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+# Cyprus history expansion, 23 October 2026
+
+The previous country-coverage goal turn made verified progress on Belarus. This batch
+continues the same open goal. A fresh worktree and backlog inspection found Cyprus among
+the largest countries-by-entry-count with no articles: nine events, zero articles.
+
+Cyprus now has fifteen events and eight articles. Project totals are **2,855 events and
+730 articles**, against 2,849 and 722 at the start of this batch.
+
+## Editorial and data changes
+
+Re-read `docs/WRITING.md` and the current category instructions in
+`docs/DATA-MAINTENANCE.md`. All ten added or revised events have country-first titles under
+eighty characters and checked tags from the existing vocabulary. The eight articles have
+unheaded openings, four sections each, and 385–406 words after editorial revision.
+
+New events cover:
+
+- **20 March 1992:** the special one-year prison ceiling and summary procedure for qualifying
+ young first-time personal users. The broader amendment also changed drug controls; the
+ event concerns this particular sentencing protection.
+- **21 January 2000:** seed supply, offers and sales where the supplier knows the recipient
+ intends illegal cultivation. Category `hemp`, following the seed-rule category instructions.
+- **18 July 2003:** rebuttable supply presumptions at thirty grams or three plants, and the
+ replacement of the young-person ceiling with two years for eligible under-25s.
+- **25 April 2016:** licensed industrial-hemp production/trade and the companion narcotics
+ exemption, initially at no more than 0.2% THC.
+- **25 March 2021:** Panaxia’s announced delivery under a government medical-oil order.
+- **16 February 2024:** publication of the agricultural hemp-definition amendment, referring
+ to the EU’s 0.3% standard and expressly deemed effective from 7 December 2021.
+- **27 October 2025:** Volt’s adult-market proposal, filed under `debate`, not legalisation.
+
+Revised the existing 1977 law, January 2017 oil-access announcement and 2019 medical
+framework entries. The latter now uses the regulations’ 6 March publication date and the
+substance of the actual text, rather than an unsourced list of qualifying conditions.
+
+Removed **`cyprus-medical-sales-2022`**. Its sole Wikipedia source describes **HHC retail
+sales** in late 2022, not the start of medical-cannabis sales. No article, related-entry or
+source-code link referenced that ID. The independently sourced 2021 supply event has its
+own accurate ID. The source did not justify simply changing the old medical-sales claim
+to a different medical milestone in December 2022.
+
+## Sources and what was actually checked
+
+Primary PDFs, extracted text, selected rendered pages, original snapshots, source metadata
+and the verifier are retained under `tmp/history-cyprus-gap-2026-10-23/`. HTML in CyLaw is
+Windows-1253; the first UTF-8 extraction was corrected from the saved original bytes.
+
+| Source | Evidence used |
+| --- | --- |
+| CyLaw consolidated 1977 drug law | Sections 2, 5–8, 10, 30, 30A and penalty table: possession, supply, growing, use, young-person ceiling and presumptions. |
+| Original 1977 gazette | Publication on 10 June, later-appointed commencement under section 38, and replacement of the 1967 law under section 39. The event retains year precision and says published/adopted, not that every clause operated on publication. |
+| Original 1992 amendment | Section 13 inserts the one-year protection for a person no older than twenty-five with no previous drug-law conviction and exclusively personal-use offending. |
+| Original 2000 amendment | New section 7A; knowledge requirement, covered seed transactions, eight-year/CYP 1,500 alternatives and regulatory exceptions. The fine is historical currency, not a converted current euro figure. |
+| Original 2003 amendment | Replacement of the age/sentencing proviso and new section 30A, including the quantity table and ability to rebut supply intent in court. |
+| Original 2016 laws and current hemp consolidation | Licensing, premises registration, seed and storage conditions, derivative exclusions, five-year licence cycle, and narcotics-law hemp exception. |
+| Original March 2019 amendment and Ministry regulations | Licensing powers and medical system. Relevant pages were extracted and selected pages visually checked because the PDF’s Greek font map corrupts text extraction. |
+| Original 2024 amendment | Both pages read; second page visually checked for the EU reference and retrospective clause. |
+| European Commission hemp explanation | Current agricultural percentage, seed and import requirements. EUR-Lex presented a robot challenge; no challenge was bypassed or unavailable regulation text claimed as read. |
+
+For the medical regulations, visually inspected printed pages 378, 381, 385, 387, 389 and
+414: definitions/exceptions, regulator responsibilities, three-producer opening and
+fifteen-year protection, application and inspection requirements, and prescribing. Adult
+pharmacy preparations are prescribed at the doctor’s judgment; under-eighteens require a
+separate justified application. Smoking is excluded. The text does not establish that
+three growers were already licensed or producing in 2019.
+
+For the 2017 announcement, read the dated TalkingDrugs report and the signed July
+explanation by Health Ministry press officer Margarita Kyriakou, published in Cyprus Mail.
+The first concerns an announced programme; the second explains individual authorisation.
+Earlier exceptional permissions may have existed: the batch does not claim to identify the
+first individual medical exemption ever granted.
+
+Read Panaxia’s own 3 February 2021 announcement through PRNewswire and the full Jerusalem
+Post delivery report of 26 March, referring to the preceding Thursday. The event identifies
+**Panaxia’s** first delivery; it does not establish Cyprus’s first-ever cannabis import,
+patient numbers or universal pharmacy availability. Corporate quality and implementation
+claims are attributed to the company. The report of implementation status describes 2021,
+not an independent audit of domestic production in 2026.
+
+Read Volt’s own policy and the dated Politis account. Party claims about health, crime and
+economic benefits remain attributed; their presence in a proposal does not prove outcomes.
+
+## Current profile and historical scores
+
+The profile now distinguishes possession from growing and supply, states the actual
+two-year under-25 ceiling, and explains that quantities below the supply thresholds do
+not automatically turn cultivation into personal possession. Removed unsupported claims
+about routine imprisonment, automatic deportation, a fixed medical-condition list, and an
+EU-wide prohibition on clubs. Independent driving, offence-count and seizure blocks were
+preserved **verbatim**, with their original sources.
+
+The seed-trade status changes from `banned` to `regulated` to reflect the express licensed
+hemp route. Other planting and club/visitor statuses stay as before. Recreational and medical
+classifications remain `illegal` and `limited`.
+
+Corrected the three generic one-point scores for cultivation, sharing and consumption to
+zero, following the separate life-maximum cultivation offence, broad supply wording and
+express consumption crime. These are baseline calibration corrections, not newly invented
+changes in 2019. Possession, current enforcement and medical access retain their former scores.
+Current imprisonment frequency was not established from possession-only sentencing data;
+the profile no longer claims routine imprisonment from larger-supply news cases.
+
+The new 1992 and 2003 scored events represent the one-year protection and subsequent
+two-year replacement in enforcement. Move the existing first medical-access point from
+2019 to the announced 2017 patient route. The production regulations and 2021 delivery stay
+in the same difficult-access band, with explicit unscored explanations.
+
+Rounded chain: **1925 100→5; 1992 5→7; 2003 7→5; 2017 5→6**. The 1925 entry and its source
+remain unchanged; the original colonial ban’s exact scope still needs primary verification.
+Its post-event score remains a broad inherited baseline, not a newly verified measurement
+of practice in 1925. No claim of complete Cyprus coverage is made.
+
+The agricultural and drug-law hemp definitions have different reproduced wording: the
+amended production law refers to the EU threshold; the narcotics consolidation still says
+0.2%, while making relevant restrictions subject to the hemp law. The article/profile state
+that distinction. A crop percentage was not treated as blanket authorisation for CBD foods,
+oils, flowers or other finished retail products.
+
+## Verification
+
+`verify.mjs` checks the seven additions, three revisions and one explicit removal against
+the initial snapshots. Every other event is deeply unchanged. It checks dates, categories,
+tags, source references, score records, article structure/length, internal links and
+preservation of independent profile data. Initial checks and the Cyprus chain check pass.
+
+One production build passed: **3,609 pages in 41.60 seconds**. Generated checks passed for
+the Cyprus page, ten tagged events, eight article bodies and citations, headings, internal
+links, tag pages, JSON export, three scored steps and removal of the false 2022 page.
+The Cyprus chain checker flags no discontinuities.
+
+Deleted `tmp/history-cyprus-gap-2026-10-23/site` after verification. The final temporary-build
+audit found no remaining site/build output directories or generated history indexes under
+`tmp`. Source downloads, extraction/rendering material and the build log remain for research.
+No staging, commits, package installation or source-archive edits were performed by this
+batch; concurrent staging and archive updates were observed and preserved.