Afghanistan's new Penal Code came into force on 14 February 2018 with a chapter on narcotics trafficking. It raised some hashish sentences above the 2010 drug law: trafficking 100–500 g of charas carried six months to a year, where the 2010 law had set two to three months. Ten days later a new counter-narcotics law was issued with even harsher drug penalties, but the government repealed its criminal provisions in March to keep the Penal Code as the criminal law.[1]
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References
- Afghanistan Analysts Network — How to Fight the Booming Opiate Economy? Harsher and progressive laws, but to no avail (14 June 2018)Section 'The story of the two laws' and footnote 1 (100–500 g charas, six months to one year)
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