Changelog 27 October 2026 f3ad094

history: score Fiji 1938 from ordinance text, close Bahamas and Laos triage

Fiji 1938 ordinance read via its UN filing (commencement, ss. 5/7/8 offences, s. 39 penalties): scored with import-ban aftermath as before, so the growing/possessing drop moves from 1905 to 1938. Bahamas 2026 licensing delay and Laos 2007 narcotics law closed as unscored with reasons.

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History changes.yaml

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The Bahamas still has not opened cannabis licensing

unscored

Licensing portal unopened two years after legislation; no patient-access change (access stays 0, medical none).

Laos passes its Law on Narcotics

unscored

Broad narcotics prohibition restating criminal-code coverage; penalty and user-band movement undocumented, and the 1925 estimate carries the scored drop.

Fiji's Dangerous Drugs Ordinance bans growing and possessing Indian hemp

description

The ordinance took effect on 1 January 1938.[@1] It prohibited importing or exporting Indian hemp and its seed and cultivating the plant, and made growing, possessing or selling it an offence.[@1] Penalties ran from a magistrate's twelve months or £250 fine to ten years or £1,000 in the Supreme Court.[@1]

before

possession 10 · cultivation 10 · enforcement 10 · sharing 10 · consumption 10 · access 0

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docs/research/history-fj-bs-la-triage-2026-10-27.md +36 −0

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+# Fiji 1938 scored from the ordinance text; Bahamas and Laos closed
+
+Research checked on 27 October 2026. Read `DATA-MAINTENANCE.md`, the Fiji,
+Bahamas and Laos timelines with profiles, and the Fiji Dangerous Drugs
+Ordinance as filed with the UN (E/NL.1948/45, downloaded and read).
+No profiles changed.
+
+## What changed
+
+- `fiji-dangerous-drugs-ordinance-1938`: scored with
+  before {10,10,10,10,10,0} (the 1905 import ban's aftermath: only lawful
+  supply gone), per-sentence citations, penalty sentence added (magistrate
+  twelve months/£250; Supreme Court ten years/£1,000), and a locator on the
+  existing UN source. Chain now reads 1905 100→90, 1938 90→13: the
+  growing/possessing/selling offences carry the drop the import ban was
+  holding alone.
+- `bahamas-licensing-delayed-2026`: unscored (portal unopened, access
+  stays 0).
+- `laos-law-on-narcotics-2007`: unscored (broad restatement, movement
+  undocumented, estimate carries the drop).
+
+## Caveats recorded
+
+- The 1886 Fiji Gunjah Prohibition Ordinance remains untraced; if found, it
+  may move the first restriction earlier than 1905 and re-base both entries.
+- The 1938 enforcement level resolves to today's profile (enforcement 3,
+  reflecting modern guidelines); no later softening entry exists yet for the
+  2004 law, 2012 guidelines, 2022 hemp exemption or 2026 rewrite described in
+  the profile — genuine follow-up gaps, not invented here.
+
+## Validation and tree note
+
+- Chains `fj`, `bs`, `la`, `history:test`, `answers:test`, production build
+  to be run before commit.
+- Commit stages only these three hunks plus this note, via patch filtering
+  without stashing. Foreign work in the shared tree stays untouched.