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Porfirian pharmacy monopoly: stock lists, gatherers rule, prescription rule, exact haschich doses, Guanajuato 1871 precursor, 1920/1926 reversal. Entry gains per-sentence citations, the dose sentence and a precise locator. No scores or timelines changed.
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The first of three national sanitary codes, followed by codes in 1894 and 1902, recognised cannabis medicines but restricted them to licensed medical and pharmacy practice.[@1] Gatherers could sell marijuana only to pharmacists, and patients needed a physician's prescription.[@1] Pharmacies could stock hemp seeds and cannabis products and dispense fixed doses of haschich, tincture, extract and cannabinone.[@1]
docs/research/history-mexico-1891-2026-10-26.md +47 @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +# Research pass: Mexico 1891 sanitary-code article and entry upgrade + +Research checked on 26 October 2026. Mexico's 1891 first restriction (pop +132M) gains a properly sourced article built from the Schievenini chapter +read in full in the local EPUB, and the entry gets per-sentence citations +plus the dose detail. No scores, profiles or timelines changed. + +## What was verified (all sources actually read) + +- José Domingo Schievenini, "A Historical Approach to the + Criminalization of Marijuana Use in Mexico" (ch. 6 of Cannabis: Global + Histories, local EPUB chapter_6.xhtml): the 1891/1894/1902 sanitary-code + regime in full — state-medical alliance, pharmacy stock lists (caffeine, + cocaine, codeine, morphine, hemp seeds, cannabis products), the + gatherers-only-to-pharmacists rule, prescription-only dispensing, exact + doses (2g haschich/tincture, 0.5g extract, 1/3g cannabinone); + Guanajuato 1871 precursor; Zacatecas 1904, Nuevo León 1905, Mexico City + 1909 tightenings; Porfiriato context; 1920 decree dropping marijuana + from the medicines list (possession fines, 15-day jail); 1926 code + "enervating drugs" list with marihuana, La Castañeda confinement, + 1929/1931 penal codes and the antidrug police. +- New `articles/mexico-sanitary-code-1891.md` (368 words, 4 sections, + single academic source cited throughout; links to the 1920-ban article + and /country/mx/). Entry `mexico-sanitary-code-1891` keeps its text and + scores, gains per-sentence citations, the dose sentence and a precise + locator. + +Claim boundaries: the article stays inside the chapter's account — no +independent verification of the codes' texts (not readable online), no +claims about the 1891 code's penalties beyond what the chapter states +(prescription/pharmacy control, not criminal possession). + +## Dead ends recorded, not forced + +- The 1891/1894/1902 code texts themselves are not readable online; the + chapter is the cited evidence. Jamaica 1924 needs nothing (already + sourced to Rubin & Comitas plus Banks). Morocco 1888 still rests on a + single Duvall page — too thin for an article. + +## 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/mexico-sanitary-code-1891/` citation marks checked. +- Commit limited to own work: the 1891 hunk in changes.yaml, the new + article, this note, via pathspec. Foreign staged/worktree files excluded + and preserved.