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The Soviet occupation authority reinstates the 1929 Opium Law in East Germany

At the end of the Second World War the Soviet occupation authority reinstated the 1929 Opium Law. It remained the only law on drugs in the German Democratic Republic until 1973.[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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