Legal status of cannabis possession for recreational use

Finland is wrong.

"Often unenforced"

Who the fuck made this inforgraphic?

Finnish cops are obsessive over fighting cannabis, and in practice even having a single joint on you will lead to a criminal record, and not for just "personal use" or "possession" but the same crime you'd be charged with if you grow 27 plants at home.

And yes, I've personal experience on both, as well as several dozens of other examples, documented and otherwise.

Finnish drug laws are just as archaic as others, and the cops attitude and understanding is way worse than in most European countries.

It's ridiculous.

So yeah, Finland is definitely wrong, fucking hell.

The Ununited States of America

Is Antarctica really "unknown"? The closest there is to antarctic law would be international treaties and they are mostly about nuclear weapons and oil drilling.

I feel like if you are willing to live in a frozen hellscape you should be able to smoke whatever you want

Based Germany

Welcome to Germany in blue since yesterday! Interestingly buying and selling it is still not allowed. You can grow up to three plants for own use

I would expect or at least hope Denmark will follow suit.

Mexico is wrong. Supreme Court approved to make it legal in 2021 but no laws have been written (and it doesn't work like in the US were the SCOTUS makes it legal automatically)

The UK should probably be pink not red.

The police actually wanted to legalize it but the government refused to. They even fired their advisor when he said that cannabis isn't really that bad and probably shouldn't be an illegal substance. The UK government is awful and corrupt as hell.

So it's still illegal but the police very rarely actually do anything about possession. They may take it off you but it's not going to result in any legal action.

Virginia is wrong. It is not illegal to have on you, but there is no way set up to sell recreationally legally. The medical market got its claws in and is holding on tight.

tfw México has more freedom than tejas

Fucking Canberra has it but not the rest of us

Thailand can be taken off this list. New conservative govt made it illegal again.

the US is not legal in any sense in any state just ask Flip Flop Joe

here we prop up corporate cannabis and continue to erode consumer protections like everything else we do

we say one thing in public to other countries but behind closed doors the US has degraded to militarized police control where when one is arrested the cops control the narrative along with the judges not common law

cannabis is legal for the corporations to trade and profit off of and there are no protections for consumers just empty promises

Thailand has decided that they will be going backwards next year. What are the two micronations in the Pacific?

Out of date

It’s illegal in Jamaica?!

brazil can probably be pink instead of red if you are not poor or not black

Why does the KKKeast hate a plant so much?

Given that weed is now legal for medicinal use, there's been a lot less enforcement here in NZ.

Mostly, at the outset cops have no way of knowing if you have a prescription or not, and asking if it's a suitable prescription is a pretty big no-no.

What's with the tiny blue dot in Australia

It's inaccurate to say that it's legal in any part of the United States. "Illegal but unenforced" maybe.

Dprk says unknown and while i couldnt tell you the legality on paper, its sold in stores and pretty easy to obtain. I think its usually leaf not flower though?

Latam should be pink everywhere, where is enforced only on poor and black people.

Seems the majority of the world is based.

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Georgia in blue is very misguided, it’s smoking not possession. And everything around it is pretty strict and draconian. Smoking is legal because of a challenge in supreme court but it hasn’t impacted laws or prosecution