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Tightening 🇪🇬 Egypt

Egypt issues a new narcotics law under General Naguib

A law on combating narcotics and regulating their use and trade was issued under Major General Muhammad Naguib as Law 351 of 1952. It took effect on 25 January 1953 and was the country's drug law until Law 182 of 1960, whose preamble refers to it, replaced it.[1]

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References

  1. Manshurat (Egyptian legal archive) — record of Law 351 of 1952 on combating narcoticsarchived

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