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Cuba's drug law of 25 July 1919 regulated marijuana alongside opium and morphine, accordi … contemporary booklet containing the law and its regulations.[@1]
That broad reach meant holding a personcontrolled drug could encounterbring a person into the criminal system through holding a controlled drug, alongsideunder judges applying the restrictions on who could importcolonial code with political and manufacture itpolice pressure behind them. The licensed trade and the punishment of unauthorised activity formed parts of the same system.[@1]
## Opium policing targeted Chinese immigrants
The chapter examines these controls t … this wider drug-control history; the reported arrests concern the opium campaign.[@1]
## A 1949 survey traced the supply to Mexico
Three decades later, Pablo Osvaldo Wolff's 1949 survey reported that marijuana had reached Cuba some thirty years earlier with Portuguese sailors, and that the island's supply still came mostly from Mexico while home growing increased as wartime shipping shrank.[@4] Cuba's police had already put the problem on record at the First Pan American Congress of Forensic Medicine and Criminology in Havana in September 1946.[@4] The cheap cigarette form, easy to hide, put it within reach of people with slight means.[@4]
## Later governments kept punishing cannabis
The revolutionary movement also adopted cannabi … ontrols with the possession and growing offences in the [Cuba profile](/country/cu/).[@3]
Marihuana in Latin America: The Threat it Constitutes 3 unchanged