Cannabis Freedom Index

Police powers

Searches, drug dogs, surveillance and drug tests.

57 entries, 1884–2026 · 7 moved a score · back to the whole history

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13.2 today, from 99.1 in 1860

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20265 entries0 score changes

  1. October10
  2. July20
  3. May10
  4. February10

    1. 🇫🇯 Fiji Other law ✓ Article

      Fiji signs a drug rewrite separating personal use from supply

      Fiji signed a new drug law with a separate personal-use offence and diversion into support programmes. For cannabis plant material it sets a maximum FJ$500 fine or three months in prison, or both, with custody restricted to prior-conviction or exceptional cases; at 28 g a rebuttable presumption of supply begins. The law also creates a Counter Narcotics Bureau and replaces the older drug Acts, with commencement dependent on a ministerial Gazette notice.

    1. 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe Enforcement ✓ Article

      Zimbabwe reports a four-year prison term for 19.49 kg of cannabis

      Prosecutors reported that Clever Makwarimba, a fifty-three-year-old man from Zvishavane, received an effective four-year prison sentence for unlawful possession of 19.49 kg of cannabis. Detectives acting on a tip searched his travelling bag and satchel on the Beitbridge–Masvingo Highway on 11 July and found eight large packages. The report came after separate medical-production and industrial-hemp licensing routes had been introduced.

    2. 🇲🇪 Montenegro Debate ✓

      Montenegro’s cabinet proposes early drug warnings and wider advertising bans

      The cabinet approved proposed drug-law amendments creating an early-warning system for new psychoactive substances and closer information sharing with the EU drugs agency. The draft also widened the drug-advertising ban and added an individual advertising offence to the existing €100–€2,000 fine band. The Official Gazette later recorded a drug-law amendment taking effect on 7 August 2026.

    1. 🇵🇼 Palau Tightening ✓ Article

      Palau toughens its drug law

      President Surangel Whipps Jr. signed RPPL 12-5, which the legislature had passed in April. It raises penalties for drug crimes, requires drug tests at least twice a year for police, health workers and other designated employees, and treats a positive test for an illegal drug as possession of a small amount; driving under the influence of an illegal drug, marijuana included, can be charged the same way. The reports read deal mainly with methamphetamine and do not say how marijuana penalties changed.

    1. 🇹🇯 Tajikistan Other law ✓

      Tajikistan revises permits for controlled-drug imports and exports

      Tajikistan amended its drug law to require authorising documents under national legislation for controlled-drug and precursor imports and exports. It also revised precursor licensing and the police-law powers applied to Drug Control Agency staff. These amendments revised the licensing and enforcement statute adopted in 1999.

20256 entries1 score change

  1. December10
  2. October10
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  4. July11
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    1. 🇰🇼 Kuwait Death penalty ✓ Article

      Kuwait combines its drug laws and keeps death for trafficking

      Decree-Law No. 159 of 2025, a combined drug law, replaced the 1983 narcotics law and 1987 psychotropic-substances law, with commencement reported as 15 December. Ordinary personal consumption or possession carries up to five years and a fine up to KD5,000, while specified trafficking offences carry death or life imprisonment. The law also lets prosecutors send an eligible personal-use accused person to rehabilitation for up to three months instead of starting a prosecution. It was published in the gazette on 30 November after signature on 24 November.

    1. 🇲🇭 Marshall Islands Tightening ✓ Article

      Marshall Islands requires reports of witnessed drug activity

      Anyone who witnesses activities involving drugs must report them to national or local police under an amendment effective on 6 October 2025. Failure to report carries a $1,000 fine, while good-faith reporters receive confidentiality and protection from civil or criminal liability. The amendment also expressly added marijuana and marijuana concentrate to the definition of a prohibited drug.

    1. 🇨🇬 Congo Other law ✓ Article

      Congo separates small personal quantities from wider drug trafficking

      Small personal possession, purchase or growing carried one to six months for a cannabis derivative other than oil, and two months to one year for high-risk drugs including cannabis oil; a fine alone was possible in either tier. Wider high-risk trafficking carried two to ten years, a fine, or both. President Denis Sassou-N'Guesso signed the law after parliament debated the need to replace an outdated drug-control system.

    1. 🇩🇿 Algeria Death penalty ✓ Article

      Algeria restores drug death penalties and expands maximum sentences

      The amendment restored death sentences for specified aggravated supply offences, including transnational organised crime and use or threatened use of a firearm. It also required the maximum legal penalty when examinations established that an offender was under the influence of drugs when committing an offence. Pupils screened during periodic medical examinations, with consent from their legal representatives or the relevant juvenile judge, could be directed to treatment without prosecution based on those results.

      86−2 points

    1. 🇬🇪 Georgia Tightening ✓

      Georgia lengthens sentences and makes refusing a drug test a crime

      Three months before it brought back prison for cannabis possession, the governing Georgian Dream party amended the drug laws to add longer prison terms and higher fines, criminal liability for refusing a drug test and mandatory treatment for users.

    1. 🇽🇰 Kosovo Enforcement ✓ Article

      Kosovo police seize 25 kg of suspected marijuana in Pristina

      Police searched four Pristina locations during operation Starti and seized 27 packages containing 25.2 kg of suspected marijuana, which they believed was intended for the local market, along with two rifles and two revolvers. Four men were arrested over suspected drug and weapons offences, interviewed with defence lawyers present and sent into detention for up to 48 hours by the prosecutor. Kosovo’s criminal code punishes unauthorised distribution and sale with a fine and two to twelve years in prison.

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  1. 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone Enforcement ✓

    Sierra Leone remands two men accused of possessing cannabis and kush

    A Freetown magistrate refused bail to two men accused of unlawful possession of cannabis and kush under the 2008 drug law. They were among ten defendants remanded across separate drug cases at the same hearing; the judiciary's account names cannabis in the allegations against these two. The case shows the possession offence being used against cannabis before the 2024 emergency campaign.

  2. 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe Hemp ✓ Article

    Zimbabwe excludes industrial hemp up to 1% THC from its cannabis-plant ban

    The criminal code excluded industrial hemp from its dangerous-drug definition for the cannabis plant, defining hemp at no more than 1% delta-9 THC by dry weight. The definition includes seeds and plant derivatives, while someone asserting in an investigation that material is cannabis rather than industrial hemp must prove that assertion. The enacted amendment followed the narrower 0.3% authorisation and growing-permit rules introduced in 2019 and 2020.

  3. 🇻🇮 US Virgin Islands Other law ✓

    US Virgin Islands tell cannabis users to wait for implementing rules

    Government House said cannabis use and sales remained prohibited while officials prepared the regulations for the January law. It reiterated a $100 fine for possession up to an ounce and said that public use, federal facilities and personal transport between islands would remain restricted after implementation. The signed law had already set out adult possession limits and the licensing system.

20222 entries1 score change

  1. 🇳🇷 Nauru Tightening ✓

    Nauru bars bail for people charged with drug offences

    People charged under the drug-control law, including cannabis offences, were added to the cases in which bail could not be granted. The restriction took effect on certification on 8 October 2022 and also covered bail while appealing a conviction. In a later one-gram cannabis case, the court ordered the defendants released from remand after imposing fines and community service.

    86−2 points

  2. 🇹🇿 Tanzania Enforcement ✓ Article

    Tanzania overturns a thirty-year cannabis sentence over gaps in the evidence

    Agnetha Sebastian won her appeal against a thirty-year sentence for alleged possession of 414 g of cannabis. The Court of Appeal found that the prosecution had not established the chain of custody connecting the seized parcel with samples sent for examination, leaving reasonable doubt. It reversed the conviction and ordered her release unless she was lawfully held for another reason.

20212 entries0 score changes

  1. 🇳🇷 Nauru Other law ✓

    Nauru gives cannabis field-test certificates a defined role in court

    Appointed officers could identify seized cannabis with specified colour-change tests and submit certificates that courts had to accept unless materially disproved. The regulations took effect on 27 August 2021 and replaced the earlier 2016 drug-analysis rules, while leaving existing proceedings under those rules. A 2024 one-gram cannabis prosecution later relied on a police test using the KN reagent system.

  2. 🇳🇴 Norway Easing ✓

    Norway limits police powers in minor drug cases

    The attorney general ruled that police may not search phones or homes, or carry out drug tests, on people caught with small amounts for personal use.

20201 entry0 score changes

  1. 🇲🇭 Marshall Islands Tightening ✓

    Marshall Islands expands drug-seizure powers to include cash

    Cash used in drug transportation, import or export was added to property liable to seizure and forfeiture under a drug-law amendment effective on 4 June 2020. The law also renamed the narcotics act and added express controls on methamphetamine, MDMA and synthetic cathinones. It republished the separate marijuana penalty ladder and the extra penalties for supplying minors.

20191 entry0 score changes

  1. 🇺🇸 United States · Colorado Other law ✓

    Colorado's top court rules a marijuana-trained dog's sniff is a search

    In People v. McKnight a police dog named Kilo, trained to alert to marijuana as well as methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin and MDMA, barked at a pickup in Craig, and officers found a pipe with methamphetamine residue. Because adults in Colorado may lawfully carry an ounce of marijuana, the Colorado Supreme Court held that such a dog "can no longer be said to detect 'only' contraband": its sniff is a search that needs probable cause, and the conviction was overturned. Reason noted that police would have to retrain such dogs to ignore marijuana or replace them.

20181 entry0 score changes

  1. 🇲🇲 Myanmar Easing ✓ Article

    Myanmar replaces drug-registration prison terms with a treatment process

    Myanmar removed the three-to-five-year prison penalty for failing to register for drug treatment or follow treatment directions. Police could still send suspected users for assessment, and a court could order six months in treatment after refusal or breach of a treatment bond. The amendment raised the cannabis quantity presumed to be for sale from 75 to 100 grams; unauthorised possession below it still carried five to ten years.

20175 entries1 score change

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  2. August20
  3. March10
  4. January10

    1. 🇧🇲 Bermuda Easing ✓ Article

      Bermuda decriminalises possession of up to 7 g

      Bermuda removed criminal liability for simple possession of seven grams of cannabis or less, while police retained power to seize it and prosecutors could still pursue evidence of intent to supply. Cultivation, supply, importation and unauthorised consumption remained offences. The change followed a proposed caution system for amounts under three grams; a later law created an application route to clear qualifying older convictions.

      1219+7 points

    1. 🇨🇲 Cameroon Enforcement ✓ Article

      Cameroon reports drug-dog seizures and raids on cannabis crops

      Cameroon's police reported that drug dogs had helped seize nearly 200 kg of cannabis and bring about ten people before the justice system since the start of 2017. A unit stationed at Kousseri patrolled the road linking Maroua, Mora and Kousseri after European Union experts trained handlers in 2016. Police commissioner Armand Abena also described crop-destruction raids in the Northwest, Southwest and West regions, while acknowledging that their impact was mixed.

    2. 🇰🇮 Kiribati Tightening ✓

      Kiribati adopts saliva-test rules for drug driving

      Parliament adopted a traffic law under which a positive saliva test would establish drug influence, including for someone driving a bicycle. The law set a first drug-driving penalty of ten to twenty penalty units and six to twelve months’ licence disqualification. Its explanatory memorandum described the drug-driving provisions as new; commencement required a ministerial notice.

    1. 🇧🇴 Bolivia Other law ✓ Article

      Bolivia rewrites drug controls and requires medical-use authorisations

      People and businesses handling medicinal controlled substances had to register and obtain prior health-ministry authorisation under a law that also reorganised drug investigations, treatment and asset forfeiture. Scientific and medical research required limited, exceptional permissions, and authorised medicines could be supplied through approved pharmacies on prescription. Cannabis and resin remained in the controlled list, while the 1988 law’s personal-possession and trafficking penalties continued.

    1. 🇰🇭 Cambodia Tightening ✓ Article

      Cambodia launches an anti-drug campaign

      Cambodia began a six-month anti-drug campaign in January 2017 and repeatedly extended it, with at least 55,770 arrests on suspicion of using or selling drugs by March 2020. People were sent through criminal courts or administrative detention centres; Amnesty International later documented arbitrary detention, ill-treatment and failures to provide proper care. The arrest total covers drugs generally, during a regional rise in methamphetamine supply, and is not a cannabis-only count.

20161 entry0 score changes

  1. 🇻🇮 US Virgin Islands Other law ✓ Article

    US Virgin Islands court rejects a vague cannabis-smell stop

    The Superior Court suppressed evidence from Victor Cannergeiter’s vehicle because prosecutors had not shown a sufficiently specific reason for the stop. Although the court said a trained officer could still stop a vehicle after detecting cannabis smell despite the 2014 possession reform, it found the officer’s general statement and unproven experience inadequate in this case. The evidence included cannabis and a firearm discovered after the stop.

20141 entry1 score change

  1. 🇻🇮 US Virgin Islands Easing ✓ Article

    US Virgin Islands replace jail with a fine for an ounce of cannabis

    The legislature overrode Governor John de Jongh’s veto and made possession of an ounce or less a civil offence carrying a $100 fine. Cannabis remained unlawful, and failure to pay within 180 days could lead to a separate misdemeanour punishable by up to three months in jail. A later court case considered how the reform affected police stops based on cannabis smell.

    1116+5 points

20131 entry0 score changes

  1. 🇲🇱 Mali Other law ✓

    Mali gives its central drug office a statutory role in investigations

    Mali put operational coordination of drug investigations in the hands of a central office with criminal-investigation powers. Its director or delegate could authorise controlled deliveries and undercover requests to sell drugs, with immediate notice to the relevant prosecutor or judge. The amendment updated the 2001 law's enforcement machinery; international trafficking cases could be transferred to the office at the specialised prosecutor's request.

20101 entry0 score changes

  1. 🇹🇯 Tajikistan Debate ✓ Article

    Tajikistan’s drug-policy reviewers urge treatment and stronger patient privacy

    A review involving health officials, the Drug Control Agency and civil society urged changes to policing, treatment and patient confidentiality. It criticised reliance on arrest and conviction targets, discrimination against people who use drugs and weaknesses in privacy protections. The reviewers recommended shifting enforcement toward dealers and larger supply networks while supporting harm reduction and voluntary treatment.

20081 entry0 score changes

  1. 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone Tightening ✓ Article

    Sierra Leone gives drug officers powers to destroy cannabis crops

    Drug officers gained powers to enter land without a warrant and destroy unlawfully cultivated or wild cannabis, after collecting evidence and when urgent action was needed to prevent harvesting, concealment or danger. The new law created a national enforcement agency and repealed the colonial Dangerous Drugs Act, while preserving existing regulations and proceedings. Parliament rushed it through after a cocaine-laden aircraft landed in the country, exposing weaknesses in drug enforcement.

20071 entry0 score changes

  1. 🇱🇺 Luxembourg Tightening ✓

    Luxembourg introduces a statutory framework for roadside drug testing

    The Law of 18 September 2007 took effect on 1 October and introduced a legal framework for roadside testing for illicit drugs. The national drug report records a THC threshold of 2 ng/ml, alongside separate thresholds for other substances, for the covered traffic offence. It also records immediate eight-working-day licence withdrawal for refusing alcohol or drug testing. These were traffic controls, distinct from the fine-only treatment of simple cannabis use introduced in 2001; the threshold is recorded as historical law.

20061 entry0 score changes

  1. 🇬🇪 Georgia Tightening ✓

    Georgia adopts zero tolerance

    The Saakashvili government began forcing people to take street drug tests by the tens of thousands a year. A positive result meant a heavy fine, and a second within a year meant a criminal case.

20051 entry0 score changes

  1. 🇺🇸 United States Other law ✓

    US Supreme Court permits a drug-dog sniff during a lawful traffic stop

    In Illinois v. Caballes, a marijuana prosecution, the Supreme Court held that a trained drug dog's exterior sniff during an otherwise lawful traffic stop did not violate the Fourth Amendment without separate suspicion of drug activity. The decision accepted that the stop had not been improperly prolonged; it did not authorise extending a traffic detention simply to conduct a sniff.

20041 entry0 score changes

  1. 🇫🇯 Fiji Other law ✓ Article

    Fiji adopts shared penalties for cannabis use, growing and supply

    Fiji signed a drug law placing unauthorised cannabis possession, use, cultivation and supply under the same maximum: a FJ$1 million fine, life imprisonment, or both. It also covered imports and exports and gave police and customs powers to investigate drug offences. Corresponding parts of the older drug law would be replaced when the new Act commenced by ministerial notice; courts later developed separate sentencing guidelines.

20021 entry0 score changes

  1. 🇺🇸 United States Other law ✓ Article

    Supreme Court upholds drug tests beyond student athletics

    In Board of Education v. Earls, the Supreme Court upheld Tecumseh's testing policy for students in competitive extracurricular activities, including band, choir and academic teams. Tests screened for marijuana and other illegal drugs. Results were not supplied to law enforcement, and consequences concerned activity participation. The ruling extended the school-testing precedent without changing adult cannabis possession or cultivation law.

20011 entry0 score changes

  1. 🇺🇸 United States Other law ✓

    US Supreme Court requires a warrant for thermal surveillance of a home

    In Kyllo v. United States, involving indoor cannabis cultivation, the Supreme Court held that using technology not in general public use to obtain otherwise inaccessible details of a home's interior was a search, presumptively unreasonable without a warrant. It sent the case back to determine whether the later search warrant had independent support or the evidence could otherwise be admitted.

19991 entry0 score changes

  1. 🇹🇯 Tajikistan Other law ✓ Article

    Tajikistan adopts a drug law linking licensing, policing and treatment

    Tajikistan adopted its general drug law under President Emomali Rakhmonov, with commencement to follow official publication. In the later consolidated text, licensed research institutions alone could grow drug-containing plants for scientific purposes, non-prescribed use was prohibited, and treatment and registration followed separate rules. The statute operated alongside the Criminal Code introduced in 1998 and was amended again in February 2026.

19953 entries0 score changes

  1. 🇰🇮 Kiribati Tightening ✓

    Kiribati targets unexplained property suspected to come from drug offences

    Parliament passed rules making possession of suspected drug-offence proceeds punishable by two years in prison when the holder could not give the court a satisfactory lawful account. Police gained power to arrest without a warrant for that offence, and courts could order forfeiture. Attorney General Michael Takabwebwe said a recent drug-import and possession prosecution had exposed the need to target drug profits.

  2. 🇺🇸 United States Other law ✓ Article

    Supreme Court upholds random drug tests for student athletes

    In Vernonia School District 47J v. Acton, the Supreme Court upheld an Oregon public school's suspicionless urine-testing policy for student athletes. The panel tested for marijuana, cocaine and amphetamines; confirmed positives could lead to assistance or exclusion from athletics. The Court cautioned against extending its reasoning to other contexts. This records school-testing policy without changing adult cannabis scores.

  3. 🇬🇮 Gibraltar Tightening ✓

    Gibraltar gives officers wider powers against drug smuggling at sea

    Gibraltar extended drug offences to its registered ships and created offences involving controlled drugs on ships registered in other states party to the 1988 UN trafficking convention. Officers gained powers to stop, board, divert and search ships, arrest suspects and seize evidence. Action against another convention state’s ship outside Gibraltar waters required that state’s request or authorisation through the Collector of Customs; operations in another state’s waters required its consent.

19931 entry0 score changes

  1. 🇲🇷 Mauritania Death penalty ✓ Article

    Mauritania sets death penalties for repeat and aggravated drug offences

    Producing, growing or trafficking high-risk drugs carried fifteen to thirty years in prison and a fine, with death for repeat offences; organised crime, violence, weapons or a death caused by the drugs could also bring capital punishment. Simple illicit use carried up to two years, a fine alone, or both, with treatment routes that could prevent prosecution. President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya signed the law nineteen days after Mauritania joined the UN convention against drug trafficking.

19892 entries0 score changes

  1. 🇲🇭 Marshall Islands Enforcement ✓ Article

    Marshall Islands overturns a cannabis conviction after denial of a lawyer

    George Sakaio’s marijuana conviction and two-year prison sentence were reversed after he pleaded guilty without a lawyer and was refused permission to withdraw the plea. The Supreme Court held that police and courts had failed to protect his right to counsel and ensure he understood the plea. It returned the case to the High Court for further proceedings.

  2. 🇺🇸 United States Other law ✓

    US Supreme Court upholds helicopter observation of a cannabis greenhouse

    In Florida v. Riley, the Supreme Court upheld naked-eye observation of cannabis through openings in a greenhouse from a helicopter at 400 feet. Justice O'Connor's separate concurrence supplied the fifth vote and stressed the regularity of public air travel at that altitude, rather than aviation-rule compliance alone. The ruling did not approve every low-altitude flight over a home.

19872 entries0 score changes

  1. 🇫🇲 Micronesia Other law ✓

    Kosrae’s court upholds seizure of cannabis plants visible from a road

    In Kosrae State v. Winfield Paulino, the State Court denies suppression of two marijuana plants after an officer saw one from a road and police obtained a warrant. The court applies possession section 13.531 and explains that weight determines the penalty category rather than whether possession is an offence. This suppression ruling does not establish a usual sentence or an exemption for a small home grow.

  2. 🇲🇵 Northern Mariana Islands Enforcement ✓ Article

    Northern Mariana Islands’ court upholds a pest inspection that found cannabis

    Cannabis found during a warrantless agricultural inspection could be used against Daniel Atalig, the appellate court ruled. An inspector found five pounds with deer meat after his flight from Rota to Saipan in September 1981, during a fruit-fly quarantine. Atalig received a year in prison, suspended except for thirty days, and a $1,000 fine; the court held that this quarantine search required neither a warrant nor consent.

19861 entry0 score changes

  1. 🇺🇸 United States Other law ✓

    US Supreme Court allows naked-eye aerial observation of backyard cannabis

    In California v. Ciraolo, the Supreme Court held that police did not need a warrant to view a fenced backyard's cannabis plants with the naked eye from an airplane lawfully flying at 1,000 feet. Although the yard was within the home's protected surroundings, the Court found no reasonable expectation of privacy against this public aerial viewpoint. Police obtained a warrant before seizing the plants.

19841 entry0 score changes

  1. 🇺🇸 United States Other law ✓

    US Supreme Court reaffirms the open-fields doctrine in cannabis cases

    In Oliver v. United States and its companion case, the Supreme Court reaffirmed that the Fourth Amendment did not require a warrant for police entry into open fields to investigate cannabis cultivation, even behind fences or no-trespassing signs. It distinguished these fields from the home and its immediately associated surroundings, which retain constitutional protection.

19831 entry1 score change

  1. 🇲🇱 Mali Tightening ✓ Article

    Mali sets long forced-labour sentences for drug use and production

    Mali punished illicit drug use with five to ten years of forced labour, a fine, or both, while illegal narcotic production, manufacture, import or export could bring life at forced labour and a fine. Courts could order medically assessed detoxification for defendants accused of attempted illicit use and withhold punishment; refusing treatment exposed them to the drug-use penalties. President Moussa Traoré signed the law, which also allowed special therapeutic or research authorisations and searches of drug production or storage premises at any hour.

    145−9 points

19691 entry0 score changes

  1. 🇻🇳 Vietnam Enforcement ✓

    South Vietnam: US forces test cannabis detection dogs

    Two dog-handler teams arrived to help US forces detect cannabis in baggage and around barracks. The dogs had been retrained in Okinawa after the US command requested teams in May, drawing on US Customs experience at border stations. The command history reported finds of discarded cannabis before baggage inspections as the wider suppression campaign targeted both users and their supplies.

19671 entry1 score change

  1. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom Tightening ✓ Article

    Britain gives police the power to stop and search for drugs

    Section 6 of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1967 let a constable who had reasonable grounds to suspect that a person was in possession of a drug unlawfully search that person, detain them for the search, and search any vehicle in which the constable suspected the drug was.

    1511−4 points

19661 entry0 score changes

  1. 🇹🇩 Chad Other law ✓ Article

    Chad prohibits cannabis use and growing, with a research exception

    Chad's poisonous-substances decree prohibited cannabis possession, use, cultivation, harvesting, trade, imports and exports, while allowing the health minister to grant exceptions for scientific research. It required cannabis and preparations seized for breaking these rules to be destroyed, and gave affected people three months from publication to comply. President François Tombalbaye signed the rules after Chad had joined the Single Convention and established its own narcotics bureau.

19531 entry0 score changes

  1. 🇮🇱 Israel Enforcement ✓

    Israel's police train a dog to find hashish

    The police set up a canine unit trained to track down hashish by smell; Israel was apparently the first country to use sniffer dogs to find drugs. For its first years the unit had one dog, Lassie, and a second was trained by 1960.

19262 entries0 score changes

  1. 🇨🇲 Cameroon Other law ✓ Article

    French Cameroon restricts hashish supplies and punishes group use

    French Cameroon placed hashish and its preparations under pharmacy controls, restricting authorised handling mainly to pharmacists and allowing supplies on prescription. Violations, group use and helping others use the drug carried three months to two years in prison, a fine, or both; possession without a legitimate reason attracted the same penalties. France introduced the rules alongside a pharmacy decree to adapt its existing controls to the mandate territory.

  2. 🇹🇿 Tanzania Ban ?

    Tanganyika bans growing, holding and using cannabis

    Tanganyika prohibited growing cannabis, possessing it or substances obtained from it, and consuming or using them. Offenders faced up to twelve months in prison or a fine of up to 2,000 shillings, and courts could order the plants or substances destroyed. The ordinance also allowed searches under a magistrate's or administrative officer's warrant and warrantless arrest of someone found committing an offence; the 1995 drug law later repealed it.

19051 entry1 score change

  1. 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Tightening ✓ Article

    Ceylon bans growing and possessing cannabis plants

    Ceylon's colonial government enacted a ban on growing, possessing, importing or supplying cannabis plants and all their parts, punishable by up to 100 rupees, six months in prison, or both. A grower had won an appeal the previous year because the existing bhang and ganja prohibition did not cover growing plants. The new law also presumed occupiers responsible for cannabis on their land; officials proposed a medicinal exception in 1906 after finding that chemists had been left without permission to possess or sell it.

    498−41 points

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  1. 🇪🇬 Egypt International ✓ Article

    Egypt’s convention with Greece reserves hashish controls and search powers

    The commerce and customs convention signed on 3 March specified operation from 20 March 1884. Article V excluded hashish and other named goods from its trade protections, reserved Egyptian control on equal terms for Greek and local subjects, and allowed immediate warehouse or dwelling searches with consular notification that could not delay the search. Britain separately accepted application of the customs rules on 3 March. This concerns foreign commerce and enforcement in Egypt, not a new general Greek cannabis ban.

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  1. 🇺🇸 United States170
  2. 🇮🇳 India53
  3. 🇧🇷 Brazil51
  4. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom45
  5. 🇨🇦 Canada44
  6. 🇮🇹 Italy39
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