Cannabis Freedom Index
โ† History๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡น Bhutan in full

โ›” Ban ยท ยท Bhutan

Bhutan first restricts cannabis

No first law is recorded here for Bhutan. Its first restrictions on cannabis are assumed to date from between the 1925 Geneva convention, which put Indian hemp under international control, and the 1961 Single Convention, which required a ban on non-medical use.

Source: Wikipedia โ€” International Opium Convention

Index score

988โˆ’90 points

Score by segment

SegmentBeforeAfterChange
Possession25% of the index101โˆ’9
Personal cultivation25% of the index100โˆ’10
Punishment & enforcement20% of the index102โˆ’8
Sharing & gifting10% of the index100โˆ’10
Consumption10% of the index101โˆ’9
Legal access10% of the index80โˆ’8

Segments are scored from 0 to 10. The scores after the change are Bhutan's current scores.

This entry is an estimate. No first law is recorded for Bhutan, so its first restrictions are assumed to have come at some point between the 1925 Geneva convention and the 1961 Single Convention. On the charts the change is spread evenly across those years.