Faced with an outbreak of heroin use, the government promulgated a law prohibiting, in addition to cannabis, the import, sale, purchase and possession of heroin, cocaine, raw opium and their derivatives. The Anglo-Egyptian authorities stiffened drug penalties and imprisoned thousands.[1]
Listed for context. No score change is recorded for Egypt here.
References
- Intoxicating Zion: A Social History of Hashish in Mandatory Palestine and IsraelHaggai Ram · Stanford University Press · 2020 · Chapter 1, The Drug Trade in the Levant (section on heroin and the Central Narcotics Intelligence Bureau) · ISBN 9781503613928
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