Cannabis Freedom Index

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Views of the cannabis article on Wikipedia

Wikimedia Foundation · July 2015 to September 2026

What people look up shows what they are curious about. The Wikimedia Foundation publishes how often each article is loaded; this site follows the article on cannabis as a drug in 26 language editions, every month since July 2015.[1] Each language is linked to the country where most of its readers live; the Japanese, German and Italian editions rank highest.

A language is not a country: German Wikipedia is read in Austria and Switzerland too, and page loads are not unique readers.[1] The chart of who looked it up follows each edition month by month, to be read beside changes in the law such as Germany’s Cannabis Act in 2024. For coverage in the news rather than readers’ curiosity, see cannabis in the news; for the words themselves, the atlas entry on cannabis.

Published by
Wikimedia pageviews API — monthly views by users of the article on cannabis as a drug, by language edition
Data
pageviews API
File here
wikipedia-cannabis-views.csv
See also
The chart · The files and their checksums
of 220 places covered
26
years in the file
2015.542–2026.792
the median country
23.5
places with several years
26

Views of the cannabis article on Wikipedia, on the map

The stronger the blue, the higher the figure, by fifths of the places covered. Select a country for its profile.

Lowest fifthSecond fifthMiddle fifthFourth fifthHighest fifthNot in the dataset

Highest

  1. Japan3332026
  2. Germany1692026
  3. Italy1602026

Lowest

  1. Thailand12026
  2. Estonia12026
  3. Slovenia32026

Country by country

Each place's latest figure, as on its profile. Select a heading to sort.

Further figures
BulgariaEurope13page views in 2026–10Марихуана · bg Wikipedia2026
CroatiaEurope8page views in 2026–10Marihuana · hr Wikipedia2026
CzechiaEurope33page views in 2026–10Marihuana · cs Wikipedia2026
DenmarkEurope3page views in 2026–10Cannabis (rusmiddel) · da Wikipedia2026
EstoniaEurope1page views in 2026–10Marihuaana · et Wikipedia2026
FinlandEurope58page views in 2026–10Kannabis · fi Wikipedia2026
GeorgiaAsia4page views in 2026–10მარიხუანა · ka Wikipedia2026
GermanyEurope169page views in 2026–10Cannabis als Rauschmittel · de Wikipedia2026
GreeceEurope4page views in 2026–10Κάνναβη (φάρμακο) · el Wikipedia2026
HungaryEurope27page views in 2026–10Kannabisz · hu Wikipedia2026
IndonesiaAsia29page views in 2026–10Ganja · id Wikipedia2026
IsraelAsia26page views in 2026–10קנאביס (סם) · he Wikipedia2026
ItalyEurope160page views in 2026–10Marijuana · it Wikipedia2026
JapanAsia333page views in 2026–10大麻 · ja Wikipedia2026
LatviaEurope10page views in 2026–10Marihuāna · lv Wikipedia2026
LithuaniaEurope4page views in 2026–10Marihuana · lt Wikipedia2026
NetherlandsEurope30page views in 2026–10Cannabis (drug) · nl Wikipedia2026
PolandEurope116page views in 2026–10Marihuana · pl Wikipedia2026
RomaniaEurope16page views in 2026–10Marijuana · ro Wikipedia2026
SlovakiaEurope16page views in 2026–10Marihuana · sk Wikipedia2026
SloveniaEurope3page views in 2026–10Kanabis · sl Wikipedia2026
South KoreaAsia24page views in 2026–10대마초 · ko Wikipedia2026
SwedenEurope28page views in 2026–10Cannabis · sv Wikipedia2026
ThailandAsia1page views in 2026–10กัญชา (ยา) · th Wikipedia2026
TürkiyeAsia93page views in 2026–10Esrar · tr Wikipedia2026
UkraineEurope23page views in 2026–10Канабіс · uk Wikipedia2026

What is counted, and how the file was made

Monthly page-load events for the cannabis-as-a-drug article in 26 Wikipedia language editions, using traffic classified as user rather than automated. These are page-load events, not unique readers; repeat visits count again. Language editions identify worldwide traffic, not the location of people viewing them. German Wikipedia is also read in Austria and Switzerland, Dutch in Belgium.

Downloaded on 22 October 2026 by scripts/fetch-open-data.py (wikipedia); the article in each language is the one the English "Cannabis (drug)" links to.

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

References

  1. Wikimedia Foundation — Analytics API (pageviews)
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