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Tightening 🇱🇧 Lebanon

Lebanon passes a law against growing cannabis

Index score

1411

−3 points

The Lebanese government promulgated a law prohibiting the cultivation of cannabis. Large quantities of hashish from Syria and Lebanon were nevertheless seized in Egypt in 1947, 1948 and 1949.[1]

Score by segment 0 to 10

  1. Possession · 25%1 1
  2. Personal cultivation · 25%2 1−1
  3. Punishment & enforcement · 20%2 2
  4. Sharing & gifting · 10%1 1
  5. Consumption · 10%1 1
  6. Legal access · 10%0 0

The bar shows the score after the change; the tick marks where it stood before. The scores after the change are Lebanon's current scores.

References

  1. J. Bouquet — Cannabis (concluded), UN Bulletin on Narcotics, 1951, issue 1archived

Checked. The date and the event were compared with a source that was read. The score before the change is an editorial estimate.

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