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Country/Territory Recreational Medical Notes Afghanistan Illegal Illegal Main article: Cannabis in Afghanistan Production banned by King Zahir Shah in 1973. Albania Illegal Legal Main article: Cannabis in Albania Prohibited but plants highly available throughout the country and law often unenforced. On 21 July 2023 the Albanian Parliament voted 69–23 to legalize medical cannabis. Algeria ...
Timeline of cannabis law This page was last edited on 10 February 2025, at 13:45 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
2015: Colombia legalized cannabis for medical use. [89] 2015: Croatia legalized synthetic-cannabinoids for medical use. [90] 2015: Jamaica decriminalized possession of up to 2 ounces of cannabis and legalized the cultivation for personal use of up to 5 plants. [91] 2015: Spain decriminalized cannabis cultivation up to 10 cannabis plants for ...
Canada has become the largest country to legalise cannabis.
The removal of cannabis and cannabis resin from that Schedule entered into force in 2021, [19] after a vote on 2 December 2020 by the UN Commission on narcotic drugs. [20] Since 2021, cannabis and cannabis resin remain listed in Schedule I of the Single Convention, alongside extracts and tinctures of cannabis. [21]
World map of annual cannabis prevalence. This is a list of the annual prevalence of cannabis use by country (including some territories) as a percentage of the population. The indicator is an "annual prevalence" rate which is the percentage of the youth and adult population who have consumed cannabis at least once in the past survey year.
In recent decades, a growing number of countries, and a majority of states in the US, have moved towards drug liberalization by variously decriminalizing cannabis and other drugs for personal consumption, and by legalizing cannabis for recreational use. This has resulted in a variety of interpretations of, and tension with, the drug treaties.
Most of the cannabis is distributed by the western province of Indonesia called Aceh. [18] 37,923 people were imprisoned because of cannabis between 2009 and 2012. Twenty-six people were imprisoned, on average, each day. [19] Because cannabis is the most common drug, consuming of cannabis goes up to 66 percent than other drugs in the country.