History
1860s
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13.2 today, from 99.1 in 1860
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🇲🇽 Mexico Tightening ✓
Mexico City issues the first rules against marijuana
Regulations governing the sale of marijuana were established in Mexico City, with up to a month in jail for possessing the plant: the first recorded formal prohibition in Mexico. Health was then a local matter, and other places followed. Guanajuato restricted sale to pharmacies on prescription in 1871, Oaxaca banned its sale in 1882, Querétaro banned growing and selling it in 1896, and Zacatecas allowed it only in drugstores on prescription in 1904.
🇳🇿 New Zealand Tightening ✓ Article
New Zealand prohibits cannabis in brewing and restricts supply to brewers
The Distillation Act 1868 took effect on 1 January 1869. Sections 131–134 named cannabis indicus among substances prohibited in brewing and adulterated drinks, restricted possession by brewers and beer retailers subject to medicinal or domestic exceptions, and penalized knowing supply to them outside medicinal purposes. These were trade-specific controls, not a general cannabis possession ban; the provisions and commencement are reproduced in the contemporary Government Gazette.
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🇺🇸 United States · Wisconsin Tightening ✓ Article
Wisconsin brings cannabis under poison-sales controls
The National Academies’ historical review identifies Wisconsin’s 1862 dangerous-drug sales law as an early state control that included cannabis. The original enactment was not retrieved in this pass: the year and broad coverage are supported by that review, while its precise requirements, exceptions and commencement day remain unverified. This is a state sales-control event, not evidence of a national possession ban.
🇺🇸 United States · New York Easing ✓ Article
New York removes a sales witness rule and its poison schedule
Chapter 273 amended the 1860 poison-sales law by removing the requirement to record a witness’s name and repealing section 3, whose named substances included cannabis and its preparations. Francis Tillou’s contemporary legal account describes these changes within a continuing poison-law framework. Repeal of the schedule does not by itself establish that all cannabis sales became unregulated.
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🇫🇷 France Culture & science ✓ Article
Baudelaire publishes Les Paradis artificiels
Charles Baudelaire's book on the state of being under the influence of opium and hashish described the effects of the drugs and the motives of the user. It drew on Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and on the gatherings of the Club des Hashischins, where Baudelaire and Théophile Gautier first met.
🇪🇸 Spain Tightening ✓ Article
Spain lists hashish as a poison under pharmacy sales rules
A royal decree dated 18 April 1860 approved pharmacy and drug-trade ordinances whose second catalogue expressly lists Haschisch. Articles 57 and 59 require drug dealers selling listed poisons, wholesale or retail, to obtain a dated, signed note from a known responsible person specifying quantity and intended use. The decree was published on 24 April; the date here is the decree date, not a separately verified commencement. This is a sales-control measure, not evidence of a general possession ban or of actual enforcement intensity.
🇺🇸 United States · New York Tightening ✓ Article
New York regulates cannabis sales under its poison law
Chapter 442 named cannabis and its preparations in a poison-sales schedule. Subject to prescription and wholesale exceptions, the law required buyer and witness records and red-ink poison labels. It applied to incorporated cities and villages of at least 1,000 inhabitants, rather than every place in the state. This was a sales-control regime, not a general cannabis possession ban; the account follows a contemporary legal paper reproducing the provisions.