Reconstruct Kazakhstan’s 2011–2015 possession-law reversal

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    checked on the strength of a search summary. Open their sources; downgrade or correct.
    Known to be unconfirmed: Senegal 1997/2007, Sierra Leone 2008, The Gambia 2003/2011/2014,
-   Liberia 2014/2023, El Salvador 2003, Kazakhstan 2011, Eswatini 1922, Botswana 1922,
+   Liberia 2014/2023, El Salvador 2003, Eswatini 1922, Botswana 1922,
    Mozambique 1914, Zambia 1926, Ghana 1935, Hungary 1930, Costa Rica 1928, Kiribati/Tuvalu 1948,
    St Kitts 1937, Saint Lucia 1938, Iraq 1933.
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 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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+A [Kazakhstan possession-history pass](research/history-kazakhstan-gap-2026-10-25.md)
+on 25 October 2026 adds the missing 2015 return to criminal liability for personal
+holdings and public use, with an article, and rewrites the 2011 reform and its
+article from statutory texts. The 2011 law concerned the legally defined large
+band and retained administrative detention. The Soviet cultivation entry now
+uses the decree’s express 1935 commencement and a reproduced original source.
+Kazakhstan’s historical possession/consumption snapshots are rebased; its current
+scores are unchanged. Earlier Soviet possession controls remain to be reconstructed.

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+# Kazakhstan: the missing return to criminal possession in 2015
+
+Reviewed 25 October 2026. One new history event, two revised events, one new
+article and one rewritten article. This pass fills a major missing legal
+transition in a ten-entry timeline. It also resolves Kazakhstan's 2011 item in
+the maintenance guide's old unconfirmed-source list. Current profile text,
+scores and source records are unchanged.
+
+## Sources actually read
+
+Research files and verification helpers are local under
+`tmp/history-kazakhstan-gap-2026-10-25/`.
+
+- **Original 2011 amendment, CDB reproduction:** read article 1(1)(124),
+  deleting criminal article 259(1); article 1(4)(9), adding administrative
+  article 320(1-1); and article 2's publication-based commencement. The new
+  administrative band expressly concerns **large** personal holdings and
+  permits up to 200 monthly calculation units or **45 days' detention**.
+  Direct Adilet bodies repeatedly timed out or returned JavaScript placeholders.
+  CDB supplied the complete relevant clauses; one invalid UTF-8 byte elsewhere
+  in the response was replaced during extraction, not silently interpreted as
+  legal text. No uncertain character occurs in the cited clauses.
+- **2011 Criminal Code consolidation, WIPO Lex 11523:** read the Russian
+  article 259, its deletion and amendment note, the remaining especially-large
+  personal-possession tier, supply tiers and surrender/treatment note.
+  Especially-large holdings remained punishable by three to seven years.
+  This later consolidation is not treated as the original 1997 code.
+- **Administrative Code, ILO NATLEX 69967:** read the complete relevant PDF
+  pages 208 and 215 (viewer numbering), articles 320 and 336-2, from the
+  consolidation through January 2013. Ordinary drug handling outside the
+  criminal offence allowed a five-to-ten-unit fine or up to ten days' detention;
+  the large band allowed the separate 200-unit/45-day maximum. Public use had
+  an initial fine, a higher repeat fine and detention after two earlier
+  penalties within a year. Direct download returned 403, but the web PDF
+  reader exposed the pages; screenshots were requested for pages 208–209.
+- **2015 opening Criminal Code edition, WIPO Lex 16084:** read Russian
+  articles 10, 296, 300 and 467. WIPO identifies the edition from 1 January
+  2015 and its authorised reproduction from Adilet. Article 296(2) has no
+  minimum quantity; (3) supplies the large band and (4) the especially-large
+  prison tier. Public use is covered by (1). The ordinary/large criminal
+  misdemeanours list fines, corrective work, community work and arrest;
+  article 467 initially deferred the general arrest provision until 2017.
+  Neither article says arrest was actually introduced in 2017: subsequent
+  postponements and implementation remain to be checked.
+- **2012 national drug report, CADAP**, printed pp. 11–13: read the policy
+  rationale, administrative offences and reform account. It attributes reduced
+  criminal liability and prison population to the reform but supplies no
+  cannabis-specific release count. Downloaded and extracted locally; rendered
+  printed p. 12 was visually checked. The first page of the relevant paragraph
+  ends before “large”; the continuation on printed p. 13 confirms that band.
+- **Soviet decree of 27 October 1934, Istmat node 42491:** complete operative
+  text read. It prohibits sowing Indian hemp except for exclusively medical
+  and scientific needs, requires criminal liability and crop confiscation,
+  directs republics to amend codes and expressly commences **from 1935**.
+  Replaces the Wikipedia citation. The old event ID is retained for links.
+
+The CDB, WIPO, ILO, CADAP and Istmat URLs are recorded in the public source lists.
+Search snippets were used for discovery, never as substitutes for these passages.
+A court-administration author's 2012 explanation of retrospective relief was
+also read, but its unidentified drug case is not published as a cannabis case.
+
+## Dating and writing decisions
+
+The old 2011 event used the signing date. It now uses year precision because
+commencement depends on publication, whose full official record was not retrieved.
+The statute gives ten calendar days after first official publication; the signing
+day is retained in the article as signing, not effective date. The new code's
+**1 January 2015** commencement is explicit in both article 467 and WIPO metadata.
+
+The 2011 article is rewritten to explain large versus especially-large holdings,
+administrative detention, public use and the later reversal. The new 2015 article
+explains lesser criminal offences, original penalties, deferred arrest and the
+separate cultivation offence. Each is 350–500 words with four short sections,
+inline citations and working links to the other event and country profile.
+No gram thresholds, cannabis-specific releases or typical sentencing rates are
+invented. Original 2015 penalties are distinguished from today's amended amounts.
+
+## Historical scoring and remaining gaps
+
+Current score stays **13.5 (displayed 14)**: possession 2, cultivation 1,
+enforcement 2, sharing 1, consumption 1, access 0.
+
+The 2011 `before` snapshot now has possession **2**, acknowledging the smaller
+administrative tier with detention, and consumption **2** for the pre-2015
+administrative public-use regime. The inherited enforcement **1→2** improvement
+remains at the 2011 reform; the national report supports its stated direction,
+without establishing a cannabis-specific sentencing frequency.
+
+The new 2015 step lowers consumption **2→1** when public use becomes criminal.
+Possession stays **2** across that step: administrative detention was already
+possible, and the existing intermediate score also covers the later lesser
+criminal offence with short arrest. The narrative records the legal change even
+where the coarse score does not assign a separate possession point. Cultivation,
+sharing, access and current enforcement remain unchanged.
+
+Exact chain: **100→12.5 (1935)→14.5 (2011)→13.5 (2015)**. The 1935 FREE vector
+is preserved. However, assigning all of the pre-2011 restriction to that first
+cultivation decree remains provisional. This pass does not establish when
+Kazakhstan's earlier possession/use rules first began. Retrieve the republican
+Soviet drug laws, the original administrative code, quantity-table history and
+later arrest-commencement amendments next. The outstanding missing 1974 Soviet
+possession step is not declared solved by a later consolidation.
+
+## Validation
+
+The existing history suite passes **36 tests**. The batch verifier confirms
+exactly one added history object and two revised objects, unchanged unrelated
+history objects, article lengths, citation coverage, section counts and internal
+history targets. Production and rendered-export checks are recorded below after
+completion. Only this batch's files enter the commit; pre-existing staged and
+working-tree `source-archive.json` changes are preserved.
+
+Final production build passed: **4,099 pages**. Rendered checks verified **33
+citation links**, history/tag targets, clean JSON/CSV, the new 15→14 displayed
+step and unchanged current exact score 13.5. Desktop (1280 px) and mobile
+(390 px) screenshots of the new article were visually inspected. `git diff
+--check` passed. The owned temporary site output is removed after verification;
+research downloads, excerpts, logs and screenshots remain local.