Cannabis Freedom Index

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Saint Vincent passes its Dangerous Drugs Ordinance

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The Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, 1937 (No. 21 of 1937) waslets the colony's narcotics lawGovernor extend Part V of the Ordinance to further drugs by order. A[@1] The Application Order of 1947 order(No. 24, made 25 April and gazetted 6 May), made under it added preparationssection 13(2), applied Part V to the scheduled drugs, including any non-external-use preparation made from extract or tincture of Indian hemp to the controlled drugs.[@1] The filing does not reproducereproduces the laworder rather than the Ordinance itself, so its exact treatment ofwhether the 1937 text already named cannabis is not confirmedunconfirmed here.[@1]

Barbados passes its Dangerous Drugs Act

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The Dangerous Drugs Act, 1936 waslets the colony's narcotics lawGovernor extend Part IV of the Act to further drugs by order. A[@1] The Application Order of 6 December 1951 order, made under it added preparationssection 10(2), applied Part IV — which bars importing or exporting covered drugs except under Part V and empowers regulation against improper use — to the scheduled drugs, including any non-external-use preparation made from extract or tincture of Indian hemp to the controlled drugs.[@1] The filing does not reproducereproduces the laworder rather than the Act itself, so its exact treatment ofwhether the 1936 text already named cannabis is not confirmedunconfirmed here.[@1]

Cyprus passes its Dangerous Drugs Law

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A 19471948 order made under section 11(2) of the Dangerous Drugs Laws, 1925 to 1932 extends themPart III to new drugs withamidone and Metopon, described as having effects like those produced by Indian hemp, morphine or cocaine, which showsplaces Indian hemp was among the drugs the law controlledsection 11(1) already covered.[@1] The order was made in Council on 5 March 1948 and deemed in force from 1 January that year.[@1] The filing does not reproducereproduces the law itselforder rather than the Laws themselves, so itsthe exact treatment of cannabis is not confirmedprovisions of the 1925 text remain unconfirmed here.[@1]

Luxembourg makes holding cannabis without a licence an offence

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New rules under the 1922 law on medicines and toxic substances, adopted on 25 September 19 … the World Health Organization considered addictive under licence from the health minister.[@1] A ministerial order of 19 October listed Indian hemp, its resin, extract and tincture among them.[@2] From then on nobody outside the listed pharmacists, doctors, vets and depots could hold, buy, sell, give away, make or transport cannabis without the minister's authorisation, and only pharmacists could supply it, on prescription; breaking the rules carried the penalties of the 1922 law. Using cannabis was not itself an offence until the drug law of 1973.[@1,2]

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+# Research pass: Luxembourg 1953 + Cyprus 1925 articles; Barbados/St Vincent precision
+
+Research checked on 26 October 2026. Two new properly-sourced articles from
+primaries read in full (Luxembourg Mémorial PDF, three UN E/NL filings), plus
+precision upgrades with per-sentence citations to four entries. No scores,
+profiles or timelines changed.
+
+## What was verified (all sources actually read)
+
+- Luxembourg Mémorial A 1953 no. 72 PDF (6 pp., via Legilux filestore):
+  grand-ducal arrêté of 25 September 1953 executing the 28 April 1922 toxic
+  medicines law — Art. 1 (WHO-recognised addiction substances + preparations,
+  import/export only with prior health-minister authorisation, yearly list),
+  Art. 2 (holding/supply/acquisition/sale/manufacture licensing, revocable,
+  listed pharmacists/doctors/vets/depots excepted), Art. 18 (1922-law
+  penalties), repeal of 1922/1923/1952 orders, 1946 NY-protocol lineage; and
+  the 19 October 1953 ministerial order — Art. 1 item 25 (Indian hemp, resin,
+  extract, tincture), Art. 2 (external-use extract/tincture preparations
+  exempt). New `articles/luxembourg-indian-hemp-controlled-1953.md` (~360w,
+  4 sections). Entry gains [@1]/[@2] markers throughout.
+- UN E/NL.1949/20 (Cyprus), E/NL.1952/22 (Barbados), E/NL.1949/33
+  (St Vincent), all three PDFs fetched from documents.un.org and read:
+  1948 Cyprus Order in Council No. 2281 (s.11(2), amidone + Metopon, Indian
+  hemp in comparator clause proving s.11(1) base-list coverage); 1951
+  Barbados Application Order (s.10(2), 6 Dec 1951, Part IV import/export
+  licensing incl. non-external-use Indian-hemp extract/tincture
+  preparations); 1947 St Vincent Application Order No. 24 (s.13(2), made
+  25 Apr / gazetted 6 May 1947, Part V, same Indian-hemp preparation
+  wording). New `articles/cyprus-dangerous-drugs-law-1925.md` (~330w,
+  4 sections, all three filings as sources). Three entries rewritten to say
+  exactly what the filings prove, with the principal-text caveat kept.
+- Cyprus entry date error corrected: old text said "1947 order"; the filing
+  shows made 5 March 1948, deemed in force 1 January 1948.
+
+Claim boundaries: none of the three filings reproduces its principal
+Act/Ordinance/Laws, so base-list coverage is asserted only where the order
+text itself proves it (Cyprus s.11(1) via the comparator clause) and left
+open for Barbados/St Vincent. The Luxembourg article stays inside the 1953
+texts; the entry's old unsourced closing sentence ("use not an offence until
+the 1973 drug law") was removed because the 1973 text could not be verified
+this pass (Legilux ELI page is JS-rendered; EUDA country-report PDF fetch
+returned HTML). Re-adding it needs the 1973 Mémorial text.
+
+## Dead ends recorded, not forced
+
+- Luxembourg 1973 use-criminalisation point parked (see above).
+- No article from the Barbados/St Vincent orders alone: one operative
+  extension each is entry-grade, not article-grade, without the principal
+  Act texts.
+
+## Verification and files
+
+- `node -e` YAML load of changes.yaml clean before build.
+- `npm run build`, `npm run history:test`, `npm run answers:test` green;
+  rendered `/history/luxembourg-indian-hemp-controlled-1953/` and
+  `/history/cyprus-dangerous-drugs-law-1925/` citation marks checked.
+- Commit limited to own work: four entry hunks in changes.yaml, two new
+  articles, this note, via pathspec. Foreign staged/worktree files excluded
+  and preserved.

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