Trace Russia’s 1974 drug-law implementation and correct Soviet scope

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+# Russia's 1974 implementation of the Union drug decree
+
+Reviewed 27 October 2026. Read maintenance/writing/article guidance, the Soviet–Denmark research note and the Kazakhstan Soviet-law note. The preceding Thailand turn was progress: a replacement-law event and two articles were committed. This pass addresses a high-ranked article gap for the 1974 personal-possession anchor and adds its missing Russian implementation date.
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+## Sources read
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+**RSFSR Presidium decree, 15 July 1974**, complete primary-text transcription: https://www.economics.kiev.ua/download/ZakonySSSR/data03/tex14496.htm . Read the preamble, the rewritten articles 224–225 and new 224.1, 224.2, 226.1, 226.2, and sections 2–7. It expressly implements the USSR decree of 25 April 1974. Article 224 distinguishes possession/manufacture/acquisition/transport/dispatch without intent to supply (up to three years OR one year corrective labour; specified repeat offences up to five years) from supply/intended-supply activities (up to ten years; aggravated cases six to fifteen with confiscation). Article 225 names Indian, southern Manchurian and southern Chuy hemp; ordinary growing maximum five years, aggravated three to eight. Article 226.1 premises offence is five to ten years with possible confiscation. Sections 4–5 amend health legislation and a 1972 compulsory-treatment decree: drug-dependent people evading treatment may be confined by district/city people's court for six months to two years. This is not evidence that compulsory treatment first began in 1974. Section 7 also mentions non-prescribed drug consumption in the administrative-fine framework.
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+The document was read as a transcription on a legal archive, not a visually verified original gazette. No separate commencement clause was established, so the dates identify the decrees, not a separately proven effective day. A later Meganorm consolidation of the Union decree incorporates 1982–1991 amendments and is not used to project its small-quantity or later corrective-labour rules back into 1974.
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+**Human Rights Watch, Rehabilitation Required (2007), background:** https://www.hrw.org/reports/2007/russia1107/2.htm . Read the sections on Soviet treatment institutions and changes in the early 1990s. Supports the later account of simplified commitment proceedings, no appeal, prison-like conditions and the 1990 constitutional-supervision criticism. It does not establish cannabis-specific patient counts; none are inferred.
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+## Applied
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+- Replaced the 1974 Union entry's single Wikipedia source with the Russian implementing text, narrowed the actual penalty claims to Russia, and refined the Union decree date to 25 April. Removed claims that every republic used Article 224 or that trafficking universally carried ten to fifteen years. The revised description supplies ordinary/aggravated distinctions and the alternative corrective-labour penalty.
+- Added the Russian 15 July implementation event, checked and unscored, to distinguish policy date from republican legislation. The existing 1974 score anchor already represents this tightening; no duplicate numerical step is inserted.
+- Added a 350–500-word article to the high-ranked Union entry, covering possession, named hemp types, related offences, compulsory treatment and the later constitutional challenge.
+- Corrected the repeated universal Article 224 / ten-to-fifteen-year claim in the Lithuania 1987 companion article, adding the Russian source and qualifying the comparison. Removed its unsupported “no republic vote” assertion. This pass does not verify Lithuania's own code or certify all its older background claims; its existing unscored entry already records the need for republic-level review.
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+## Remaining gaps
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+Republics' original implementations and their effective dates require separate texts. The Kazakhstan note already points to 1975 amendments and different article numbering, underscoring why a Russian provision cannot be copied across the Union. No claim is made that every republic lacked possession liability before 1974. No current profile score or historical before vector is changed.
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+The original Union decree, its gazette scan and the 26 September 1975 judicial ruling remain retrieval leads. LibUSSR returned empty/404 pages, the UN digital-library 1973–74 PDF returned 403 and the CIA document address redirected to a reading-room landing page. Those were not read as original documents. No new event was fabricated from the 1975 ruling's search snippet.
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+## Validation and preservation
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+History tests: 44 passed. Profile/answer tests: 69 passed. The full Astro build produced 4,497 pages. Checked the main article and separate July event in the generated site, including both dates, conditional penalties, the unscored implementation label and related links. The Lithuania article's Russian-law citation resolves to the Economics transcription (rendered reference 2, renumbered in order of use), independently of its entry's 1987 source. The Russian timeline reports no flagged transitions; all existing before vectors and present profile scores are preserved.
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+A focused run of the repository archive script found an existing capture: https://web.archive.org/web/20170427071941/http://economics.kiev.ua/download/ZakonySSSR/data03/tex14496.htm . The capture URL is preserved here while a concurrent archive worker maintains the shared index; this pass does not overwrite that worker's changes. The source read was the live transcription, not a claim to have inspected the archived page or an original gazette.

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  assert.match(replacement,/9 June 2022/);
 });
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+
+test("The 1974 drug-law account separates Russian implementation and conditional penalty bands",()=>{
+ const e=byId['soviet-union-possession-criminalised-1974'];
+ assert.equal(e.date,'1974-04-25');assert.match(e.description,/one year of corrective labour/);
+ assert.match(e.description,/up to ten years.*six to fifteen years.*aggravated/s);
+ assert.doesNotMatch(e.description,/Article 224 of every republic/);
+ const r=byId['russia-drug-code-amendments-1974'];assert.equal(r.date,'1974-07-15');
+ assert.equal(r.before,undefined);assert.match(r.unscored,/without duplicating a score change/);
+ assert.match(r.description,/evading treatment/);
+ const article=fs.readFileSync('articles/lithuania-soviet-use-decree-1987.md','utf8');
+ assert.doesNotMatch(article,/copied into Article 224 of every republic|trafficking to ten to fifteen/);
+});