Changelog 28 October 2026, 07:36 d778093tree

Expand Latvia: words, kaņepe culture link

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Countries and states 1 file

Latvia countries/lv.yaml

context › culture › text

Latvian keeps the ancient word as [kaņepe](/culture/language/cannabis/), kin to hemp and hanf.[@cannabiset] Latvia's hemp food is traced in [hemp-seed butter](/culture/traditions/latvian-hemp-seed-b … the fields in 2009, when farmers around Krāslava sowed 114 hectares of fibre hemp.[@lvp10]

context › culture › sources

cannabiset, butter, lvp10

sources

Wikipedia — Etymology of cannabis (Latvian kaņepe) Wiktionary — kaņepe (Latvian: hemp, cannabis) Wiktionary — marihuāna (Latvian: marijuana) 24 unchanged

words

word Kaņepe · lang Latvian · meaning hemp, cannabis (the plant) · sources wiktionary-kanepe, word Marihuāna · lang Latvian · meaning marijuana, the psychoactive substance · sources wiktionary-marihuana-lv

Code, design and documents 1 file

docs/research/expansion-2026-10-28-europe-2.md +6 −1

@@ -47,3 +47,8 @@ culture, links; profile-audit 0/0, review build, commit country-by-country.
 - Audit 0/0; review page to verify with batch build.
 - Left: 1950s/60s/80s empty; Epidyolex-2019 + 1974 + 1940 articles open.
-## lv — pending
+## lv (Latvia) — committed
+- Words (Kaņepe, Marihuāna; en.wiktionary lv-senses verified); culture: kaņepe sentence +
+  language/cannabis link.
+- Audit 0/0; review page to verify with batch build.
+- Left: 1950s/60s/80s empty; 1974 + 1940 Soviet articles open (same decrees as the Ukraine
+  article, but Latvia-specific entries still article-less — noted).