Cannabis Freedom Index
← History

Ban 🇦🇬 Antigua and Barbuda

The Leeward Islands' Dangerous Drugs Act covers Antigua

Index score

10011

−89 points

The Dangerous Drugs Act, 1937 (No. 23 of 1937) of the Leeward Islands federal colony, which included Antigua, was still the law its government applied to new drugs in 1951. The filing does not reproduce the law itself, so its exact treatment of cannabis is not confirmed here.[1]

Score by segment 0 to 10

  1. Possession · 25%10 1−9
  2. Personal cultivation · 25%10 1−9
  3. Punishment & enforcement · 20%10 2−8
  4. Sharing & gifting · 10%10 1−9
  5. Consumption · 10%10 1−9
  6. Legal access · 10%10 0−10

The bar shows the score after the change; the tick marks where it stood before. Antigua and Barbuda's scores have changed again since.

References

  1. United Nations — Laws and regulations communicated on narcotic drugs: Leeward Islands, E/NL.1952/54archived

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

    ↑↓ to move, ↵ to open.