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Maxima rose to a £500 fine and three years, but the survey's own sentencing figures show fines remained the typical outcome for users, so no segment level changes.
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Maxima rose to a £500 fine and three years, but the survey's own sentencing figures show fines remained the typical outcome for users, so no segment level changes.
docs/DATA-MAINTENANCE.md +9 @@ -1657,2 +1657,11 @@ The 1990 event links the additions. Current scores, all inherited before-vectors and the profile are preserved; the wider capital-penalty chronology remains separate review work. + +An [Eswatini gap pass](research/history-eswatini-gap-2026-10-26.md) on 26 +October 2026 closes the open 1952 score-triage item as reviewed (maxima rose +but fines stayed typical, so no segment change) and fills the 1970s and 1980s: +the King's Order-in-Council No. 2 of 1976 raising maxima to E2,000 and five +years, and the 1986 and 1989 High Court judgments setting and applying dagga +sentencing bands — all read in full. One article covers the 1976 order; the +1922 Act's article already existed and was left untouched. Today's scores are +unchanged.
docs/research/history-eswatini-gap-2026-10-26.md +85 @@ -0,0 +1,85 @@ +# Eswatini: the 1976 penalty order and the 1980s sentencing bands + +Research checked on 26 October 2026. Read `DATA-MAINTENANCE.md` and +`WRITING.md`, the Eswatini profile and its seven history entries before +editing. No book was used. This pass closes the open 1952 score-triage item +as reviewed, fills the 1970s and 1980s with three entries, and writes two +articles. Cameroon and the other active country passes were left untouched. + +## Sources actually read + +- United Nations E/CN.7/286/Add.3 (1955), the Swaziland cannabis survey, in + full via documents.un.org: statutory provisions (1922 Regulation as + amended in 1931 and 1952), sections 2–9 and 13–14, the £500/three-year + section 8 maxima, possession and use limits, 1945–1952 seizure and + prosecution figures, smoker/trafficker sentencing practice, and the source + list (1931 and 1952 amendment proclamations, High Commissioner's Notices). +- High Court of Swaziland, King v Phiri, SZHC 13 (19 November 1986), in + full: the section 8(1) quotation (E2,000 fine or five years), the + statement that the King's Order-in-Council No. 2 of 1976 raised the + maxima from E500 and three years, the full sentencing bands + (personal use, supply, wholesale, couriers, retail, isolated and social + supply, motive, offender circumstances, public interest with black-market + prices), and the substituted three-year sentence with eighteen months + suspended for 14.85 kg of dagga. +- High Court of Swaziland, Magagula v King, SZHC 16 (judgment 7 June 1989), + in full: the 9,705-plant field, the four-year magistrate sentence, the + application of the Phiri bands, and the reduction to two years with one + suspended. The case header carries an 18 September 1987 date while the + judgment itself is dated 7 June 1989 in appeal 20/89; the entry uses the + judgment date. +- The EswatiniLII 1922 Act page itself could not be read (Cloudflare wall); + no claim rests on it alone. The profile's section 15 definition and + section 8 account are consistent with the three read sources. + +Deliberately not used: a CRL-gazette 1932 Dangerous Drugs Ordinance found +during Solomon Islands work (its enacting clause names Nyasaland, not +Swaziland); search snippets about a Pharmacy (Amendment) Act of 1992 as the +source of the five-year rule (the 1986 and 1987 judgments quote section 8 +of the 1922 Act directly, which settles the authority). + +## Score handling + +- `swaziland-penalties-1952` was the one open triage item. It now carries + an `unscored` reason: maxima rose, but the survey's own sentencing + figures show fines remained typical for users, so no segment level + changes. Reviewed, not scored. +- New `swaziland-penalty-increase-1976` (tightening, unscored): the + E500/three-year to E2,000/five-year rise, with the same no-level-change + reason grounded in the recording judgment's own account of fines + remaining typical for users. +- New 1986 and 1989 entries are `enforcement` with court and sentencing + tags; they move no scores. +- Chain unchanged: 1922 100→11, no flagged steps. `scores:triage sz` + reports 1 scored, 0 open. Today's profile scores (total 11) did not + change, so the profile file was not edited. + +The timeline now has an entry in every decade from the 1920s to the 2020s +except the 1960s and 1970s-as-enacted (independence fell in 1968 with no +recovered cannabis-law change; the 1976 order's exact commencement day is +likewise unrecovered, so it is dated by year). The pre-1952 maxima and any +post-1976 amendment before the 2020s bills remain open. + +## Article + +- `articles/swaziland-penalty-increase-1976.md` (350 words): the 1976 + raise, the Phiri bands, and the 1989 application. It follows `WRITING.md`: + plain headings, per-source citations, links to neighbouring entries and + `/country/sz/`. No picture: no openly licensed image shows the subject + itself. + +The 1922 Act already has a compliant article from 13 October (370 words), +left untouched; this pass's entries link to it where relevant. + +## Validation + +- Parsed-history comparison of the working tree against HEAD: exactly three + entries added and one entry revised (1952 `unscored`); no other + country's entries changed, none removed. +- `node scripts/data-status.cjs chain sz`: no flagged steps. + `npm run scores:triage -- sz`: 1 scored, 0 open. +- `npm run history:test`: 39 passed. `npm run answers:test`: 16 passed. +- Production build passed (4,207 pages). All three new history pages render + with reference lists. Article: 350 words, three headings. +- Concurrent agents' work in shared files is untouched; this commit stages + only the Eswatini hunks and files.