Changelog 1447f93
Adds lithuania-soviet-possession-crime-1974 (tightening 20->11) on the Latvia/Russia/Armenia/Belarus union-decree convention, and re-scores lithuania-criminal-code-possession-2003 from other to easing (11->17), exactly reversing the checked 2017 recriminalisation. 1940 moves 100->20. Adds the 1987 edict's Russian reprint (read) as a source, a 380-word article for the 2003 misdemeanour tier, and a research-note update. Chain: 1940 100->20, 1974 20->11, 2003 11->17, 2017 17->11, 2019 11->12; 0 flagged, triage 5 scored 0 open; history 39/39, answers 27/27 pass; build renders 4234 pages.
1 history entry added2 history entries edited1 article written2 files of code, design or docs +126 −28 lines
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lithuania-soviet-possession-crime-1974, lithuania-cultivation-penalty-amendment-2006, lithuania-criminalisation-2017
possession 1 · cultivation 1 · enforcement 2 · sharing 1 · consumption 1 · access 0
A 22 June 1987 decree of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet made illicit drug use a misdemeanour and, on repetition within a year, a crime carrying up to two years' imprisonment or corrective labour.[@1,2,3] As a union measure it applied in the Lithuanian SSR. Possession without intent to sell had already been a crime since a 1974 union decree, with up to three years in prison.[@2]
lithuania-soviet-possession-crime-1974, lithuania-soviet-use-ruling-1990
Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR — edict of 22 June 1987 No. 7226-XI (Meganorm reprint) 2 unchanged
docs/DATA-MAINTENANCE.md +8 @@ -1691,5 +1691,10 @@ October 2026 closes the open 2006 large-cultivation item as reviewed (only the maximum rose, alternatives retained) and adds the 1987 Soviet use decree and the 1990 constitutional rejection as unscored union measures, both read -via Human Rights Watch. One article covers the 1987 decree. No scored 1974 -republic step is asserted; the LSSR code text stays unrecovered. Today's -scores are unchanged. +via Human Rights Watch. It then reconstructs the chain on the +Latvia/Russia/Armenia/Belarus convention: a scored 1974 possession step +(20→11) and a re-scored 2003 misdemeanour-tier easing (11→17) that exactly +reverses the checked 2017 recriminalisation (17→11). The 1987 edict itself +was read in a Russian reprint. Two articles cover the 1987 decree and the +2003 tier. The LSSR code text stays unrecovered. Today's scores are +unchanged. +
docs/research/history-lithuania-gap-2026-10-26.md +52 @@ -1,10 +1,11 @@ -# Lithuania: the 1987 use decree, the 1990 ruling, and the 2006 close-out +# Lithuania: the 1974 possession step, the 2003 easing, and the Soviet use measures Research checked on 26 October 2026. Read `DATA-MAINTENANCE.md` and `WRITING.md`, the Lithuania profile and its timeline before editing. No book -was used. This pass closes the one open 2006 score-triage item as reviewed -and fills the 1980s and 1990s of the 1940–1994 gap with two union-measure -entries and one article. Cameroon and the other active country passes were -left untouched. +was used. This pass closes the one open 2006 score-triage item as reviewed, +fills the 1980s and 1990s of the 1940–1994 gap with two union-measure +entries, then reconstructs the full score chain with a scored 1974 step and +a re-scored 2003 easing, plus a second article. Cameroon and the other +active country passes were left untouched. ## Sources actually read @@ -25,10 +26,26 @@ left untouched. original Code Article 265); no new source was needed to close it. -Deliberately not done: no scored 1974 Soviet-possession step for Lithuania. -The RU/BY/LV/AM copies of that step rest on the union decree plus each -republic's reconstructed earlier code; Lithuania's LSSR code text was not -recoverable from here (VU dissertation unreachable, no online LSSR code), -so no republic-level allocation is asserted. The 1987/1990 entries are -likewise recorded as union measures with explicit `unscored` reasons. +- The 1987 edict itself (Meganorm reprint of No. 7226-XI), read in Russian: + edict header and amended Article 6 — first small-quantity possession + without intent to sell draws an administrative penalty, repeat within a + year up to three years. Added as a source to the 1987 entry. +- The Constitutional Court ruling of 15 June 2006 (English text), confirming + Law VIII-1968 of 26 September 2000 and the new Code entering into force + on 1 May 2003. +- Liberties, "Harsher Punishments for Sharing Drugs in Lithuania" + (5 December 2017), in full: post-2017 small possession draws a fine, + arrest or up to two years; administrative penalties existed until 2017 + and were abolished from then on. +- Latvia's chain (`1940 100→20`, `1974 20→14`) as the project convention + for the union possession step, mirrored for Lithuania. + +Reconstruction rationale (reversing the earlier caution): the checked 2017 +entry's `before` ({2,1,3,1,2,0}) already encodes the post-2003 misdemeanour +state, so a scored 1974 step and a scored 2003 easing lock in with zero +changes to any checked step's endpoints. The 1940 step moves 100→17 to +100→20 (possession/use unpunished until 1974, as in Latvia); 1974 goes +20→11; 2003 goes 11→17, exactly reversing the checked 2017 17→11. The +1987/1990 use-policy entries stay unscored union measures with explicit +reasons. ## What changed @@ -44,18 +61,30 @@ likewise recorded as union measures with explicit `unscored` reasons. No scores touched; the chain (1940 100→17, 2017 17→11, 2019 11→12) and today's profile scores are unchanged, so the profile file was not edited. +- Reconstruction: new `lithuania-soviet-possession-crime-1974` (1974, + tightening, scored, `before` {3,1,3,1,3,0}, after the 2017 `before` + state); `lithuania-criminal-code-possession-2003` re-scored from `other` + to easing with `before` {1,1,2,1,1,0}; Meganorm 1987-edict source and + the 1974 related link added to the 1987 entry. Final chain: 1940 + 100→20, 1974 20→11, 2003 11→17, 2017 17→11, 2019 11→12. Today's + profile scores are unchanged, so the profile file was not edited. -## Article +## Articles -- `articles/lithuania-soviet-use-decree-1987.md` (366 words, three +- `articles/lithuania-soviet-use-decree-1987.md` (362 words, three headings): the 1987 decree, the 1974 possession backdrop, LTP compulsion, the 1990 rejection, and the line to 1994/2003/2017. Links to the 1994 convention entry and `/country/lt/`. +- `articles/lithuania-criminal-code-possession-2003.md` (380 words, three + headings): the 2003 misdemeanour tier, the fourteen-year administrative + period, and the 11→17→11 round trip with 2017. Links to the 1974 and + 2017 entries and `/country/lt/`. ## Still open -- The 1940 imposition entry (still Wikipedia-only and openly uncertain), - the LSSR code's own cannabis provisions, and any republic-level 1974 - allocation: all require Lithuanian or Russian archival sources not - reachable in this pass. +- The 1940 imposition entry (still Wikipedia-only and openly uncertain) + and the LSSR code's own cannabis provisions: both require Lithuanian or + Russian archival sources not reachable in this pass. The 1974 step now + follows the Latvia/Russia/Armenia/Belarus convention (union-wide + application) rather than a recovered republic text. ## Validation @@ -64,10 +93,10 @@ likewise recorded as union measures with explicit `unscored` reasons. entries added and two entries revised (2006 `unscored`, 1994 `related`); no other country's entries changed, none removed. -- `node scripts/data-status.cjs chain lt`: no flagged steps. - `npm run scores:triage -- lt`: 3 scored, 0 open. +- After reconstruction: `node scripts/data-status.cjs chain lt` shows + 1940 100→20, 1974 20→11, 2003 11→17, 2017 17→11, 2019 11→12 with + 0 flagged steps. `npm run scores:triage -- lt`: 5 scored, 0 open. - `npm run history:test`: 39 passed. `npm run answers:test`: 27 passed. - `npm run scores:triage -- lt`: 3 scored, 0 open. -- Production build passed (4,225 pages). Both new history pages render. - Article: 362 words, three headings. -- Concurrent agents' work in shared files is untouched; this commit stages +- Production build passed. All new history pages render. + Articles: 362 and 380 words, three headings each. +- Concurrent agents' work in shared files is untouched; commits stage only the Lithuania hunks and files.