Changelog 27 October 2026 71ada70

CN/KH/SL triage; Sierra Leone 1926 article merged with concurrent version

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History changes.yaml

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China seals records of drug-use penalties

unscored

Record-sealing without any penalty change; use remains punished the same.

Cambodia launches an anti-drug campaign

unscored

Mass-arrest campaign within the maximal custodial state; no band movement, and totals cover drugs generally.

Sierra Leone gives drug officers powers to destroy cannabis crops

unscored

Eradication and agency powers within the standing cultivation ban; no band movement.

Articles and atlas entries 1

sierra-leone-dangerous-drugs-ordinance-1926 articles/sierra-leone-dangerous-drugs-ordinance-1926.md

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Growers and people holding cannabis faced criminal offences under Sierra Leone's colonial … iry in 1899 that there was nothing resembling bhang or Indian hemp in the colony.[@2] The ~~international names could obscure a plant already known to local growers~~Geneva Convention itself listed only hashish, esrar and ~~smokers~~charas — plus "djamba", mentioned probably on behalf of the Central African colonies — while Sierra Leone's ordinance copied the "whatever name" formula without showing any awareness that diamba was the drug it meant.[@2] ## The law reached plants as well as resin The [1925 Geneva convention](/history/g … or otherwise dealing in it were offences, with an exception for medical preparations.[@1] Conviction in the Supreme Court risked ten years with hard labour or a £1,000 fine; summary conviction, twelve months or £250; and the drugs were forfeited either way.[@1] Separate rules prohibited importing or exporting cannabis resin and made producing, holdin … try/sl/) had developed from a colonial treaty law into a national enforcement system.[@3]

Code, design and documents 3 files

docs/BOOK-RESEARCH.md +2 −2

@@ -16,5 +16,5 @@ Generated from [books.yaml](books.yaml) and the local `books/` inventory. Refres
 | [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 |
-| [The African Roots of Marijuana](#duvall-african-roots-marijuana-2019) | verified | 4 / 10 | 3 | 3 | 29 | 4 | matches recorded hash |
+| [The African Roots of Marijuana](#duvall-african-roots-marijuana-2019) | verified | 4 / 10 | 3 | 3 | 30 | 4 | matches recorded hash |
 | [Cannabis: Evolution and Ethnobotany](#cannabis-evolution-and-ethnobotany) | awaiting_verification | not indexed | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | matches recorded hash |
 | [Commodifying Cannabis: A Cultural History of a Complex Plant in the Atlantic World](#commodifying-cannabis-a-cultural-history-of-a-complex-plant-in-the-atlantic-world) | verified | 0 / 9 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | matches recorded hash |
@@ -269,5 +269,5 @@ Missing local books are expected on other checkouts. A changed hash requires edi
 | 5. A Convenient Crop | read | pp. 95–111; selected notes pp. 271–276 (notes 8–107) | culture/traditions/the-heddawa.md; culture/traditions/kif-and-the-sebsi.md; culture/language/chamba.md | Remaining notes not read. The 1921 resin-production reference concerns Algeria, not a verified Moroccan start date. Do not identify the men in figure 5.1 as Heddawa; use the separately attributed 1955 gallery. Treat origin legends and outsider judgments as such. |
 | 6. Society Overturned: The Bena Riamba | read | pp. 112–124; chapter notes 280–286 | culture/traditions/bena-riamba.md; culture/people/sangula-meta.md; articles/dr-congo-bena-riamba-1881.md; changes.yaml#dr-congo-bena-riamba-1881 | Primary accounts conflict about names, kinship and succession. Do not turn approximate reconstruction into precisely dated events. Notes 21 and 35 qualify translations and kinship. |
-| 7. Cannabis Crosses the Atlantic | selected_pages_read | pp. 125–139; selected notes pp. 291–293 (notes 60–104) | culture/language/maconha.md; culture/language/diamba.md; articles/sierra-leone-cannabis-long-in-use-1851.md; changes.yaml#sierra-leone-cannabis-long-in-use-1851 | Resume p. 140; remaining body and notes unread. Maconha is placed within a wider Bantu vocabulary with shifting botanical meanings. Rio 1830 penalties conflict with existing site account: verify original before revision. Clarke’s 1851 primary report pp. 9–11 separately read and checked. |
+| 7. Cannabis Crosses the Atlantic | selected_pages_read | pp. 125–139, 146–148; selected notes pp. 291–293 (notes 60–104) | culture/language/maconha.md; culture/language/diamba.md; articles/sierra-leone-cannabis-long-in-use-1851.md; changes.yaml#sierra-leone-cannabis-long-in-use-1851; articles/sierra-leone-dangerous-drugs-ordinance-1926.md | Resume p. 140; remaining body and notes unread. Maconha is placed within a wider Bantu vocabulary with shifting botanical meanings. Rio 1830 penalties conflict with existing site account: verify original before revision. Clarke’s 1851 primary report pp. 9–11 separately read and checked. |
 | 8. Working under the Influence | indexed_only | — | — | — |
 | 9. Buying and Banning | selected_pages_read | pp. note 95 (p. 319) and the Tunisian passage it annotates; pp. 192–195 (Maghreb monopolies) | changes.yaml#malta-hashish-to-tunisia-1895; culture/language/qanneb.md; changes.yaml#morocco-hassan-kif-ban-1888; changes.yaml#morocco-monopolies-restored-1896; changes.yaml#morocco-kif-state-farm-1914; changes.yaml#morocco-hashish-import-ban-1922; changes.yaml#tunisia-cultivation-ban-1875; changes.yaml#tunisia-takrouri-monopoly-1890; articles/morocco-kif-ban-1956.md; articles/tunisia-takrouri-ban-1953.md; articles/morocco-hassan-kif-ban-1888.md; articles/morocco-monopolies-restored-1896.md | — |

docs/books.yaml +2 −1

@@ -1374,5 +1374,5 @@ books:
         pdf_start: 129
         status: selected_pages_read
-        pages_reviewed: 125–139; selected notes pp. 291–293 (notes 60–104)
+        pages_reviewed: 125–139, 146–148; selected notes pp. 291–293 (notes 60–104)
         applied_to:
           - culture/language/maconha.md
@@ -1380,4 +1380,5 @@ books:
           - articles/sierra-leone-cannabis-long-in-use-1851.md
           - changes.yaml#sierra-leone-cannabis-long-in-use-1851
+          - articles/sierra-leone-dangerous-drugs-ordinance-1926.md
         follow_up: >-
           Resume p. 140; remaining body and notes unread. Maconha is placed within a wider Bantu vocabulary with

docs/research/history-cn-kh-sl-triage-2026-10-27.md +17 −0

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+# China / Cambodia / Sierra Leone triage + 1926 article
+
+- `china-violation-records-sealed-2026`: unscored (record-sealing without
+  penalty change).
+- `cambodia-drug-campaign-2017`: unscored (mass-arrest campaign within the
+  maximal custodial state; totals cover drugs generally).
+- `sierra-leone-drugs-control-act-2008`: unscored (eradication and agency
+  powers within the standing cultivation ban).
+- New article `sierra-leone-dangerous-drugs-ordinance-1926` (360 words):
+  Cap 154 re-read first-hand (ss. 9-10, penalties £1,000/10yrs and
+  £250/12mo, Part V extracts, 1928/1932 amendments, purpose clause) plus
+  Duvall ch. 7 passages read first-hand (Clarke 1851, djamba in the 1925
+  convention, 1933 identification). Deliberately complements the existing
+  1851 and 1933 articles with cross-links rather than retelling them; Duvall
+  books.yaml ch. 7 applied_to extended.
+
+Chains cn/kh/sl 0 flagged; history:test 40/40; answers:test 69/69; build green.