Cannabis Freedom Index
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Equatorial Guinea first restricts cannabis

No first law is recorded here for Equatorial Guinea. Historians of cannabis in Africa find that most colonial governments had banned it by 1920, so its first restriction is assumed to fall between 1900 and 1920.

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

Source:

Index score

9811−87 points

Score by segment

SegmentBeforeAfterChange
Possession25% of the index101−9
Personal cultivation25% of the index101−9
Punishment & enforcement20% of the index102−8
Sharing & gifting10% of the index101−9
Consumption10% of the index101−9
Legal access10% of the index80−8

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

This entry is an estimate. No first law is recorded for Equatorial Guinea, so its first restrictions are assumed to have come at some point between 1900 and 1920. On the charts the change is spread evenly across those years.