Cannabis Freedom Index
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Ban 🏳️ Transnistria

The Soviet ban on growing cannabis covers Transnistria

Index score

1008

−92 points

The Soviet Union prohibited growing Indian hemp and the opium poppy without permission. The land east of the Dniester was then part of the Moldavian autonomous republic inside Soviet Ukraine.[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 1−9
  4. Sharing & gifting · 10%10 0−10
  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. Transnistria's scores have changed again since.

References

  1. Wikipedia — Cannabis in Russiaarchived

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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