Cannabis Freedom Index
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Qatar first restricts cannabis

No first law is recorded here for Qatar. Its first restrictions on cannabis are assumed to date from between the 1925 Geneva convention, which put Indian hemp under international control, and the 1961 Single Convention, which required a ban on non-medical use.

Source: Wikipedia β€” International Opium Convention

Index score

982βˆ’96 points

Score by segment

SegmentBeforeAfterChange
Possession25% of the index100βˆ’10
Personal cultivation25% of the index100βˆ’10
Punishment & enforcement20% of the index101βˆ’9
Sharing & gifting10% of the index100βˆ’10
Consumption10% of the index100βˆ’10
Legal access10% of the index80βˆ’8

Segments are scored from 0 to 10. The scores after the change are Qatar's current scores.

This entry is an estimate. No first law is recorded for Qatar, so its first restrictions are assumed to have come at some point between the 1925 Geneva convention and the 1961 Single Convention. On the charts the change is spread evenly across those years.