Compare Tanzania's 1995 penalties and read Zanzibar's 1986 bhang law

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+# Tanzania follow-up: the 1995 penalties and Zanzibar's 1986 bhang provisions
+
+26 October 2026. Follow-up to [the Tanzania pass](history-tanzania-gap-2026-10-26.md). That pass
+left the 1995 Act unscored because its original penalties had not been compared with later
+amendments, and left the operative Zanzibar provisions unread. This note closes both reading gaps.
+No score changed.
+
+## The 1995 Act and its 31 July 2002 consolidation
+
+The original text is Act 9 of 1995. Section 16 made a single general offence of producing,
+possessing, transporting, importing, selling, purchasing, using, cultivating or manufacturing
+narcotic drugs, including cannabis. On conviction it allowed a fine of ten million shillings,
+life imprisonment, or both, with a larger fine at the court's discretion. Section 19 created a
+separate small-quantity tier: 300,000 shillings or ten years for cocaine, morphine, diamorphine
+and other specified drugs, and 200,000 shillings or seven years, or both, for the residual group
+that included cannabis. The burden of proving personal use lay on the holder.
+
+The TanzLII consolidation "as at 31 July 2002" applies Acts 9 of 1996, 17 of 1996, 31 of 1997 and
+9 of 2002. Its section 12 now separates cultivation from the general offence and sets a fine of
+one million shillings or three times the market value of the plant, whichever is greater, or up to
+twenty years in prison, or both. Section 16 keeps life imprisonment for possession and for
+trafficking, with a minimum twenty-year term for trafficking, and section 17 keeps the original
+small-quantity penalties. The consolidation notes that Act 6 of 2012 had not been applied, so it
+is not the final pre-repeal text.
+
+The change matters for the record. The original Act's general penalty allowed life imprisonment for
+cultivation, harsher than the 1926 ordinance's twelve-month maximum, while the 2002 consolidation
+reduced the cultivation maximum to twenty years. The existing post-1926 vector scores cultivation
+at 1 and is inherited from the old timeline, not reconstructed from the 1995 statute. Moving
+cultivation to 0 on this text alone would re-base the 2015 step and would also require a fresh look
+at possession, sharing and consumption under the same general penalty. The record here does not
+support that full reconstruction, so the 1995 entry stays **checked but unscored**, with the
+comparison recorded rather than listed as missing.
+
+## Zanzibar's 1986 bhang provisions
+
+The 1986 Pharmaceuticals and Dangerous Drugs Act (Act 6 of 1986) was read from the Zanzibar
+Assembly's scan. It was assented to on **21 May 1986** and came into operation on assent. Section
+17 provides:
+
+> (1) It shall be unlawful to cultivate or grow bhang.
+> (2) Any person who has in his possession bhang for purposes of sale or otherwise shall be guilty
+> of an offence.
+
+The definition in the same section says bhang "includes cannabis indica, cannabis sativa, or the
+India hemp or any other leaves, plants or seeds of the like character in effect by whatever name it
+is called." Section 32(3) sets the penalty: an educational centre for not less than five years and
+not more than ten, with corporal punishment not exceeding six strokes. The Act repeals the
+Dangerous Drugs Decree, Cap. 76, but does not print the 1927 decree's original cannabis provisions.
+
+A 1984 amendment had already substituted section 28A of Cap. 76 with a similar offence covering
+growing or selling bhang, or possessing it for sale or otherwise, and the same five-to-ten-year
+educational-centre sentence with up to six strokes. The 1986 Act thus restated a prohibition that
+was already in force, rather than creating it. The 1927 decree's original schedule and penalties
+remain missing, so neither the 1984 amendment nor the 1986 Act can be dated as Zanzibar's first
+cannabis ban.
+
+No Zanzibar entry was added. The country profile's cannabis score is explicitly for mainland
+Tanzania, and putting a separate Zanzibar statute into the same scored timeline still requires a
+decision about how the two jurisdictions should be represented. The 1986 text is recorded here so
+that decision can be made with the operative section and penalty in hand.
+
+## Verification
+
+- `node scripts/data-status.cjs chain tz`: 1924 100 → 98; 1926 98 → 13; 2015 13 → 8; 0 flags.
+- `npm run history:test`: 38 of 38 passed.
+- `npm run answers:test`: 16 of 16 passed.
+- `npm run build`: passed, 4,147 pages.
+
+## Remaining gaps
+
+- The 1927 Zanzibar Dangerous Drugs Decree, its original cannabis schedule and its penalties are
+  still unrecovered. The 1971 Decree No. 11/71 also remains unread.
+- The 1986 Act's section 17(3) and its relationship to the separate narcotics provision need a
+  cleaner copy of the printed page; the scan's margin notes and numbering are ambiguous.
+- The 1995 Act's 2012 amendment was not applied in the 2002 consolidation and was not read. The
+  entry's unscored rationale relies on the 2002 text and the original Act, not the final pre-repeal
+  version.
+- The original 1924, 1926 and 1935 gazettes and German-era Tanganyika law remain unread, as recorded
+  in the main note.

@@ -6,5 +6,7 @@ was obtained as a scan, so the 1924 customs notice, the 1926 noxious-plants ordi
 dangerous-drugs ordinance could be read directly rather than through an indexed extract. The pass
 replaced the 1900 estimate with two dated events, scored them, checked the 1935 and 1995 records,
-and wrote an article on the 1926 ban. No country-profile score or segment text changed.
+and wrote an article on the 1926 ban. No country-profile score or segment text changed. A
+[follow-up note](history-tanzania-followup-2026-10-26.md) compares the 1995 Act with its 31 July
+2002 consolidation and reads the operative Zanzibar section 17 and penalty.
 
 ## The documents
@@ -71,7 +73,7 @@ Ordinance (chapter 134) and the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance (chapter 95). The Act
 small-personal-use tier, with a 200,000-shilling fine, seven years, or both in the original text,
 while the main growing and supply offences could bring life imprisonment or a much larger fine. It
-took effect on 1 January 1996. The entry remains **unscored** because the original penalty
-alternatives and the later amendments have not been compared closely enough with the 1926 and 1935
-regimes to justify a separate score step.
+took effect on 1 January 1996. The entry remains **unscored**; the follow-up note compares the
+original penalty alternatives with the 31 July 2002 consolidation and leaves the inherited score
+vector in place pending a full-vector review.
 
 **Tanzania, Drug Control and Enforcement Act, Act 5 of 2015.** Sections 11, 15 and 17 were read.
@@ -97,5 +99,5 @@ Two later Zanzibar texts were read:
 - **Pharmaceuticals and Dangerous Drugs Act, 1986.** Its arrangement of sections includes section
   17, "Cultivation and possession of bhang prohibited", and it repeals the Dangerous Drugs Decree,
-  Cap. 76. The operative section and penalty were not read.
+  Cap. 76. The operative section and penalty are read in the follow-up note.
 
 No Zanzibar entry was added. Scoring one would require the 1927 decree and a decision about whether
@@ -167,9 +169,9 @@ match the reference numbers.
   enforcement record here to show whether that changed sentencing in practice. The 1935 and 1995
   entries remain unscored.
-- The 1995 Act's original penalties and its later amendments have not been fully compared. The
-  existing 1995 entry is checked but unscored for that reason.
-- Zanzibar's 1927 Dangerous Drugs Decree, its original cannabis schedule, the 1971 Decree No. 11/71
-  and the operative text of the 1986 Act's section 17 remain unread. The 1984 amendment's five-to-ten
-  year education-centre sentence and six strokes are recorded as a lead only.
+- The 1995 Act's 2012 amendment and final pre-repeal text were not read; the 31 July 2002
+  consolidation is compared in the follow-up note. The 1995 entry remains checked but unscored.
+- Zanzibar's 1927 Dangerous Drugs Decree, its original cannabis schedule and the 1971 Decree No.
+  11/71 remain unread. The 1984 amendment and the 1986 Act's section 17 penalty are recorded in the
+  follow-up note.
 - German-era Tanganyika law was not searched. The 1924 notice is the first dated restriction found,
   not a demonstrated first restriction.