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possession 3 · cultivation 2 · enforcement 4 · sharing 1 · consumption 3 · access 0
Enabling framework and later product-registration rules do not establish an operating THC patient-supply route; access remains 0 pending verified dispensing or another working route.
access 1 → 0
No legallawful adult-use source of any kindsupply exists. A government bill to regulate recreational sales was presentedLaw 10113 and its regulations provide medical routes, but an operating THC patient-supply route has not approvedbeen verified. Registered-product pharmacy sales, individual import authorisations and pharmacy compounding have different requirements.[@medical44917,registration2026]
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Hemp and /CBD goods are distinct from prescription THC products, and. The medicinal framework permits registered dried flower and dosed products under the 2022 law; individual pharmacy-made non-sterile preparations are exempt from finished-product registration, subject to their own controls. These permissions do not establish stocked products.[@medical44917]
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Legal sinceLaw 10113 created the medical framework in 2022 on.[@law10113] Decree 44917-S allows pharmacy sales of registered medicinal cannabis products; controlled products require a digital prescription, with licensed production. The Health Ministry opened applications in June 2025 and still publishes registration procedures. Routine pharmacy dispensingavailability of a named approved THC product has not been established. The market[@medical44917,registration_open,registration2026] Section 8.4 separately allows the drug authority to authorise personal imports of unregistered medicines on medical documentation, including for qualifying patients treated abroad. Non-sterile pharmacy compounding also has a registration exception. Neither route is still smallevidence that ordinary pharmacies already stock cannabis medicines.[@medical44917]
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Costa Rica Procuraduría — Decree 44917-S, RTCR 515:2024 Costa Rica Health Ministry — THC medicinal product registration opens, 23 June 2025 Costa Rica Health Ministry — medicinal cannabis registration procedures, 2026 10 unchanged
no
No adult-use source; medical permissions exist, but operating THC patient supply has not been verified
The NDPS Act bans flower (ganja) and resin (charas). Leaf-only bhang falls outside its cannabis definition, but bhang made from leaves is legal and sold in government-licensed shops in severalstate law differs: some states license shops, while Maharashtra restricts unauthorised possession and use. Some states license hemp and medical cultivation.
Only bhang,Bhang only through lawful outlets in government-licensed shops in some states that permit it; flowerstate restrictions also govern possession and resin have no legal sourceuse
The NDPS Act of 1985 bans ganja (flowering tops) and charas (resin). Possessing a 'small q … to one year in prison, a fine of ₹10,000, or both; consumption alone by up to six months. The law does[@ipl,boom] Section 2(iii)(b) excludes seeds and leaves only when not coveraccompanied by flowering or fruiting tops.[@ndps] State laws still apply: Maharashtra includes bhang leaves and seedspreparations in its intoxicating-drug definition and prohibits unauthorised possession, which is why bhang is legalpurchase and use under section 14.[@maharashtra2025]
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Consuming ganja or charas is an offence; addicts who volunteer for treatment can be exempted from prosecution. Bhang is consumed openly, especially at Holi and Shivaratri.[@ipl,hg] State restrictions also govern bhang: Maharashtra section 66(1)(b) permits up to six months and a ₹10,000 fine for a first unauthorised-use offence; permits and the statutory sentencing proviso must be considered.[@maharashtra2025]
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Bhang — a preparation of leaves — is sold in government-licensed shops in states such as Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan, a legal cannabis product with real psychoactive effect. Flower and resin have no legal source. Rules vary by[@hg,boom] A shop licence in one state; some ban gives no general right to possess, use or transport bhang tooelsewhere. Maharashtra’s prohibitions remain subject to its own authorisations.[@maharashtra2025]
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The one legal cannabis product is open to anyone:Licensed bhang, made from the leaves, is sold over the counter in government-licensed shops operate in states such as Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan, with no residency condition described in the retained sources.[@hg,boom] This is not nationwide permission: Maharashtra restricts unauthorised bhang possession, purchase, transport and consumption. Buying in a state that licenses shops does not authorise carrying it into another state; destination and transit rules must be checked.[@maharashtra2025] Flower and resin have no legal adult-use source for residents or visitors. Under theThe NDPS Act possessing a small-quantity, up to 1 kg of ganja or 100 g of charas, is punishable by up to one year in prison, a fine of ₹10,000, or both, and consumption alone by up to six months penalties remain separate from state bhang rules.[@ipl,ndps]
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Maharashtra Law and Judiciary Department — Maharashtra Prohibition Act, text as on 21 May 2025 10 unchanged
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Flower and resin are criminal; leaf-only bhang depends on state law and any required authorisation
Law 10113 was signed at the Presidency in San José on 2 March 2022 and took effect on pub … exclusively for medicinal and therapeutic use", in order to guarantee the right to health.[@1]
## Two plants in law
The law divides cannabis at one per cent THC by dry weight. Below th … ird parties, is drug trafficking and carries the penalties of article 58 of that law.
## Why the index moved
Only access changes, from 0 to 1: thePermission and patient supply
The law creates a lawful supply of cannabis products, reached through a doctor's prescriptionmedical framework. It grants nothing to people who use cannabis without one, whose position had been settleddoes not by earlier lawitself establish that patients could obtain THC medicines in 2022. The later registration rules require prior approval for ordinary finished products, while providing separate personal-import and court practicepharmacy-compounding routes. Operating patient supply has not been verified, so this enactment is recorded without an access-score increase.[@2]
The total moves[Costa Rica profile](/country/cr/) distinguishes these permissions from 25 to 26pharmacy stock. It retains the limited medical status and records access at zero pending evidence of a working THC supply route.
Costa Rica Procuraduría — Decree 44917-S, RTCR 515:2024 1 unchanged
Six years after banning cannabis, Egypt put a tax on importing it. The two rules stood
si … 1874 a tax was imposed on cannabis imports, although possessing
the drug remained illegal.[@1]
A government that taxes a thing expects it to arrive. The tax was an admission that the
ba … ia: register
it, license it, tax it openly. A law was drafted and never put into effect.
India taxed cannabis fromBengal’s Board [recommended taxation in 1798](/history/india-bhang-tax-1798/) without banning it
rather than total prohibition.
Egypt banned The commission’s later account reproduces that advice;
it and taxed it anywaydoes not establish when a particular tax began. Neither country stopped people using it[@2] Egypt combined prohibition
with an import tax, but only
one of themand later asked the rest of the world to adopt its prohibition
policy, at [Geneva in 1925](/history/geneva-opium-convention-1925/).
The index lists the tax for context; it moved no score for [Egypt](/country/eg/).
Indian Hemp Drugs Commission — Report, 1893–94, Volume I 1 unchanged
docs/DATA-MAINTENANCE.md +11 @@ -1807,2 +1807,13 @@ schedule; the fourteen-year maximum remains. Existing scores and historical vectors are preserved. Ten regression tests cover the corrected distinctions; Latvian and New Zealand full-text retrieval limits are documented. + +A [remaining-bug review for #145 and #159](research/bug-followups-145-159-2026-10-26.md) +corrects the Egypt article's residual 1798 India tax claim and Costa Rica's +unsupported operational medical-supply claim. Costa Rica retains limited medical +status; access becomes 0 pending verified operating THC supply, and the 2022 +enabling law becomes unscored. Personal imports and compounded preparations +remain explicit exceptions to ordinary product-registration rules. Regression +coverage includes the article cross-reference and patient-access distinction. +The same review resolves #180 by separating India's federal leaf-only bhang +exclusion from state prohibitions and authorisations, including Maharashtra; +licensed bhang supply in other states and national scores remain explicit.
docs/research/bug-followups-145-159-2026-10-26.md +73 @@ -0,0 +1,73 @@ +# Remaining bug reports #145, #159 and #180 — 26 October 2026 + +## Egypt article cross-reference (#145, reopened) + +Read the reopening comment: the homepage fix was correct, but +`articles/egypt-import-tax-1874.md` still claimed India taxed cannabis from 1798. +Read paragraph 556 of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission's report in the existing +local chapter transcription and the [NLS scan reproduced by New Revenue](https://newrevenue.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/ihd-vol-1-pages-263-282-or-so74464868_53_72.pdf), +printed p.267. It reproduces the Board's advice of 29 May 1798, not an enacted +1798 tariff. Replaced the Egypt comparison with that precise recommendation and +added a direct source. A corpus-wide regression now guards the residual claim, +in addition to the existing homepage assertion. No score or history change. +The original chapter website timed out; the previously saved transcription and +PDF reproduction were readable. + +## Costa Rica medical supply (#159) + +Read the following primary material: + +- [Health Ministry announcement, 23 June 2025](https://www.ministeriodesalud.go.cr/index.php/prensa/62-noticias-2025/2162-costa-rica-inicia-registro-de-productos-medicinales-a-base-de-cannabis-con-thc): applications open; pharmacy access follows approval. +- [Decree 44917-S, RTCR 515:2024](https://www.pgrweb.go.cr/DOCS/NORMAS/1/VIGENTE/D/2020-2029/2025-2029/2025/1969D/173FBA.HTML): sections 6.1.3, 8.4, 9.1 and 10.1.1 distinguish ordinary finished-product registration, personal import authorisation, non-sterile pharmacy compounding and prescription dispensing. +- [Health Ministry's 2026 registration instructions](https://ministeriodesalud.go.cr/index.php?catid=81&id=2553&option=com_content&view=article): current applications/material notifications and implementation guidance, not an approvals or stock list. + +The [Diario Extra report](https://www.diarioextra.com/noticia/medicinas-con-marihuana-se-pueden-vender-en-c-r/) +quotes the registration unit about no applications for conventional medicines. +Its page displayed 7 October while the search index displayed 1 October 2026; +no precise date from that conflict is added to history. That category is not a +complete count of specialised medicinal-cannabis approvals. The MEDEC FAQ was +also retrieved, but its current text did not corroborate the pharmacy-pending +quotation in the issue, so it is not used for that claim. + +No comprehensive public approval count or named approved and dispensed THC +product was verified. This does not prove that every exceptional patient route +is unavailable. The profile now describes the conditional finished-product +route, the individual unregistered-import authorisation and the compounding +exception, with no promise of stocked medicines. + +Score review applies DATA-MAINTENANCE's operating-access rule: the existing +access 1 and the 2022 score increase were justified solely by enactment. Correct +access to 0 pending evidence of a working THC patient-supply route, retain +`medical: limited`, and remove the 2022 `before` with an explicit `unscored` +reason. This is a correction to unsupported scoring, not a new 2026 legal +restriction. Earlier Costa Rican score vectors remain unchanged. The 2022 +article's final section now explains this distinction. A custom buy answer +prevents generic medical-availability guidance. + +## India state restrictions (#180) + +The final open-issue search found #180, concerning leaf-only bhang. Read the +[Law and Judiciary Department’s 21 May 2025 consolidation](https://cdnbbsr.s3waas.gov.in/s36a4cbdaedcbda0fa8ddc7ea32073c475/uploads/2025/09/202509291714459013.pdf), +linked from its official document page. Web PDF retrieval timed out, but a direct +download and local text extraction succeeded. Sections 2(23), 11, 14, 48 and +66(1)(b) establish the definition, prohibitions, authorisations and use penalty. +Read NDPS section 2(iii)(b) in the existing statutory reproduction: the leaves/seed +exclusion is conditional on absence of flowering/fruiting tops. This federal +exclusion does not establish nationwide bhang permission. + +Updated summary, possession, consumption, access, visitors and quick answers. +Licensed outlets in some states remain explicit; Maharashtra’s unauthorised +possession/use restrictions and first-use maximum are stated separately. +Purchasing in one state supplies no automatic right to cross state borders with +it. National scores, death-penalty status and the visitor category are unchanged: +the state exceptions are described rather than erasing actual licensed supply. +No new legal event is invented in 2026. A regression covers the federal/state +scope and the visitor/answer qualification. + +## Validation + +Answer/profile and history tests, score-chain inspection and a full production +build cover the final edits. Generated Costa Rica profile/API/FAQ and panel +exports show access 0; the 2022 history page has no score step. The Egypt article +renders the corrected recommendation with its new reference. Unrelated work +and the source archive are excluded from this commit.
scripts/profile-claims.test.mjs +28 @@ -17,4 +17,5 @@ const texts = files.map((file) => [path.relative(root, file), fs.readFileSync(fi const CLAIMS = [ + { claim: /India taxed cannabis from \[?1798/i, why: "the 1798 record is a Board recommendation, including Egypt-article cross-references (#145)" }, { claim: /Before Law 242 Panama had no lawful cannabis of any kind/i, why: "the 2021 framework did not establish operational supply (#128)" }, // Malta (2021) and Germany (2024) license non-profit associations: issue #127 @@ -301,2 +302,29 @@ test('new pilot and resin permissions are recorded without inventing broad retai } }); + +test('Costa Rica permissions do not establish stocked THC patient medicines (#159)', () => { + const cr = country('cr'); + assert.equal(cr.medical, 'limited'); + assert.equal(cr.scores.access, 0); + assert.match(cr.context.medical.text, /Routine pharmacy availability.*has not been established/); + assert.match(cr.context.medical.text, /personal imports.*unregistered/); + assert.match(cr.context.products.text, /pharmacy-made.*exempt.*registration/); + assert.match(cr.answers.buy.text, /has not been verified/); + const e = events().find((e) => e.id === 'costa-rica-medical-2022'); + assert.equal(e.before, undefined); + assert.match(e.unscored, /operating THC patient-supply/); + const article = fs.readFileSync(path.join(root, 'articles/costa-rica-medical-2022.md'), 'utf8'); + assert.doesNotMatch(article, /Only access changes, from 0 to 1/); +}); + +test('India federal bhang exclusion does not override state prohibition (#180)', () => { + const india = country('in'); + assert.match(india.summary, /state law differs.*Maharashtra/); + assert.match(india.segments.possession.text, /only when not accompanied.*tops.*State laws still apply/); + assert.doesNotMatch(india.segments.possession.text, /which is why bhang is legal/); + assert.match(india.context.visitors.text, /does not authorise carrying it into another state/); + assert.match(india.answers.buy.text, /states that permit it/); + assert.match(india.segments.consumption.text, /six months.*₹10,000/); + assert.equal(india.scores.access, 2); + assert.equal(india.recreational, 'death'); +});