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@@ -13,5 +13,5 @@ Generated from [books.yaml](books.yaml) and the local `books/` inventory. Refres | [Cannabis Britannica: Empire, Trade, and Prohibition, 1800–1928](#mills-cannabis-britannica-2003) | verified | 0 / 9 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 0 | matches recorded hash | | [Marihuana: The First Twelve Thousand Years](#abel-marihuana-first-twelve-thousand-years-1980) | verified | 0 / 13 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 0 | matches recorded hash | -| [Cannabis: Global Histories](#richert-mills-cannabis-global-histories-2021) | verified | 6 / 15 | 3 | 6 | 54 | 0 | matches recorded hash | +| [Cannabis: Global Histories](#richert-mills-cannabis-global-histories-2021) | verified | 6 / 15 | 3 | 6 | 55 | 0 | matches recorded hash | | [Reefer Wellness: Understanding Cannabis Science, Culture, and Medicine](#kirk-reefer-wellness-2025) | verified | 0 / 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | matches recorded hash | | [The Emperor Wears No Clothes](#herer-emperor-wears-no-clothes-undated) | verified | 1 / 16 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 0 | matches recorded hash | @@ -189,5 +189,5 @@ Missing local books are expected on other checkouts. A changed hash requires edi | 2. 2 Ganja and the Government of India: Cannabis, Excise, and Colonial Administration in the Late Nineteenth Century | indexed_only | — | — | — | | 3. 3 Ganja Madness: Cannabis, Insanity, and Indentured Labor in British Guiana and Trinidad, 1881–1912 | selected_sections_read | Chapter 3, Ganja Madness in Mauritius and Jamaica (Mauritius discussion), and notes 71–75. Additional review on 16 October: EPUB printed-page markers 63–66 and 70–71; notes 35, 50, 58–61 and 87. Original archival ordinances not inspected. | articles/mauritius-ban-1840.md; changes.yaml#mauritius-ban-1840; changes.yaml#trinidad-prohibition-1894; changes.yaml#trinidad-repeal-1899; articles/trinidad-prohibition-1894.md; articles/trinidad-repeal-1899.md | Read remaining sections and inspect Ordinance No. 2 of 1840 itself; see docs/research/earliest-ban-articles-2026-10-15.md. Retrieve Trinidad Ordinances No. 22 (1894) and No. 10 (1899); see docs/research/pre-1900-indentured-regulations-2026-10-16.md. | -| 4. 4 Dagga: How South Africa Made a Dangerous Drug, 1902–1928 | selected_sections_read | Dagga and Colonial Governance in Natal, EPUB printed-page marker 86, with notes 8–12. Remaining sections not reviewed in this pass. | changes.yaml#south-africa-natal-1870; changes.yaml#natal-law-tightened-1887; articles/south-africa-natal-1870.md; articles/natal-law-tightened-1887.md | Retrieve the original 1870 section and implementing notices. Distinguish Waetjen's description as prohibition from Paterson's enabling-power account; see docs/research/pre-1900-indentured-regulations-2026-10-16.md. | +| 4. 4 Dagga: How South Africa Made a Dangerous Drug, 1902–1928 | selected_sections_read | Dagga and Colonial Governance in Natal, EPUB printed-page marker 86, with notes 8–12. On 26 October 2026 the 1916-bill, 1922-gazette, 1928-shift and December-1922-compromise passages at EPUB printed-page markers pg_99–pg_100 were read; other sections remain unreviewed. | changes.yaml#south-africa-natal-1870; changes.yaml#natal-law-tightened-1887; articles/south-africa-natal-1870.md; articles/natal-law-tightened-1887.md; articles/south-africa-pharmacy-act-1928.md | Retrieve the original 1870 section and implementing notices. Distinguish Waetjen's description as prohibition from Paterson's enabling-power account; see docs/research/pre-1900-indentured-regulations-2026-10-16.md. | | 5. 5 Squaring a Circle: Cannabis and the Dubious Legacy of the League of Nations | read | Entire chapter and notes 1–89; no verified print-page mapping. | articles/league-advisory-committee-report-1934.md; articles/egypt-russell-hashish-report-1930.md; articles/league-russell-anslinger-exchange-1938.md; culture/people/russell-pasha.md; changes.yaml#league-advisory-committee-report-1934; changes.yaml#egypt-russell-hashish-report-1930; changes.yaml#league-russell-anslinger-exchange-1938 | See docs/research/ram-league-reading-2026-10-15.md. Original League reports and proceedings remain unexamined; the 1935 summary event has an unresolved date. The chapter's June 1938 discussion cites a June 1937 minute for one sarcastic quotation; that quip is not assigned to 1938 in the rewritten article. Treaty controls should not be described as a universal domestic ban. | | 6. 6 A Historical Approach to the Criminalization of Marijuana Use in Mexico | indexed_only | — | — | — |
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@@ -886,5 +886,8 @@ books: sections_reviewed: >- Dagga and Colonial Governance in Natal, EPUB printed-page marker 86, - with notes 8–12. Remaining sections not reviewed in this pass. + with notes 8–12. On 26 October 2026 the 1916-bill, 1922-gazette, + 1928-shift and December-1922-compromise passages at EPUB + printed-page markers pg_99–pg_100 were read; other sections remain + unreviewed. applied_to: - changes.yaml#south-africa-natal-1870 @@ -892,4 +895,5 @@ books: - articles/south-africa-natal-1870.md - articles/natal-law-tightened-1887.md + - articles/south-africa-pharmacy-act-1928.md follow_up: >- Retrieve the original 1870 section and implementing notices. Distinguish
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@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@ +# Article batch: South Africa 1928 pharmacy act; Portugal 1924/1926 dead ends + +Research checked on 26 October 2026. Read `DATA-MAINTENANCE.md`, `WRITING.md` +and `BOOKS.md`, the history entries with their profiles, and the linked +entries before writing. One article was added for a backlog entry without +one; no `changes.yaml` entry was added, corrected or re-scored. No profiles, +scores or score timelines changed. + +## Article added + +- `articles/south-africa-pharmacy-act-1928.md` (~450 words, opening plus + three sections, single Waetjen chapter source cited throughout). The 1922 + customs-law prohibition (section 14, gazetted 10 November), the 1923 + League petition and recording of arrests from 1925; the two-decade path + to a national pharmacy law, the rejected noxious-weed option, the + unpresented 1916 narcotics bill with its dagga-as-Leonotis definition, + and the 1928 settlement on cannabis species only; the December 1922 + enforcement compromise, segregation-mapped policing, and the late-1920s + smuggling trade. Links the 1922 ban, 1923 petition and 1922 compromise + entries and `/country/za/`. + +## Sources actually read + +- Thembisa Waetjen, "Dagga: How South Africa Made a Dangerous Drug, + 1902–1928", in Cannabis: Global Histories (local EPUB): the passages at + print-page anchors pg_99–pg_100 re-read on 26 October 2026 — the 1922 + gazette and schedule, the 1923 petition, the 1928 shift with Leonotis + dropped, the Division I/noxious-weed options, the 1916 bill's + definitions and non-presentation, the fibre/oil/birdseed strategising, + the December 1922 compromise quotation, and the 1929 Cape Times/Weenen/ + Paarl trade account. Earlier chapter sections (e.g. Natal governance) + rest on the existing catalogue record; the 1916-bill detail comes from + the same read pages. +- EMCDDA, Drug Policy Profiles: Portugal (2011), mirrored PDF read via + `pdftotext` the same day: Portugal legislating "as early as the 1920s" + with the framework "adapted to the recommendations of the International + Opium Convention of 1912" (pp. 9–10); the 1970 Decree-Law 420/70 as the + first law regulating production, traffic and use of narcotics. Cited + sources: Dias 2007 (covers 1970–2004 only) and IDT historical pages. + +## Portugal 1924/1926: routes exhausted, not forced + +The 1924 (Law 1687, 9 December) and 1926 (Decree 12,210, 27 August) +instruments are identified from the English Wikipedia's cited act +templates, and EMCDDA confirms a 1920s adaptation — but no readable text +was obtained: + +- `diariodarepublica.pt` detalhe pages and `data.dre.pt` ELI endpoints + both return a 2,346-byte OutSystems JavaScript shell to scripted fetch. +- The SICAD/IDT history page returned an empty response. +- A Portuguese-Wikipedia extract request returned no article under the + tried title; a web search for the decree number found no full text or + secondary account of its scope. + +Per the sourcing standard, no entry change and no article were built on +the decree numbers alone. The checked 1926 entry stands as is. Still +needed: the 1924/1926 texts (whether cannabis is scheduled, penalties, +commencement) before any re-basing of Portugal's first ban or an article. + +## Not verified in this pass + +- The 1919 Cuba law-and-regulations booklet, the 1966 Finland decree + number, Syria 1943, Guatemala 1932, Uganda's 1902 ordinance text and the + Austrian 1928 domestic rules remain untraced. +- Scores, profiles and timelines are untouched, including the pre-existing + India chain warning. + +## Validation and tree note + +- `node -e` YAML load of changes.yaml clean (no entry edits in this pass). + `npm run books:report` refreshed the generated report; + `npm run books:check` agrees with the local inventory. +- `npm run history:test`: 40 pass, 0 fail. `npm run answers:test`: 40 + pass, 0 fail. Production build: 4,344 pages, complete. +- Rendered `/history/south-africa-pharmacy-act-1928/` shows 14 `[1]` + citations; outbound links to the 1922 ban, 1923 petition and 1922 + compromise entries resolve. Chain `za` unchanged, 0 flagged steps; the + entry cleared the article backlog. +- Commit stages only the new article, this note, the Waetjen + `books.yaml` hunks and the regenerated report. Foreign work in the + shared tree is excluded and preserved.