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Ban 🏳️ Somaliland

Somaliland first restricts cannabis

Index score

1003

−97 points

No first law is recorded here for Somaliland, then British Somaliland. Historians of cannabis in Africa find that most colonial governments had banned it by 1920, so its first restriction is assumed to fall between 1900 and 1920.[1]

Score by segment 0 to 10

  1. Possession · 25%10 0−10
  2. Personal cultivation · 25%10 0−10
  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. The scores after the change are Somaliland's current scores.

This entry is an estimate. No first law is recorded for Somaliland, so its first restrictions are assumed to have come at some point between 1900 and 1920. On the charts the change is spread evenly across those years.

References

  1. Chris S. Duvall — The African Roots of Marijuana (Duke University Press, 2019)archived

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

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