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+# Greenland: local legislation and the low-THC import route
+
+Researched 23 October 2026. Five new entries extend Greenland from three events to eight.
+The three existing entries are revised, two articles added, and all twelve profile text blocks
+converted to inline citations. All six numeric scores, dependency and status fields remain.
+
+## The chronology comes from the actual regulations
+
+The local Act 24 of 25 November 2022 and accompanying regulation 40 of 23 December 2022
+both expressly commenced **1 January 2023**. The law replaced the inherited Danish statute;
+the accompanying regulation already excluded qualifying cannabis products with no more than
+0.2% THC when imported by an authorised legal entity. The 2022 explanatory notes describe
+parliament's two 2019 decisions seeking low-THC product/oil access comparable with Denmark.
+They also explain why the local Act alone needed an accompanying regulation: the actual
+exception depends on the regulation's definitions, not just the enabling law.
+
+An appendix to the October 2024 review mentions the June 2024 regulation, but that is not
+the earliest exception. The full official repeal chain was followed backwards:
+
+- Current regulation 61, dated 1 September 2025, replaces regulation 48 of 30 May 2025.
+- Regulation 48 replaces regulation 37 of 20 June 2024.
+- Regulation 37 replaces regulation 16 of 20 April 2024.
+- Regulation 16 replaces regulation 59 of 15 November 2023.
+- Regulation 59 replaces regulation 40 of 23 December 2022.
+
+The January 2023 exception appears in regulation 40, sections 1(4) and 9. The November
+2023 replacement retained the authorised-importer/THC conditions. Regulation 16 expressly
+commenced **22 April 2024** and added import in batches for distribution after receipt at
+storage or similar premises in Greenland controlled by the importer. It also specifies product
+identification and proof of compliance in applications and applies to pending applications.
+Later replacements retain these conditions. The events therefore distinguish the initial
+2023 exception from the 2024 distribution/documentation requirement. Later reissues with
+no verified cannabis-specific change do not receive duplicate reform events.
+
+A legal entity is a company or other organisation; the exception is not a personal traveller
+import allowance based on THC content alone. The importer needs the Chief Medical Officer's
+office's permission, and all the definition's conditions must be met. Other product and medicines
+rules may still apply. The batch does not infer actual sales, importer numbers or inventories.
+
+The current regulation's title date is 1 September 2025, while its signature block is dated
+22 August. It commences the day after publication. Neither signature nor title date is used
+to invent a separate commencement event. Its annex's List B no. 59 defines cannabis, excluding
+isolated seeds and fibres from that definition. Those exclusions alone are not treated as an
+unrestricted seed trade or home-growing right.
+
+## Earlier political and administrative gaps
+
+The government's full 2019 answers to questions 257 and 273 were read. They confirm that
+Greenland took responsibility for drug legislation alongside health services in **1992** and
+that subsequent Danish changes did not automatically extend there. The actual 1991 health
+Act could not be retrieved at the attempted PDF URL, so the event uses the confirmed year,
+not a newly inferred exact commencement day. The answer quotes the continuity rule for
+existing health legislation. The later local bill's explanatory notes corroborate this account.
+The profile's dependency text is retained rather than inventing a constitutional change.
+
+The 2019 parliamentary decisions are documented in the government's actual 2022 explanatory
+notes, not merely the earlier questions, which pre-date the autumn decisions. Their exact
+voting dates were not independently recovered; the event uses **2019**. The decisions are
+calls for implementation, not themselves an effective low-THC exception.
+
+The 2024 review's history section describes the health department's **2016** proposed national
+hash plan, covering supply reduction, prevention and treatment. It says the whole plan remained
+a proposal while some work proceeded through the public-health programme. The entry is
+therefore debate/context, not an adopted comprehensive plan. The June 2026 government response
+separately confirms Allorfik's treatment/counselling expansion since 2016. No treatment outcome
+or number of patients is inferred.
+
+## The first restriction remains an estimate
+
+The inherited **1955** law is confirmed in the local 2022 Act's repeal clause and government
+explanatory notes. The earliest applicable cannabis instrument, including any earlier Danish
+controls that may have applied in Greenland, has not been recovered. The original Danish 1955
+PDF URL returned 404; search extracts of later Danish amendments are not treated as an original
+Greenland commencement record. The pre-existing estimate ID, year, uncertainty window and
+FREE vector are preserved. Its description now distinguishes the inherited statute from the
+current local law and removes the false implication that the old Danish statute still governs.
+It remains an estimate rather than being marked checked as a verified first-ever prohibition.
+
+## Better evidence for the existing debate entries
+
+The actual independent review by Christina Viskum Lytken Larsen and Christine Ingemann,
+with WHO collaborator Jakob Manthey, was downloaded. Its cover was visually inspected and
+confirms **10 October 2024**, replacing the old year-only date. The background, regulatory
+options, trade-offs, conclusions and prevention history were read. The revised entry reflects
+the comparison of prohibition, decriminalisation, limited access and commercial sales, rather
+than reducing the whole report to a later government's statement about harms to young people.
+These are the review's policy findings, not newly established clinical advice. No material is
+quoted verbatim. The report's international clinical findings are not independently reanalysed.
+
+The full June 2026 government response was read. It reports funding for three to five additional
+customs officers in the 2025 budget and describes prevention, treatment and family support.
+Funding is not a verified count of officers actually hired. The profile no longer relies on a
+secondary court-case headline or unsupported claims of no products, no licensed cultivation
+and a medical route established by Wikipedia. Current statutes supply the permissions and
+prohibitions; the 2019 medicines-committee answer supplies the approval authority.
+
+## Profile, scoring and follow-up limits
+
+The low-THC product changes are explicitly unscored: they do not create a whole-point increase
+or reduction in personal freedom for intoxicating cannabis. The local 2023 law preserves the
+prescription/pharmacy route described in its notes, and no operating flower programme was
+verified. Medical remains Limited, access 1. Cultivation 1, possession 1, enforcement 2,
+sharing 1 and consumption 1 stay unchanged. Club and visitor classifications remain unchanged.
+No draft fine tariff from the bill notes is presented as a binding sentencing table.
+
+The latest Folketing summary of a 20 October 2026 drug-driving proposal was a useful lead,
+but the full proposal was not successfully retrieved. It is not used to assert current driving
+law or add an event. That remains a follow-up, alongside the first applicable restriction,
+original 2019 voting records and practical implementation of the low-THC route.
+
+## Evidence and verification
+
+Official HTML bodies and PDFs, extracted texts, inspected images, baseline snapshots, batch
+scripts and logs are retained in `tmp/history-greenland-gap-2026-10-23/`. Initial guessed URLs
+for the current regulation and Danish historical PDFs failed; actual regulation links were
+followed from the official repeal relationships. No failed URL is cited as a read document.
+The report cover and cannabis annex page were visually checked as well as reading their text.
+
+The scoped verifier checks the five additions and three revisions, including the intentionally
+retained estimate, all categories/tags, titles, source use, related IDs, and twelve profile
+blocks. Articles have 373 and 392 words, four headings each and country/history links. All
+numeric vectors and statuses match the baseline. The score-chain check flags no steps. Build,
+rendered-reference and export results follow below. Temporary build output is deleted after
+verification; evidence files remain.
+
+The full build passed: **3,840 pages in 34.51 seconds**. All **100 rendered citation links**
+on eight touched history pages and the country profile resolve to unique, consecutive targets.
+Eight relevant tag pages and internal history links exist. History JSON/CSV include all five
+new IDs with no raw citation marks. The profile API has six segments and six populated context
+blocks; its final timeline score matches the exported exact score **12**. All six exported
+segment values match the baseline. Medical remains Limited. Home, comparison and score exports
+contain no raw citation marks. Scoped checks and `git diff --check` passed.
+
+Deleted `tmp/history-greenland-gap-2026-10-23/site/` after verification. Sources, extracted texts,
+inspected images, snapshots, scripts and build log remain.