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+# Research pass: Bahamas 1929 lineage and 1962 amendment from UN primaries
+
+Research checked on 26 October 2026. The Bahamas' Wiki-only 1962 definition
+entry is now sourced to the amending Act itself as filed with the United
+Nations, with an exact assent date and the conspiracy section the amendment
+added; the 1929 first-ban entry gains the Act's verified later lineage. The
+1929 Act's own text remains untraced. No scores, profiles or timelines
+changed.
+
+## What was verified (all sources actually read)
+
+### 1962 Indian hemp definition (entry upgraded, no new article)
+
+- UN E/NL.1963/11 (27 May 1963), Bahama Islands filing, read in full via
+ the UN Digital Library: The Dangerous Drugs Amendment Act, No. 26 of 1962,
+ assented 23 May 1962 by Governor Stapledon. It deletes the section 2
+ definition of "Indian Hemp" in Ch. 44 and substitutes: "Indian Hemp"
+ includes all parts of the plant cannabis sativa whether growing or not
+ from which the resin has not been extracted, the extracted resin, and every
+ compound, manufacture, salt derivative, mixture or preparation of plant or
+ resin. It also inserts section 25A: conspiracy to commit or abet any
+ offence under the Act carries the same punishment and forfeiture as the
+ offence, including agreement with a person beyond the jurisdiction.
+- Entry `bahamas-indian-hemp-definition-1962`: date refined 1962 to
+ 1962-05-23, description rewritten with per-sentence citations, Wiki source
+ replaced by the UN filing. Category stays `other`: the amendment broadened
+ a definition and added an ancillary offence rather than creating a new
+ possession/cultivation ban with a scorable step. Too thin for a standalone
+ article; left as an entry.
+
+### 1929 first ban (entry strengthened, text still untraced)
+
+- UN E/NL.1953/42-43 (2 April 1953), read in full: 1952 Dangerous Drugs
+ (Dispensing of Narcotics) Rules and Sale of Drugs Rules made under "The
+ Dangerous Drugs Act (Ch. 12 of 1938–1939)", published in the Bahamas
+ Official Gazette 18 December 1952. "Narcotics" there means morphine,
+ opium, codeine, heroin, cocaine and their salts; no cannabis inference
+ drawn from it.
+- UN E/NL.1960/7 (20 March 1960), read: Dangerous Drugs Amendment Act No. 55
+ of 1959 (assented 3 September 1959), amending section 25 (now of Ch. 44)
+ on possession/storage offences.
+- Entry `bahamas-dangerous-drugs-1929` keeps its 27 February 1929 date from
+ the Wikipedia article (only source for the original Act) but now traces
+ the Act's continuation: revised as Ch. 12 of 1938–39, then Ch. 44,
+ amended 1959. No article: the 1929 text itself is still missing.
+
+## Dead ends recorded, not forced
+
+- The 1929 Act text: not in the UN filings found (earliest Bahamas filing
+ located is E/NL.1953/42-43, rules only). Bahamas Gazette 1929 not
+ digitized in any reachable collection; OAS CICAD historical compendium
+ link is dead; CRL holds only an unidentified single page of a 1926
+ ordinance from another colony's bound volume.
+- Yugoslav Criminal Code of 1929 (rs/hr/si/ba first bans): enactment 27
+ January 1929 and force 1 January 1930 confirmed via the Pastovic
+ unification paper, but the "up to 6 months for serving narcotics" article
+ text not found in a readable source (Google Books API quota-exhausted,
+ Hathi behind a bot check, Serbian digital library TLS failure). Left
+ untouched.
+- Ethiopia 1930 Penal Code drug provisions: the 1930 code's existence is
+ well attested but no readable text or secondary confirming narcotics
+ coverage found; the generic Duvall-based [1900, 1920] estimate stands.
+ The 1957-code commentary blog post only illuminates the 1957 code (arts.
+ 510, 773–788).
+
+## Verification and files
+
+- `node -e` YAML load of changes.yaml clean (run before build).
+- `npm run build`, `npm run history:test`, `npm run answers:test` all green;
+ rendered `/history/bahamas-indian-hemp-definition-1962/` citation marks
+ checked.
+- Commit limited to own work: the two Bahamas hunks in changes.yaml plus
+ this note. `source-archive.json` (concurrent writer) excluded.