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On 28 June 1949 Iran raised the punishment for using bang or charas in public and made it a crime to keep a place for that use.[1] Public use now meant three to six months in prison. Keeping the place meant six months to three years.[1]
The older public-intoxication rule
The Pahlavi penal law of 27 January 1926 already punished public intoxication from opium, charas and bang, with eight days to three months in prison or a fine of 2 to 50 tuman. That law left growing and private possession alone. The 1949 amendment rewrote the same article and took the fine off the public-use offence.
Six months for a place, three for the user
The justice commission of the National Consultative Assembly approved the amendment on 7 Tir 1328. A law of that spring let the commission put such bills into force, and the text says this one was executable. Reza Hekmat, speaker of the assembly, signed it. The official publication date on the reprint is 26 Mehr 1328, 18 October 1949.[1]
| What a person did | Prison |
|---|---|
| Used bang or charas in public | Three to six months |
| Opened a place for using bang or charas | Six months to three years |
| Worked there, or helped set it up | Treated as an accomplice |
| An official who knew and did not tell the prosecutor | Three months to one year |
Bang and charas sit in a longer list. The same paragraphs cover public use of opium, opium sap, morphine, heroin and cocaine, and open drinking.[1] Opening an opium-sap house or a bar for alcohol drew the same six-months-to-three-years term as a bang house.[1]
Tools, equipment and furniture for bang or charas found in a public place were to be seized. The court had to order them destroyed, and could order them confiscated.[1] Someone who took a job in the place, paid the rent, or hired out the furniture was an accomplice.[1] A judicial officer who knew of the place, or of those helpers, and did not tell the prosecutor faced three months to a year, and so did an officer who filed a false report.[1]
The general ban came ten years later
Growing cannabis, selling it, and keeping it in private are outside this amendment. On 22 June 1959 the Senate applied the opium ban to cannabis and its derivatives, the first law to make cannabis itself illegal. The country’s current account of the law is on its profile.
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