Offences for cannabis use or possession

What is counted, and how the file was made

Offences of using cannabis or possessing it for one's own use that the police record each year, as European countries report them to the EUDA ("drug law offences, cannabis, use"): cannabis alone, unlike UNODC's figures for all drugs, and not offences of supply such as dealing, trafficking or growing for sale. An offence is not a conviction: depending on the country it may end in a fine, a caution, a referral to treatment or a criminal case. Countries record offences or offenders, and define them, in different ways, so compare a country with itself over time rather than with its neighbours. The EUDA notes that Slovenia counted only use-related offences in 2023, that Portugal's figures for 2017 to 2021 lack one police force, and that Greece's include all cannabis products since 2018. Shown per 100,000 people using today's population.

The EUDA's site refuses scripted downloads, so the table was read in a browser on 21 October 2026 from its data service (the XML behind the table) and saved unchanged; its SHA-256 was checked against the browser's copy. scripts/extract-euda.py (cannabis_offences) turns it into one row per country and year with a figure.

The file belongs to EUDA and keeps its terms; cite the publisher when you use it.