Changelog 28 October 2026, 22:54 8e3330ftree

Expand Cuba: marihuana word, 1958/1949/1979 articles

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Cuba countries/cu.yaml

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Article 236(b) of the 2022 Penal Code punishes simple possession of cannabis or its deriva … r trafficking ranges. The provision establishes no lawful personal-use quantity.[@ley151] An earlier 1979 code had punished simple possession with six months to three years.(/history/cuba-drug-penalties-code-1979/) [The 2022 Code kept six months to two years.](/history/cuba-penal-code-2022/) [Simple possession drew a fine from 1994.](/history/cuba-cannabis-possession-fine-1994/)

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word marihuana · lang Spanish (Cuba) · meaning The Penal Code's own name for the plant — unauthorised cultivation of Cannabis, known as marihuana; the rebels' 1958 order punished smoking marihuana · sources ley151

Articles and atlas entries 3

cuba-drug-penalties-code-1979 article · added · 86 words
cuba-marijuana-survey-1949 article · added · 128 words
cuba-rebel-territory-cannabis-ban-1958 article · added · 86 words

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+# Americas-7 batch — expansion-2026-10-28-americas-7 (cu, sx, ky, vg, kn, ht, do)
+
+Non-Asian batch per request: Caribbean + Central America from the global ranks past 25
+(top-25 non-Asian is exhausted — all done or excluded). Skip USA national/states (separate
+track); Canada (separate job); Eritrea/Somaliland/Sudan (closed/recent); Africa top ranks
+(done in Africa-1..6); kp (Asia); cw/sr/aw/bb/vc (Americas-5); lc/sv/ag/bm/cr/gd/hn
+(Americas-6); gy (another agent's hemp lane — entry exists, article missing, leave it).
+
+- cu Cuba 11M, work 14: 3 empty decades, nothing since 2023
+- sx Sint Maarten 43k, work 33: 2 standard sections missing, products to fold, no penalty tables, 7 empty decades, 1 key entry without article
+- ky Cayman Islands 89k, work 27: 1 standard section missing, no penalty tables, 7 empty decades, 1 key entry without article
+- vg British Virgin Islands 39k, work 33: 2 standard sections missing, products to fold, no penalty tables, 5 empty decades, nothing since 2023, 1 key entry without article
+- kn Saint Kitts and Nevis 47k, work 31: 1 standard section missing, products to fold, no penalty tables, 6 empty decades, nothing since 2023, 1 key entry without article
+- ht Haiti 12M, work 12: 4 empty decades
+- do Dominican Republic 12M, work 12: 5 empty decades
+
+## cu — committed
+- Word marihuana (Spanish (Cuba), the Code's own name; also the rebels' 1958 word); 1979-code link added to possession.
+- New `articles/cuba-rebel-territory-cannabis-ban-1958.md` (verified in the WHO-held programme PDF: Disposición 6, 7 Oct 1958; honest that it was rebel-territory only) + `articles/cuba-marijuana-survey-1949.md` (Wolff book = profile source: Portuguese sailors, Mexican port, 1946 congress, cigarette form) + `articles/cuba-drug-penalties-code-1979.md` (verified verbatim in the UN PDF: Art 217 3–8 yrs incl. "Cannabis Indica, conocida por marihuana" + land confiscation + 7–15 large; Art 218 6 mo–3 yrs; in force 1 Nov 1979).
+- Tables already present (Art 236(b) 6 mo–2 yrs; Art 235 4–10 yrs); no other profile surgery needed.
+- Audit 0/0; page + all three articles verified in review HTML.
+- Left: 1989 protocol (imp 1, skipped), 2023 courts article (imp 1 — arrests section already covers the figures), 1980s/2000s/2010s decades.
+## sx — pending
+## ky — pending
+## vg — pending
+## kn — pending
+## ht — pending
+## do — pending