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history: add St Lucia 1926 first-ban article; re-base 1938 as harsher successor code

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Saint Lucia passes its Dangerous Drugs Act

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Twelve years after the 1926 ordinance first controlled Indian hemp, Ordinance No. 20 of 1938, in force from 1 May 1939, gave the colonyput a harsher dangerous-drugs code in place whose Part IV is headed "Indian Hemp".[@1,2] Section 2 defines Indian hemp as the Cannabis sativa plant, its unextracted dried fruiti … e, with transit through the colony excepted; conviction drew up to ten years on indictment, up from twelve months summary-only in 1926.[@1,2]

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possession 101 · cultivation 102 · enforcement 103 · sharing 101 · consumption 101 · access 100

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Saint Lucia — Ordinances 1926: No. 16 of 1926, Dangerous Drugs Ordinance (assented 26 October 1926) 1 unchanged

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saint-lucia-dangerous-drugs-1938 articles/saint-lucia-dangerous-drugs-1938.md

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Saint Lucia banned's cannabis ban got teeth in 1938. Twelve years after Ordinance No. 16 of 1926 first controlled Indian hemp — banning its cultivation, possession, sale, import and export at a maximum of twelve months — Ordinance No. 20 of that year1938, published in the 1957 revised ordinances as Chapter 55 and in force from 1 May 1939, gave the colonyput a fullfar harsher dangerous-drugs code —in place, and its Part IV is headed simply "Indian Hemp".[@1,2] ## A botanical definition The ordinance defines its terms with unusual care. "Indian H … he [country page](/country/lc/) follows the law from this ordinance to decriminalisation.

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Saint Lucia — Ordinances 1926: No. 16 of 1926, Dangerous Drugs Ordinance (assented 26 October 1926) 1 unchanged

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docs/research/history-stlucia-nyasaland-2026-10-26.md +22 −0
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   ordinance.
 
+## Follow-up the same session: St Lucia 1926 found, chain re-based again
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+Sweeping the neighbouring CRL files for the 1926 ordinance's assent clause
+surfaced the colony name: record 827721 is SAINT LUCIA ordinances 1926,
+and No. 16 of 1926 (passed 14 Oct, assented 26 Oct by the Acting Governor)
+is St Lucia's first Indian-hemp control — it repeals the opium-only 1916
+Revision ordinance and 1922 amendment (s. 19) and bans hemp cultivation,
+possession, sale, import, export, manufacture and dealing (ss. 3–5), with
+galenical extract/tincture under Part III (s. 7(f)), at £200/12 months
+summary. Read in full (files 058–065).
+
+Consequences, all applied and verified: new entry
+`saint-lucia-dangerous-drugs-1926` (1926-10-26, FREE before) and new
+article `articles/saint-lucia-dangerous-drugs-1926.md`; the 1938 entry is
+re-based (before FREE → {1,2,3,1,1,0}, same post-first-ban convention as
+Malawi/Basutoland) with its description reframed as the harsher successor
+code (+1926 source as [@2]); the 1938 article's lede reframed the same way
+(+1926 source). No express repeal of the 1926 ordinance was found in the
+1938 OCR, so neither entry nor article asserts formal repeal — only the
+verified penalty jump (12 months summary → 10 years indictment). Chain lc:
+1926 100→16, 1938 16→11-vector, 0 flagged.
+
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