Cannabis Freedom Index
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Hungary first restricts cannabis

No first law is recorded here for Hungary. 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.

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

Source:

Index score

988−90 points

Score by segment

SegmentBeforeAfterChange
Possession25% of the index101−9
Personal cultivation25% of the index101−9
Punishment & enforcement20% of the index101−9
Sharing & gifting10% of the index100−10
Consumption10% of the index101−9
Legal access10% of the index80−8

Segments are scored from 0 to 10. Hungary's scores have changed again since.

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