A court sets a K30,000 fine or 20 years for marijuana
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Sentence within the 2022 Act's quantity tiers; illustrates the scored regime, no change.
Changelog 77a0a35
history: close four Papua New Guinea triage opens as unscored
1927 extract licensing, 1973 Henderson sentencing discretion, and the 2025/2026 tier-consistent sentences all closed with unscored reasons: no user-band or access movement.
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Madang court gives two men 25 years for marijuana
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Sentence within the 2022 Act's quantity tiers (>2 kg: 16 years to life); illustrates the scored regime, no change.
Supreme Court confirms alternatives to mandatory imprisonment
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Sentencing discretion (fines/discharges in appropriate cases) within the scored state; the minimum was not absolute, no segment movement.
The Territory of New Guinea restricts cannabis extracts
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Medicinal-import licensing for galenical extracts only; no general possession or cultivation offence before the 1970 Act.
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@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +# Triage: four Papua New Guinea opens closed as unscored + +Research checked on 28 October 2026. Read `DATA-MAINTENANCE.md`, the four +entries with the pg profile and chain (1970 100→11, 2022 11→7; today +possession 0, cultivation 1, enforcement 1, sharing 1). No scores or +profiles changed. + +## What changed + +- `new-guinea-cannabis-extract-controls-1927`: unscored (galenical-extract + medicinal licensing only; no general offence before 1970). +- `papua-new-guinea-henderson-ruling-1973`: unscored (sentencing discretion + within the scored state). +- `papua-new-guinea-long-sentences-2025` and + `papua-new-guinea-marijuana-sentence-2026`: unscored (sentences inside + the 2022 Act's quantity tiers; illustrations, not changes). + +## Validation and tree note + +- Chain `pg`, `history:test`, `answers:test`, production build to be run + before commit. +- Commit stages only these four hunks plus this note, via patch filtering + without stashing. Foreign work in the shared tree stays untouched.