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Early in British rule, the military government warned the public that it would henceforth be an offence to cultivate, export, introduce, buy, sell, offer for sale or possess hashish.[@1] It is the first known anti-hashish rule in Palestine; the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance of 1925 put it into a full drugs law.[@1]
Early in British rule, the military government warned the public that it would henceforth be an offence to cultivate, export, introduce, buy, sell, offer for sale or possess hashish.[@1] It is the first known anti-hashish rule in Palestine; the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance of 1925 put it into a full drugs law.[@1]
docs/research/history-palestine-1919-2026-10-26.md +53 @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +# Research pass: Palestine 1919 warning article, il/ps entries cited + +Research checked on 26 October 2026. The 1919 British military warning +gains a properly sourced article built from Haggai Ram's Intoxicating +Zion read in the local EPUB; the duplicate il/ps entries both get +per-sentence citations and sharper locators. No scores, profiles or +timelines changed. + +## What was verified (all sources actually read) + +- Haggai Ram, Intoxicating Zion (Stanford UP 2020), chapter 2 ("Smuggling + in Mandatory Palestine: The Limits of Antihashish Controls"), local EPUB + chapter0008.html: first anti-hashish reference — the 1919 military + warning (cultivate, export, introduce, buy, sell, offer, possess); + Egyptian ban context (three decades old, routes shifted Greece→Levant); + 1925 Opium Convention confirmation; 1925 Dangerous Drugs Ordinance on + the metropolitan 1920/1925 Acts (opiates, coca, cocaine, Indian hemp); + 1928/1932/1936 amendments (OAC penalties, 1936 transit offence and + smoker limits); enforcement verdict (no infrastructure/capacity/will, + low priority vs immigration and communal tensions, demoralized police, + "annoyance and burden", CID priorities); transit corridor + (Lebanon-Syria→Egypt, invisible borders, legitimacy question); Bedouin + camel-saddle concealment mocked by officers; Beirut notables vs + couriers' commissions. +- New `articles/palestine-military-hashish-ban-1919.md` (381 words, 4 + sections, single book source cited throughout; links to the 1925 + ordinance entry and /country/ps/). Entries + `palestine-military-hashish-ban-1919` and its il duplicate keep text + and scores, gain per-sentence citations and precise locators. +- The duplicate il entry is by design (pre-state event opening Israel's + timeline); only the ps id carries the article, per the filename rule. + +Claim boundaries: the "why 1919" is framed as route-shifts plus new +military rule, exactly Ram's context — no invented trigger. The "first +reference" phrasing is Ram's ("first reference to the introduction of an +antidrug regime"), cited as such. + +## Dead ends recorded, not forced + +- No second source sought for 1919: the monograph is the authority and + its archival citations (nn. 93–103) are noted, not re-read. Soviet 1974 + decree text still not in readable form. Netherlands 1928 archives are + JS-only. + +## 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/palestine-military-hashish-ban-1919/` citation marks + checked. +- Commit limited to own work: the two 1919 hunks in changes.yaml, the new + article, this note, via pathspec. Foreign staged/worktree files excluded + and preserved.