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Takrouri joins Tunisia's state tobacco monopoly

Index score

7255

−17 points

Takrouri, Tunisian smoking cannabis, was added to the monopoly that had controlled tobacco since 1884. The 1890 law set prices for two products, flower heads and mixed herb; from 1902 a single product was sold, trimmed and chopped flower heads in five-gram boxes. Tunisia first relied on imports from Constantine in Algeria and later grew its own. In the 1910s about five tonnes were sold a year, and the monopoly lasted into the 1950s.[1]

Score by segment 0 to 10

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

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, pp. 194–195 · ISBN 9781478004530archived

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