Cannabis Freedom Index
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Tightening 🇱🇸 Lesotho

Basutoland's drug proclamation is amended

Index score

1311

−2 points

Proclamation No. 58 of 1951 amended the Basutoland Opium and Habit-forming Drugs Regulation Proclamation of 1922. As amended, section 7 made any narcotics offence punishable by a fine of up to £500 or, in default, up to three years in prison with or without hard labour, or by prison without the option of a fine, or by both. Seized plants and drugs were forfeited on conviction.[1]

Score by segment 0 to 10

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

The bar shows the score after the change; the tick marks where it stood before. The scores after the change are Lesotho's current scores.

References

  1. United Nations — Survey of the cannabis situation in Basutoland, E/CN.7/286/Add.1 (1955)archived

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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