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descriptionThe Dangerous Drugs Ordinance of 1936, the latest version of the 1925 law, raised penalties for traffickers following Opium Advisory Committee recommendations, made carrying drugs through Palestine instated the transit an-conveyance offence more plainly than its predecessors, and for the first time punishedadded a new Article 14 punishing keeping premises for preparing or smoking hashish and possessing pipes or other utensils for smoking it. Israel kept it after independence and re-enacted it in 1973.[@1]
sourcesWikipedia — Cannabis in Israel
Jadaliyya — Haggai Ram, Intoxicating Zion: A Social History of Hashish in Mandatory Palestine and Israel
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descriptionThe Dangerous Drugs Ordinance of 1936, the latest version of the 1925 law, raised penalties for traffickers following Opium Advisory Committee recommendations, made carrying drugs through Palestine instated the transit an-conveyance offence more plainly than its predecessors, and for the first time punishedadded a new Article 14 punishing keeping premises for preparing or smoking hashish and possessing pipes or other utensils for smoking it.[@1]
sourcesWikipedia — Cannabis in Israel
Jadaliyya — Haggai Ram, Intoxicating Zion: A Social History of Hashish in Mandatory Palestine and Israel
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+# Research pass: Palestine/Israel 1936 amendment article; twin entries upgraded
+
+Research checked on 26 October 2026. The 1936 Dangerous Drugs Ordinance
+gains a properly-sourced article from Ram's monograph (chapters 2 and 3
+re-read in the local EPUB), and both the `ps` and `il` entries get
+per-sentence citations with Wiki and the unread review dropped. No scores,
+profiles or timelines changed.
+
+## What was verified (all sources actually read)
+
+- Haggai Ram, Intoxicating Zion (SUP 2020), ch. 2 "Smuggling in Mandatory
+ Palestine" (local EPUB chapter0008, re-extracted and read): 1919 warning;
+ 1925 Ordinance on UK 1920/1925 Acts; 1928/1932/1936 amendments under OAC
+ recommendations with trafficker-penalty increases; 1936 transit clause
+ stated more plainly; 1936 stricter smoker limits (pointer to ch. 3);
+ dead-letter verdict (no infrastructure/capacity/will; low priority;
+ 1936–39 revolt halted camel corps; users lower-class Arabs; smugglers
+ peasants/Bedouins/railway workers/international rings).
+- Same book, ch. 3 "The Underworld of Users" (chapter0009, read): Article 14
+ new in 1936 (premises for preparation/smoking; pipes/utensils); cafés in
+ Jaffa/Haifa/Jerusalem/Acre/Nablus plus Tel Aviv 1939; patron/owner arrests
+ and coordinated café raids.
+- New `articles/palestine-dangerous-drugs-1936.md` (~340w body, 4 sections,
+ single book source with chapter-split locator). Entries
+ `palestine-dangerous-drugs-1936` and `israel-dangerous-drugs-1936`
+ rewritten with [@1] throughout; transit claim sharpened from "made ...
+ an offence" to "stated ... more plainly" per Ram.
+
+Claim boundaries: the il entry's closing sentence ("Israel kept it after
+independence and re-enacted it in 1973") was cut — Ram's Israel chapters
+were not read this pass and the review was never read. Restoring it needs
+the post-1948 chapters or another source. The twin-entry structure is kept
+by design (pre-state event opening Israel's timeline), article on the ps id
+only.
+
+## Dead ends recorded, not forced
+
+- No new primary sought for 1936: Ram cites the archival ordinance trail
+ (nn. 93–103) without re-reading; the monograph is the authority.
+
+## Verification and files
+
+- `node -e` YAML load of changes.yaml clean before build.
+- `npm run build`, `npm run history:test`, `npm run answers:test` green;
+ rendered `/history/palestine-dangerous-drugs-1936/` citation marks
+ checked.
+- Commit limited to own work: the two 1936 hunks in changes.yaml, the new
+ article, this note, via pathspec. Foreign staged/worktree files excluded
+ and preserved.