• Date

    Decriminalised

    Criminalised

  • 1789

    126 countries

  • 1791

    France

  • 1793

    Monaco

  • 1795

    Belgium
    Luxembourg

  • 1811

    Netherlands

  • 1819

    Singapore

  • 1822

    Dominican Republic

  • 1831

    Brazil

  • 1832

    Russian Empire

  • 1837

    Peru

  • 1841

    Hong Kong

  • 1858

    Turkey

  • 1860

    India
    Bangladesh
    Bhutan
    Pakistan
    Myanmar
    Sri Lanka

  • 1860s

    Ghana
    Seyshelles

  • 1861

    Sierra Leone

  • 1864

    Jamaica

  • 1865

    San Marino

  • 1867

    Zanzibar

  • 1869

    Suriname

  • 1871

    German Empire

  • 1872

    Mexico

  • 1874

    Fiji

  • 1880s

    Kiribati
    Maldives
    Marshall Islands
    Solomon Islands
    Tonga
    Tuvalu
    Solomon Islands
    Western Samoa
    Lesotho
    Swaziland

  • 1880

    Paraguay

  • 1884

    Togo

  • 1885

    Botswana

  • 1886

    Portugal

  • 1887

    Argentina

  • 1888

    Belize
    Papua New Guinea
    Somalia
    Gambia

  • 1890

    Italy

  • 1891

    Malawi
    Zimbabwe

  • 1894

    Uganda

  • 1896

    Taiwan

  • 1897

    Kenya

  • 1899

    Honduras
    Burundi
    Sudan
    Nauru

  • 1901

    Nigeria

  • 1902

    Uganda

  • 1906

    Brunei
    Vanuatu

  • 1911

    Zambia

  • 1917

    USSR

  • 1920

    Namibia
    Tanzania

  • 1932

    Poland

  • 1933

    Denmark

  • 1934

    Uruguay
    USSR

  • 1940

    Iceland

  • 1942

    Switzerland

  • 1944

    Sweden

  • 1951

    Greece
    Jordan
    West Bank

  • 1957

    Thailand

  • 1961

    Mongolia

  • 1962

    Czechoslovakia
    Hungary

  • 1966

    Algeria

  • 1968

    East Germany
    Bulgaria

  • 1969

    Canada
    West Germany

  • 1971

    Finland
    Austria
    Costa Rica

  • 1972

    Cameroon
    Norway

  • 1973

    Malta

  • 1975

    Timor Leste

  • 1976

    Bahrain

  • 1977

    Croatia
    Montenegro
    Slovenia

  • 1979

    Cuba
    Spain

  • 1981

    Colombia

  • 1982

    UK

  • 1983

    Portugal

  • 1986

    New Zealand
    Haiti

  • 1988

    Israel

  • 1989

    Liechtenstein

  • 1990

    Andorra

  • 1991

    Bahamas
    Ukraine
    Hong Kong

  • 1992

    Nicaragua
    Latvia
    Estonia

  • 1993

    Australia
    Russia*
    Ireland
    Lithuania
    Guinea Bissau

  • 1994

    Belarus
    Serbia

  • 1995

    Djibouti
    Moldova
    Albania

  • 1996

    Macedonia
    Romania

  • 1997

    China
    Ecuador

  • 1998

    Cyprus
    Kazakhstan
    Kyrgyzstan
    South Africa
    Tajikistan

  • 1999

    Chile

  • 2000

    Azerbaijan
    Georgia

  • 2001

    Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • 2003

    US
    Armenia

  • 2004

    Cape Verde

  • 2005

    Marshall Islands

  • 2007

    Vanuatu

  • 2008

    Nepal
    Nicaragua
    Panama

  • 2009

    India
    Burundi

  • 2010

    Fiji

  • 2013

    India

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