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Italy places unauthorised possession and supply in the same penalty range

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Italy treats usersplaces unauthorised possession and dealers alikesupply in the same penalty range

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Law 1041 punished anyone holding drugs without authorisation with's Article 6 set three to eight years in prison' imprisonment for unauthorised possession of listed narcotics as well as purchase, making no distinction between a usersale and specified other dealings, without a trafficker. It stayedpersonal-use exception in force untilthat provision. Dated 22 October and published on 12 November, the law took effect on 27 November. Most of it was repealed by the 1975 reform, with an exception concerning the central narcotics office.

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Gazzetta Ufficiale — Law 22 October 1954, No. 1041, especially Articles 3, 6, 8 and 16, printed pp. 3690–3695 Normattiva — Law 1041, original text and commencement record Gazzetta Ufficiale — Constitutional Court Order 224/1976, account of repeal under Law 685 Wikipedia — Cannabis in Italy 1 unchanged

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docs/research/history-italy-1934-2026-10-20.md +8 −0
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 Check preservation of existing records and score vectors, article metadata,
 word count and internal links, production build and generated event output.
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+Results: all 2,637 baseline records preserved exactly, including every score
+vector. One unscored event added. Article checks passed: 448 words, two sources
+and valid internal event link. Production build passed: 3,328 pages in 26.05
+seconds. Generated article heading, both primary-source URLs, internal link and
+exported commencement date verified. Staged and unstaged whitespace checks
+passed. Totals: 2,638 events and 573 articles. Earlier Italy work and unrelated
+changes to `scripts/archive-sources.cjs` were preserved.

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+# Italy's 1954 narcotics law — 20 October 2026
+
+Added an article, clarified the existing 1954 event and added one unscored 1976
+procedural event concerning the replacement of its confinement provisions.
+
+## Evidence and limits
+
+- Visually read the complete Law 1041 in the original 12 November 1954 gazette,
+  printed pp. 3690–3695 (PDF pp. 2–7). The scan has no useful text layer; page
+  images were used. Also read the official HTML reproductions of Articles 3,
+  4, 6, 16, 18, 25 and 26. Article 6 contains no personal-use exception, but a
+  shared penalty range does not establish identical sentences in actual cases.
+- Article 8 expressly mentions Indian hemp in reporting requirements. Article
+  3 calls for a published list; the article does not pretend the statute itself
+  supplies an exhaustive list or establishes a first-ever cannabis prohibition.
+- Read Normattiva's original commencement record: 27 November 1954. Preserved
+  the existing event's 22 October instrument date, while distinguishing
+  publication and commencement in its description.
+- Read the complete Constitutional Court Order 224/1976 in the official gazette.
+  It records the 1975 repeal with its central-office exception and returns the
+  confinement case for reconsideration of relevance. It does not strike down
+  Article 21, decide the defence-rights challenge or legalise cannabis.
+- A consolidated 1975 law hosted by the Interior Ministry was consulted as a
+  lead. It contains 1990 amendments and was not used to backdate revised text.
+  An original 1975 gazette was downloaded but not read in this pass. The account
+  of repeal rests on the original 1976 court order, not that unexamined scan.
+- The pre-existing Order 59/1977 citation was retained in the event, but could
+  not be loaded from the Court's portal. It is not an article source or the
+  basis for a new claim. No enforcement rates or actual medical availability
+  were inferred from statutory permissions. No profiles, scores or score
+  baselines changed; the existing score vector was preserved without revalidation.
+
+## Verification
+
+Baseline: `tmp/history-italy-1954-2026-10-20/changes-before.yaml` (ignored).
+Check preservation except the intended 1954 title, description and source
+additions; validate article metadata and links, build and inspect generated pages.
+
+Results: all 2,638 baseline records retained except the intended 1954 title,
+description and source changes, with every score vector unchanged. One unscored
+event added. Article checks passed: 419 words, three sources and valid internal
+event links. The first build caught an unsupported `judgment` source type;
+changed it to the schema's `other` and rebuilt successfully (3,329 pages,
+32.52 seconds). Both generated event pages, article headings, internal links,
+primary-source links and exported dates verified. Staged and unstaged whitespace
+checks passed. Totals: 2,639 events and 574 articles. Earlier work and unrelated
+environment-example and archive-script changes were preserved.

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