Legalisation
Legal possession, home growing, clubs or shops for adults.
38 entries, 1883–2026 · 27 moved a score · back to the whole history
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13.2 today, from 99.1 in 1860
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20262 entries2 score changes
🇬🇩 Grenada Legalisation ✓ Article
Grenada legalises possession and home growing
From February 2026 adults aged 21 and over may possess 56 g of cannabis, and four plants at a household are outside the growing offence. The agriculture ministry says a grower registers with the Cannabis Secretariat before planting, and that the rules for signing up would follow. Parliament passed the bill with support from both sides. Past convictions for those amounts are wiped, and sale remains an offence.
1139+28 points
🇨🇿 Czechia Legalisation ✓ Article
Czechia legalises possession and home growing
Act No. 270/2025, a reform of the criminal code, took effect on 1 January. Adults 21 and over may grow three plants and keep 100 g at home or 25 g in public; before, small amounts were only an administrative offence. Four or five plants, or up to twice those amounts, is an administrative offence, and more is a crime. Shops and clubs are still not allowed.
2944+15 points
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🇨🇿 Czechia Legalisation ✓ Article
Czechia passes its cannabis reform
Parliament approved a reform of the criminal code that legalises growing three plants and keeping 100 g at home, and the president signed it. A proposal for licensed shops had been dropped along the way. The changes were set to start on 1 January 2026. The amendment setting the personal limits, which also abolished the offence of holding drugs for someone else, was drafted by the think tank of the former drug coordinator Jindřich Vobořil, who accused the STAN deputies who submitted it of passing it off as their own.
🇳🇱 Netherlands Legalisation ✓ Article
Dutch coffeeshops enter the regulated-supply phase
On 7 April 2025, the experiment entered its experimental phase in ten municipalities, with regulated growers intended to become the exclusive source. Enforcement against unregulated hashish was temporarily deferred because of supply concerns. The preceding transition phase had allowed regulated and tolerated products side by side.
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🇳🇱 Netherlands Legalisation ✓ Article
The Netherlands starts supplying coffeeshops legally
Coffeeshops in Breda and Tilburg began selling cannabis from regulated growers. During this start-up phase, regulated and tolerated products could be sold alongside one another. The experiment created a legal supply route without immediately replacing every illegal supplier.
🇱🇺 Luxembourg Legalisation ✓ Article
Luxembourg legalises home growing
Adults may grow up to four plants per household and consume at home. Cannabis stays prohibited in public, but carrying up to 3 g became a €145 fine instead of a criminal matter. There is no legal place to buy it.
2037+17 points
🇻🇮 US Virgin Islands Legalisation ✓ Article
US Virgin Islands sign adult-use cannabis and patient growing into law
Governor Albert Bryan Jr. signed a law setting adult possession limits at two ounces of cannabis, 14 grams of concentrate and one ounce of cannabis products. Qualified resident patients could grow six flowering and six immature plants for personal medical use with landowner consent. Bryan also announced pardons for simple possession and an application process; in March his administration said use and sales still awaited implementing regulations.
1633+17 points
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🇹🇭 Thailand Legalisation ✓ Article
Thailand removes cannabis from its narcotics list
Thailand became the first Asian country to decriminalise. Possessing and growing the plant stopped being offences, home growers only had to register through an app, and thousands of dispensaries opened within months. No law regulating the new market followed.
764+57 points
🇹🇭 Thailand Legalisation ✓
Thailand's dispensaries start trading
Cannabis dispensaries began operating two months before the flower was taken off the narcotics list. In May the government announced it would give away a million plants to households.
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🇩🇲 Dominica Legalisation ✓ Article
Dominica legalises possession and home growing
Parliament amended the drug law so that a person holding 28 g or less of cannabis is not guilty of an offence, and a person aged 18 or older may grow three plants at the place where they live. Smoking in a public place became an offence with a fine of 1,500 East Caribbean dollars that leaves no criminal record, and earlier convictions for 28 g or less are treated as spent. Larger amounts keep the old penalties, and there is no legal market. The House passed the act on 26 October and the president assented on 30 October.
1139+28 points
🇦🇺 Australia · Australian Capital Territory Legalisation ✓
The Australian Capital Territory legalises possession and growing
Adults in Canberra may possess 50 g and grow two plants each, four per household. Selling remains illegal, and so does buying seeds. No other state or territory has followed.
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🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago Legalisation ✓ Article
Trinidad and Tobago decriminalises cannabis
Adults may possess up to 30 g and grow four plants each with no penalty. Between 30 g and 60 g is a fixed-penalty ticket instead of a prosecution. Before, possession could mean years in prison. No legal market was created.
639+33 points
🇨🇦 Canada Legalisation ✓
Canada legalises edibles, extracts and vapes
A year after flower and oils, the second wave of products became legal: edibles capped at 10 mg of THC per package, plus extracts, vapes and topicals.
🇬🇺 Guam Legalisation ✓ Article
Guam legalises adult use of cannabis
Adults 21 and over could possess one ounce of cannabis, eight grams of concentrate or infused products containing up to 800 mg THC, and give cannabis to another adult without payment. The law also allowed six plants per residence, with no more than three flowering, in an enclosed and locked growing area. Governor Lou Leon Guerrero signed it with immediate effect, citing patients’ long wait for access and the illicit market; business rules and operating permits followed over the next seven years.
2043+23 points
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🇲🇵 Northern Mariana Islands Legalisation ✓ Article
Northern Mariana Islands legalise adult use, home growing and gifts
Adults aged 21 and over gained legal possession, home cultivation and capped gifts under a law signed by Governor Ralph Torres. Households could keep six mature and twelve immature plants and up to eight ounces of usable cannabis, with a larger plant allowance for medical patients on a doctor’s recommendation. Torres backed a regulated market for health, jobs and revenue but vetoed proposed fees and tax terms, which lawmakers revisited in 2019.
1148+37 points
🇿🇦 South Africa Legalisation ✓ Article
South Africa's top court protects private use and growing
The Constitutional Court ruled that adults have a right to use, possess and grow cannabis in private, with no fixed gram or plant limit. Buying and selling stayed illegal, and so did use in public.
1149+38 points
🇯🇲 Jamaica Legalisation ✓
Jamaica's first licensed herb house opens
Three years after the reform, the first dispensary licensed by the Cannabis Licensing Authority opened. Patients, and visitors who sign a declaration, can buy and use cannabis there.
3135+4 points
🇦🇬 Antigua and Barbuda Legalisation ✓ Article
Antigua and Barbuda legalises 15 g and four plants
The Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Act, 2018 (No. 3 of 2018) says a person holding up to 15 g of cannabis or resin is not guilty of an offence, lets each household grow up to four plants on its property and expunges earlier convictions for 15 g or less. Smoking in a public place brings a warning, then a $500 ticket, then a fine of up to $1,500. Assented on 1 March 2018 and gazetted on 5 March.
1136+25 points
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🇺🇾 Uruguay Legalisation ✓ Article
Uruguay's pharmacies start selling cannabis
Three and a half years after the law passed, registered residents could buy state-licensed cannabis in pharmacies. Home growing and clubs had opened in 2014; this was the route the law had promised to most people. Banks threatened the pharmacies' accounts, and only a few took part.
4952+3 points
🇪🇸 Spain Legalisation ✓
Catalonia regulates cannabis clubs
The Catalan parliament passed a law legalising the growing and distribution of cannabis within registered associations. Spain's Constitutional Court annulled it the next year, ruling that only the national parliament can legislate on drugs.