Law 2008-012 set up four schedules for narcotics, psychotropics and precursors and required a licence for producing, trading in or holding the medical-interest schedules, limited to medical or scientific use. It expressly prohibited opium poppy, coca and cannabis cultivation and required landowners and occupiers to destroy volunteer plants. The health minister could authorise otherwise prohibited handling for research, teaching or scientific police, but the law created no cannabis medicine or industrial hemp crop.[1]
Listed for context. No score change is recorded for Mauritania here.
References
- Journal Officiel de la République Islamique de Mauritanie, 15 June 2008 — Loi n° 2008-012 du 27 avril 2008 relative au contrôle du marché licite des stupéfiants, substances psychotropes et précurseursArticles 2–12 and 81, printed pp. 629–631 and 644; Annex II, printed p. 647
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