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+# Earlier territorial cannabis controls: Marshall and Mariana islands
+
+Research date: 23 October 2026. This pass adds the 1980 territorial-code record
+for the Marshall Islands and the 23 July 1974 Bermudes judgment for the Northern
+Mariana Islands, with two articles. It revises the 1987 Marshall Islands entry
+and article to acknowledge the preceding territorial controls. Tags and inline
+citations are included. Current profiles and all score vectors are unchanged.
+
+## Sources actually read
+
+- **Trust Territory Code 1980, Title 63**, scanned original retrieved through
+  the Internet Archive from CNMI Law Revision Commission's former PDF URL.
+  Relevant printed pages 127–142: short title, definitions, marijuana and THC
+  in Schedule I, manufacture/delivery, marijuana possession bands, small unpaid
+  gifts and conditional discharge. Printed p. 140 was also rendered and visually
+  checked: **more than one ounce but less than 2.2 pounds carries three months,
+  not one year**; an ounce or less carries a maximum $50 fine. The first extraction
+  from a secondary HTML reproduction was not treated as sufficient provenance.
+- **Title 1, section 151**, printed p. 75: expressly extends the code throughout
+  the territory, including the Marshall Islands. This separate source supplies
+  geographical applicability; Title 63 alone does not.
+- **Marshall Islands Constitution**, official consolidated publication:
+  Article XIII section 1 continues existing law subject to the Constitution;
+  Article XIV defines existing law and gives 1 May 1979 as the effective date.
+  General continuity does not establish that every clause in a later consolidation
+  was already in force in 1979.
+- **Trust Territory v Bermudes**, 7 TTR 80–90, 23 July 1974: relevant judgment
+  read through dismissal, including footnoted earlier statutory wording. The
+  case was heard in the Mariana Islands District. It establishes dismissal of
+  Bermudes' possession/sale charges and invalidation of the challenged territorial
+  drug provisions, not a verified period of unrestricted cannabis in the Marshall
+  Islands. The court left the separate privacy question unresolved.
+- The existing Marshall Islands sources read in the preceding research pass
+  remain the basis for the 1987 article's later developments; see
+  [the earlier memo](history-marshall-gap-2026-10-23.md).
+
+Local research originals, text extractions and the visual check are retained in
+`tmp/history-marshall-territorial-gap-2026-10-23/` and the preceding batch directory.
+The current CNMI website has migrated URLs: several old `/pdf/ttc/` routes return
+HTML rather than a PDF. The cited Wayback routes returned actual scanned code
+PDFs. No archive-only schema fields were added.
+
+## Dates and historical scores remain open
+
+**1980 is the code-edition date, not an asserted commencement or new fine-only
+reform.** Its entry is category `other` and describes what the edition records.
+It does not attribute the code's rules to a new law passed that year.
+
+The code attributes the controlled-substances chapter to Congress of Micronesia
+P.L. 5-110. A reproduced 15 September 1975 diplomatic cable reports passage of
+a controlled-substances law in 1974, while implementing regulations were being
+developed. That lead does not supply the original Act, its exact effective date,
+or proof that every 1980 clause was identical at passage. It was not used as a
+public source. A scholarly footnote identifying a 1974 NORML newsletter report
+also remains a retrieval lead; the newsletter itself was not recovered.
+
+**The Marshall Islands chart's existing 1987 100→11 transition remains provisional
+and historically incomplete.** Earlier territorial control is now established,
+so 1987 must not be described as the first restriction. Moving that drop to an
+invented earlier commencement, or inferring original 1987 penalties from later
+consolidations, would add unsupported precision. Retrieve P.L. 5-110, the earlier
+regulation and the original 1987 Act before rebuilding the sequence. Small gifts
+and possession in the territorial text also need their own historically justified
+score allocation. The automatic chain check detects continuity and direction,
+not this missing historical evidence.
+
+The Bermudes ruling is category `easing`, with an explicit unscored reason:
+reconstruction of the earlier baseline and replacement law's commencement is
+pending. The existing Northern Mariana Islands 1925 first-restriction estimate
+is likewise still unsupported by an original local instrument. Do not transplant
+the Mariana case into a dated Marshall Islands legalisation event.
+
+## Leads rejected or left open
+
+- The Journal retrospective headed “Police destroy marijuana” was read in full.
+  Its marijuana seizure belongs to **18 September 1992**, not the 1975 edition
+  appearing above it. No 1975 seizure entry was created.
+- The Marshall Islands' Public Health, Safety and Welfare Act text has general
+  drug-related health powers but did not establish a cannabis-specific 1966 ban.
+- Parliament's current Title 7 and repealed-laws index did not recover the older
+  territorial repeal or original 1987 Act.
+- An unverified reproduced letter about an alleged 1974 Marshall Islands cannabis
+  conviction was not used.
+
+## Validation and commit scope
+
+The batch verifier checks unique IDs, categories/tags, inline source coverage,
+article length and headings, internal links and unchanged historical score vectors.
+Both country profiles remain byte-for-byte unchanged. The production build passed with 3,915 pages. Rendered checks verified 63 citation
+links, tag pages, cleaned JSON/CSV exports and the Marshall Islands API. Both
+country chain checks passed their continuity/direction checks; the historical
+evidence limitation above remains. The temporary `site/` output was deleted after
+verification; source documents are retained for research.
+The commit uses a private index and includes only the two new articles, revised
+1987 article, three owned history objects and this memo. Concurrent changes,
+including `source-archive.json`, are excluded.