Taiwan introduces specific quantity-based possession penalties for second-category drugs
unscored
The basic possession penalty was kept; the heavier tier starts only at 20 g pure weight.
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score triage batch 3: Bosnia, Iran, Syria, Taiwan, Albania
Score the 1950 Yugoslav Narcotic Drugs Act for all seven successor states, and the death-penalty laws of Iran (1988) and Syria (1993); give 17 entries unscored reasons. Current scores are unchanged.
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Bosnia's medical-cannabis prescribing rules slip into 2027
unscored
Prescribing rules are still not in place, so no patient has been treated.
Bosnia sets a deadline for its stalled medical cannabis rules
unscored
Prescribing rules are still not in place, so no patient has been treated.
Bosnia and Herzegovina approves cannabis-based medicines
unscored
Prescribing rules are still not in place, so no patient has been treated.
Albania legalises medical cannabis cultivation
unscored
Licensed growing for export and industry; no patient or consumer access.
Taiwan lowers the sentence for growing cannabis for personal use
unscored
Lowered the minimum, but one to seven years in prison stays at the level of peers such as Japan (up to seven years, cultivation 0).
Taiwan's top court rejects the five-year minimum for growing cannabis
unscored
The ruling gave lawmakers a year; the penalty changed with the 2022 amendment.
Iran raises the threshold for drug executions
unscored
Death remains for armed or organised trafficking and flogging for small amounts; enforcement stays at the floor.
Albanian police take the cannabis village of Lazarat
unscored
A police operation against commercial growing under the existing law.
Syria allows the death penalty for drugs
before
possession 0 · cultivation 1 · enforcement 2 · sharing 0 · consumption 1 · access 0
Iran sets the death penalty for hashish
before
possession 1 · cultivation 1 · enforcement 1 · sharing 0 · consumption 1 · access 0
Yugoslavia's Narcotic Drugs Act bans growing Indian hemp
before
possession 1 · cultivation 2 · enforcement 2 · sharing 1 · consumption 1 · access 0
Yugoslavia's Narcotic Drugs Act bans growing Indian hemp
before
possession 3 · cultivation 2 · enforcement 3 · sharing 1 · consumption 2 · access 0
Yugoslavia's Narcotic Drugs Act bans growing Indian hemp
before
possession 3 · cultivation 2 · enforcement 4 · sharing 1 · consumption 2 · access 0
Yugoslavia's Narcotic Drugs Act bans growing Indian hemp
before
possession 1 · cultivation 2 · enforcement 2 · sharing 1 · consumption 1 · access 0
Yugoslavia's Narcotic Drugs Act bans growing Indian hemp
before
possession 1 · cultivation 2 · enforcement 2 · sharing 1 · consumption 1 · access 0
Yugoslavia's Narcotic Drugs Act bans growing Indian hemp
before
possession 3 · cultivation 2 · enforcement 3 · sharing 1 · consumption 1 · access 0
Yugoslavia's Narcotic Drugs Act bans growing Indian hemp
before
possession 1 · cultivation 2 · enforcement 2 · sharing 1 · consumption 1 · access 0
Yugoslavia prohibits growing cannabis for resin
unscored
Covered growing for hashish only; the general cultivation ban came with the 1950 Act, scored for every successor state.
Albania seizes 21 tonnes of cannabis in a year
unscored
Seizures from commercial growing under the existing law.
Kurdish forces raid cannabis growers in northern Syria
unscored
Regional enforcement by a de facto administration under the existing law.
North-east Syria's security forces arrest 1,165 drug users
unscored
Regional enforcement by a de facto administration under the existing law.
Taiwan makes its largest cannabis seizure as the rally grows
unscored
A police seizure under the existing law.
Iran's executions more than double, nearly half for drug offences
unscored
Executions under the existing law; enforcement is already at the floor.
Baybars prohibits hashish in Damascus
unscored
A medieval Mamluk prohibition that did not last into modern Syrian law.
Tahmasp’s prohibition of bang is publicized in Safavid Iran
unscored
A royal decree of uncertain scope and duration; the record does not show it lasting.
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@@ -1185,2 +1185,12 @@ read the act to see whether it applied to all of British India before scoring it rewrite of Penal Code Article 191 (two to five years, with compulsory deferral of prosecution) is not yet in the history. Current scores did not change. + +The third score-triage batch, on 20 October 2026, covered Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iran, Syria, +Taiwan and Albania. Yugoslavia's 1950 Narcotic Drugs Act, which banned growing Indian hemp outside +scientific institutions, is now scored for all seven successor states with the same step +(cultivation one point lower). Serbia's 1932 resin-growing ban stays context, since the general +ban came in 1950. Iran's 1988 law and Syria's 1993 law, both bringing the death penalty, take +enforcement one point lower, and Syria's also takes cultivation to 0 (death for growers). Taiwan's +2022 cultivation amendment stays context: one to seven years still matches Japan at 0. Albania's +and Syria's raids and campaigns, Bosnia's medical approval (no prescribing rules yet) and +Albania's export licensing got `unscored` reasons. Current scores did not change.