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Bechuanaland restricts habit-forming drugs

The Opium and Habit-forming Drugs Regulation Proclamation restricted the import, export, production and use of habit-forming drugs in the Bechuanaland Protectorate, on the same day as the matching law in Swaziland and in the year South Africa prohibited dagga.

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Source:

Index score

9811−87 points

Score by segment

SegmentBeforeAfterChange
Possession25% of the index101−9
Personal cultivation25% of the index101−9
Punishment & enforcement20% of the index102−8
Sharing & gifting10% of the index101−9
Consumption10% of the index101−9
Legal access10% of the index80−8

Segments are scored from 0 to 10. The scores after the change are Botswana's current scores.