New rules under the 1922 law on medicines and toxic substances, adopted on 25 September 1953 and published on 3 December, put the drugs the World Health Organization considered addictive under licence from the health minister. A ministerial order of 19 October listed Indian hemp, its resin, extract and tincture among them. From then on nobody could hold, buy, sell, give away, make or transport cannabis without the minister's authorisation, and only pharmacists could supply it, on prescription; breaking the rules carried the penalties of the 1922 law. Using cannabis was not itself an offence until the drug law of 1973.[1][2]
Score by segment 0 to 10
- Possession · 25%10 → 2−8
- Personal cultivation · 25%10 → 1−9
- Punishment & enforcement · 20%10 → 3−7
- Sharing & gifting · 10%10 → 1−9
- Consumption · 10%10 → 3−7
- Legal access · 10%10 → 0−10
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References
- Arrêté grand-ducal du 25 septembre 1953 portant règlement d'exécution de la loi du 28 avril 1922 sur la préparation et la vente des médicaments toxiques (Mémorial A 1953, n° 72)Articles 1, 2 and 18archived
- Arrêté ministériel du 19 octobre 1953 listing the substances that cause addiction, Mémorial A 1953, n° 72, pp. 1363–1365Article 1, item 25 ("le chanvre indien, la résine de chanvre indien, l'extrait et la teinture de chanvre indien")archived
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