Cannabis Freedom Index
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Venezuela first restricts cannabis

No first law is recorded here for Venezuela. 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.

Estimated. No first law is recorded; the date is an assumption. The score before the change is an editorial estimate.

Source:

Index score

9814−84 points

Score by segment

SegmentBeforeAfterChange
Possession25% of the index102−8
Personal cultivation25% of the index101−9
Punishment & enforcement20% of the index102−8
Sharing & gifting10% of the index101−9
Consumption10% of the index101−9
Legal access10% of the index80−8

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

This entry is an estimate. No first law is recorded for Venezuela, so its first restrictions are assumed to have come at some point between 1925 and 1961. On the charts the change is spread evenly across those years.