Cannabis Freedom Index
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El Salvador first restricts cannabis

No first law is recorded here for El Salvador. 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 — International Opium Convention

Index score

983−95 points

Score by segment

SegmentBeforeAfterChange
Possession25% of the index100−10
Personal cultivation25% of the index100−10
Punishment & enforcement20% of the index101−9
Sharing & gifting10% of the index100−10
Consumption10% of the index101−9
Legal access10% of the index80−8

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

This entry is an estimate. No first law is recorded for El Salvador, 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.