A 1957 measure, reportedly adopted under American pressure, was not enforced, and hashish stayed openly available until the crackdown of 1973. It was not the country's first legal restriction: the 1924–1925 penal code had already forbidden domestic production and use.[1][2]
Listed for context. No score change is recorded for Afghanistan here.
References
- Wikipedia — Cannabis in Afghanistanarchived
- Smuggler’s Paradise: The Hash Trade and Drug Control in the Building of the Afghan State, ca. 1923–1974James Bradford · In Cannabis: Global Histories, edited by Lucas Richert, James H. Mills · MIT Press · 2021 · pp. 185–203 · ISBN 9780262366137
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