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 // Curious cases from the history. Each one restates its entry in /changes.yaml.
 const fromHistory = [
+  { kicker: "500 BC · China", history: "china-jirzankal-study-2019", text: "The earliest clear evidence of people burning cannabis for its effect comes from 2,500-year-old braziers in a cemetery in the mountains of western [[CN|China]], where trafficking it can now bring the death penalty." },
   { kicker: "1787 · Madagascar", history: "madagascar-merina-ban-1787", text: "One of the earliest national bans on record is from [[MG|Madagascar]]: in 1787 King Andrianampoinimerina prohibited cannabis across the Merina kingdom, with death as the penalty." },
   { kicker: "1798 · India", history: "india-bhang-tax-1798", text: "In 1798 the British Parliament taxed bhang, ganja and charas in [[IN|India]], saying the aim was to reduce consumption. Attempts to make cannabis a crime in 1838, 1871 and 1877 were never enacted." },
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   { kicker: "1944 · United States", history: "us-la-guardia-report-1944", text: "A five-year study ordered by the mayor of New York found in 1944 that marijuana did not lead to addiction, crime or harder drugs. The federal narcotics bureau attacked it, and [[US|US]] law did not change." },
   { kicker: "1953 · Netherlands", history: "netherlands-possession-ban-1953", text: "The [[NL|Netherlands]] only made possessing cannabis an offence in 1953 — just over twenty years before it [[h:netherlands-toleration-1976|became known for tolerating it]]." },
+  { kicker: "1964 · Israel", history: "israel-mechoulam-thc-1964", text: "The chemist who first isolated THC got his material from the police: 11 pounds of seized Lebanese hashish, which he carried to his laboratory in [[IL|Israel]] on a public bus." },
   { kicker: "1966 · Nigeria", history: "nigeria-indian-hemp-decree-1966", text: "[[NG|Nigeria]]'s 1966 Indian Hemp Decree set death or 21 years for growing cannabis and at least ten years for possessing it. The death penalty [[h:nigeria-death-penalty-removed-1975|was dropped in 1975]]." },
   { kicker: "1973 · Nepal", history: "nepal-shops-closed-1973", text: "Kathmandu had licensed cannabis shops until 16 July 1973, when [[NP|Nepal]] cancelled every licence under pressure from the United States and the United Nations." },
   { kicker: "1975 · Comoros", history: "comoros-legalisation-1975", text: "Cannabis was legal in the [[KM|Comoros]] for three years: President Ali Soilih lifted the ban in 1975, and the government that overthrew him [[h:comoros-ban-restored-1978|restored it in 1978]]." },
   { kicker: "1985 · Poland", history: "poland-drug-prevention-act-1985", text: "From 1985 to 1997 possessing drugs was not an offence in [[PL|Poland]] in any quantity: police could confiscate them and nothing more. Since [[h:poland-criminalisation-2000|December 2000]] any amount has been a crime." },
+  { kicker: "1976 · United States", history: "us-randall-ruling-1976", text: "After a glaucoma patient won in court in 1976, the federal government of the [[US|United States]] began supplying patients with cannabis it grew itself. In 2011 four people were still receiving it." },
+  { kicker: "1980 · Japan", history: "japan-mccartney-arrest-1980", text: "[[JP|Japan]] held Paul McCartney for ten days in 1980 over 219 grams found in his luggage at Tokyo airport, then deported him without charge." },
   { kicker: "1988 · United States", history: "us-dea-judge-young-1988", text: "In 1988 the drug agency's own judge in the [[US|United States]] ruled that cannabis should be rescheduled, calling it one of the safest therapeutically active substances known. The agency's head rejected the ruling." },
+  { kicker: "1989 · Bhutan", history: "bhutan-first-arrest-1989", text: "In [[BT|Bhutan]] cannabis grows prolifically and was long seen mainly as fodder for fattening pigs. The country's first drug arrest came only in 1989." },
   { kicker: "1995 · Nepal", history: "nepal-pashupati-distribution-ended-1995", text: "Until 1995 the trust that runs [[NP|Nepal]]'s Pashupatinath temple handed holy men marijuana at the Shivaratri festival — taken from the Home Ministry's confiscated stock." },
   { kicker: "2003 · Portugal", history: "portugal-seeds-law-2003", text: "[[PT|Portugal]]'s drug law controls one very specific thing: since 2003 its list has included \"cannabis seeds not intended for sowing\"." },
+  { kicker: "2003 · Switzerland", history: "switzerland-operation-indoor-2003", text: "For seven years shops in the Swiss canton of Ticino sold cannabis as scented sachets for wardrobes. When police ended it in 2003 they seized 198,000 plants — and thieves then stole three vanloads of it back from a military depot in [[CH|Switzerland]]." },
+  { kicker: "2012 · Spain", history: "spain-rasquera-plantation-2012", text: "A village of 960 people in [[ES|Spain]] held a referendum in 2012 on renting land to a cannabis club for 1.3 million euros, about the size of its debt. A court cancelled the deal." },
   { kicker: "2012 · Italy", history: "italy-seeds-ruling-2012", text: "[[IT|Italy]]'s top court ruled in 2012 that selling cannabis seeds is not a crime, because what the buyer will do with them cannot be known." },
+  { kicker: "2014 · Italy", history: "italy-army-cannabis-2014", text: "[[IT|Italy]]'s medical cannabis is grown by the army, at a military pharmaceutical plant in Florence. Its two varieties are called FM1 and FM2: Farmaceutico Militare." },
+  { kicker: "2014 · Albania", history: "albania-lazarat-operation-2014", text: "When more than 800 police moved on the cannabis-growing village of Lazarat in [[AL|Albania]] in 2014, residents answered with rocket-propelled grenades and mortars." },
+  { kicker: "2016 · United Kingdom", history: "uk-largest-legal-producer-2016", text: "In 2016 the [[GB|United Kingdom]] was the world's largest producer of legal cannabis, 95 tonnes of it, while its government held that cannabis had no therapeutic value." },
   { kicker: "2017 · Indonesia", history: "indonesia-fidelis-case-2017", text: "In [[ID|Indonesia]] a man was jailed for eight months in 2017 for growing cannabis to treat his wife. She died while he was detained." },
   { kicker: "2018 · Poland", history: "poland-first-pharmacy-cannabis-2018", text: "[[PL|Poland]]'s parliament [[h:poland-medical-2017|legalised medical cannabis]] by 440 votes to 2. The first delivery, a year later, was seven kilograms for the whole country and sold out within days." },

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