Cannabis Freedom Index

Changelog 3be1154

history: add USVI 1937 Tax Act article from EO 7715; upgrade entry

Federal Register order read in full (signed 26 Sept, mirror administration, registration/taxes from 1 Oct, 2-cent forms, Treasury stamps). New article adds Congress's 2 Aug passage and Truman's 1951 delegation (EO 10250). Entry gains per-sentence citations and locator.

1 history entry edited1 article written1 file of code, design or docs +90 −3 lines

History changes.yaml

Edited 1

The US Virgin Islands come under the Marihuana Tax Act

description

An executive order of President RooseveltExecutive Order 7715, signed 26 September 1937, carried the new federal Marihuana Tax Act into the Virgin Islands with a mainland-mirror administration: the finance commissioner stood in for internal revenue collectors and the governor for the narcotics commissioner.[@1] From 1 October 1937 it was unlawful to import, grow, make or deal in cannabis without registering and paying the tax, which in practice ended legal trade, as on the mainland.[@1]

Articles and atlas entries 1

Code, design and documents 1 file

docs/research/history-usvi-1937-2026-10-26.md +53 −0
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+# Research pass: US Virgin Islands 1937 Tax Act article and entry upgrade
+
+Research checked on 26 October 2026. The territory's first cannabis ban
+gains a properly sourced article built from the Federal Register executive
+order read in full, plus a 1951 follow-up order; the entry is rewritten
+with per-sentence citations and a locator. No scores, profiles or
+timelines changed.
+
+## What was verified (all sources actually read)
+
+### Executive Order 7715 (Federal Register, 30 September 1937; via govinfo)
+
+- Roosevelt's order, signed 26 September and filed 29 September 1937:
+  section 15 of the Marihuana Tax Act (approved 2 August 1937, Public
+  No. 238, 75th Congress) directed presidential implementation in the
+  Virgin Islands. Mainland-mirror administration (finance commissioner for
+  internal revenue collectors; governor for the narcotics commissioner).
+  From 1 October 1937, importing, manufacturing, producing, compounding,
+  selling, dealing, dispensing, prescribing, administering, giving away or
+  acquiring marihuana without compliance was unlawful. Registration with the
+  finance commissioner; annual special taxes each July; 2-cent order forms;
+  Treasury-supplied transfer-tax stamps; mainland exemptions carried over;
+  governor's regulations to follow Treasury's as far as applicable;
+  inspection powers.
+- New `articles/us-virgin-islands-marihuana-tax-act-1937.md` (357 words,
+  3 sections, both sources cited; links /country/vi/). Entry rewritten
+  with the signed date and mirror-administration detail, locator added.
+
+### Executive Order 10250 (American Presidency Project, read)
+
+- Truman, 5 June 1951, section (f): the president's Virgin Islands
+  marihuana registration/tax powers (26 U.S.C. 2554(b), 2603(b)) delegated
+  to the Secretary of the Interior in consultation with the Treasury.
+  Used only for the article's closing paragraph; the 1951 entry itself was
+  left untouched.
+
+## Dead ends recorded, not forced
+
+- No article-length material beyond the two orders was sought; mainland
+  Tax Act politics (Anslinger etc.) deliberately excluded as out of scope.
+- Yugoslav 1929 code text still unrecovered (pravo.hr serves HTML to
+  scripts). Cameroon already has its 1926 French decree; Cuba comprehensively
+  covered by the 25 October pass; Ethiopia 1930 provisions still missing.
+
+## Verification and files
+
+- `node -e` YAML load of changes.yaml clean (run before build).
+- `npm run build`, `npm run history:test`, `npm run answers:test` all green;
+  rendered `/history/us-virgin-islands-marihuana-tax-act-1937/` citation
+  marks checked.
+- Commit limited to own work: the USVI hunk in changes.yaml, the new
+  article, this note, via pathspec. Foreign staged/worktree files excluded
+  and preserved.

    ↑↓ to move, ↵ to open.