Take the survey: State of Cannabis 2026

What this is

State of Cannabis is a yearly survey run by the Cannabis Freedom Index. The index scores what the law allows in every country. This survey asks the people who live under those laws about the rest: what they do, what they believe, and what they see around them.

It is for everyone, whether you use cannabis, grow it, study it or have never touched it. The answers are counted and published openly each year, beside each country's score, so that law and life can be compared. More about the project →

Before you begin

It takes about ten minutes. Almost every question is optional, and whole sections are skipped when they do not apply to you.
There are three parts: a yearly survey about you, reports on places you know, and prices you know. You can do any of them, and add places and prices later.
There is no account, no email and no cookie, and your answers are stored encrypted under a random key. That makes the survey pseudonymous, not perfectly anonymous: a rare combination of country, age and experience can still narrow down who answered, so leave out anything you would not want guessed.
A draft is kept in this browser only, so you can come back to it.
You can change or delete your answers later, from this browser.
People who have never used cannabis are as welcome as people who grow it.
Only counts are published. What you write in text boxes is read by the researchers and never published as it stands.

I am 16 or older and I am answering for myself.

About you

A few broad facts, so that answers can be compared between groups. No name, email or account is asked for.

Gender

Woman Man Non-binary or other Prefer not to say

Which country do you live in? *

Which state or province? *

The law differs from one to the next, so the answer is needed to place yours.

Where do you live?

A large city A town A village or the countryside

What is your relation to cannabis? *

Choose all that apply. People who have never used it are as welcome here as people who grow it.

Use

How, how often and why.

With whom do you usually use it?

Mostly alone Mostly with others Both about equally

Growing

For people who grow, whatever the scale.

How long have you been growing?

Less than a year 1 to 3 years 4 to 10 years More than 10 years

Where do you grow?

Indoors Balcony or greenhouse Outdoors

How many plants at a time?

1 or 2 3 to 5 6 to 10 More than 10

Is your growing legal where you live?

Yes Not legal but tolerated No I am not sure

Money and access

Where cannabis comes from and what it costs you.

Culture

What the people around you think, whatever the law says.

Compared with drinking alcohol, using cannabis where you live is…

More accepted About as accepted Less accepted

Does your family know about your use?

Yes, openly Some of them No Does not apply

Could you mention it at work without consequences?

Yes Depends on who is listening No Does not apply

Is there an older local tradition of cannabis where you live?

Religious, medicinal, farming or festive.

Yes No I do not know

What is it?

Compared with your parents' generation, people your age are…

More accepting of cannabis About the same Less accepting

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?

Choose all that apply, whether the message was that it is dangerous, wrong or fine.

Did the fact that it was illegal, or legal, shape whether you saw it as right or wrong?

Yes, a lot Somewhat No It made me doubt the law, not the plant

Has time in another country changed how you see cannabis?

Yes, I became more accepting Yes, I became less accepting No I have not been anywhere it is different

Which comes first, in your view?

A change in the law changes what people think A change in what people think changes the law Each pushes the other Neither follows from the other

Law and authority

What you know of the law, what you think of it, and what you do about it.

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…

More favourable Unchanged Less favourable

What changed it, or what formed it?

Is there something about cannabis where you live that a law or a statistic would miss?

Places you know

Report on any country you live in, have lived in or have visited. Add as many as you like; each is stored as its own entry, which you can change or delete later.

Prices you know

Report any price you paid or saw. Add as many as you like, including older ones for the same country.

Submit

What happens when you press the button

The first time, your browser makes a random key and keeps it in its own storage. It is a pseudonym: it carries no name, email or account, and nobody can tell whose it is.
Your survey, each place report and each price are signed with that key and encrypted so that only you and this project can read them. They are sent to public Nostr relays, which store them. A relay, like any server, can see the address you connect from; use a VPN or Tor if that matters to you.
Because the key stays in this browser, you can come back to your submissions to change or delete them. Everything signed with one key belongs together, so your places and prices are linked to your survey answers, though not to your name.
If you clear this browser's data without backing the key up, your answers stay in the survey and you can no longer change them.