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52 Countries Ranked For Marijuana Tolerance. Most Are In Africa

Dana Sanchez and Keren Mikva

AFK Insider

Tuesday 17 May 2016

African governments have tried to limit and stop its use, but marijuana remains deeply ingrained in African traditions, economies and recreation.

It is an important source of income, but is illegal everywhere in Africa. Levels of tolerance and law enforcement related to marijuana vary from country to country.

The website Marijuana Travels ranks 260 countries including at least 42 African countries for tolerance to marijuana. Countries are ranked from 1 — highly prohibited — to 10 — legal. Rankings include on-the-ground information on enforcement. The site appears to be updated regularly, in some cases, daily. The homepage says the site was created to inform viewers of conditions affecting marijuana, which can change daily and sometimes hourly.

Indigenous to Central and South Asia, cannabis is thought to have made its way to Africa through contact with Arab traders connected to India.

The earliest evidence for cannabis in Africa outside of Egypt comes from 14th-century Ethiopia, where ceramic smoking-pipe bowls with traces of cannabis stood the test of time, showing up in archaeological excavations.

From Ethiopia, cannabis seeds were carried south by Bantu speakers who originally lived in North Africa. From them the use of cannabis as an intoxicant is thought to have spread to other native Africans such as the Bushmen.

Dominican priest Joao dos Santos wrote about the cannabis plant in 1609, saying it was grown near the Cape of Good Hope and was called bangue.

Jan van Riebeeck, the first governor of the Dutch colony at the Cape of Good Hope, described the use of cannabis in 1658.

Colorado, the first U.S. state to allow the sale of recreational marijuana, expected to take in $60 million to $70 million in taxes from legal marijuana sales in 2014, according to the Denver Business Journal.

If all 50 U.S. states legalized marijuana, they could stand to gain more than $3 billion in tax revenue collectively from legal marijuana sales, according to NerdWallet, a personal finance site.

AFKInsider compiled a list of African countries and ranked them for marijuana tolerance. Countries are ranked on a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 is highly prohibited and 10 is legal. We’ve also provided a list of most marijuana-friendly countries in the world.

Sources: Schaffer Library of Drug Policy, MarijuanaTravels, WorldCannabisLaws, NerdWallet.

This AFKInsider article was first published May 13, 2015.

http://afkinsider.com/125863/african-countries-ranked-for-marijuana-tolerance/

 

 

 

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