Cannabis Freedom Index

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Expand United Kingdom: 1932/1956 entries, nabilone article, words, culture links

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Britain met [cannabis](/culture/language/cannabis/) twice, a century apart. In 1839 [William O'Shaughnessy](/culture/people/william-oshaughnessy/), an Irish doctor in Calcutta, published his trials of [Indian hemp](/culture/language/indian-hemp/) on animals, himself and patients; within a few years British doctors were prescribing its … rvives in verse: on Halloween, Scots girls sowed hemp seed to dream of their husbands, as [Burns recorded](/culture/traditions/halloween-hemp-seed-divination/).[@halloween] The modern street vocabulary calls cannabis [dope](/culture/language/dope/) and a cannabis cigarette a [spliff](/culture/language/spliff/).[@wiktionary-dope, wiktionary-spliff] In 1977 [Bob Marley](/culture/people/bob-marley/) was fined £50 for cannabis at Marylebone Magistrates' Court while living in London.[@booth15] [Bob Marley is fined for cannabis in London.](/history/uk-marley-cannabis-fine-1977/) [British doctors took up Indian hemp as a medicine in 1843.](/history/uk-doctors-take-up-in … bis possession stayed criminal under the 1973 Act.](/history/uk-misuse-of-drugs-act-1973/)

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oshaughnessy, wootton, halloween, wiktionary-dope, wiktionary-spliff, booth15

sources

Wiktionary — weed (slang: cannabis) Wiktionary — spliff (UK/Ireland/Commonwealth/Jamaica: a cannabis cigarette) Wiktionary — draw (slang: cannabis; a bag of cannabis) Wiktionary — dope (slang: recreational substances, cannabis among them) Cannabis: A History 25 unchanged

words

word Weed · lang British English · meaning the everyday slang word · sources wiktionary-weed, word Spliff · lang British English · meaning a cannabis cigarette; marked UK, Ireland, Commonwealth and Jamaica · atlas spliff · sources wiktionary-spliff, word Draw · lang British English · meaning slang for cannabis or a bag of it · sources wiktionary-draw, word Dope · lang British English · meaning old slang for intoxicants, cannabis among them · atlas dope · sources wiktionary-dope

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 - Left: 1930s still empty (no verifiable event found); optional genetics; Bundestag-vote article.
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+## gb (United Kingdom) — committed (review page pending mo.yaml fix)
+- New entries: 1932 Dangerous Drugs Act (OU/JCL, fills 1930s), 1956 marihuana convictions
+  (Schaffer/King, fills 1950s). New article `articles/uk-nabilone-licensed-1982.md` (Lords 1998
+  report; fills score-moving gap).
+- Words list (Weed, Spliff+atlas, Draw, Dope+atlas; Wiktionary-verified); culture links to
+  language/cannabis, indian-hemp, dope, spliff, halloween rite, Marley 1977 fine (+sentence).
+- Audit 0/0; full test suite green (183/0). Review build blocked by another agent's half-done
+  `countries/mo.yaml` (schema: missing sources) — will verify page once fixed.
+- Deliberately not linked: language/420 (not a documented British word), people/john-lennon
+  (his atlas entry is about the US Sinclair campaign).
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