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@@ -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).

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+# 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`).

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@@ -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." },
 ];
 

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