Azerbaijan: primary 1934 source and 7 history entries

1934-10-27

The Soviet ban onUnion bans unauthorised Indian hemp growing cannabis covers, Azerbaijan included

TheOn 27 October 1934 the Soviet Union prohibited the unauthorised cultivation’s central executive committee and council of people’s commissars banned sowing opium poppy and Indian hemp except where the crop was grown for medical or scientific needs. Growers needed an annual permit, unauthorised crops were to be destroyed and their owners prosecuted, and the opium poppyunion republics were told to add the offence to their criminal codes. The decree took effect in 1935 and applied in Azerbaijan was, then a Soviet republic; it named Indian hemp, the drug variety, not ordinary fibre hemp.

Собрание законов и распоряжений Рабоче-Крестьянского Правительства СССР за 1934 г., № 56, ст. 422 — О запрещении посевов опийного мака и индийской конопли Wikipedia — Cannabis in Russia

No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room. Article 238 criminalises organising or keeping a place for them: growing cannabis and supplying itdrug use with up to another personfour years, or three to eight for gaina group or repeat offence; sale and cultivation are bothseparately prohibited.[@criminal]

There is no legal recreational supply for anyone. A visitor who uses or holds a small amou … o seven years.[@admin,criminal] The law makes no exception for visitors.[@admin,criminal] A foreigner can also be expelled as a punishment under Article 42.0.9.[@criminal]

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Driving while intoxicated by narcotics, psychotropic substances or other strong substances … two-year restriction, or fifteen days to one month of administrative arrest.[@admin] The law sets no THC limitarticle’s note says a driver is considered intoxicated if a special technical device shows drug intake, so the offence turns on showing that the driver was intoxicatedtrigger is a positive test rather than a measured THC limit.[@admin]

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The drug law lets legal entities use narcotics for scientific and teaching purposes only with permission from the relevant executive authority.[@druglaw] No published Azerbaijani cannabis study or clinical trial was found.[@druglaw]

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