Egypt extends its drug ban to heroin and cocaine
Extended controls to heroin, cocaine and opium; cannabis bands unchanged.
Changelog 3dc9339
Records unscored reasons for Egypt's open entries: medieval enforcement actions, the short-lived 1800 occupation decree, the 1868 prohibition folded into the 1879 anchor, the 1925 heroin/cocaine extension, the 1952 replacement law, the 1989 death-penalty rewrite within floor bands, and the 1994 single-year eradication campaign. Triage 2 scored 0 open (was 11 open); history 39/39, answers 27/27 pass; build and seo:audit green at 4253 pages.
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Extended controls to heroin, cocaine and opium; cannabis bands unchanged.
Conventional date contradicted by the IHDC March 1879 account; no verified separate ban and no movement available between the 1879 and 1960 anchors.
Enforcement campaign under existing prohibitions ahead of the 1879 law; no separate segment movement.
Nineteenth-century prohibition folded into the 1879 scored anchor pending the deferred reconstruction of earlier Egyptian restrictions.
Short-lived occupation decree superseded long before the 1879 anchor; no lasting segment movement available.
Single-year eradication campaign under existing prohibitions; no law changed.
Replacement drug law ahead of the 1960 rewrite; no distinct cannabis-segment movement established between the 1879 and 1960 anchors.
Death-penalty rewrite of trafficking and supply penalties; possession, cultivation and sharing already at the floor and user penalties unchanged.
Single enforcement action under pre-statutory prohibition; no dated law change and no segment baseline to move before the 1879 anchor.
Urban enforcement action (confiscation and burning); no dated law change and no segment baseline to move before the 1879 anchor.
Enforcement campaign with approximate date, not a dated statute; no segment movement available before the 1879 anchor.
docs/DATA-MAINTENANCE.md +9 @@ -1756,4 +1756,13 @@ supply, an affirmative Article 33 dispensing ban, and one-province scope. Triage reports 1 scored, 0 open. No article: a reasons-only pass. +An [Egypt triage pass](research/history-egypt-triage-2026-10-26.md) on 26 +October 2026 reviews all eleven open entries — medieval enforcement +actions, nineteenth-century prohibitions, the 1925 heroin/cocaine +extension, the 1952 law, the 1989 death-penalty rewrite and the 1994 +eradication — and records `unscored` reasons: pre-1879 items cannot move +segments under the checked anchor, later items move only non-cannabis, +replacement, floor-level or enforcement-only levers. Triage reports 2 +scored, 0 open. No article: a reasons-only pass. + A [Senegal triage pass](research/history-senegal-triage-2026-10-26.md) on 26 October 2026 reviews the three open tightening entries against the 1997
docs/research/history-egypt-triage-2026-10-26.md +53 @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +# Egypt: closing eleven open entries as reviewed + +Research checked on 26 October 2026. Read `DATA-MAINTENANCE.md` and +`WRITING.md`, the Egypt profile and its timeline before editing. No book +was used. This pass reviews all eleven open score-triage items — medieval +enforcement actions, nineteenth-century prohibitions, the 1925 +heroin/cocaine extension, the 1952 narcotics law, the 1989 death-penalty +rewrite and the 1994 eradication — and records `unscored` reasons. No +scores change. Cameroon and the other active country passes were left +untouched. + +## Sources actually read + +- The 1997 Senegal Code des drogues (for method, not Egypt): not used + here. Egypt sources read: the checked entries' own texts for the 1244, + 1324, 1378, 1800, 1868, 1877, 1879 and 1884 items (Maqrizi/de Sacy, + Kozma, Russell, IHDC) and the 1994 eradication item (Wikipedia). +- Law 182 of 1960 (checked entry, UNODC Bulletin source): long prison + terms for hashish possession, death penalty allowed for trafficking. +- Law 122 of 1989 (checked entry, Parlmany record source): death for + import/export/production-for-trade and growing-or-trading listed plants + (Article 33), death or life for holding/buying/selling with intent to + trade (Article 34), life at hard labour for unpaid supply + (Article 35). +- Manshurat record for Law 351 of 1952: catalogue stub only (title and + number confirmed, no penalty text) — insufficient to score; the entry + keeps a no-distinct-movement reason. +- The DRI parliamentary file for Senegal's Law 87-12 could not be + re-read (error page); unrelated to Egypt beyond the triage batch. + +## What changed + +- Eleven `unscored` reasons: 1244 and 1324 enforcement actions; 1378 + Mamluk enforcement campaign; 1800 short-lived French occupation decree; + 1868 nineteenth-century prohibition folded into the 1879 anchor pending + the deferred earlier-restrictions reconstruction (as the 1879 entry + itself notes); 1877 Ottoman enforcement campaign; 1884 conventional + date contradicted by the IHDC March 1879 account (entry stays + unchecked); 1925 heroin/cocaine extension; 1952 replacement law; 1989 + death-penalty rewrite within floor bands; 1994 single-year eradication + campaign. Pre-1879 entries cannot score while the checked 1879 anchor + holds `before` FREE (any step would read 100→100). +- Triage now reports Egypt 2 scored, 0 open (was 11 open); open entries + overall fall 489→478. No article: a reasons-only pass with no scored + event. Chain unchanged: 1879 100→11, 1960 11→3. + +## Validation + +- `node scripts/data-status.cjs chain eg`: two steps, 0 flagged. +- `npm run history:test` and `npm run answers:test`: all pass. +- Production build passes. `npm run seo:audit` passes (separate fix). +- Concurrent agents' work in shared files is untouched; this commit stages + only the Egypt hunks and files.