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+# Transnistria: original drug law, court guidance and the 2012 reform
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+25 October 2026. Follow-up to [the first history-gap pass](history-transnistria-gap-2026-10-25.md). The preceding goal turn made progress: six history additions and three articles were built, verified and committed as `e2c4467`. This continuation addresses the linked profile/score corrections that pass left open. The wider coverage goal remains active.
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+## Sources recovered and read
+
+The newer official legal portal, `ul-test.gospmr.org`, exposes document cards, dated editions and full text even where the old `ulpmr.ru` and `pravo.gospmr.org` sites time out. Search accepts `number`, `start_date_after` and `start_date_before`. Cards link to individual edition URLs. Some pages put the actual text in a JSON array called `window.allPagesContent`; parsing the visible HTML alone yields mostly a table of contents. The helper decodes those page fragments and extracts their text. Downloading is offered under a paid tariff, but the public full HTML is readable without an account.
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+Research copies, decoded page text, source URL manifest and helpers are in `tmp/history-transnistria-score-audit-2026-10-25/`.
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+- **2002 narcotics law:** [original text](https://ul-test.gospmr.org/documents/8a37b575-f86c-4bc9-be6c-b16d8ddd7e77/bd6e93a9-7236-4bcf-85bc-54ccab4dbb1b/html/), 22 pages. Read articles 12, 16, 27, 32–34 and 59. Cannabis growing for unlawful consumption/circulation is prohibited; authorised cultivation is reserved to state enterprises within quotas; industrial-use procedures are assigned to executive authorities. Landholders have plant-destruction duties. Signed 7 June; effective on official publication. The history now uses the year because the exact first-publication day has not been verified. This replaces reliance solely on later court guidance.
+- **2004 Supreme Court guidance:** [original text](https://ul-test.gospmr.org/documents/e85d928a-f3f7-464a-ac89-0eb401b45b67/8d4b7ff6-0f94-4b31-84c9-54776fb72b3b/html/), seven pages. Read paragraphs 3, 5 and 15: gathering wild cannabis; paid and unpaid supply including gifts and loans; sowing, growing, breeding and tending. The historical entry now makes the effect on sharing explicit and cites the working official source. This is interpretation of existing offences, not evidence of a newly enacted 2004 ban.
+- **2011 amendment:** [original text](https://ul-test.gospmr.org/documents/0fc1d9d4-21ed-4d25-b802-39d1bd778853/c7f4a2d9-4355-46a8-a87a-8262dcf70b4d/html/), four pages. Read article 1(4)–(5), (9) and article 2. The ordinary supply maximum changes from twelve to fifteen years. Signed 29 July, effective fourteen days after official publication; the entry uses 2011. The amendment’s possession provision lists only up to three years’ imprisonment for the ordinary large personal amount.
+- **Pre-reform criminal code:** [edition of 2 April 2012](https://ul-test.gospmr.org/documents/c9727002-518d-4372-b8cb-c9852d2cd3ed/abb0467c-d8a1-44f4-b602-6c5c97b51685/html/), 133 pages. Read articles 226, 226-1 and 229. Possession: prison-only ordinary tier; repetition or especially-large quantity in the higher tier. Supply: ordinary seven to fifteen years. Growing: ordinary offence when committed within a year after administrative punishment, fine/work/up to two years; aggravated group/repetition/large-scale tier three to eight years. Thus the 2012 comparison does not invent an earlier all-growing criminal rule or claim the first administrative small-grow penalty began in 2012.
+- **2012 amendment:** [original text](https://ul-test.gospmr.org/documents/cac523ef-4b09-484f-b187-15405cd4f2d4/03a327c2-3135-4895-b729-8c6071810042/html/), 70 pages. Read article 1(157)–(158), (162), and article 2. Ordinary possession gains fine/work/corrective-labour alternatives, retaining its three-year maximum; repetition is removed from the higher possession tier. Ordinary cultivation becomes large-scale, the repeated-conduct aggravation is removed and the higher quantity tier becomes especially-large. Supply is replaced with four–eight, five–twelve and ten–twenty-year tiers. The signed date is 8 October, but article 2 expressly gives effect from **1 October 2012**. This is the verified score date.
+- **Current criminal code:** parliament’s [Word text](https://vspmr.org/file.xp?file=133707), consolidated through 1 September 2026, downloaded/converted in the previous batch. Re-read articles 226, 226-1 and 229. These preserve the relevant 2012 possession/supply ranges and the large-scale cultivation requirement, with the 2018 cultivation wording.
+- **Current administrative code:** parliament’s [Word text](https://vspmr.org/file.xp?file=134144), consolidated through 18 August 2026, retained in the previous batch. Re-read 6.12, 6.13 and 10.6. Small possession permits fine or up to thirty days’ arrest, small cultivation warning/fine, ordinary use fine or up to fifteen days plus the 2023 driving restriction. The separate foreign-national/stateless-person paragraphs add expulsion, now reflected in visitor guidance.
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+The old Ministry article URL was downloaded but did not supply useful drug-law body text in the retrieved HTML. Its old profile assertions are superseded by the parliament code and original court text, rather than treated as newly confirmed.
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+## What changed and why the scores change
+
+Added two entries (2011 supply maximum and 2012 easing), revised the 2002 and 2004 entries, and wrote articles for 2002, 2004 and 2012. All have inline citations and relevant tags. The current profile corrects the false Russian-law comparison, documents the administrative alternative, replaces the erroneous three–seven-year supply range with four–eight, identifies the separate use offence, and adds the verified expulsion exposure for visitors.
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+The current cultivation score changes **1 → 2**, matching administrative punishment below the criminal growing threshold. Sharing changes **1 → 0**, matching the rubric’s “sharing equals trafficking”: the court expressly includes gifts and loans within supply. The sharing correction is a correction of the inherited classification, not a fabricated new legal change in 2026 or a newly enacted 2004 prohibition. The 2012 entry’s `before` therefore already has sharing zero.
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+The dated 2012 step changes cultivation **1 → 2** (removal of the route from repeat small growing into that growing crime) and enforcement **1 → 2** (fine/work alternatives replace the ordinary possession offence’s prison-only punishment). Its before vector is `1,1,1,0,1,0`, exact score 8. Today’s vector is `1,2,2,0,1,0`, exact score 12.5, displayed as 13. Medical, recreational and disputed-status metadata stay unchanged. The 2011 supply maximum increase changes no whole personal-use level or gifting distinction and has an explicit unscored reason.
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+## Limits that remain
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+The inherited **1934** step still needs original-source and segment-by-segment reconstruction, including later Soviet/Moldavian possession law. Its calculated after-value is now 8 because the next scored step supplies the pre-2012 vector. A continuous graph does not verify that all six restrictions actually began in 1934. This batch does not newly certify that old Wikipedia-supported first-ban entry.
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+The original 2002 administrative code still needs reading to reconstruct its exact initial small-possession/use rules. The pre-2012 criminal code does prove that an administrative cultivation route existed before 2012, through its reference to an earlier administrative penalty.
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+The portal’s newest edition of the 2011 quantity decree available on its historical card is consolidated to **15 April 2015**. Its table says cannabis cultivation is large from twenty plants; cannabis/marijuana amounts are above 1.5 g and 500 g, with a preparation note. This is historical evidence only. The portal also contains a September 2026 amendment, confirming that the decree has later changes. A complete current consolidation and amendment comparison remain necessary before publishing those numbers as current safe limits. The profile therefore describes the legal threshold without inventing a current twenty-plant allowance. The 2018 police account threatening criminal action for thirteen plants remains an enforcement report, not controlling threshold law.
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+The original 2002 drug law provides controlled-use routes by schedule. It does not by itself establish a current cannabis prescribing programme. Existing medical/access status remains unchanged; a full current schedule/medicine-availability audit remains open.
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+## Validation
+
+The production build passed with **4,072 pages**. The batch verifier confirms exactly two additions and two revised history objects, with all other objects unchanged. The three articles are 415, 402 and 434 words, each with an unheaded opening, three sections, related-history links and a country link. Inline source references resolve, every listed article source is used, and all tags are valid.
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+Rendered checks verify 69 citation links across the four edited history pages and the country profile, sequential reference targets, tag and history-link destinations, clean JSON/CSV exports and the updated visitor context. The CSV reports display score 13 and exact score 12.5; the API timeline preserves `[1934, 8]` and `[2012, 12.5]`. Medical and disputed metadata are preserved. `node scripts/data-status.cjs chain xt` reports zero structural flags; the inherited 1934 research limitation remains as described above. `git diff --check` passes.
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+Commit preparation uses a private index and includes only this pass’s six files, preserving the unrelated staged and working `source-archive.json`. The owned temporary site build is removed after verification; research downloads, extracted text, helpers and logs remain available for the next source audit.