Culture 2026 edition
State of Cannabis
A yearly, pseudonymous survey in three parts: what people do with cannabis, what they believe about it, and what they have seen in the countries they know. The index measures the law; this measures the life lived under it.
Sample data. The survey has just opened and the first answers have not been counted yet. Every number on this page was generated by a script to show how the results will look; none of it is a finding.
- Respondents
- 2,600
- Countries they live in
- 48
- Place reports
- 4,436
- Price reports
- 2,802
- Countries covered
- 174
People chose to answer this survey; nobody was sampled. The figures describe the 2,600 people who took part, most of whom use cannabis, and not the population of any country. A group is shown only when at least 30 people are in it, and a country only when it has at least 5 reports.
Sample data, not findingsAnswers from
About you
A few broad facts, so that answers can be compared between groups. No name, email or account is asked for.
Gender
Where do you live?
What is your relation to cannabis?
Use
How, how often and why.
How often have you used cannabis in the past year?
How old were you the first time?
How do you usually take it?
Which products do you use?
Why do you use it?
With whom do you usually use it?
Growing
For people who grow, whatever the scale.
How long have you been growing?
Where do you grow?
How many plants at a time?
Why do you grow?
What makes it hard?
Is your growing legal where you live?
Money and access
Where cannabis comes from and what it costs you.
Where does your cannabis come from?
Roughly how much do you spend on cannabis in a month?
How affordable is cannabis for you?
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1 · A real strainNo concern at all · 5
Culture
What the people around you think, whatever the law says.
How accepted is cannabis use where you live?
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1 · Strongly condemnedFully accepted · 5
Compared with drinking alcohol, using cannabis where you live is…
Does your family know about your use?
Could you mention it at work without consequences?
Has cannabis ever cost you any of these?
Is there an older local tradition of cannabis where you live?
Compared with your parents' generation, people your age are…
Where beliefs come from
How you came to think what you think about cannabis, and what moves a society's view.
Who first shaped what you thought about cannabis?
What was the message you grew up with?
Did the fact that it was illegal, or legal, shape whether you saw it as right or wrong?
Has time in another country changed how you see cannabis?
Which comes first, in your view?
Law and authority
What you know of the law, what you think of it, and what you do about it.
How well do you know the cannabis law where you live?
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1 · Not at allIn detail · 5
The cannabis law where I live is fair.
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1 · Strongly disagreeStrongly agree · 5
When a law seems unjust to you, what do you do?
How much do you trust the police where you live?
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1 · Not at allCompletely · 5
What is the most that has happened to you over cannabis?
Who should decide whether an adult may use cannabis?
What should the law be?
Your view
Optional, and in your own words. These answers are read by the researchers and are never published as they stand.
Over the years, has your view of cannabis become…
The law against the experience
Each dot is a country, placed by its index score from left (strict) to right (free) and by what the people who described it reported. Where the dots follow a line, life follows the law; where they scatter, it does not.
Places, as described
What residents and visitors reported about each country, beside its score. Scales run from 1 to 5, and a report counts for more the longer its author has spent there. Prices come from separate price reports and are the median reported for a gram of flower, converted to US dollars at the European Central Bank rates of 2026-10-09.
| Country | Index | Reports | Residents | Accepted | Enforced | Easy to get | Used openly | Gram reports |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 United States | 34 | 445 | 78% | 2.6 | 2.7 | 3.1 | 23% | $11.3 253 |
| 🇩🇪 Germany | 44 | 387 | 75% | 3.0 | 2.7 | 3.8 | 28% | $7.3 204 |
| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | 15 | 251 | 75% | 2.2 | 3.7 | 2.1 | 11% | $13.4 149 |
| 🇨🇦 Canada | 53 | 240 | 76% | 3.1 | 2.2 | 3.6 | 32% | $9.5 151 |
| 🇨🇿 Czechia | 44 | 208 | 72% | 3.5 | 2.5 | 3.4 | 30% | $12.1 122 |
| 🇪🇸 Spain | 31 | 180 | 72% | 2.8 | 3.0 | 2.8 | 17% | $8.3 112 |
| 🇫🇷 France | 14 | 180 | 74% | 2.1 | 4.2 | 2.9 | 8% | $10.1 109 |
| 🇳🇱 Netherlands | 37 | 154 | 74% | 2.6 | 3.3 | 2.9 | 23% | $6.2 81 |
| 🇵🇱 Poland | 14 | 153 | 72% | 2.5 | 3.6 | 2.2 | 7% | $10.8 89 |
| 🇧🇷 Brazil | 23 | 132 | 62% | 2.0 | 3.5 | 2.7 | 17% | $15.0 74 |
| 🇮🇹 Italy | 26 | 127 | 76% | 2.5 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 19% | $8.3 80 |
| 🇦🇺 Australia | 22 | 122 | 67% | 2.3 | 3.8 | 2.6 | 17% | $7.3 66 |
| 🇨🇭 Switzerland | 30 | 98 | 70% | 2.7 | 4.0 | 2.7 | 26% | $9.8 58 |
| 🇲🇽 Mexico | 26 | 96 | 78% | 2.7 | 3.9 | 3.0 | 26% | $11.7 55 |
| 🇦🇹 Austria | 22 | 86 | 72% | 2.3 | 3.4 | 2.2 | 16% | $11.3 51 |
| 🇿🇦 South Africa | 49 | 80 | 70% | 3.4 | 2.8 | 3.5 | 26% | $4.6 43 |
| 🇹🇭 Thailand | 27 | 77 | 64% | 2.5 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 19% | $14.4 50 |
| 🇦🇷 Argentina | 26 | 75 | 73% | 2.1 | 3.3 | 3.1 | 15% | $13.6 37 |
| 🇮🇳 India | 13 | 73 | 77% | 1.7 | 3.7 | 2.7 | 10% | $11.6 30 |
| 🇺🇾 Uruguay | 52 | 59 | 66% | 2.2 | 2.8 | 3.7 | 31% | $10.3 38 |
| 🇮🇪 Ireland | 14 | 58 | 74% | 2.0 | 4.2 | 2.9 | 7% | $12.1 31 |
| 🇵🇹 Portugal | 25 | 56 | 75% | 2.6 | 3.6 | 2.7 | 16% | $12.2 25 |
| 🇨🇱 Chile | 26 | 53 | 60% | 2.6 | 3.5 | 2.4 | 9% | $12.8 30 |
| 🇸🇪 Sweden | 11 | 50 | 78% | 2.2 | 3.4 | 2.4 | 10% | $11.2 30 |
| 🇨🇴 Colombia | 39 | 49 | 73% | 2.6 | 3.2 | 3.0 | 31% | $8.2 24 |
| 🇩🇰 Denmark | 20 | 45 | 67% | 2.5 | 3.9 | 2.7 | 13% | $13.1 26 |
| 🇫🇮 Finland | 14 | 44 | 70% | 2.1 | 3.6 | 2.9 | 11% | $10.5 29 |
| 🇳🇴 Norway | 17 | 43 | 58% | 2.5 | 3.5 | 2.3 | 19% | $14.8 23 |
| 🇮🇱 Israel | 25 | 42 | 62% | 2.6 | 3.4 | 3.1 | 14% | $9.1 32 |
| 🇯🇵 Japan | 2 | 40 | 65% | 1.9 | 4.6 | 2.5 | 10% | $11.4 18 |
| 🇬🇷 Greece | 14 | 37 | 73% | 1.9 | 4.2 | 2.5 | 27% | $11.1 29 |
| 🇧🇪 Belgium | 25 | 37 | 76% | 2.4 | 4.1 | 3.0 | 22% | $10.8 22 |
| 🇳🇿 New Zealand | 20 | 36 | 72% | 1.9 | 3.3 | 2.6 | 6% | $10.8 16 |
| 🇹🇷 Türkiye | 11 | 33 | 58% | 2.4 | 4.6 | 2.4 | 3% | $13.8 20 |
| 🇯🇲 Jamaica | 35 | 32 | 59% | 3.0 | 3.5 | 3.3 | 31% | $12.8 18 |
| 🇲🇦 Morocco | 13 | 32 | 56% | 2.2 | 4.4 | 2.4 | 3% | $10.8 17 |
| 🇷🇴 Romania | 11 | 28 | 57% | 2.2 | 4.0 | 2.3 | 14% | $9.3 18 |
| 🇳🇬 Nigeria | 3 | 27 | 63% | 2.0 | 4.3 | 2.2 | 7% | $12.9 14 |
| 🇵🇭 Philippines | 1 | 23 | 61% | 2.0 | 4.1 | 1.9 | 9% | $10.4 11 |
| 🇭🇺 Hungary | 10 | 22 | 64% | 1.5 | 4.6 | 2.3 | 23% | $12.3 14 |
| 🇱🇺 Luxembourg | 37 | 21 | 57% | 2.7 | 3.0 | 3.9 | 43% | $9.0 15 |
| 🇲🇹 Malta | 41 | 19 | 63% | 2.5 | 2.5 | 3.4 | 32% | $8.4 10 |
| 🇮🇩 Indonesia | 0 | 19 | 58% | 1.8 | 4.5 | 2.1 | 0% | $14.3 8 |
| 🇰🇪 Kenya | 6 | 18 | 56% | 1.5 | 3.6 | 1.7 | 0% | $9.6 12 |
| 🇪🇬 Egypt | 3 | 17 | 65% | 1.7 | 4.4 | 2.0 | 12% | $8.1 7 |
| 🇸🇬 Singapore | 0 | 16 | 44% | 1.5 | 4.5 | 1.7 | 0% | $13.9 11 |
| 🇰🇷 South Korea | 3 | 13 | 69% | 1.5 | 4.0 | 2.6 | 0% | $11.4 10 |
| 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates | 2 | 10 | 60% | 1.4 | 4.8 | 2.7 | 10% | $17.6 5 |
| 🇬🇳 Guinea | 9 | 6 | 0% | 2.3 | 3.4 | 2.6 | 0% | – |
| 🇰🇳 Saint Kitts and Nevis | 33 | 6 | 17% | 2.6 | 3.6 | 2.4 | 33% | – |
| 🇲🇾 Malaysia | 2 | 5 | 20% | 1.0 | 5.0 | 2.4 | 0% | – |
| 🇺🇿 Uzbekistan | 6 | 5 | 40% | 1.5 | 4.1 | 2.1 | 0% | – |
| 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic | 6 | 5 | 20% | 1.4 | 4.0 | 2.4 | 0% | – |
| 🇬🇲 Gambia | 9 | 5 | 20% | 1.5 | 4.1 | 2.4 | 0% | – |
| 🇩🇲 Dominica | 39 | 5 | 20% | 2.7 | 3.4 | 3.0 | 0% | – |
| 🇹🇿 Tanzania | 8 | 5 | 0% | 1.8 | 3.8 | 2.4 | 0% | – |
| 🇹🇱 Timor-Leste | 9 | 5 | 60% | 2.4 | 3.4 | 2.5 | 0% | – |
| 🇵🇾 Paraguay | 18 | 3 | 67% | – | – | – | – | $10.0 5 |
How it works
- Pseudonymous
- No account, no email, no cookie. Answers are signed with a random key made in your browser and kept there, and encrypted so that only you and the project can read them. That is strong privacy, not a guarantee of anonymity: a rare combination of answers can still narrow down who gave them.
- Three kinds of contribution
- A yearly survey about yourself, reports on places you know, and prices you have paid. Each is stored by itself, and the last two can be added to at any time.
- One person, one voice?
- Not enforced. Anyone can answer more than once, so the survey is counted by key, place reports are weighed by how well their author knows the place, and prices far from the rest are left out.
- Yours to change
- The key stays with you, so you can come back to your submissions, correct them or delete them. Nobody else can.
- Counted, not listed
- Only counts are published, and only for groups large enough to hide in. Free-text answers are read by the researchers and never published as they stand.
- Open
- The questionnaire, the counting code and the counted results are public, so anyone can check a figure or reuse it. The same core questions return every year.