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Ban 🇨🇺 Cuba

Cuba's rebels punish cannabis harvesting, possession and smoking

In territory under rebel administration, Fidel Castro's order made harvesting, trafficking, carrying, keeping or smoking marihuana punishable.[1] Cuba's later national prevention programme dates the order's entry into force to 7 October 1958 and presents it as the start of the revolutionary movement's campaign against drugs.[1]

Listed for context. No score change is recorded for Cuba here.

References

  1. Cuba — Programa Nacional de Prevención del Uso Indebido y Control de Drogas, government programme held by WHOIntroduction, PDF page 1, retrospective account of Disposición 6 for the civil administration of free territory. The programme itself is later than 1999, not a 1958 publication.

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