Expand Barbados: herb word, culture, 14g ticket table, 1936/1973/2025 articles

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Barbados countries/bb.yaml

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Possession remains an offence, but since 2021 police may offer anyone with 14 g or less a fixed-penalty notice: a $200 fine payable within 30 days, with no court appearance and no conviction.[@bill,gis] Under-18s must also attend an assessment and counselling.[@bill] Above 14 g the ordinary penalties apply.(/history/barbados-narcotic-drugs-act-1973/)

context › recreational › text

There is no legal recreational market. Since 2021 police may deal with 14 g or less by a $ … l — cultivation needs a medicinal licence or registered worship status.[@cijn,mci_act,bt] The standing drug law descends from the 1936 Dangerous Drugs Act, replaced by the Narcotic Drugs Act 1973.(/history/barbados-dangerous-drugs-act-1936/)(/history/barbados-narcotic-drugs-act-1973/)

context › products › text

~~Prescription medicinal products through licensed therapeutic dispensaries.~~

context › products › sources

~~mci_act, first_dispensary~~

context › medical › text

Legal under the 2019 Act on prescription from a medical practitioner, dispensed through licensed therapeutic dispensaries. The first licensed medicinal [dispensary](/culture/language/dispensary/) opened on 14 June 2025.(/history/barbados-first-dispensary-2025/)

words

word herb · lang Barbadian English · meaning The Rastafari word for cannabis as a daily sacrament, quoted in the Barbadian press debate over the sacramental law · sources bt

segments › possession › currency

BBD

segments › possession › penalties

treatment civil · term $200 fixed-penalty notice, no conviction · upto 14 g · fine 200 · note Payable within 30 days; under-18s also attend assessment and counselling, treatment criminal · term Ordinary penalties including prison · over 14 g · note Amounts and sentences per the standing drug law, not the ticket scheme

context › culture › text

For [Rastafari](/culture/traditions/rastafari-sacrament/) cannabis is a sacrament, but the Sacramental Cannabis Act confines lawful use to registered places of worship — a limit Rastafari groups criticised as confining their practice to temples.[@bt,cijn] The wider culture of the plant runs through herb in daily reasoning, the very use the fixed-penalty debate put before Parliament.[@bt]

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bt, cijn

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 - Audit 0/0; page + both articles verified in review HTML.
 - Left: cultivation table (no source), driving/arrests, 1930s–2000s decades.
-## bb — pending
+## bb — committed
+- Word herb (Barbadian English, Rastafari sacrament use quoted in Barbados Today); culture section linking traditions/rastafari-sacrament + language/dispensary; products folded into medical (dispensary link + 2025 article link).
+- Possession table: ≤14 g civil $200 ticket (fine 200 + currency BBD), over 14 g criminal ordinary penalties; 1973 article linked from possession, 1936+1973 lineage in context.recreational.
+- New `articles/barbados-dangerous-drugs-act-1936.md` (UN E/NL.1952/22; honest that filing reproduces the 1951 order, not the Act) + `articles/barbados-narcotic-drugs-act-1973.md` (SHERLOC PDF: $5,000/5 yrs indictment, $2,500/12 mo summary, repeals 1936) + `articles/barbados-first-dispensary-2025.md` (Island Therapeutics).
+- Fixed audit warning (penalty table needs inline cites in text).
+- Audit 0/0; page + all three articles verified in review HTML.
+- Left: cultivation numbers (licence-only, no tiers), arrests (only 2023 seizure figure already present), 1940s–2010s decades, treaty entries (1992/1976, imp 1, skipped).
 ## vc — pending
 ## cw — pending

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Barbados countries/bb.yaml

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