The legality of weed in countries around the world, mapped

Norway recently took the step of decriminalising drug use.

The Socialist Left (SV) Party spokesman Nicolas Wilkinson said the majority in the Storting (Norwegian Parliament) agreed to:

Stop punishing people who struggle, but instead give them help and treatment.

The law change means that drugs are still illegal, just decriminalised in terms of possession - which is now seen as a matter for treatment. Efforts will still be made to stop the sale of drugs.

The change comes in the wake of other decriminalisation attempts around the world - for example, in America; California, Colorado, Alaska, Maine, Massachusetts, Oregon and Washington all have more relaxed marijuana laws.

Spain has laws which allow for the private use of the drug, but public use remains illegal and is subject to a fine.

However, these countries are outliers on a global level - to glance at an overview, we've made a map.

View the interactive map, below:

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