Extend Transnistria history with administrative rules and cannabis cases

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+# Transnistria history gap: administrative rules, cultivation cases and driving rights
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+Started 24 October and written 25 October 2026. Previous goal turn completed the requested issue comments and closures; this continuation makes new history and article progress. The wider history-coverage goal remains active.
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+## What this batch adds
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+Transnistria had three history entries and no articles at the start. Added six entries and three articles: the 2011 all-drug prison count; the replacement 2014 administrative code; the 2018 cultivation-definition amendment; a June 2018 household cultivation/possession investigation; the April 2021 announcement of a grow-and-harvest case sent to court; and the 2023 drug-use driving restriction. Every addition has inline citations and tags. The articles are 350–500 words with three headed sections and links to related history and the country profile.
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+The country update in this batch is the verified unscored consequence of the 2023 law. It replaces the previous speculative paragraph about recognition of convictions abroad. No new driving-map classification is assigned: a restriction arising from a drug-use offence is not evidence of the separate elements of an impaired-driving offence.
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+## Sources actually read
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+Copies, HTML text, Word-code text conversions, PDFs and OCR are in `tmp/history-transnistria-gap-2026-10-24/`.
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+1. Parliament's [current Criminal Code](https://vspmr.org/file.xp?file=133707), consolidated to 1 September 2026. Downloaded the Word document and converted it with macOS `textutil`; read articles 226, 226-1 and 229 and their amendment notes.
+2. Parliament's [current Administrative Offences Code](https://vspmr.org/file.xp?file=134144), consolidated to 18 August 2026. Read articles 6.12–6.13, 10.5–10.6 and 34.1–34.2. Non-criminal possession permits 50–300 statutory calculation units or up to thirty days' administrative arrest. Use permits 50–150 units or up to fifteen days, now with the 2023 driving consequence. Below-criminal-threshold growing permits a warning or fine up to fifty units.
+3. Ministry of Justice's [2014 Criminal Code](https://minjust.org/Web.nsf/767eb8a58ad76a2bc22574d5002acf15/bc99c01c595ff2f1c22576be00467466!OpenDocument&Click=), consolidated to 26 November. Read the actual article 229 text: large-scale cultivation already had fine/work/up to two years; aggravated cultivation three to eight years. This prevents mislabelling the same ranges in 2018 as a newly reduced penalty.
+4. Ministry of Justice's [2014 Administrative Code](https://minjust.org/web.nsf/767eb8a58ad76a2bc22574d5002acf15/9ae8fa519f640d5ac22575d700317255!OpenDocument), consolidated to 10 November. Read 6.12–6.13, 10.5–10.6 and 34.1–34.2. These confirm the historic possession/use/growing penalties directly, rather than projecting the 2026 consolidation back to 2014. The code's commencement clause says three months after official publication; the article and entry use the year, without inventing an exact commencement day from the signature date.
+5. President's [signed 2018 cultivation amendment](https://president.gospmr.org/file.xp?file=26752), 26 July 2018. The HTML text and PDF give the replacement cultivation definition and unchanged penalty ranges. Commencement is the day after official publication. First-publication metadata was not recovered, so the history uses the year. It does not claim that the signature day was commencement.
+6. President's [signed 2023 administrative amendment](https://president.gospmr.org/file.xp?file=83184), 8 November 2023. The PDF is scanned: rendered it and used Apple Vision Russian OCR; read the changes to 3.8.1, 6.13(1), 20.20(4)–(5) and the commencement clause. It adds one-year driving restrictions to the listed use offences, and takes effect fourteen days after official publication. The parliament vote was 25 October. The history uses 2023, rather than converting the signing date into a commencement date.
+7. [Official news agency account of the October 2023 vote](https://novostipmr.com/ru/content/upotrebivshie-narkotiki-voditeli-ne-smogut-peresdavat-na-prava-v). Identifies the prosecutor's initiative and Galina Antyufeyeva's explanation that someone without a licence cannot take the test for a year. The companion [road-safety amendment](https://president.gospmr.org/file.xp?file=83182) was downloaded, but not used as a citation because its scan had not been fully read.
+8. [Official agency report of the June 2018 police action](https://novostipmr.com/ru/content/zhiteley-dubossarskogo-rayona-privlekut-k-otvetstvennosti-za). The quantities are thirteen cannabis plants and one poppy in the woman's garden, and **2.62 g** held by her brother, not 300 g. The report says she could face up to two years; it is not a verdict. Do not infer from that report that every thirteen-plant grow necessarily satisfies the statutory criminal threshold.
+9. [Official agency report of the April 2021 case referral](https://novostipmr.com/ru/content/za-nezakonnoe-vyraschivanie-konopli-tiraspolchaninu-grozit-ugolovnaya). Police search: 12 October 2020. Court referral announced 14 April 2021. Allegations: 34 plants and 749.054 g harvested cannabis, large cultivation and especially-large personal possession. No conviction or sentence is reported.
+10. [Novy Region, 1 September 2011](https://newdaynews.ru/pmr/346378.html), quoting the justice ministry's prison service. Its 241 prisoners/11% figure and sentences are for all drugs, not cannabis alone. The news title loosely combines use and supply; this batch records the prison statistics as enforcement, without treating that title as a precise sentencing reform or its publication day as commencement.
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+## Score and threshold reconstruction still required
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+The historical criminal vector remains inherited. This batch does **not** certify the original 1934 Soviet first-restriction entry, the 2002 narcotics entry based on later guidance, or the 2004 court-guidance entry. Attempts to open the old `ulpmr.ru` guidance URL failed with a timeout/database connection error; the modern court site's 2015 administrative review also timed out. Do not mark those old entries newly verified on this evidence.
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+The current code makes small cultivation administrative and large-scale cultivation criminal, while the inherited cultivation score is one. A proper correction needs the dated transition, not a new whole-point step falsely placed at the 2018 definition clarification or the 2014 replacement code. The 2014 criminal code already limits the offence to large cultivation and attributes its wording to the 8 October 2012 omnibus amendment. The original 2012 amendment and exact commencement remain to be retrieved. The former 2002 administrative code also needs comparison before assigning the 2014 replacement any directional score change. Accordingly, those two replacement/clarification entries are `other`, with explicit unscored reasons; the 2023 additional driving sanction has a reason for not moving the broad consumption/enforcement levels.
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+Quantity boundaries need the current presidential tables. An older table reproduced on a legal portal says cannabis cultivation “from twenty plants”; a 2021 investigative report loosely says twenty is small and more than twenty criminal. That conflict must be resolved from the controlling table, not by combining the two summaries. The 2018 police report threatens a criminal penalty for thirteen plants, another reason to avoid publishing an unverified twenty-plant safe allowance.
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+Further profile corrections are needed: the old possession paragraph contains an incorrect comparison with Russian law and does not describe the administrative alternative; supply's current basic range is four to eight years, not three to seven; use has a separately documented administrative offence. These findings are preserved for the next linked profile/score audit. The present batch updates the unscored consequences and adds the verified historical coverage, while leaving those six inherited scores unchanged.
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+## Retrieval lessons
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+The current parliament site provides working `.doc` code files even when the old legal database fails. President-site date filters (`date_from`, `date_to`, `page`) exposed the original 2018 and 2023 act pages. Their PDF links use `file.xp?file=…`. The Ministry of Justice's 2014 HTML codes remain accessible. Search snippets alone were not used to mark the unavailable court guidance or precise commencement dates checked.
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+## Validation
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+The final production build passed with 4,069 pages. The rendered checks verified 70 inline citation links, sequential reference targets, the six history pages, tag pages, related-history links, clean JSON/CSV exports and the profile API. All three articles pass the 350–500-word, section, source-use and link checks (415, 420 and 416 words). The data comparison confirms exactly six additions, with every pre-existing history object unchanged, and the same six scores and status metadata. `git diff --check` passes.
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+`node scripts/data-status.cjs chain xt` reports no structural flags for the inherited 1934 100 → 11 step. This is a continuity check, not verification of the historical score allocation; the source and threshold reconstruction described above remains open. Commit preparation uses a private index and preserves the unrelated staged `source-archive.json`. The generated site under this batch’s temporary directory is removed after verification; source downloads, OCR and validation logs are retained.