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+# Research pass: St Lucia 1938 + Nyasaland 1932 articles from gazette scans
+
+Research checked on 26 October 2026. Two colonial first bans move from
+unconfirmed/Wiki-grade to full ordinance text read in gazette scans, with
+two new articles. Malawi's first ban moves back from 1936 to 1932. No
+scores, profiles or timelines changed.
+
+## What was verified (all sources actually read)
+
+- CRL Digital Collections record 827777 (Saint Lucia revised ordinances
+ 1957), files 490–522 swept page by page: Chapter 55 is Ordinance No. 20
+ of 1938, in force 1 May 1939. Read: s. 2(17) Indian Hemp definition
+ (Cannabis sativa plant, unextracted dried fruiting/flowering tops, resins,
+ resin-base preparations); Part IV ss. 9–10 (import/export ban; import,
+ export, cultivate, produce, sell, possess or deal = offence; transit
+ excepted); penalty clause (indictment $960/10 years with or without hard
+ labour, summary $240/6 months, forfeiture + destruction). New
+ `articles/saint-lucia-dangerous-drugs-1938.md` (~330w body, 4 sections).
+ Entry `saint-lucia-dangerous-drugs-1938` rewritten with per-sentence [@1];
+ the AG's Chambers section-50 source (which never confirmed coverage) is
+ replaced by the ordinance scan. One locator correction made mid-pass: the
+ penalty section number was unverified in OCR, so entry and article cite
+ "penalty clause", not "s. 27".
+- CRL record 710837 (Nyasaland gazette), files 078–095 swept: Ordinance
+ No. 7 of 1932, assented by Acting Governor K. L. Hall 15 June 1932. Read:
+ preamble + s. 1; s. 2 Indian Hemp definition (hemp, resins, resin-base
+ preparations, plus Governor's gazette power); s. 4 (import/export/
+ manufacture/possession/cultivation/supply/use ban, "anything to the
+ contrary in any other law notwithstanding"); s. 9 (pipe/material smoking
+ ban, possession/use ban, premises keeping/frequenting ban); s. 10 (£200
+ or 6 months + forfeiture); s. 11 (search/seizure, incl. warrantless
+ European-officer power with after-report). New
+ `articles/nyasaland-dangerous-drugs-1932.md` (~330w body, 4 sections) and
+ new entry `nyasaland-dangerous-drugs-1932` (1932-06-15, ban, colonial, mw,
+ checked). This predates `nyasaland-noxious-weeds-1936`, so per
+ docs/DATA-MAINTENANCE.md ("moving where a drop happens means editing the
+ before of the event that used to carry it") the 1936 entry is re-based:
+ its `before` moves from FREE to the post-1932-ban state
+ {possession:1, cultivation:2, enforcement:3, sharing:1, consumption:1,
+ access:0}, mirroring the Basutoland 1922 first-ban vector for an
+ equivalent British-African full hemp ban, and its description gains one
+ cited clause naming the 1932 predecessor (second source added). The 1932
+ ban thus carries the large first-ban drop (100→16) and 1936 the remainder
+ (16→today's 11). This is the only score-vector change in the batch, and it
+ is forced by the chain, not a re-rating.
+- Claim boundaries: St Lucia article states cocaine/morphine fall under
+ Part V only from the Part V heading read in the scan; no convention-ratification
+ framing added (cut one unverified clause mid-draft). Nyasaland article
+ does not assert repeal or the 1956 Act's relationship to the 1932
+ ordinance.
+
+## Dead ends and parks recorded, not forced
+
+- Montserrat first ban: E/NL.1980/22 (1979 amendment to Cap. 199 Dangerous
+ Drugs Ordinance) is indexed on the UN Digital Library but the TIND file
+ endpoint returns the record page, not the PDF, to curl; the principal
+ ordinance's date is still unknown and mo[1925,1962] stands. The CRL
+ page-sweep technique that worked here is available for a retry once a
+ Montserrat gazette record is identified.
+- Portugal 1926 decree number: two search angles found no decree citation;
+ parked, not forced.
+- Yugoslav 1929 code text still unfound (see 2026-10-26 Brunei note for the
+ Medarević paper read); 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/saint-lucia-dangerous-drugs-1938/` and
+ `/history/nyasaland-dangerous-drugs-1932/` citation marks checked.
+- Commit limited to own work: St Lucia hunk + new Nyasaland entry in
+ changes.yaml, two new articles, this note, via pathspec. Foreign
+ staged/worktree files excluded and preserved.