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+# Tajikistan history and profile review — 24 October 2026
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+Six new entries and two revised entries extend a five-event history. Three new articles cover the Soviet cultivation restriction, retrospective sentence review and the 2010 policy review; the existing 1999-law article is rewritten. All four have inline citations, historical links and a country link. The profile replaces outdated English penalty ranges with Russian statutory text and separates voluntary treatment, compulsory treatment, examination and registration. Current scores and the separately sourced seizure-statistics section are preserved.
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+## Documents actually read
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+Research downloads, text extractions, OCR, scripts and logs are retained under `tmp/history-tajikistan-gap-2026-10-24/`. Temporary site builds are deleted after verification.
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+- **1934 Soviet decree**, Istmat reproduction of Collected Laws No. 56, article 422: complete operative text. Signed 27 October 1934; expressly commences **from 1935**. Covers opium poppy and Indian hemp, exclusive medical/scientific purpose exception, criminal responsibility, compulsory crop confiscation and instructions to republics to amend codes. The existing event ID is retained but date corrected to 1935. The existing first-step vector is unchanged; this is not a complete reconstruction of Soviet Tajik criminal law.
+- **Russian Criminal Code consolidated through 17 December 2025**, WIPO Lex record 23720, 202 pages. The ordinary unsigned resource URL returned an HTML page; the PDF link supplied by WIPO’s record produced a valid PDF, saved locally as `wipo2025.pdf`. Public citations use the stable record URL. Read complete articles 200–205, pp. 98–104, the annex heading and the original adoption/commencement instruments at pp. 201–202.
+- **Earlier WIPO consolidation**, record 10418, version year 2011, full embedded Russian text. Read relevant personal-possession and cultivation provisions and amendment annotations. It already contains a fine or up to two years in the lowest bands. Its older quantity tables are superseded and are not used as present thresholds.
+- **Drug Control Agency’s official reproduction of the 1999 drug law**, published 9 April 2020 and consolidated through 2019. Full relevant definitions and articles 4, 8–10, 15–19 plus original adoption/commencement material read. The amended definition of supply explicitly includes gifts, swaps, loans and debt payments. Scientific cultivation is restricted to licensed research institutions. Manufacture is licensed and quota-controlled. Non-prescribed use is prohibited; suspected unlawful use can lead to examination; registration, voluntary treatment and compulsory treatment have distinct rules.
+- **Supreme Court Plenum resolution 1 of 25 June 2004**, Justice Ministry ADLIA document 5259. Public preamble and paragraphs 1–7 read. The court expressly says the May reform took effect on **22 May 2004**. The visible paragraphs describe applications/review jurisdiction, release when conduct is no longer criminal, retrospective reduction to a new penalty maximum and some first-time juvenile cases. The page ends with an ellipsis; unexposed later paragraphs were not read or inferred. The event is a general court-review milestone, not a claim that every cannabis prisoner was released or that cannabis was decriminalised.
+- **ROST’s Russian drug-policy report**, cover dated Dushanbe 2010, hosted by OSF in its 2011 document collection, 34 pages. Read the working-group introduction, research scope, practice/policing concerns, privacy and treatment recommendations and relevant legislative comparison sections. The report is searchable; a retained OCR copy was also generated, but neither OCR nor the filename is treated as proof of publication day. The event uses **2010**, the study year, rather than inventing 3 November 2011 as a release date from its storage filename.
+- **OSF’s two-page English summary**, findings and recommendations read in full. Establishes participation by the health ministry, Drug Control Agency and civil society, criticism of enforcement targets, discrimination, treatment rules and confidentiality. Its historical findings are dated explicitly in the profile; they do not certify current policing practice or cannabis-specific incarceration rates. Ambiguous court case counts are not reused as cannabis statistics.
+- **2021 analogue coverage**, expressly annotated to Law 1776 of 20 April 2021 in the consolidated code’s articles 200–203 and 205 and article 200 note 4. No claim is made that the plant-cultivation offence itself acquired a separate analogue crop category. Event date is the signed amendment recorded in the consolidation; publication/commencement has not been separately established.
+- **2023 quantity-annex replacement**, ADLIA document 146640 and WIPO’s consolidated article 200 note 2/annex heading, expressly attributed to Law 1984 of 13 November 2023. ADLIA public text is partial. Crucially, the WIPO PDF supplies an annex **heading but omits the tables**. The entry reports the replacement and cross-reference, not new gram thresholds or a change in cannabis freedom.
+- **2026 drug-law amendment**, ADLIA document 171813: public Russian operative amendments to articles 6, 7 and 10 read. Signed/adopted 16 February, after January lower-house and February upper-house proceedings. Changes precursor licensing/import certificates, authorising documents for controlled-drug imports and exports, and police-law powers applied to agency staff. The visible record does not provide a separate commencement date, so the event explicitly describes signed amendments.
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+## Corrected profile claims
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+The old English translation’s up-to-five-year ordinary possession and five-to-ten-year ordinary cultivation ranges were misleading as the current lowest bands. The 2025 Russian text provides:
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+| Activity | Lowest band | Next band | Higher/aggravated tiers |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| Personal possession without intent to supply | 100–500 calculation-unit fine or up to 2 years | 2–5 years | 5–8 or 8–12 years |
+| Unauthorised cultivation | 200–500 calculation-unit fine or up to 2 years | 2–5 years | 5–8 or 8–12 years |
+| Supply | Up to 5 years | 5–8 years | 8–12 or 12–20 years |
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+The two lowest Russian labels are *мелкий* and *небольшой*. The profile uses **lowest** and **next** band instead of confusing both as “small”. These bands must not be converted into cannabis gram/plant limits without the current tables. The profile removes the old hectare threshold and stale suggestion of death as a current supply penalty. No currency conversion is made without a separately verified current calculation-unit value.
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+The law’s voluntary-treatment language and reference to compulsory treatment are reported separately. Registration follows a finding of unlawful use and applies to people diagnosed with dependence; it is not described as automatic forced treatment for every cannabis user. Generic medical licensing does not prove a cannabis-patient programme. The old blank “None” production/products sections are replaced with the specific licensed scientific/controlled-drug rules and quantity-band distinction. Medical metadata remains unchanged pending cannabis-specific schedule/access evidence.
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+## Scores and unresolved historical allocation
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+**Current exact score remains 3**: possession 0, cultivation 0, enforcement 1, sharing 0, consumption 1, access 0. All historical vectors are preserved. This pass materially improves the penalty and treatment evidence but does not claim to complete the score audit.
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+There is a substantive **cultivation-score follow-up**: the lowest-band fine/two-year alternative appears more consistent with the index’s lesser-penalty category than the existing 0, which came from the obsolete five-to-ten-year translation. A justified correction needs the actual cannabis plant-count bands and the date the lower tier began, so the timeline can change with the profile rather than back-projecting a correction to 1935. The lowest bands already appear in the 2011 consolidation, but that observation does not by itself prove their original date.
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+The 17 May 2004 reform is annotated across the drug chapter, and the Supreme Court independently verifies its 22 May commencement. However, the full drug-related paragraphs of that original amendment were **not retrieved**: ADLIA 115582 displays only initial general-code changes before an ellipsis; the older linked record 4865 supplies metadata only. The 2008 fine annotations may reflect calculation-unit changes rather than introduction of the imprisonment alternatives. Do not invent a 2004 or 2008 cannabis score step from those annotations alone.
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+Similarly, a fine alternative does not alone establish that fines are typical or that prison has ceased to be realistic. The current possession/enforcement scores need recent cannabis-specific sentencing evidence. The 2010 report’s findings are historical evidence, not proof of today’s proportions. The single existing Soviet first-step allocation also needs reconstruction against Tajik republican legislation, including the missing Soviet-era possession restrictions.
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+The 1998 code commencement is now recorded from the original legislative instruments attached to the later consolidation. Its **later drug penalties are not backdated to 1998**. The 1999 adoption entry explicitly identifies later consolidated language and distinguishes adoption from commencement after publication. The 2021 analogue, 2023 annex and 2026 licensing amendments have `unscored` reasons rather than assumed personal-cannabis changes.
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+## Retrieval limitations and next work
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+National Legislation Centre HTML and PDF URLs timed out repeatedly; the agency’s official law reproduction and WIPO code were successful alternatives. The Council of Europe country report returned 403 and was not reused as a newly read source. ADLIA excerpts are treated as partial; no authentication or access limit was bypassed.
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+The code vendor’s index lists a 17 June 2026 revision beyond WIPO’s December 2025 consolidation. The complete 2026 criminal-code amendments and current annex tables remain to be checked before certifying exhaustive October 2026 penalties. The profile’s source title states its edition. Also retrieve the full 2004 reform, full 2013 changes, current plant-count list and medical-control schedules, and investigate repeal of the old capital drug penalty before adding a scored death-penalty transition.
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+The border-seizure history entry and treaty entries were left unchanged. Separately maintained UNODC seizure statistics and their source record are preserved verbatim. The 1999 article was already present at the start; its earlier text is saved in `article-before.md` and the isolated commit verifies its baseline before including the rewrite.
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+## Verification
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+The batch verifier checks all eight affected entries, category/tag vocabulary, inline-reference coverage and placement, related links, article links, length and headings. The three new articles and one rewritten article are 360–380 words with four sections each. It asserts unchanged current and historical scores and unchanged seizure statistics/source. Production and rendered verification results are recorded after the build; only the owned temporary site directory is deleted. The private-index commit includes this batch’s history objects, profile, four articles and this memo, preserving unrelated staged/working-tree source-archive changes.
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+Production build passed: **4,022 pages**. Rendered checks passed for **90 citation links**, affected history/country pages, all batch tag pages, history JSON/CSV exports and the country API. Current exact score **3**, medical classification **None**, unchanged score vectors and unchanged seizure statistics were verified. `git diff --check` passed. The owned temporary `site/` build directory was deleted after verification.