Address research issue 200 with sourced history and country context

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 ## Reporting back
 
+An [editorial review of issue #200](research/issue-200-news-review-2026-10-27.md)
+on 27 October 2026 adds nine history entries, three articles and context across
+eight profiles. Kenya's existing Rastafari ruling gains the full judgment; Dutch
+and Swiss study findings retain their causal limits, Vermont's event sales remain
+separate from consumption, and Zimbabwe's producer changes are checked against the
+original gazette. The conditional Lesotho lead is excluded pending its committee
+report. All scores and historical score vectors are preserved.
+
 A [Luxembourg, Switzerland and Taiwan extension](research/profile-extension-lu-ch-tw-2026-10-27.md)
 on 27 October 2026 adds seven context sections, four penalty tables, two articles and

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+# Issue #200: October news review
+
+Reviewed 27 October 2026 against DATA-MAINTENANCE, WRITING and CULTURE.
+The issue is an editorial candidate list: secondary leads are explicitly subject
+to verification. The decisions below distinguish published additions from a lead
+excluded for insufficient primary evidence. No segment score or historical score
+vector changes in this batch.
+
+| Lead | Decision and coverage |
+|---|---|
+| 1. Kenya | Reuse `kenya-high-court-rastafari-petition-2026`, replace its press account with the full judgment, add an article and country culture context. The existing Rastafari tradition already links this event; preserve that reference piece. |
+| 2. South African growers | Add `south-africa-indigenous-growers-legal-options-2026` and production context. The official DSBD procurement record confirms its advertising date, scope and deadline. Record legal-options work only; no new rights or assumed 2027 enactment. |
+| 3. Landrace conservation | Add the explicitly reporting-dated `south-africa-landrace-return-report-2026` and genetics context. Read the complete Cannabiz Africa article in the browser. Attribute the seed-bank account; conservation, community nurseries and ownership arrangements are described with their actual reported/planned status. |
+| 4. Netherlands | Add `netherlands-coffeeshop-trial-follow-up-2026`, an article and research context. Read WODC, Trimbos, the report's summary and the official April 2025 start announcement. Qualify the production context's previously categorical exclusive-supply wording because the original implementation announcement allowed a temporary hashish transition. |
+| 5. Switzerland | Add `switzerland-basel-pharmacy-follow-up-2026`, an article and research context. Read PDAG, the University of Basel abstract and FOPH's pilot overview. Keep this cohort separate from the seven-trial 2025 evaluation already present. |
+| 6. Vermont | Add `vermont-sale-only-event-pilot-2026` and revise access/consumption. Read enacted §912: municipal consent, security/sales plans, annual limit of ten public permits, 24-hour limit, no consumption, procedures with hearings, July 2028 repeal. Do not imply actual event permits have been issued. Existing possession reform stays unduplicated. |
+| 7. Zimbabwe | Add `zimbabwe-medical-producer-controls-2026` and production context after reading the original gazette scan in the browser. Preserve the separate hemp and patient-access assessments. |
+| 8. UK CBD | Add `uk-cbd-first-authorisation-recommendations-2026` using the paper's update date, explicitly a document milestone. Add hemp context and migrate the old products section's prescription-product detail into medical. The paper seeks board agreement on recommendations: ministerial authorisation is a later decision. |
+| 9. Europol | Add the country-neutral `europol-transatlantic-cannabis-taskforce-2026`. The full official release was readable through search's indexed page text despite its live JavaScript shell. Attribute its market explanation; no causal claim about violence or consumption, and no invented national statistics. |
+| 10. Lesotho | Exclude from public data in this pass. Read The Reporter's complete account, then searched for the underlying Social Cluster committee report/transcript; none was recovered. The issue requires that primary evidence before publication. The 75-company allegation, suspected revenue loss and reported fees therefore remain unpublished. |
+| 11. Singapore | Add `singapore-pasir-panjang-transit-seizure-2026` and separately qualified black-market context. Read ICA/CNB paragraphs 1–3. Use seizure date for history, release date in sources; ongoing investigation, no inferred individual culpability or reported conviction. |
+
+## Source checks and remaining limits
+
+- **Kenya:** the judgment's exhaustion finding is in paragraphs 35–47; its
+  alternative rights/proportionality reasoning follows in 49–74. Paragraphs 75–84
+  contain the policy discussion and final disposition. Its account of religious
+  indispensability is attributed to the court, not presented as a definition of
+  Rastafari belief. The challenge's dismissal leaves existing prohibitions in place.
+- **DSBD:** the official indexed record was read in full. The old Drupal address
+  now redirects to a missing page on the replacement site; the attached terms of
+  reference were not recovered. Scope and advertising/closing dates are supported
+  by the record itself. Do not infer an award, completed framework or enacted bill.
+- **Landraces:** the project report does not supply an independent accession audit,
+  permit copy or evidence of completed community returns. Its historical collection
+  provenance and proposed agreements remain claims requiring independent checking
+  before a longer Culture feature. No claims of genetic purity or proven medicinal
+  efficacy were carried into the profile or history.
+- **Dutch evaluation:** the report is labelled first follow-up measurement 2025,
+  covers the period through early 2026 and was released in September 2026. Distinguish
+  measurement, release and the April 2025 experimental-phase start. A finding of no
+  clear difference is not evidence that the intervention can have no effect.
+- **Basel:** use PDAG's 14 September release date. The repository lists a November
+  journal-issue date; do not backdate that issue or confuse it with first public
+  reporting. Read the repository abstract, not the inaccessible ScienceDirect full
+  text. Small mean changes coexist with no significant change in the proportion
+  above clinical thresholds. The uncontrolled year-one design cannot identify cause.
+- **Zimbabwe:** ZimLII's source is the entire 3 July gazette, not a small stand-alone
+  SI. Standard retrieval was blocked; its browser PDF viewer loaded the supplement.
+  Read printed pages 1651–1668, including the amended producer-licence duration,
+  MCAZ functions, cultivation/security/testing rules, export destruction and appeals.
+  Section numbers in the amending text are irregular; locators identify the amended
+  provisions. The printed definition's low-THC exclusion wording is anomalous; it
+  is not used to rewrite the separate criminal-code industrial-hemp definition.
+  Fees are not promoted as current charges because later fee reforms need their
+  own verification. The event uses gazette publication date.
+- **Lesotho:** a future addition needs the report tabled in the National Assembly
+  around 19–23 October, its adoption status and the relevant Ministry response.
+  An article quoting a committee is insufficient to describe its allegations as
+  audited losses. Editorial exclusion disposes of this conditional candidate;
+  it does not settle the underlying governance allegations.
+
+## Validation and archive work
+
+- Answer/profile tests: 87 passed. History tests: 46 passed after removing an
+  unused third source from the concurrently added Grenada article's front matter;
+  that small validation repair changes no article prose or attribution.
+- Full build passed: 4,691 pages, isolated output in `/tmp/cfi-issue-200-build`.
+- All eight affected national score chains (including the US for Vermont) reported
+  zero flagged steps. Direct comparison found all profile scores and every scored
+  history vector unchanged, with none of the ten reviewed events carrying `before`.
+- Browser checks passed for seven national context tabs, all three new articles,
+  and mobile overflow checks at 390 pixels. Screenshots reviewed for desktop
+  South Africa and mobile Switzerland. Vermont's access/consumption text is checked
+  in the source and validated by the build and profile tests.
+- Targeted CDX checks completed for all fifteen cited batch URLs: six returned
+  existing captures, nine returned successful empty results. Merge those records
+  while preserving concurrent archive edits. An older archive snapshot may predate
+  a page update; current claims were checked against the sources described above.

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