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Enforcement 🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan orders wild cannabis destroyed

The Presidium of the Kirghiz SSR Supreme Soviet decreed on 10 May 1982 that wild cannabis must be destroyed, fining state-farm and collective-farm managers 50–100 roubles and citizens 20–50 roubles for failure to act. In 1984 the authorities surveyed 213,681 hectares and destroyed cannabis on 66.53 hectares; in 1985 they fined 30 citizens and 126 officials a total of 3,380 roubles.[1]

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References

  1. A. T. Akmatova — The legal policy of Soviet Kyrgyzstan in the sphere of social security: the experience of combating drug addictionIn Vestnik OshGU Pravo 1(4), 2024 · 10 May 1982 decree; 1984–85 survey and fines, citing Osh oblast police archive.

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