Afghanistan
Asia
#188 of 196 worldwide
#41 of 48 in Asia
Historically one of the world's largest hashish producers. The Taliban banned cultivation in 2023.
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Possession · 25%0/10adds 0.0 of 25 points
Possession is illegal; the pre-2021 drug law set one to five years depending on amount. Under the Taliban, offenders are tried by sharia courts, with imprisonment and flogging.
Personal cultivation · 25%0/10adds 0.0 of 25 points
On 19 March 2023 the Taliban's supreme leader issued a decree banning cannabis cultivation across the country: crops are destroyed and growers sent to court. Afghanistan had long been one of the world's largest hashish producers.
Punishment & enforcement · 20%0/10adds 0.0 of 20 points
Sharia punishments including flogging, applied unevenly: hashish remains widely used and the cultivation ban has been enforced less thoroughly than the opium ban.
Sharing & gifting · 10%0/10adds 0.0 of 10 points
Trafficking can bring the death penalty.
Consumption · 10%1/10adds 1.0 of 10 points
Use is prohibited; drug users have been rounded up into compulsory treatment camps.
Legal access · 10%0/10adds 0.0 of 10 points
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None; a pre-2021 plan for a licensed medical cannabis project came to nothing.
Forced detention in treatment centres is the main risk for users.
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