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+# Macau history and profile audit — 24 October 2026
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+## Result and scope
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+Seven new events cover the 1962 consolidation, 1969 penalty reduction, 1999 lawful-drug rules, 2004 cost-sharing supply decision, 2022 single-plant sentencing decision, 2024 linked growing/selling decision and 2026 HHC scheduling. Three existing events were revised. Three articles were added (1991, 2022, 2024) and the 2016 amendment article rewritten. All four have 350–500 words, four headings, country/history links and inline citations. Tags were checked against the repository vocabulary.
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+The current six numeric scores remain 1/1/2/0/0/0, exact total 9. The newly scored 1991 fine alternative gives enforcement 2 → 3, followed by 3 → 2 at the January 2017 tightening. The first-restriction estimate remains: none of these sources establishes the first cannabis restriction. The score chain is internally coherent, but the estimated original drop still bundles historical restrictions that need earlier primary-source reconstruction.
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+The profile's medical category changes from none to limited on the explicit lawful-medicine licensing and prescription rules, covering the cannabis schedule. This is a correction to the legal classification, not a newly operating patient programme. Access remains 0: no operating patient product or dispensing route was verified. The rules already had medical exceptions in 1962, so 1999 is classified other, a consolidation of licensing/supply rules, rather than a new medical legalisation. General authorisation language alone would be insufficient; the 1999 law expressly covers Tables I–IV and names I-C in its manufacture provisions, with pharmacy/hospital supply and special prescriptions. Its prohibition on cultivating scheduled plants remains.
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+## Sources actually reviewed
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+Research downloads, OCR, page images and scripts are retained in `tmp/history-macau-gap-2026-10-24/`. Scanned documents were read through macOS Vision OCR and key clauses checked against page images. This is selective legal research, not a claim to have read every form or every page of every judgment.
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+- **1962:** UN E/NL.1964/29 English translation of Decree 44763. Read scope, authorised trade/medical dispensing, Articles 25–30 penalties and cannabis annex. Portuguese official decree landing page also checked. The preamble consolidates older Macau enactments; their originals were not retrieved. The entry uses 4 December 1962 Lisbon publication and says Portugal published the decree. Macau local publication/commencement remains unverified.
+- **1965:** original decree scan downloaded through official `dre.pt/application/file/294989`. Read relevant scope, medical rules, Article 31 and replacement context. Visually checked printed p. 789 (PDF p. 3): six months–one year **and** a fine; treatment exception. Lisbon publication is 8 June 1965; the 1991 revocation calls the decree 26 June, possibly the local publication. These dates are not silently equated.
+- **1969:** original official two-page scan, printed pp. 691–692, read and p. 692 visually checked. Promulgation 4 June differs from Lisbon publication 19 June. Replacement Article 31 says a **fixed six months**, not “up to six months”; a fine remains additional. Article 2 says immediate operation and orders Macau publication, whose date was not recovered. Entry explicitly describes publication. Monetary denomination left out of the public comparison to avoid importing the UN translation's escudo label into the later local tariff.
+- **1991:** original bilingual gazette, decree starts within PDF p. 1. Read preamble, Articles 23–26 and 43, cannabis schedule; visually checked printed p. 253 (PDF p. 6). Personal possession: up to three months **or** 500–10,000 patacas; therapeutic purpose 250–5,000; conditional treatment and confidentiality. No express commencement clause was located for this decree. The January 1 clause at the top of PDF p. 1 belongs to the preceding enactment and must not be used. The revised event uses **1991** only; publication was 28 January. Exact first operative day remains open; annual score placement reflects the verified year of the replacement.
+- **1999:** original bilingual gazette PDF has 105 pages. First 28 pages rendered and OCR read, especially Articles 1, 9–10, 19–20, 37–38 and 74. Pages 29–105 (supporting forms) were not reviewed. PDF p. 1 and p. 9 visually checked. Article 74 starts operation on the first day of the next month: 19 July publication → **1 August 1999**. Article 20 includes manufacture for medical purposes, Article 19 prohibits cultivation. Traveller exception lists I-A, II-B, II-C, III and IV, omitting cannabis I-C. Current amended HTML was separately read in Windows-1252; agency names in the 2025 republication were not backdated to 1999.
+- **2009:** original text, Articles 7–8, 11, 14, 42 and schedules. Publication 10 August; thirty-day delay → **9 September 2009**. Ordinary production/supply originally 3–15 years, lesser tier 1–5; personal use up to three months or sixty fine day-rates.
+- **2016:** original bilingual text, replacement Articles 7, 8, 14 and commencement Article 4. Publication 28 December; principal provisions thirty days later → **27 January 2017**. Separate Article 2 schedule amendment operated the day after publication. The event ID is retained for existing links. Personal-use quantities above five daily references explicitly point to Articles 7, 8 **or 11**. It is wrong to say every such case automatically carries a five-year minimum.
+- **Current consolidated law:** read Articles 5, 7–8, 11, 14, Table I-C and daily-reference annex. Herbal cannabis reference 1 g/day uses net herbal weight; resin/oil reference amounts have potency assumptions and adjustments. No unqualified gross resin threshold is published in the revised profile.
+- **2004 case 35/2004, 13 October:** read summary and concluding reasoning pp. 16–20, with facts. Cost-sharing does not remove supply from trafficking. Its old three-day six-to-eight-gram cannabis reference belongs to the lesser tier under the old law, not a lawful allowance and not the modern five-day table. The published event avoids an unnecessary aggregate including seed-weight dispute.
+- **2022 case 79/2022, 4 November:** full relevant facts, net-weight reasoning, lesser-production decision, sentencing and final orders read in court HTML. C and D were first offenders; one 85 cm plant had 37.208 g of leaves/flowers. Production components reduced to 1y6 and 1y9; combined use/equipment totals **1y9 and 2y**, with suspension refused. D's successful argument benefited C as well; this is not described as success on every ground of both appeals. Quantity above the reference does not exclude Article 11.
+- **2024 case 107/2023:** original 57-page judgment, facts and final reasoning pp. 46–57 read, with official court-office report. Actual decision **8 May 2024**; 18 October was the report date. Linked production/supply under one continuing plan was treated as one drug offence. Trial combined 12 years → intermediate 9y3 → top court rejected prosecution and defendant appeals, leaving 9y3. This is not a blanket rule merging every growing and selling act; time/plan connection matters. Confession was not treated as strongly mitigating after being caught in the act; prior gambling suspension and operational scale were considered.
+- **2026 Law 12/2026:** current consolidation's amendment link followed to official full text. Publication **17 August**, next-day commencement **18 August**; HHC added to II-B. Other drug additions and new quantity annex do not create a cannabis-specific numerical score change. The HHC reference amount was not needed for the public entry.
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+## Leads read but omitted
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+The 2018 case 605/2018 includes defence submissions about medical cannabis; these are not court-endorsed health findings. Its actual outcome concerned a defective judgment and remand. No medical-benefit claims were derived from submissions.
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+The official 19 April 2023 report of case 77/2022 describes cannabis/oil ordered online, mixed personal/sale quantities, and a combined six-year-two-month sentence. The exact judgment date was not recovered, so no additional judgment-date event was invented. Report and download remain for follow-up.
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+The first restriction still needs the earlier local originals named in the 1962/1965 consolidations. The 1991 day of commencement and the local colonial publication dates remain open. No precise continuous “years under prohibition” claim is newly established by this batch.
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+## Verification and ownership
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+`verify.mjs` checks unique IDs, categories/tags, title lengths, inline reference coverage, related links, article word counts/headings and country citation keys. It preserves all pre-existing score vectors except the intentional 1991 addition, and checks unchanged current scores and the limited medical classification. `data-status.cjs chain mo` reports no flagged steps: estimated 100 → 9, 1991 9 → 11, 2017 11 → 9.
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+A production build and rendered checks cover all ten event pages, four articles, country citation scopes, tag pages, clean exports and profile API. The final build result and cleanup are recorded below after execution. Only Macau's profile, the ten own history objects, four article files and this memo are eligible for the commit. A private index and compare-and-swap HEAD update preserve concurrent work; `source-archive.json` is excluded throughout.
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+Final verification: production build succeeded with **3,944 pages**. Rendered checks passed **106 citation links**, all event/article reference scopes, tag pages, source-free citation markers in exports, profile API date 2026-10-24, exact score 9 and medical classification Limited. All four articles passed word-count, heading, citation and link checks; `git diff --check` passed. The owned temporary `site/` build was deleted after verification; research files and logs were retained.