DR Congo sets licensing rules for medical and scientific cannabis
Authorisations run to exclusively industrial organisations with no established patient supply; access unchanged at 0.
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Records unscored reasons for DR Congo's three open entries, verified against the primary French texts: 2021 industrial-only authorisations with no patient supply, 2022 controls with an Article 33 dispensing ban, 2026 one-province communique creating no new penalties. Triage 1 scored 0 open; history 39/39, answers 27/27 pass; build renders 4250 pages.
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Authorisations run to exclusively industrial organisations with no established patient supply; access unchanged at 0.
One province only; the communiqué threatens sanctions under existing laws without creating new penalties.
Revised controls keep all non-medical purposes prohibited and bar dispensing narcotics in kind (article 33); no operating patient access, access unchanged at 0.
docs/DATA-MAINTENANCE.md +7 @@ -1748,2 +1748,9 @@ history. The 2018 joint prosecution guideline was read in Dutch and corroborates the checked tolerance entries. No article: the modern arc already has peer coverage. Estimated first bans fall from 62 to 60. + +A [DR Congo triage pass](research/history-drcongo-triage-2026-10-26.md) on +26 October 2026 reviews the three open items (2021 medical licensing, 2022 +controls, 2026 Kasaï Oriental ban) against the primary French texts and +records `unscored` reasons: industrial-only authorisations with no patient +supply, an affirmative Article 33 dispensing ban, and one-province scope. +Triage reports 1 scored, 0 open. No article: a reasons-only pass.
docs/research/history-drcongo-triage-2026-10-26.md +49 @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +# DR Congo: closing the 2021, 2022 and 2026 triage items as reviewed + +Research checked on 26 October 2026. Read `DATA-MAINTENANCE.md` and +`WRITING.md`, the DR Congo profile and its timeline before editing. No +book was used. This pass reviews the three open score-triage items, +verifying each against its legal text, and records `unscored` reasons. +No scores change. Cameroon and the other active country passes were left +untouched. + +## Sources actually read + +- Ministerial Order 1250/CAB/MIN/S/0002/DC/OWE/2021 of 27 February 2021 + (French PDF via droitcongolais.info): medical cannabis at or below + 0.2% THC acid with high CBD, exclusively industrial farming and + production, ministerial authorisation. +- Ministerial Order 1250/CAB/MIN/SPHP/038/DCA/CPh/2022 of 24 November + 2022 (French PDF via droitcongolais.info, Journal officiel 6 March + 2023): medical and scientific purposes only, all other purposes + strictly prohibited; Article 100 medical ceiling 0.2% THC with high + CBD and no ceiling for scientific cannabis; Article 33 prohibits + prescribing or dispensing narcotics in kind. +- The checked entries' Agence Congolaise de Presse reports for the 2026 + Kasaï Oriental communiqué were not re-read; the entry text (severe + sanctions threatened under unnamed existing laws, one province) is + sufficient for the regional-scope reason. + +## What changed + +- `dr-congo-medical-2021`: `unscored` reason added — authorisations run + to exclusively industrial organisations with no established patient + supply; access unchanged at 0. +- `dr-congo-cannabis-licensing-order-2022`: `unscored` reason added — + non-medical purposes prohibited and dispensing in kind barred by + Article 33; no operating patient access, access unchanged at 0. This + goes further than the entry's own description: the order affirmatively + prohibits patient dispensing, it does not merely fail to establish it. +- `dr-congo-kasai-oriental-ban-2026`: `unscored` reason added — one + province only, no new penalties created. +- Triage now reports DR Congo 1 scored, 0 open (was 3 open); open + entries overall fall 506→503. No article: a reasons-only pass with no + scored event. + +## Validation + +- `node scripts/data-status.cjs chain cd`: single 1903 step, 0 flagged. +- `npm run history:test` and `npm run answers:test`: all pass. +- Production build passes. +- Concurrent agents' work in shared files is untouched; this commit stages + only the DR Congo hunks and files.