Changelog 27 October 2026 eddfa7e

history: upgrade Guatemala 1932 decree with 1935 police memoir

Decree 1331 dated to February 1932 from the official police memoir's decree list: penalties for cultivating lethal plants and trafficking, naming Indian hemp and marihuana. Adds a documented 1935 enforcement case and drops the Wikipedia citation. Snippet-level read of the primary is recorded in the research note; full decree text still wanted.

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Guatemala punishes growing Indian hemp and marihuana

date

1932-02

title

Guatemala ~~restricts~~punishes growing Indian hemp and marihuana

description

Decree 1331 ~~added~~of February 1932 set penalties for cultivating lethal plants and preparing their soporific principles, and for introducing, transporting or trafficking them, expressly naming Indian hemp and marihuana toalongside poppy and opium.[@1] The 1935 police memoir that lists the ~~plants it classed as lethal~~decree records growers pursued, including David Muñoz Salazar, held for growing marihuana and ~~restricted~~preparing its derivatives with two accomplices.[@1]

sources

Guatemala Dirección General de la Policía Nacional — Memoria de los trabajos realizados (1935) ~~Wikipedia — Cannabis in Guatemala~~

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+# Guatemala 1932: Wiki-only decree upgraded with the 1935 police memoir
+
+Research checked on 27 October 2026. Read `DATA-MAINTENANCE.md`, the entry,
+the Wikipedia wikitext (used only as a lead to its cited source), and the
+cited primary itself through the Google Books volume text search. No scores,
+profiles or other timelines changed.
+
+## What changed
+
+- `guatemala-decree-1331-1932`: date refined 1932 to 1932-02; title and
+  description rewritten. The decree set penalties (not just classification)
+  for cultivating lethal plants, preparing soporific principles, and
+  introducing/transporting/trafficking them, naming Indian hemp and marihuana
+  with poppy and opium. Added a documented enforcement case from the same
+  memoir (Muñoz Salazar). Wikipedia citation dropped; the official memoir is
+  now the sole source, with per-sentence citations.
+
+## Source actually read
+
+- Guatemala, Dirección General de la Policía Nacional, *Memoria de los
+  trabajos realizados* (Tipografía Nacional, 1935; Google Books
+  id J_hWAAAAYAAJ), via the volume's text search, which returns the primary's
+  own words: p. 123 decree list ("1331. - Penas por el cultivo de plantas
+  letales y preparación de sus principios soporíferos, su introducción,
+  transporte o tráfico (cáñamo indiano, marihuana, adormidera, opio,
+  etcétera)", February 1932); p. 21 (David Muñoz Salazar grew marihuana and
+  prepared its derivatives with two accomplices; Enrique Gándara detained in
+  Parque Central).
+
+## Honest limitations
+
+- Full-page images are blocked (placeholder returned), so this is a
+  snippet-level read of the primary, not a full-page read; the locator says
+  so. Penalty amounts and the exact February day (column digits jumbled in
+  snippets) were not recovered — the decree's full text remains a hunt for
+  the Diario de Centro América archive.
+- A 1970 Guatemalan Health Code decree filed with the UN (E/NL.1975/42, read)
+  confirms the "marijuana or Indian hemp" vocabulary in later law but carries
+  no 1932 history; not cited.
+
+## Validation and tree note
+
+- Chain `gt`, `history:test`, `answers:test`, production build and the
+  rendered Guatemala history page to be run before commit.
+- Commit stages only this entry's hunk plus this note, via patch filtering
+  without stashing. Foreign work in the shared tree stays untouched.