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Tightening 🇹🇳 Tunisia

Ottoman Tunisia bans growing cannabis

Index score

10072

−28 points

In the mid-1800s cannabis was smoked openly in Tunisia; in 1875 its cultivation was banned. Licensed growing returned under the French tobacco monopoly of 1884.[1]

Score by segment 0 to 10

  1. Possession · 25%10 10
  2. Personal cultivation · 25%10 2−8
  3. Punishment & enforcement · 20%10 8−2
  4. Sharing & gifting · 10%10 9−1
  5. Consumption · 10%10 10
  6. Legal access · 10%10 7−3

The bar shows the score after the change; the tick marks where it stood before. Tunisia's scores have changed again since.

References

  1. The African Roots of MarijuanaChris S. Duvall · Duke University Press · 2019 · ch. 9, p. 194 · ISBN 9781478004530archived

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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