Cannabis in Georgia (country)

Cannabis in Georgia is legal in terms of its possession and consumption due to a ruling by the Constitutional Court of Georgia on 30 July 2018. This makes Georgia one of the first countries in the world to legalize cannabis for both recreational and medical use, and the only former-communist state in the world to do so.

In 2018, Georgia made history as the first former Soviet republic to decriminalize cannabis. The Constitutional Court declared that penalizing personal use infringed on fundamental individual freedoms, setting a groundbreaking precedent in the region. In the political arena, Girchi and its founder and former leader Zurab Japaridze emerged as one of the strongest supporters of more liberal cannabis policies, although this view has then been picked up by other political forces as well to some extent.

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