Changelog 26 October 2026 f7505f8

history: add Bulgaria 1925 Balkan-hashish article, upgrade three entries

New 368-word article on Bulgaria's 1925 resin-cultivation ban as one link in the Balkan chain: Greece 1920, Balkan farmers for Egypt, Geneva 1925, Lebanon's entry. Verified against Bouquet's 1951 UN survey (dates and sequence, read in full) and Kozma's hashish-trade history (Egypt/Greece/Lebanon narrative, read in full). Romania gains both sources plus a dated cultivation-prohibition sentence; Greece 1920 gains Kozma (field burnings, lost income); Bulgaria gains per-sentence citations. Serbia left alone (date mismatch would conflate instruments). No scores or timelines changed. Build OK, history:test 40/40, answers:test 39/39. Index contains only this pass. See docs/research/history-balkan-hashish-arc-2026-10-26.md.

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Romania passes a narcotics law

description

The law covered hashish and its preparations along with other narcotics.[@1,2] A UN survey dates Romania's prohibition of resin-cannabis cultivation to 1926, part of the Balkan sequence in which traffickers moved growing from Greece to Bulgaria, Romania and Yugoslavia to supply Egyptian demand.[@3] Balkan farmers kept producing until the late-1920s bans closed the region's fields.[@4]

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Cannabis (concluded) The criminalization of hashish consumption in the Middle East 2 unchanged

Bulgaria prohibits growing cannabis for resin

description

After Greece banned cultivation in 1920, hashish traffickers brought cannabis growing for … d Yugoslav ones, worked to meet the demand of Egypt, which Greece had supplied until then.[@2] Bulgaria prohibited the crop in 1925, according to the UN's 1951 survey of cannabis, which gives the year but not the text of the law; a historian of the hashish trade dates the Balkan bans to the late 1920s.[@1,2]

Greece forbids growing cannabis

description

Greece, until then one of the two main suppliers of hashish to Egypt and North Africa, forbade cannabis cultivation and burned the fields, costing its farmers their income.[@1,2] Greek hashish became rarer but did not disappear, and traffickers moved production to Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia and Albania.[@1]

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The criminalization of hashish consumption in the Middle East 1 unchanged

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bulgaria-resin-cultivation-ban-1925 article · added · 473 words

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+# Research pass: Balkan hashish arc — Bulgaria article, three entry upgrades
+
+Research checked on 26 October 2026. Backlog item
+`bulgaria-resin-cultivation-ban-1925` (pop 6M) cleared with a new properly
+sourced regional article; Romania, Greece-1920 and Bulgaria entries upgraded
+with read sources and per-sentence citations. No scores, profiles or
+timelines changed.
+
+## What was verified (all sources actually read)
+
+New `articles/bulgaria-resin-cultivation-ban-1925.md` (368 words,
+per-sentence citations, both sources cited; history:test 40/40,
+answers:test 39/39, full build, both reference marks render).
+
+- J. Bouquet, "Cannabis (concluded)", UN Bulletin on Narcotics 1951 issue 1
+  (read in full via unodc.org): traffickers introduced resin cultivation to
+  Bulgaria 1919–1920, prohibition 1925; Romania prohibition 1926;
+  Yugoslavia introduction circa 1927, prohibition 1932; Albania; Greece
+  forbade cultivation 1920, then a more drastic 1932 law with stock
+  destruction; Turkey intensified production then passed the 1933 law
+  (cultivation, holding, use, trade); clandestine consumption persisting in
+  Turkey, Bulgaria and Greece; Paris plots at Orly, Aubervilliers, Le
+  Bourget.
+- Liat Kozma, Journal of Levantine Studies 2017 (read in full): Egypt's
+  ~1880 ban, field burnings and coffee-house raids; Greece as supplier then
+  banner (production ban, burned fields, farmers' lost income); Balkan
+  farmers supplying Egypt to the late 1920s; Lebanon's entry after Greece;
+  Palestine corridor; El-Guindi pushing hashish into the Geneva 1925
+  controls.
+
+Also verified but requiring no changes: the Barbados (E/NL.1952/22) and
+Cyprus (E/NL.1949/20) UN filings, fetched and read — both match their
+entries' descriptions, so those entries were left untouched.
+
+Entry changes: Bulgaria gains per-sentence citations (sources already
+present); Romania gains the Bouquet survey and Kozma plus a three-sentence
+description (1928 law + 1926 cultivation-prohibition dating kept distinct);
+Greece 1920 gains Kozma (field burnings, lost farm income) plus marks.
+Serbia/Yugoslavia 1930 left alone: Bouquet's 1932 Yugoslav prohibition date
+does not align with the code's 1930 entry-into-force, and forcing it in
+would conflate distinct instruments.
+
+## Tree note
+
+Staged only my three entry hunks (patch-filtered, each reviewed) plus the
+article and this note; committed with a bare `git commit`. Concurrent-writer
+files untouched.