A summary of policy developments in selected jurisdictions that allow varying degrees of regulated access to cannabis for non-medical use is presented below:

• As of December 2025, Canada, Uruguay and 28 jurisdictions in the United States had enacted legal provisions, either through legislative measures or by popular ballot, allowing the cultivation, production sale and possession of cannabis for non-medical use.
• Different legislative approaches have also emerged recently in other countries that allow varying degrees of regulated access to cannabis for non-medical use.
• The regulatory initiatives that legalized the cannabis supply chain for non-medical purposes, as in some jurisdictions in North America, have followed a continuum driven by processes, for instance by allowing the medical use of cannabis, that have progressively normalized the non?medical use of cannabis - not only in the jurisdictions that have legalized the non-medical use of cannabis, but also in other jurisdictions