Laos’s amended penal law adopted in 2005 already punished dried-cannabis trading and sent people addicted to smoking cannabis for treatment.[1] The first restriction has not been recovered; 1925 remains an estimated timeline starting point, with the existing uncertainty window extending to the 2007 narcotics law.
Score by segment 0 to 10
- Possession · 25%10 → 1−9
- Personal cultivation · 25%10 → 1−9
- Punishment & enforcement · 20%10 → 2−8
- Sharing & gifting · 10%10 → 1−9
- Consumption · 10%10 → 2−8
- Legal access · 10%10 → 0−10
The bar shows the score after the change; the tick marks where it stood before. The scores after the change are Laos's current scores.
This entry is an estimate. No first law is recorded for Laos, so its first restrictions are assumed to have come at some point between 1925 and 2007. On the charts the change is spread evenly across those years.
References
- Laos — Penal Law amended on 9 November 2005, National Assembly-endorsed translationArticle 146(5), (7), pp. 48–49; article 179 and 2005 amendment commencement clause, pp. 56–57archived
Estimated. No first law is recorded; the date is an assumption. The score before the change is an editorial estimate.