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Ban 🏳️ Abkhazia

The Soviet ban on growing cannabis covers Abkhazia

Index score

10010

−90 points

The Soviet Union prohibited growing Indian hemp and the opium poppy without permission. Abkhazia was then an autonomous republic inside Soviet Georgia.[1]

Score by segment 0 to 10

  1. Possession · 25%10 1−9
  2. Personal cultivation · 25%10 1−9
  3. Punishment & enforcement · 20%10 2−8
  4. Sharing & gifting · 10%10 0−10
  5. Consumption · 10%10 1−9
  6. Legal access · 10%10 0−10

The bar shows the score after the change; the tick marks where it stood before. Abkhazia's scores have changed again since.

References

  1. Wikipedia — Cannabis in Russiaarchived

Checked. The date and the event were compared with a source that was read. The score before the change is an editorial estimate.

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