Top 5 Countries Where Weed is Legal in 2023

4. Uruguay

Annual Prevalence of Cannabis Use: 14.6%

Uruguay became the world’s pioneering country to legalize adult-use marijuana in 2013, and began its sales four years later in 2017. The country’s pharmacies sold almost 10.7 million grams of marijuana between July 2017 and July 2023. There are three companies producing cannabis, and its sale is authorized in 37 pharmacies distributed across ten departments throughout the country. Uruguay also started exporting weed in 2019, and doubled exports in 2020, to $7.3 million.