Extend Iraq history with early import controls and postwar drug laws

@@ -1568,2 +1568,12 @@ means neither unrestricted adult use nor licensed sellers only. Keep the permitt
 category, recipient restrictions and import/export licensing in the narrative; New Zealand's
 2026 hemp rules are the first example.
+
+An [Iraqi early-controls pass](research/history-iraq-early-2026-10-26.md) on
+26 October 2026 adds the postal guide's 1930 record of cannabis import permits,
+the 1949 disposal rules for court-confiscated drugs and the 1955 replacement
+fine/prison penalty. Two new articles explain the 1949 and 1955 changes; the
+1938 article now connects to the penalty amendment, and the 1965 article's
+references to its treaty rationale are corrected. The 1930 date belongs to the
+guide, not the underlying rule's commencement. Current scores and the inherited
+historical snapshots are unchanged: the original 1938 penalty and commencement
+clauses remain necessary for the open reconstruction of the 1933–2017 interval.

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+# Iraq: recovering the controls before the 1965 law
+
+26 October 2026. Continued the open Iraqi chronology identified in the 21 and
+23 October notes. The previous goal turn made progress by committing the New Zealand
+and Cambodia issue fixes. This pass returns to the larger history objective.
+Read `docs/WRITING.md`, the history/category/score/workflow sections of
+`docs/DATA-MAINTENANCE.md`, `docs/BOOKS.md` and the catalogue overview before writing.
+No local book was newly read or recatalogued.
+
+Baseline: 3,159 events, 910 articles; Iraq 21 events and seven articles. Research
+downloads, text extractions, page renders, baseline and validation logs are kept in
+ignored `tmp/history-iraq-early-2026-10-26/`. The source archive was already dirty,
+including staged changes at the start; it is outside this commit.
+
+## What the opened sources establish
+
+### The 1930 postal guide records an earlier import control
+
+Opened the Qatar Digital Library's title page, folio 2r, and printed pages 56–57,
+folios 41v–42r, of the *Iraqi Post and Telegraph Guide 1930*, British Library
+IOR/L/PS/12/4114B. The title page says published under the authority of the
+Director-General, Posts and Telegraphs. Section 170 begins on p. 56 and concerns
+articles prohibited from import **by foreign parcel post**. Item 9(b), p. 57, names
+ganja, bhang, charas, hashish and other intoxicating hemp preparations, with a special
+import-authorisation exception from the Director of Health Service.
+
+- [Title page](https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100060655692.0x000004)
+- [Section heading, p. 56](https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100060655692.0x000056)
+- [Cannabis item, p. 57](https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100060655692.0x000057)
+
+The new event dates the guide's record, not the enactment of its underlying rule.
+It is `other`, with an explicit unscored reason. Do not generalise parcel rules to
+all imports, treat the title as a commencement date or claim the 1933 law introduced
+the first cannabis restriction. The archive file spans approximately 1930–1939 and
+includes later loose amendments; this passage is in the printed guide. IIIF image
+downloads returned 403, so the archive's page transcriptions and title-page record
+were read, without claiming visual verification of these three pages.
+
+### 1949: what happened to drugs confiscated by courts
+
+Downloaded and read the actual English government communication in
+[E/NL.1950/98–99](https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/1296974/files/e-nl-1950-98-99-e.pdf),
+especially printed p. 3 (PDF p. 3), and visually checked that page. Regulation 36
+was made on 22 May but began on **13 June 1949**, its Gazette publication date
+(issue 2749), under article 3. Articles 1–2 send court-confiscated drugs to the health
+directorate for destruction or medical/scientific use in government health institutions.
+Destruction requires two health-directorate doctors and police/customs representatives,
+with a report and certificate to the Ministry of Social Affairs.
+
+Cannabis coverage comes from article 2 of the parent 1938 law, independently reopened
+in the official Iraqi Legislation Database. The new history entry and article cite
+both sources. The regulation supplies administration of an existing confiscation
+power, not evidence that government institutions actually used seized cannabis for
+patients. The accompanying 1949 notification concerns metopon; it is not added as
+a cannabis event.
+
+### 1955: a missing replacement penalty
+
+Downloaded the actual one-page [E/NL.1956/117](https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/1296975/files/e-nl-1956-117-e.pdf)
+with the `?download=1` suffix after ordinary fetches failed. Read the entire English
+government communication and visually checked its text, title and publication notice.
+The UN transmitted it on 8 January 1957, but the law is **64 of 1955**, effective
+on publication in Gazette issue 3642 on **14 June 1955**. Those three dates must
+not be collapsed.
+
+It replaces article 13 with a general 100–1,000-dinar fine, six months–five years
+in prison, or both, plus confiscation of materials/articles seized in the offender's
+actual use. It does not state a mandatory prison sentence in every case. Article 7
+of the 1938 law makes unauthorised possession an offence and article 2 expressly
+includes cannabis; the two sources establish the cannabis application together.
+
+Reread the original 1965 law's retained text, especially articles 14–16 and reasons,
+and the 1967 amendment's replacement article 14. The 1965 original kept the same
+general fine/prison range, while 1967 distinguished personal-use possession/growing
+(one–five years **and** a fine) from supply, including gifts. New articles connect
+these stages. Three misplaced references in the existing 1965 article now cite its
+own explanation of the Single Convention and reasons, instead of the 1938 law.
+
+## Score reconstruction remains open
+
+The existing chart puts all six segments at zero from the 1933 cultivation law to
+2017. Its 1933 source does not substantiate that full vector. This pass did **not**
+repair it or change present-day scores. The new import-control record also shows
+why treating 1933 as the first restriction needs review.
+
+The [official 1938 view](https://iraqld.msla.iq/legislations/showlegislation?sc=290920052658504)
+again displayed articles 1–9 only. No original penalty or operative commencement
+clause was recovered. Direct `lawbookid` views, including the previously read 1933
+law, were blocked by the site's security policy in both ordinary fetching and the
+in-app browser. The browser displayed the block; it was not bypassed. Existing
+1933 facts are retained rather than described as freshly verified.
+
+The 1955 entry is `other`: replacement of the penalty is certain, but its direction
+relative to the original 1938 penalty is unverified. Its explicit unscored reason
+records that and the unresolved inherited vector. The 1949 administrative change
+and 1930 guide record also have reasons for carrying no score. Do not interpret a
+passing chain diagnostic as validation of the historical vector.
+
+Concrete next retrieval: the complete original 1938 law, particularly article 13
+and commencement. A catalogue identifies the government communication as League
+document **C.483.M.326.1938.XI, 1 December 1938**; the underlying document was not
+retrieved, so the catalogue is a lead only. Secondary search results also suggest
+an earlier hemp-cultivation prohibition and a June 1938 start; neither is added as
+a verified event or used to move a score without its primary source.
+
+## Deliverables and checks
+
+Three new history records (1930, 1949, 1955), two new articles (1949 and 1955), an
+expanded 1938 article and corrected 1965 inline references. The new articles have
+four sections each and 373/371 whitespace-delimited words. Current profiles and
+all existing score snapshots are preserved.
+
+Verification completed:
+
+- Required history tests: 39 passed; quick-answer/profile tests: 16 passed.
+- Production build: 4,164 pages, 46.90 seconds. This combined checkout includes
+  separately committed Jersey work; it is not a count of Iraqi pages alone.
+- Preservation checks compare every pre-existing score snapshot and all 21
+  pre-existing Iraqi events against the saved baseline; all are identical.
+- Article length, section count, source-index coverage, related IDs and internal
+  history links passed. All five touched article/event pages resolve their
+  numbered reference links, with no raw citation syntax in visible text.
+- New records appear in the country page, decade pages and history JSON export;
+  the API retains Iraq's current total of 2. The chain diagnostic reports zero
+  mechanical flags, subject to the substantive score limitation above.
+- The in-app browser checked both new articles, the filtered global history
+  showing all three additions, and the country History tab and score chart.
+
+The temporary compiled site is removed after verification. Source PDFs, extracts,
+page renders, baseline, scripts and logs remain as research materials.