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East Germany joins the UN drug conventions

Two years after its Narcotic Drugs Act made producing, trafficking and consuming cannabis a crime, the German Democratic Republic signed on to the Single Convention and the Convention on Psychotropic Substances.[1]

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References

  1. “Hashers Don’t Read Das Kapital”: East Germany, Socialist Prohibition, and Global CannabisNed Richardson-Little · In Cannabis: Global Histories, edited by Lucas Richert, James H. Mills · MIT Press · 2021 · pp. 215 · ISBN 9780262366137

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