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Ban 🇩🇲 Dominica

The Leeward Islands' Dangerous Drugs Act covers Dominica

Index score

10011

−89 points

Dominica's 1948 and 1951 Dangerous Drugs Orders were made under the Dangerous Drugs Act, 1937 (Leeward Islands No. 23 of 1937), passed while the island belonged to that federal colony. 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. Dominica's scores have changed again since.

References

  1. United Nations — Laws and regulations communicated on narcotic drugs: Dominica, E/NL.1949/19archived

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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