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+# Research pass: Aden 1942 ordinance text upgrades trade-ban entry + article
+
+Research checked on 26 October 2026. A UN Digital Library search aimed at
+British Honduras surfaced a bundled E/NL.1956/93 file that turned out to be
+Aden's full Dangerous Drugs Ordinance — the original 1942 text the existing
+Aden entries had marked unverified. One entry upgraded, one article written.
+No scores, profiles or timelines changed.
+
+## What was verified (all sources actually read)
+
+- UN E/NL.1956/93 (9 pp. PDF via the Digital Library nanna endpoint, read
+ in extracted text): Aden Colony, Revised Edition of the Laws 1955,
+ Chapter 41 — Dangerous Drugs Ordinance No. 9 of 1942 (in force 1 March
+ 1942; amended by Nos. 25/1943, 19/1944, 9/1945, 32/1945). Read: s. 2
+ Indian hemp definition (dried flowering/fruiting tops, ganja/bhang or
+ otherwise); s. 3(n) hemp schedule (resin/charas, resin-base products,
+ extracts/tinctures); s. 4 cultivation ban (hemp + poppy, Governor's
+ written scientific permission excepted); s. 5 manufacture/buy/sell/
+ possess ban + seizure; ss. 6, 10 import/export certificates; ss. 8–9,
+ 11 opium/transhipment machinery; s. 13 prosecution presumption; s. 14
+ penalty (1 year / 1,500 shillings); s. 15 rule-making.
+- Entry `yemen-aden-cannabis-trade-ban-1942` rewritten: retitled (imports
+ and sales → growing, trade and possession), per-sentence [@1] (1952
+ report, pre-existing source) + [@2] (new ordinance source), unscored note
+ updated (original ordinance now verified; Aden-only scope kept, national
+ estimate untouched).
+- New `articles/yemen-aden-cannabis-trade-ban-1942.md` (~330w body,
+ 4 sections, both sources). One mid-draft cut: a 1960-replacement clause
+ was removed because the 1960 gazette was not re-read this pass (it stands
+ cited on the 1961 entry).
+
+Claim boundaries: the upgrade stays unscored — Aden Colony only, northern
+regime unknown, national `ye-first-restriction-estimate` preserved. "First"
+is not asserted for Aden; the text is the earliest documented.
+
+## Dead ends and parks recorded, not forced
+
+- The E/NL.1956/93 file is Aden, not British Honduras — the search snippet's
+ cultivation sentence was Aden s. 4. British Honduras 1928 (No. 22 of 1928)
+ still rests on E/NL.1949/25 (extension order only): the E/NL.1949/16-17
+ lead was pulled and proved procedural only (1947 evidence-certificate
+ section 15A using Jamaica's chemist; 1948 repeal of its costs subsection),
+ confirming the 1928 ordinance as the live principal law but adding no
+ cannabis text. Belize entry left as-is.
+- Gibraltar principal ordinance year still unknown (1951–54 filings are
+ extension orders/rules only). Macao pre-1962 cannabis coverage still
+ unverified (1946 Decree 933 was opium abolition per secondary snippet;
+ 1947/1949/1957 decrees' contents unknown). Portugal Decree 12.210/1926
+ identified by number but text unreachable (DRE JS + historic-file URL
+ patterns failed). Montserrat needs `ms` country scaffolding before any
+ entry. Yugoslav 1929 code text and Curaçao 1929 ordinance text still
+ unfound.
+
+## Verification and files
+
+- `node -e` YAML load of changes.yaml clean before build.
+- `npm run build`, `npm run history:test`, `npm run answers:test` green;
+ rendered `/history/yemen-aden-cannabis-trade-ban-1942/` citation marks
+ checked.
+- Commit limited to own work: the Aden 1942 hunk in changes.yaml, the new
+ article, this note, via pathspec. Foreign staged/worktree files excluded
+ and preserved.