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Ban 🇦🇼 Aruba

Aruba first restricts cannabis

Index score

10021

−79 points

No first law on cannabis is recorded here for Aruba. The Netherlands banned trade in Indian hemp in 1928, and the Netherlands Antilles, Aruba included, had their Opium Ordinance by 1960, so the first restriction is assumed to fall between those years.[1]

Score by segment 0 to 10

  1. Possession · 25%10 3−7
  2. Personal cultivation · 25%10 1−9
  3. Punishment & enforcement · 20%10 4−6
  4. Sharing & gifting · 10%10 1−9
  5. Consumption · 10%10 2−8
  6. Legal access · 10%10 0−10

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

This entry is an estimate. No first law is recorded for Aruba, so its first restrictions are assumed to have come at some point between 1928 and 1960. On the charts the change is spread evenly across those years.

References

  1. Government of Curaçao — Opiumlandsverordening 2024, replacing the Opium Ordinance of 1960archived

Estimated. No first law is recorded; the date is an assumption. The score before the change is an editorial estimate.

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