An Algiers court hands down the first death sentences under the new drug law
A cocaine and pregabalin case under the 2025 law, which is scored.
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A cocaine and pregabalin case under the 2025 law, which is scored.
possession 0 · cultivation 0 · enforcement 2 · sharing 0 · consumption 1 · access 0
The personal-use range is not shown to differ from Law 04-18, and growing for own use still means two to five years in prison.
Lowered minimums for dealing only; possession is untouched and passing a joint still counts as distribution.
Closed off hemp farming; growing for drugs was already a crime with prison.
possession 1 · cultivation 1 · enforcement 1 · sharing 0 · consumption 1 · access 0
Already at the floor in every segment since the 1992 death penalty.
Already at the floor in every segment since the 1992 death penalty.
Supplying was already treated as trafficking; sharing is at the floor.
Its penalties for users are not established from accessible sources; the 1983 law carries the step.
possession 0 · cultivation 0 · enforcement 1 · sharing 0 · consumption 0 · access 0
possession 0 · cultivation 0 · enforcement 2 · sharing 0 · consumption 0 · access 0
Replaced the 1956 law; what it changed for users is not established.
A special criminal procedure; penalties unchanged.
possession 2 · cultivation 1 · enforcement 2 · sharing 1 · consumption 1 · access 0
docs/DATA-MAINTENANCE.md +18 @@ -1195,2 +1195,20 @@ enforcement one point lower, and Syria's also takes cultivation to 0 (death for and Syria's raids and campaigns, Bosnia's medical approval (no prescribing rules yet) and Albania's export licensing got `unscored` reasons. Current scores did not change. + +The fourth score-triage batch, on 20 October 2026, covered Brunei, Belarus, Algeria, Libya and +Mali. Belarus gained a 1974 entry for the Soviet decree that made possession a crime, scored as +for Russia and Armenia (19 → 8), and its 2014 Decree No. 6 now carries the drop to 0. Part of +that drop may belong to the 1999 Criminal Code, whose original Article 328 could not be read. +Death-penalty laws in Brunei (1992), Algeria (2025, aggravated cases including firearms and +transnational groups, under a moratorium since 1993) and Libya (1990) each take enforcement one +point lower. Mali's 1983 law (five to ten years' forced labour for use) takes possession and +enforcement one point lower; its 2001 law could not be read (UNODC returned 403). Ten entries +got `unscored` reasons. Current scores did not change. Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, +Lithuania, Estonia, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Georgia still +lack the 1974 Soviet possession step that Russia, Latvia, Armenia and Belarus have. + +A [curious-cases pass](research/curious-cases-2026-10-20.md) on 20 October 2026 added Health +Canada's cannabis grown in the Flin Flon mine, R. v. J.P. (no valid possession offence in Ontario +from July 2001 to October 2003), Washington, DC's Initiative 71 and its gift economy, Arizona's +1996 "prescribe" initiative and Robert Mitchum's 1948 arrest. The first three have articles, and +four are new curious-case cards. No scores changed. The build passed (3,326 pages).
docs/research/curious-cases-2026-10-20.md +31 @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +# Curious cases — 20 October 2026 + +Added five history entries chosen as curious or odd cases not yet in the history, three with +articles, and four new curious-case cards in `src/lib/facts.js`. No scores changed. The two +directional entries (`canada-mine-cannabis-sales-2003`, `us-arizona-proposition-200-1996`) and +`us-dc-initiative-71-2015` carry `unscored` reasons. + +## Source handling + +- **R. v. J.P. (2003):** read in full from the judgment PDF (text extracted locally). Dates of + the two lower rulings come from its heading; the article's claims follow paragraphs 1–11 and + 31–34. Nothing is said about how police or other provinces acted in the gap, since the + judgment does not say. +- **Flin Flon mine:** CMAJ (2001) through PubMed Central for the contract; NORML (August 2003) + for the start of sales, price and patient numbers; AP (November 2003) for the minister's + "interim measure" and THC; Red Deer Advocate (2009) for the departure. A widely repeated + account of patients returning bags as "unsuitable for human consumption" was found only in a + forum reprint of a wire story and was left out. CMAJ's own pages returned 403. +- **DC Initiative 71:** Wikipedia for dates and the Harris rider; Harris Sliwoski (2022) for the + "transfer without payment (but not sell)" wording and the failed emergency bill. Plant and + ounce limits were not given in the sources read and are not stated. +- **Arizona Proposition 200:** NORML (April 1997) for the legislature's FDA-approval condition; + Wikipedia for the 65% vote, the "prescribe" wording and the 1998 referendum. +- **Robert Mitchum:** HISTORY's This Day in History. The exact arrest date (31 August or + 1 September 1948) and the 1951 set-aside reported elsewhere were not confirmed, so the entry + uses the year and leaves the set-aside out. + +## Not done + +Culture candidates considered but not written: none new were needed for these cases. A +rebetiko entry already exists (`culture/traditions/rebetiko-and-the-tekes.md`).
src/lib/facts.js +4 @@ -131,4 +131,8 @@ const fromHistory = [ { kicker: "2022 · India", history: "india-mathura-rats-2022", text: "Police in Mathura, [[IN|India]], told a court that rats had eaten more than 500 kg of seized [[c:language/ganja|ganja]]: \u201cbeing small in size, the rats have no fear of the police\u201d. The judge ordered them to deal with the rats and to prove it." }, { kicker: "1939 · Egypt", history: "egypt-camel-stomach-smuggling-1939", text: "Smugglers taking hashish into [[EG|Egypt]] forced tin cylinders of it down the throats of camels sold for slaughter, and cut them out on the far side of the border. About 30,000 camels a year came through the border post, so the authorities brought in mine detectors and X-ray machines." }, + { kicker: "2003 · Canada", history: "canada-mine-cannabis-sales-2003", text: "The first cannabis the government of [[CA|Canada]] ever sold was grown 360 metres underground, in a disused section of a copper and zinc mine in Manitoba. Patients collected it from their doctor's office at about $5 a gram." }, + { kicker: "2003 · Canada", history: "canada-jp-no-possession-offence-2003", text: "For a little over two years, from July 2001 to October 2003, possessing cannabis was no valid offence in Ontario, [[CA|Canada]]: a court had struck down the ban, and the government's medical rules did not repair it." }, + { kicker: "2015 · United States", history: "us-dc-initiative-71-2015", text: "Washington, DC legalised giving cannabis away but Congress blocked sales. Shops responded by selling T-shirts, stickers and art at steep prices, with the cannabis as a free gift." }, + { kicker: "1996 · United States", history: "us-arizona-proposition-200-1996", text: "Arizona voted for medical cannabis on the same day as California, but its law said doctors could “prescribe” it, which federal law forbids. California's said “recommend”, and only California's worked." }, ];