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited, and the law provides for the death penalty for the most serious drug offences. |
| El SalvadorNorth America | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. The 2003 law set the growing terms. |
| Equatorial GuineaAfrica | None known | No recreational club authorisation was established. The 1993 decree expressly prohibited cultivation and donation, so its medical/scientific exception cannot be read as collective recreational-growing permission. |
| EritreaAfrica | — | Not researched yet |
| EstoniaEurope | None known | No club is confirmed. A Europe-wide survey of cannabis social clubs carried out in 2018 and 2019 received no answer from Estonia but, because of contradictory sources, could not rule out that clubs were active there. |
| EswatiniAfrica | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. |
| EthiopiaAfrica | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. |
| Faroe IslandsEurope | None known | The reviewed regulations authorise medical and scientific handling of controlled drugs; they provide no recreational growing-and-supply route for clubs. |
| FijiOceania | None known | Unauthorised cannabis cultivation and supply, including giving it to another person, are prohibited under the drug law. |
| FinlandEurope | None known | No clubs are known: a Europe-wide survey of cannabis social clubs carried out in 2018 and 2019 found, after online searches and contact with people in the field, that there did not seem to be any active club in Finland, and… |
| FranceEurope | Underground | Clubs have no legal footing and the one organised attempt was shut down by the courts. In March 2013 a federation of Cannabis Social Clubs registered itself with the prefecture in Tours as an act of open defiance, claiming about… |
| French PolynesiaOceania | None known | No cannabis clubs are known. Supplying cannabis is an offence, and the 2024 reform left recreational use out. |
| GabonAfrica | None known | No cannabis clubs are known. Supplying drugs to another person remains criminal, including direct gifts for that person's consumption. |
| GambiaAfrica | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. |
| GeorgiaAsia | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and no law provides for them: the Constitutional Court's rulings protect only a person's own use, and sale or any other supply remains a crime. |
| GermanyEurope | Regulated by law | Non-commercial cultivation associations have been legal since 1 July 2024, each needing a permit from its state. A member must have lived in Germany for six months. |
| GhanaAfrica | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. |
| GibraltarEurope | None known | Supplying cannabis to another person and cultivating it are offences, subject to authorised exceptions. The criminal code provides no personal-use club exemption. |
| GreeceEurope | None known | No club is confirmed. A Europe-wide survey of cannabis social clubs carried out in 2018 and 2019 received no answer from Greece but, because of contradictory sources, could not rule out that clubs were active there, and nothing… |
| GreenlandNorth America | None known | The law restricts delivery, receipt and possession to pharmacy, prescription and special-permission routes. The regulation confines use of controlled cannabis to medical and scientific purposes. |
| GrenadaNorth America | None known | The 2026 Act has no place for clubs: it allows an adult's own possession and exempts four plants on a household's premises, and supplying others stays an offence. The agriculture ministry says a grower registers before planting. |
| GuamOceania | None known | No licensed cannabis clubs or on-site consumption lounges are known. The Act recognises cultivation, testing, manufacturing and retail establishments, and public consumption is fined. No tolerated club scene was found. |
| GuatemalaNorth America | None known | Recreational collective growing and supply fall within the offences against unauthorised cultivation and distribution. The 2016 proposal for five home plants and licensed commercial supply received an adverse committee opinion. |
| GuernseyEurope | Tolerated | The Green Retreat operates a patient social lounge where entry requires proof of a cannabis prescription and identification showing the visitor is at least eighteen. |
| GuineaAfrica | None known | No cannabis clubs are known. Growing and supplying cannabis remain criminal offences, including growing a small quantity for personal use. |
| Guinea-BissauAfrica | None known | The reviewed law provides no recreational collective-growing or supply permission: personal cultivation remains an offence under article 20 and transferring cannabis to another person falls under article 3. |
| GuyanaSouth America | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. |
| HaitiNorth America | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. The 2001 drug law set these terms. |
| HondurasNorth America | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. The 2020 code replaced the penalties. |
| Hong KongAsia | None known | Giving away cannabis falls within trafficking, which carries up to life imprisonment and HK$5 million. Growing cannabis is also prohibited. |
| HungaryEurope | Underground | Clubs exist without any legal basis. A Europe-wide survey of cannabis social clubs carried out in 2018 and 2019 received answers from one club in Hungary, and its authors could not say how many more were active. |
| IcelandEurope | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. |
| IndiaAsia | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and no law provides for them: supply of ganja or charas is trafficking, with sentences scaled to quantity. India's legal outlet for cannabis is of another kind. |
| IndonesiaAsia | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited, and the law provides for the death penalty for the most serious drug offences. |
| IranAsia | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. The most serious drug offences carry death. |
| IraqAsia | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited, and the most serious drug offences carry death or life imprisonment. |
| IrelandEurope | Underground | Clubs exist without any legal basis. A Europe-wide survey of cannabis social clubs carried out in 2018 and 2019 received answers from one club in Ireland, and its authors could not say how many more were active. |
| Isle of ManEurope | Tolerated | The Green Lounge received planning approval in January 2026 for adults to vaporise their own prescribed cannabis. |
| IsraelAsia | Tolerated | No law provides for cannabis clubs, and supplying cannabis, even unpaid, is treated as dealing. What exists is a bring-your-own lounge for patients. |
| ItalyEurope | Underground | Italian law leaves no room for the Spanish model, yet a few clubs exist. A Europe-wide survey carried out in 2018 and 2019 received answers from two clubs in Italy. |
| JamaicaNorth America | None known | There are no members' growing clubs. Supplying ganja to another person outside the licensed medical system or sacramental use remains dealing; |
| JapanAsia | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing and supplying cannabis are both crimes. |
| JerseyEurope | None known | No cannabis clubs are known. Supplying cannabis to another person is an offence, and none of the 2025 reform options would have created clubs. |
| JordanAsia | None known | Collective recreational supply falls under offences against unauthorised distribution, including gifts. Cultivation for trade carries at least fifteen years of temporary hard labour and a fine; |
| KazakhstanAsia | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. |
| KenyaAfrica | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. |
| KiribatiOceania | None known | Cultivating cannabis for private use or otherwise, and giving it to another person, are prohibited. The reviewed ordinance provides no recreational club exemption. |
| KosovoEurope | None known | The drug law restricts cannabis activities to research, education and police purposes, including restrictions on free delivery. |
| KuwaitAsia | None known | Unpaid supply of a controlled drug for another person’s consumption carries five to ten years and a fine. Trafficking and specified paid-supply conduct have separate capital or life-sentence penalties. |
| KyrgyzstanAsia | None known | Giving cannabis to another person counts as supply under the Supreme Court’s guidance. Organising or maintaining premises for drug consumption is a separate offence carrying up to five years in prison in the basic case. |
| LaosAsia | None known | The criminal rules prohibit ordinary cannabis cultivation and trading; the hemp permission is for approved businesses. |
| LatviaEurope | None known | No clubs are known. A Europe-wide survey of cannabis social clubs carried out in 2018 and 2019 found, after online searches and contact with people in the field, that there did not seem to be any active club in Latvia. |
| LebanonAsia | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. Law 178 is a production licensing route, not a members' club. |
| LesothoAfrica | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. |
| LiberiaAfrica | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. |
| LibyaAfrica | None known | No cannabis clubs are known. Managing or preparing a place for paid drug use carries six months to three years, and supply is separately prohibited. |
| LiechtensteinEurope | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. |
| LithuaniaEurope | None known | No clubs are known. A Europe-wide survey of cannabis social clubs carried out in 2018 and 2019 found, after online searches and contact with people in the field, that there did not seem to be any active club in Lithuania. |
| LuxembourgEurope | None known | No clubs are known, and the law gives them no place. The 2023 law allows growing at home and nothing else: there is no licensed retail and no provision for cannabis clubs, and selling, swapping or giving cannabis to another… |
| MacauAsia | None known | Supplying other people with cannabis is punishable under the trafficking rules, including gifts. The top court has also treated cost-sharing supply as trafficking. |
| MadagascarAfrica | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. |
| MalawiAfrica | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. |
| MalaysiaAsia | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited, and the law provides for the death penalty for the most serious drug offences. |
| MaldivesAsia | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited, and the law provides for the death penalty for the most serious drug offences. |
| MaliAfrica | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: cannabis cultivation is prohibited, and giving or offering high-risk drugs for another person's consumption is punished. |
| MaltaEurope | Regulated by law | Non-profit Cannabis Harm Reduction Associations are the only legal source besides home growing. They are licensed by the cannabis authority ARUC, and the first began handing out cannabis in January 2024; |
| Marshall IslandsOceania | None known | Ordinary cannabis cultivation and distribution, including gifts and transfers, are prohibited. The Act’s exceptions concern licensed professional or prescribed medical handling. |
| MauritaniaAfrica | None known | No cannabis clubs are known. Facilitating another person's use, including by providing premises, carries two to ten years, and the law provides no club exception. |
| MauritiusAfrica | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. |
| MexicoNorth America | Tolerated | No law provides for cannabis clubs, and Congress has never passed the regulation the Supreme Court called for, so clubs work in a grey zone across the country. |
| MicronesiaOceania | None known | No recreational collective-growing permission was established in the reviewed framework. The national and Pohnpei small unpaid-transfer rules leave the conduct criminal, and Yap and Kosrae have broader delivery offences. |
| MoldovaEurope | None known | Distributing cannabis to other people falls under the criminal supply offence. Providing premises for illegal drug consumption is itself punishable under Article 219. |
| MonacoEurope | None known | There is no recreational club exception to the cannabis prohibition. Supplying drugs without payment, facilitating another person’s use and group consumption are all covered by article 2 of the narcotics law. |
| MongoliaAsia | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. |
| MontenegroEurope | None known | Giving cannabis to another person for consumption and making premises available for drug use are criminal offences carrying six months to five years in the basic case. |
| MoroccoAfrica | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: unlicensed growing and supplying cannabis to another person are both prohibited. |
| MozambiqueAfrica | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. |
| MyanmarAsia | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited, and the law provides for the death penalty for the most serious drug offences. |
| NamibiaAfrica | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. |
| NauruOceania | None known | Giving cannabis away and cultivating it without lawful authority fall under the serious drug offence, with at least ten years to be served before parole or probation. |
| NepalAsia | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. |
| NetherlandsEurope | Underground | The toleration policy covers coffeeshops only; growing remains illegal, so a members' growing club has no footing. A handful were founded from 2014. |
| New ZealandOceania | Underground | Clubs are illegal and the best-known one has been shut down repeatedly. The Daktory ran openly in Auckland from late 2008 to 2012 as a members' club where cannabis was sold over the counter and smoked on the premises; |
| NicaraguaNorth America | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. Marihuana was criminalised in 1964. |
| NigerAfrica | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. |
| NigeriaAfrica | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. |
| North KoreaAsia | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited, and the law provides for the death penalty for the most serious drug offences. |
| North MacedoniaEurope | None known | Providing drugs or premises for another person to use can bring one–five years under Article 216(1). The personal-possession exemption protects possession for oneself, without authorising collective supply. |
| Northern CyprusEurope | None known | Allowing premises to be used for smoking or trading cannabis is expressly criminalised. Growing and supply convictions also fall outside supervised treatment. |
| Northern Mariana IslandsOceania | None known | No cannabis clubs are known. Licensed lounges, where adults consume on site, take the place clubs fill elsewhere. |
| NorwayEurope | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited under section 231 of the Penal Code. |
| OmanAsia | None known | The statute provides no recreational cannabis-club route. Unauthorised personal growing and supplying another person are criminal, including supply without payment. |
| PakistanAsia | None known | No cannabis clubs in the modern sense are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing and supplying cannabis are prohibited. The collective use that does exist is religious and much older. |
| PalauOceania | None known | No cannabis clubs are known. Cultivation and supply are prohibited, and nothing in the law provides for collective growing. |
| PalestineAsia | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. Preparing or managing a place for drug use is an offence in the West Bank and in Gaza. |
| PanamaNorth America | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. Penalties were recast in 1986. |
| Papua New GuineaOceania | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. |
| ParaguaySouth America | Tolerated | No law provides for clubs, but one operates in the open. In January 2023 the Cooperativa de Cannabis del Paraguay set up a Club de Cannabis to link its growers in San Pedro directly with registered users: members must be adults… |
| PeruSouth America | Regulated by law | Since July 2021 the law has allowed patient associations to grow medical cannabis together and make their own derivatives; there is no recreational club model. |
| PhilippinesAsia | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. |
| PolandEurope | Underground | A European survey conducted in 2018–19 received a response from one Polish cannabis social club; its authors could not establish the full national count. |
| PortugalEurope | Underground | The sources disagree. A Europe-wide survey of cannabis social clubs carried out in 2018 and 2019 found, after online searches and contact with people in the field, that there did not seem to be any active club in Portugal. |
| Puerto RicoNorth America | None known | No cannabis clubs are known. Outside licensed medical dispensaries, distribution is an offence. |
| QatarAsia | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited, and the law provides for the death penalty for the most serious drug offences. |
| RéunionAfrica | — | Not researched yet |
| RomaniaEurope | Underground | Clubs exist without any legal basis. A Europe-wide survey of cannabis social clubs carried out in 2018 and 2019 received answers from one club in Romania, and its authors could not say how many more were active. |
| RussiaEurope | None known | A collective cannot lawfully supply recreational cannabis to its members: transfers fall under the criminal supply prohibition. Unauthorised cultivation remains punishable even below the criminal plant threshold. |
| RwandaAfrica | — | Not researched yet |
| Saint Kitts and NevisNorth America | None known | No law provides for cannabis clubs. The nearest thing is religious: the Rastafari Rights Recognition Bill of 2023 lets a Rastafari group register with the ministry, free of charge and renewable every two years, and register its… |
| Saint LuciaNorth America | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and no law provides for them: the 2021 amendment is limited to personal private use, and supplying cannabis to others remains an offence. |
| Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesNorth America | None known | There are no cannabis clubs as such. Supply remains an offence outside the licensed medical system and Rastafari sacramental use. |
| SamoaOceania | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. |
| San MarinoEurope | None known | The law provides no recreational collective-growing or gifting exception: free supply is punishable under the ordinary drug offence. |
| São Tomé and PríncipeAfrica | None known | Supplying cannabis to another person falls under trafficking, and growing it for personal use is also an offence. The code separately punishes operators of clubs and other venues who allow illicit drug use or trafficking there. |
| Saudi ArabiaAsia | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited, and the law provides for the death penalty for the most serious drug offences. |
| SenegalAfrica | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. |
| SerbiaEurope | None known | Collective recreational growing and supply fall under the offences against unauthorised cultivation, production and distribution. |
| SeychellesAfrica | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. |
| Sierra LeoneAfrica | None known | Personal cultivation and supplying cannabis are criminally restricted under the pharmacy law. The medical production guidelines provide applications for licensed companies, manufacturers and approved health organisations. |
| SingaporeAsia | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited, and the law provides for the death penalty for the most serious drug offences. |
| Sint MaartenNorth America | None known | Cannabis growing remains prohibited, and the small-quantity prosecution policy excludes indications of dealing. The 2024 committee was charged with developing future rules for production, distribution and consumption. |
| SlovakiaEurope | None known | A European survey conducted in 2018–19 found no active cannabis social club in Slovakia after searches and contact with people in the field. |
| SloveniaEurope | Underground | Clubs exist without any legal basis. A Europe-wide survey of cannabis social clubs carried out in 2018 and 2019 received answers from two clubs in Slovenia, and its authors could not say how many more were active. |
| Solomon IslandsOceania | None known | The published Act has no recreational collective-growing exemption: sections 7–8 prohibit private cultivation and giving cannabis to another person. |
| SomaliaAfrica | None known | The texts reviewed do not provide a recreational club exemption: the 1970 law restricts gratuitous transfers, and the 1984 decree punishes organising public or private drug-consumption premises. |
| SomalilandAfrica | None known | Recreational growing and supply fall under the drug law’s authorisation requirements and criminal offences, without a club exemption. Even unpaid transfers must go to authorised recipients. |
| South AfricaAfrica | Underground | After the 2018 ruling allowed private growing, many grow clubs appeared: members supply seed, the club grows the plants and hands back the harvest, charging for the gardening and not for the cannabis. |
| South KoreaAsia | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. |
| South SudanAfrica | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them. Supplying a dangerous drug is dealing under section 383, punished with up to fourteen years, a fine, or both. |
| SpainEurope | Tolerated | The social-club model developed around private personal use and the narrow shared-consumption doctrine. Transform estimated roughly 400 clubs or similar associations in 2018, concentrated in Catalonia and the Basque Country. |
| Sri LankaAsia | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. The Ayurvedic channel is a practitioner-and-pharmacy route, not a members' club. |
| SudanAfrica | None known | Article 16(1)(c) criminalises preparing or managing a home or other place for drug use or dealing outside authorised cases, within the minimum-ten-year supply provision. |
| SurinameSouth America | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. |
| SwedenEurope | None known | No clubs are known. A Europe-wide survey of cannabis social clubs carried out in 2018 and 2019 found, after online searches and contact with people in the field, that there did not seem to be any active club in Sweden. |
| SwitzerlandEurope | Regulated by law | Cannabis social clubs are among the sales models authorised within scientific pilot trials, alongside pharmacies and other outlets. |
| SyriaAsia | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited, and the law provides death for the most serious drug offences. |
| TaiwanAsia | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. |
| TajikistanAsia | None known | Giving drugs to another person falls within the drug law’s definition of supply. Organising or maintaining premises for drug consumption carries three to five years in prison, rising to five to ten in aggravated cases. |
| TanzaniaAfrica | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. |
| ThailandAsia | None known | No cannabis clubs are known; Thailand's cannabis trade runs through licensed shops, which are businesses and not members' clubs. |
| Timor-LesteAsia | None known | The drug law provides no cannabis-club exception to its unauthorised growing and supply offences. A club or venue operator who permits illicit use or trafficking, or knowingly fails to stop it, may face two to eight years in… |
| TogoAfrica | None known | The cultivation ban and penalties for supplying another person also restrict collective growing and sharing through a club. |
| TongaOceania | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. |
| TransnistriaEurope | None known | No cannabis social clubs or consumer associations exist in Transnistria. The territory's legal rules prohibit collective cultivation and treat any transfer of cannabis between individuals as criminal drug supply under Article… |
| Trinidad and TobagoNorth America | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and no law provides for them: the 2019 amendment removed penalties for possession and home growing but not for supply, and selling remains a crime. |
| TunisiaAfrica | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. The "cannabis shops" that opened in 2020 were advocacy spaces, not licensed clubs. |
| TürkiyeAsia | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. |
| TurkmenistanAsia | None known | Controlled cultivation is limited to permitted enterprises and institutions, within state quotas; drug consumption requires a doctor’s order. |
| TuvaluOceania | None known | The 2025 licensing power is confined to medical and scientific purposes, while unlicensed cultivation, sale and use remain offences. |
| UgandaAfrica | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. |
| UkraineEurope | None known | Supplying cannabis to other adults remains a crime, including outside the pharmacy route. Private collective growing has no recreational exemption from the cultivation offence. |
| United Arab EmiratesAsia | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. |
| United KingdomEurope | Tolerated | No law provides for clubs and cannabis remains a class B drug. A federation, UK Cannabis Social Clubs, was founded in 2011 and by 2016 counted more than 80 clubs, most with 100 to 150 members and registered as non-profits. |
| United StatesNorth America | Regulated by law | Non-profit growing clubs of the Spanish kind are not part of American law; what some states license instead are places to consume, usually run for profit. |
| UruguaySouth America | Regulated by law | Membership clubs are one of three legal routes, alongside pharmacies and home growing, and a resident may register for only one. A club is a non-profit association of at most 45 members growing up to 99 flowering plants. |
| US Virgin IslandsNorth America | None known | The law provides licensed adult-use lounges and separate consumption permits. Faith-based organisations have a sacramental registration route requiring incorporation, at least ten members and permission to grow on members’ behalf. |
| UzbekistanAsia | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited. |
| VanuatuOceania | None known | The drug law prohibits cannabis supply and unlicensed cultivation remains criminal. Industry licences concern controlled export production. |
| VenezuelaSouth America | None known | No lawful recreational club route is provided. Growing cannabis and supplying it to others are covered by the offences in articles 151 and 149. Gathering premises drew prison from 1964. |
| VietnamAsia | None known | No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited, and the law provides for the death penalty for the most serious drug offences. |
| YemenAsia | None known | The statute provides no recreational cannabis-club route. Growing for personal use carries five years; supplying drugs without payment and preparing premises for consumption carry death or twenty-five years. |
| ZambiaAfrica | None known | No cannabis clubs are known. Growing a plant for use as a drug, and trading in a drug, are both offences without lawful authority. |
| ZimbabweAfrica | None known | Unlawful recreational cultivation and supply are criminal offences under the code. Medical-production licences and industrial-hemp permits authorise specified activities. |