Expand Suriname: ganja word, culture, penalty tables, 1918/1998/1922 articles

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Cannabis is on List II of the 1998 Narcotics Act, and Article 4 forbids possessing, holding or using anything on that list.[@wvm] Article 11 sets up to thirteen years in prison and a fine for doing so intentionally, and up to seven years otherwise.(/history/suriname-narcotics-act-1998/) The Act names no tolerated or decriminalised amount.

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The Narcotics Act sets the same maximum, up to thirteen years in prison, for possessing cannabis as for selling or supplying it, with no tolerated amount. No modern figures on how small cases are dealt with were found; the oldest surviving enforcement snapshot is colonial: fourteen opium-or-ganja possession convictions in 1922.(/history/suriname-opium-ganja-convictions-1922/)

segments › sharing › text

Cannabis is on List II of the narcotics law.[@wvm] Selling, delivering, supplying or transporting it carries up to thirteen years in prison, and importing or exporting it life or up to twenty years, with heavy fines (Article 11).[@wvm]

words

word ganja · lang Dutch (Suriname) · meaning The colonial administration's own word for cannabis, carried to Suriname by Asian immigrants; their association petitioned in 1921 to lift the ban and grant an import-and-sales concession · sources wiki

segments › possession › penalties

label Intentional · treatment criminal · term Possession, holding or use · prison 13 years · note Plus a fine; amount not stated in the retained sources, label Non-intentional · treatment criminal · term Possession, holding or use · prison 7 years

segments › sharing › penalties

label Sale, supply or transport · treatment criminal · term Selling, delivering, supplying or transporting · prison 13 years, label Import or export · treatment criminal · term Importing or exporting · life possible · prison 20 years · note Plus heavy fines; amounts not stated in the retained sources

context › culture › text

[Ganja](/culture/language/ganja/) is the word Asian immigrants carried to Suriname, and the colonial administration took it as its own legal term: the 1908 ordinance ended ganja imports on 1 March 1918.(/history/suriname-ganja-import-ban-1918/) Three years later the immigrants' association asked for the ban to be lifted and for a concession to import and sell it.[@wiki]

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 - Left: words (no sourced Papiamentu/Dutch local term found), culture (no atlas entries), cultivation tiers (guidance assesses individually), driving/arrests.
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+- Word ganja (Dutch (Suriname), the colonial administration's own term; meaning carries the 1921 petition); culture section linking /culture/language/ganja/ + 1918 article.
+- Possession table (intentional 13 yrs + fine / non-intentional 7 yrs) + sharing table (sale/supply/transport 13 yrs; import/export life-possible/20 yrs); 1998 article linked from possession, 1922 convictions linked from enforcement (oldest enforcement snapshot).
+- New `articles/suriname-ganja-import-ban-1918.md` (1917 colonial encyclopedia book source; dropped an unsourced 1921 tail line) + `articles/suriname-narcotics-act-1998.md` (UNODC text: Wijdenbosch, 13-yr and life/20-yr tiers, in force 20 Jan 1999) + `articles/suriname-opium-ganja-convictions-1922.md` (Koloniaal Verslag 1923: 14 convictions, 10–500 guilders, two 6-month terms, no cultivation offences).
+- Schema lesson: every penalty row needs upto/over/label — circumstance rows take a label.
+- Audit 0/0; page + all three articles verified in review HTML.
+- Left: 1921 petition article (Wikipedia-only entry, skipped deliberately), cultivation tiers (no numbers), driving/arrests, 14 remaining article-less entries.

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