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Tightening 🇳🇦 Namibia

South Africa's 1971 drug act covers South West Africa

The Abuse of Dependence-producing Substances Act applied in the territory South Africa then ruled. Namibia kept it as its drug law at independence in 1990.[1][2]

Listed for context. No score change is recorded for Namibia here.

References

  1. Wikipedia — Cannabis in Namibiaarchived
  2. Abuse of Dependence-Producing Substances and Rehabilitation Centres Act, 1971 (Act 41 of 1971), Schedule Part I (Namibia Legal Information Institute)Sections 1–2, 4–5 and 8, and Schedule Part I; annotated Namibian consolidation, not the South African replacement lawarchived

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