Cannabis Freedom Index
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Tightening 🇳🇬 Nigeria

Nigeria's cannabis eradication peaks at 3,500 hectares

The eradication programme launched in 1994 as Operation Burn the Weeds destroyed 3,500 hectares of cannabis in 1999, against 40 hectares in its first year. It fell substantially in the 2000s.[1]

Listed for context. No score change is recorded for Nigeria here.

References

  1. Wikipedia — Cannabis in Nigeriaarchived

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