⛔ Ban · Between 1900 and 1920 (estimate) · Zambia

Zambia first restricts cannabis

No first law is recorded here for Zambia. 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.

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

Source:

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

Index score

983−95 points

Score by segment

Segment	Before	After	Change
Possession25% of the index	10	0	−10
Personal cultivation25% of the index	10	0	−10
Punishment & enforcement20% of the index	10	1	−9
Sharing & gifting10% of the index	10	0	−10
Consumption10% of the index	10	1	−9
Legal access10% of the index	8	0	−8

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

This entry is an estimate. No first law is recorded for Zambia, 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.