The Pahlavi state's first penal law covered public intoxication from opium, charas and bang, with eight days to three months in prison or a fine of 2 to 50 tuman. Cannabis itself stayed legal; in 1950 Iran ignored international pressure to control it. Hashish had been part of Persian life since at least the thirteenth century, used by Sufi orders and prescribed by physicians, and jurists had argued for centuries over whether it was forbidden.[1]
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