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+# Puerto Rico: the 1959–1971 chain and the 1971–2015 gap
+
+Research checked on 26 October 2026. Read `DATA-MAINTENANCE.md` and
+`WRITING.md`, the Puerto Rico profile and its eleven history entries before
+editing. No book was used. This pass reconstructs the scored chain the 1959
+and 1971 entries had explicitly left open, fills the 1971–2015 gap with three
+dated entries. The 1959 and 1971 articles already exist from the 21 October
+pass and are left untouched. Cameroon and Vietnam belong to other agents; no
+file outside Puerto Rico was touched.
+
+## Sources actually read
+
+- Narcotics Act 48-1959, original scan (bvirtualogp, PDF/2/0048-1959.pdf):
+ articles 29–33 and the penalty comparison, read in extracted text.
+ Article 29 groups smoking opium, heroin and marihuana; article 30 puts
+ growing under prior permission for industrial purposes only; article 33
+ punishes articles 29–32 violations with five to twenty years and a fine
+ up to $20,000 (ten to forty for repeat convictions).
+- Controlled Substances Act 4-1971, original scan
+ (PDF/3-duplicados/0004-1971.pdf), read as page images: article 401 supply
+ bands (Schedule I non-narcotic 5–20 years), article 402 registration
+ offences, article 403 fraud (1–4 years), article 404 possession for
+ personal consumption (1–3 years, fine up to $5,000, repeat 2–6 years) with
+ the once-in-a-lifetime probation and confidential dismissal, articles
+ 405–407 (minors, attempt, stacking fines), and the commencement clause
+ (article 404 in force 23 June 1971, the rest after 180 days).
+- Act 109-1980, original scan (PDF/2/0109-1980.pdf), read as page images:
+ the purpose clause (indeterminate to determinate sentencing), the
+ rewritten article 404 (fixed three years, five aggravated, two mitigated;
+ repeat fixed six) with probation kept, and Section 2 (in force together
+ with the act establishing the fixed-sentence system — that act's own date
+ was not recovered, so the entry is dated by year).
+- The current Law 4 compilation (rev. 2 May 2026, Justicia/4-1971/4-1971.pdf),
+ read in text: the amendment list (38 amending laws, 1972–2026), cannabis as
+ Schedule I item 10, current article 401 (Schedule I non-narcotic supply a
+ fixed twelve years) and article 404 (fixed three years), plus the later
+ 404(c) treatment-assessment fine route.
+- Associated Press via The A&T Register (April 2013): Senator Miguel
+ Pereira's bill for 21+ possession of up to an ounce, the Capitol march,
+ the 1,117 killings figure, and the then-current three-year, $5,000
+ possession penalty. Read in full as extracted text.
+- Associated Press via Medical Xpress (6 September 2013): the Báez–Vargas
+ medical bill (patient home smoking, health-department licensing, home-grow
+ permits for patients far from or unable to afford clinics), the Cole-memo
+ context, and Senator José Pérez's opposition. Read in full.
+
+Act 88-1988 was read (a probation-revocation procedure for article 404 cases)
+and deliberately left without an entry: it changes no cannabis rule a user
+would feel. Law 64-1972, which amended article 404 per the current
+compilation's history, could not be recovered from the OGP archive and is
+not described anywhere.
+
+## Score handling
+
+The old chain carried only two scored steps: the 1932 estimate (100→11) and
+the 2016 dispensary opening (11→14). The 1959 five-to-twenty-year felony and
+the 1971 cut to one-to-three years with probation now carry the steps their
+entries said needed reconstruction:
+
+1932 100→11 · 1959 11→6 (possession 1→0, enforcement 2→1, consumption 1→0)
+· 1971 6→11 (all three back) · 2016 11→14 (access 0→3).
+
+Cultivation stays 1 throughout: the 1959 permission route for supervised
+industrial growing and today's licensed medical industry are the same kind
+of non-personal licence. Sharing stays 1: supply was a severe felony in
+every era and the profile scores today's identical structure at 1.
+Consumption moves on the use question: a misdemeanour-era possession regime
+(1), a felony that expressly punished use (0 in 1959), and the 1971
+possession-for-personal-consumption framing (1 again). `data-status chain
+pr` reports no flagged step; `scores:triage pr` reports no open entry.
+Today's profile scores (total 14) did not change, so the profile file was
+not edited.
+
+The 1980 rewrite is context (`other` with an `unscored` reason): same
+durations in fixed-term form, probation kept, no cannabis-specific level
+change. The 2013 bills are debate entries; they fill the 2010s alongside
+the 2015 executive order.
+
+## Articles
+
+None added: the 1959 and 1971 entries already have compliant articles from
+the 21 October pass (391 and 419 words), which this pass leaves untouched.
+They remain accurate under the reconstructed chain — the 1971 article even
+anticipates the fixed-term rewrite the new 1980 entry now records.
+
+## Still open
+
+- Law 64-1972's changes to article 404 (and Laws 16 and 89 of 1972): not on
+ the OGP archive under the probed directories; Justia and casemine would
+ not load from here.
+- Which 1971 schedule cannabis sat in and whether it counted as a narcotic
+ drug for article 401 purposes: the entries do not depend on it, since the
+ scored steps rest on possession penalties, but an article asserting the
+ supply band should verify it first.
+- The 1932 Law 12 and 1934 Law 51 texts: the estimate and the quoted
+ re-enactment rest on the Supreme Court decision via its mirror; the
+ originals were not recovered.
+- Law 88-1988's probation-revocation procedure and the long tail of minor
+ Law 4 amendments (1974–2026): read the amendment only in the compilation
+ list, good leads for a future enforcement-history pass.
+- The 180-day remainder of the 1971 act and the fixed-sentence system act's
+ own commencement date.
+
+## Validation
+
+- Parsed-history comparison of the working tree against HEAD: exactly three
+ entries added (1980, April 2013, September 2013) and two rescored (1959,
+ 1971); no other country's entries changed, none removed.
+- `node scripts/data-status.cjs chain pr`: `100 -> 11 -> 6 -> 11 -> 14`,
+ no flagged steps. `npm run scores:triage -- pr`: 4 scored, 0 open.
+- `npm run history:test`: 39 passed. `npm run answers:test`: 16 passed.
+- Production build passed (4,190 pages). The three new history pages render
+ with dates, score steps and reference lists.
+- A concurrent agent's Vietnam work was committed separately (`548777b`);
+ its uncommitted `source-archive.json` work is untouched and not part of
+ this commit. This commit stages only the Puerto Rico hunks and files.