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New 360-word article on Act 12 (planting/import/purchase/sale, 1 month to 1 year), verified against the 1934-35 session laws via Google Books (Act 51 of 13 May 1934 recital, district-court jurisdiction, 1935 section-2 extension to cigarettes), the official 1959 Narcotics Act PDF (5-20 years + $20,000 fine), and the Wiki overview (penalties, Uniform Act alignment, 2013 failure, medical order). Entry gains the session-law source and per-sentence citations; also settles Act number as 51, not 61. No scores or timelines changed. Build OK, history:test 40/40, answers:test 39/39. Stages only my paths; concurrent-writer changes left alone. See docs/research/history-puerto-rico-1932-2026-10-26.md.
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Puerto Rico adopted a law to punish cannabis planting, importation, purchase and sale.[@2] The Supreme Court later identified it as the original cannabis statute and explained that a separate law in May 1934 re-enacted it.[@1] Cannabis remained criminalised through the harsher narcotics law introduced in 1959.[@1]
Acts and Resolutions of Puerto Rico, 1935 (1934 session) 1 unchanged
docs/research/history-puerto-rico-1932-2026-10-26.md +45 @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +# Research pass: Puerto Rico 1932 first-ban article + +Research checked on 26 October 2026. Backlog item `pr-first-restriction-estimate` +(pop 3M, step 89) cleared with a new properly sourced article plus an entry +upgrade. No scores, profiles or timelines changed. + +## What was verified (all sources actually read) + +New `articles/pr-first-restriction-estimate.md` (360 words, per-sentence +citations, all three sources cited; history:test 40/40, answers:test 39/39, +full build, rendered page shows all three reference marks). + +- Acts and Resolutions of Puerto Rico, 1935 (1934 session), via Google Books + snippet API (the official session-law volume, Equity de Puerto Rico): + Act No. 51 of 13 May 1934 (pp. 158–159, English and Spanish) recites 1932 + Act 12 by its full title — "AN ACT TO PUNISH THE PLANTING, IMPORTATION, + PURCHASE AND SALE OF MARIJUANA" — and approval date 19 April 1932, and + confers exclusive jurisdiction on the district courts; 1935 Act No. 26 + (p. 159, Spanish section 2) extends the rule to manufacture, + transportation, possession, use, purchase, sale, transfer and gift of any + marijuana cigarette or cigar; index pp. xvi, 625. This also settles a + numbering conflict: the act is No. 51 (as the DPR opinion and our 1934 + entry say), not No. 61 (Wikipedia's number). +- Wikipedia Cannabis in Puerto Rico (read today): Act 12 title, one-month to + one-year jail range, 1934 alignment with the Uniform State Narcotic Drug + Act, 2013 decriminalisation failure with El Nuevo Día polling (26/70/4), + governor's medical executive order. +- Puerto Rico Narcotics Act 48-1959 (official OGP PDF, read via pdftotext): + prison of no less than five nor more than twenty years plus a fine of up + to $20,000, with the same range for a second offence — verifying the 1959 + entry's figures independently. + +Entry `pr-first-restriction-estimate` gains the session-law source and +per-sentence citations; description text otherwise unchanged. + +## Still blocked (not forced) + +- Uganda 1902 ordinance text (BFSP vol. 95/96 still not digitised accessibly). +- Syria 1943, Tunisia 1875 (needs Duvall book), Guatemala 1932 (needs decree text). + +## Tree note + +Staged only my `pr-first-restriction-estimate` hunk (patch-filtered) plus +the article and this note. Left untouched: concurrent-writer edits and +whatever staged `source-archive.json` (not mine).