Cannabis Freedom Index

History

1930s

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13.2 today, from 99.1 in 1860

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193911 entries4 score changes

  1. December21
  2. October10
  3. September21
  4. August10
  5. Month unknown52

    1. ๐ŸŒ International International โœ“

      The League's cannabis sub-committee warns against total suppression

      The sub-committee finished its work in December 1939. One of its main documents insisted that there was no link between violence and cannabis in Africa, and it asked for more study of addiction, of the supposed connection with dementia and crime, and of heroin replacing cannabis in North Africa, Egypt and Turkey. An earlier report had attributed a rise in heroin use in Tunisia to cannabis control. The League's work ended with the outbreak of war.

    2. ๐Ÿ‡ป๐Ÿ‡บ Vanuatu Ban โœ“

      The New Hebrides' Dangerous Drugs regulation takes effect

      Vanuatu's Dangerous Drugs Act began as Joint Regulation 12 of 1939 of the Anglo-French condominium and commenced on 1 December 1939. The consolidated Act prohibits listed substances and the cultivation of the cannabis plant; the 1939 wording itself was not read, so how it first treated cannabis is not confirmed.

      10011โˆ’89 points

    1. ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India Tightening โœ“ Article

      India controls preparations made from Indian hemp extract

      On 28 October 1939 the Government of India took control of the import, export and the other dealings covered by the amendment, for preparations made from the extract or tincture of Indian hemp, except preparations capable only of external use. It did so by amending its dangerous-drugs notification of 10 January 1931. Notifications of 1 July and 26 August 1939 had already let provincial governments and collectors of customs regulate hemp imported in transit. The table they amended already excepted charas imported by land.

    1. ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ด Bolivia Other law โœ“

      Bolivia gives its health ministry control of narcotics

      A Supreme Decree empowered the Ministry of Health and Hygiene to exercise strict control over the trade in alkaloids and narcotic drugs and to prohibit their introduction into the country. The 1950 resolution that cites it does not mention cannabis.

    2. ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡น Malta Ban โœ“

      Malta passes the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance

      The colonial ordinance banned possessing and growing cannabis. Growing later carried a mandatory prison sentence, even for a single plant.

      1009โˆ’91 points

    1. ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India Tightening โœ“ Article

      Bombay prohibits charas in the city and in Ahmedabad

      From 1 August 1939 the transport, possession and sale of charas were prohibited in Bombay and Ahmedabad. In parts of the Ahmednagar and Kanara districts the amount that could be transported or possessed without a permit was cut to half a tola of ganja, about 5.85 grams, and two tolas of bhang, about 23.4 grams. People already using hemp drugs could still possess and consume a limited amount on a permit issued against a certificate from a registered medical practitioner.

    1. ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฒ Myanmar Legalisation ?

      Burma permits licensed ganja sales to Indians only

      Burma's ganja rules permitted licensed sales to Indians only. A later official report recorded that the rules remained in force in 1946, although the government made no sales that year and issued no cultivation licences to supply its ganja trade.

      1149+38 points

    2. ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India Tightening โœ“ Article

      The United Provinces raise the duty on charas and cut hemp shops

      In 1939 the United Provinces raised the duty on charas by 20 rupees a seer and cut the number of opium and hemp-drug shops by about a fifth. The province took over the management of all opium and hemp-drug shops in selected areas of Garhwal, Saharanpur, Muzaffarnagar, Bulandshahr, Cawnpore, Moradabad, Aligarh, Agra, Jhansi, Gorakhpur and Basti.

    3. ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India Tightening โœ“ Article

      Bihar bans ganja and bhang where prohibition was extended

      In 1939 Bihar prohibited the transport and possession of ganja and bhang in the Hajipur subdivision and in parts of Ranchi, Hazaribagh and Manbhum, where a prohibition scheme was extended. The duty on a seer of ganja rose from 35 to 50 rupees, and on a seer of bhang from 3 to 4 rupees.

    4. ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ Egypt Enforcement โœ“ Article

      Smugglers hide hashish inside camels' stomachs on the way into Egypt

      Hashish bound for Egypt from Palestine was carried across Sinai by Bedouin camel drivers. After police learned to search saddles and the hair of camels' humps, smugglers in the Gaza region forced tin cylinders of hashish down the throats of camels sold for slaughter, to be cut out once the animals were through the customs and quarantine station at Qantara. Egypt's Central Narcotics Intelligence Bureau gave the ruse six pages in its 1939 report to the League of Nations, noting that 30,000 to 35,000 camels passed through Qantara each year. Mine detectors and X-ray machines were brought in to examine the camels.

    5. ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ด Colombia Ban โœ“

      Colombia restricts cannabis

      The government prohibited growing and selling marijuana, and tightened the rules again in 1946.

      10011โˆ’89 points

193813 entries4 score changes

  1. November10
  2. October10
  3. June10
  4. April10
  5. February10
  6. January32
  7. Month unknown52

    1. ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท Brazil Tightening โœ“

      Brazil's narcotics decree names maconha

      Legislative Decree 891, the Control of Narcotic Drugs Act, defined Indian hemp to include the varieties commonly called maconha, diamba and liamba, and set five years in prison for illegal cultivation of the cannabis plant.

    1. ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฝ Mexico Debate โœ“ Article

      A Mexican health official tells the Academy of Medicine that marijuana is harmless

      Leopoldo Salazar Viniegra read the Academy of Medicine a thirty-four-page paper arguing that marijuana caused neither insanity nor violence, a belief he called the myth of marijuana, and that it should be legally available much like tobacco. The newspaper El Universal reported on its front page that he had ended by handing colleagues cigarettes that turned out to contain it. His marijuana proposals never went beyond research and publicity; his plan to supply addicts with morphine took effect briefly in 1940.

    1. ๐ŸŒ International International โœ“ Article

      Egypt's police chief contradicts the American case at the League

      At the League's opium advisory committee, the American observer Harry Anslinger said marijuana kept its tradition of murder, assault, rape and physical and mental deterioration; a year earlier he had reported violent crimes directly traceable to cannabis. Russell Pasha, representing Egypt, replied that hashish addiction was not leading to any particular crime wave and that the addict was a tiresome individual, not a dangerous criminal. The League's sub- committee on cannabis, convened in 1934, stopped work in 1939 with the outbreak of war.

    1. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States Enforcement โœ“

      The narcotics bureau decides to play down marijuana

      Anslinger told his New York supervisor that press reports had become almost hysterical and that the bureau would now discourage undue emphasis on the drug. He advised a doctor against writing a syndicated article, saying it would only make the curious try it.

    1. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States Hemp โœ“ Article

      Popular Mechanics presents hemp as a new industrial cash crop

      The February 1938 article New Billion-Dollar Crop promoted mechanised hemp processing and import substitution. It also identified obstacles: nearby processing equipment, sufficient acreage and federal grower registration. Its forecasts are evidence of contemporary industrial optimism, not proof of a realised billion-dollar market or of why Congress enacted the 1937 tax law.

    1. ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฐ Slovakia Ban โœ“ Article

      Czechoslovakia's Opium Act covers Slovakia

      The first Czechoslovak drug law carried out the Geneva conventions and brought Indian hemp under control. Slovakia was part of Czechoslovakia.

      10020โˆ’80 points

    2. ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Czechia Ban โœ“ Article

      Czechoslovakia passes its Opium Act

      The first Czechoslovak drug law carried out the Geneva conventions and brought Indian hemp under control. Making, trading or holding it needed a permit, and pharmacies could supply it as medicine.

      10020โˆ’80 points

    3. ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฏ Fiji Tightening โœ“

      Fiji's Dangerous Drugs Ordinance bans growing and possessing Indian hemp

      The ordinance took effect on 1 January 1938. It prohibited importing or exporting Indian hemp and its seed and cultivating the plant, and made growing, possessing or selling it an offence.

    1. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States Culture & science โœ“ Article

      Reefer Madness turns cannabis alarm into screen melodrama

      The film later known as Reefer Madness linked cannabis smoking to violence and mental collapse, before finding a later audience as an underground comedy. AFI and BFI catalogue it as 1938, while other references use 1936; this entry follows AFI's year.

    2. ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡จ Saint Lucia Ban โœ“

      Saint Lucia passes its Dangerous Drugs Act

      The Dangerous Drugs Act, 1938 is named in section 50 of the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, which continues regulations made under it. The source does not say what the 1938 Act covered, so its treatment of cannabis is not confirmed.

      10011โˆ’89 points

    3. ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡บ Mauritius Other law โœ“

      Mauritius adds an ordinance on stocks of dangerous drugs

      Ordinance No. 43 of 1938, the Dangerous Drugs (Control of Stocks) Ordinance, supplemented the 1934 Dangerous Drugs Ordinance. It was repealed, with that Ordinance, by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance of 1950. Its text is not reproduced in the United Nations filing that lists it.

    4. ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ถ Iraq Other law โœ“ Article

      Iraq restricts cannabis possession and trade to authorised channels

      People holding cannabis or its resin needed professional authorisation or a lawful prescription under Iraq's drug law. Manufacturing required a licence, imports and exports needed permits, and authorised dealers and pharmacists had to record their dealings and retain prescriptions. The law explicitly covered Indian hemp, resin and preparations, connecting the controls to the Geneva and drug-manufacture limitation conventions.

    5. ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Canada Tightening โœ“ Article

      Canada prohibits unlicensed cannabis cultivation

      Section 3 of the amended Opium and Narcotic Drug Act prohibited growing cannabis without a federal health permit. The new offence carried the same penalties as trafficking and simple possession and ended the country's remaining lawful commercial hemp cultivation.

      329โˆ’23 points

193721 entries9 score changes

  1. December10
  2. October32
  3. September11
  4. July10
  5. June20
  6. May10
  7. April21
  8. Month unknown105

    1. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States Enforcement โœ“

      Anslinger tells agents to stop filling courts with petty marijuana cases

      In the first three months of the Marihuana Tax Act federal agents made 369 seizures totalling 229 kilograms. A confidential memo from Anslinger urged them to pursue sources of supply rather than congest court calendars. Even so, in about half the cases of the next few years the person held less than an ounce and no sale was alleged.

    1. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States Enforcement โœ“

      A Denver court hands down the first Marihuana Tax Act sentences

      Samuel Caldwell, a labourer in his late fifties, was arrested at a Denver hotel on 2 October, the day after the Act took effect, while selling cannabis to Moses Baca. Three days later Judge Foster Symes gave Caldwell four years in Leavenworth and a $1,000 fine, and Baca eighteen months for possession.

    2. ๐Ÿ‡ป๐Ÿ‡ฎ US Virgin Islands Ban โœ“

      The US Virgin Islands come under the Marihuana Tax Act

      An executive order of President Roosevelt carried the new federal Marihuana Tax Act into the Virgin Islands. From 1 October 1937 it was unlawful to import, grow, make or deal in cannabis without registering and paying the tax, which in practice ended legal trade, as on the mainland.

      10011โˆ’89 points

    3. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States Tightening โœ“ Article

      The United States passes the Marihuana Tax Act

      Most states had already restricted cannabis. The federal act did not ban it outright but taxed and registered every transaction so heavily that legal supply, including prescriptions, became impractical. The first arrests came within days.

      2211โˆ’11 points

    1. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡พ Uruguay Ban โœ“ Article

      Uruguay puts hashish under a state monopoly

      Law 9.692 made the import of hashish and other narcotics a state monopoly, let only pharmacies sell them on prescription and made possession by unauthorised persons an offence punished with one to two years in prison.

      10011โˆ’89 points

    1. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States Culture & science โœ“ Article

      Anslinger presents marijuana as an assassin of youth

      The American Magazine published Marijuana, Assassin of Youth, associated with narcotics commissioner Harry J. Anslinger. Its sensational accounts portrayed cannabis as a cause of violence and the destruction of young people; the article is evidence of propaganda, not confirmation of its allegations.

    1. ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ Poland Other law โœ“

      Poland designates narcotic substances by ordinance

      The Minister of Social Welfare's ordinance designated certain narcotic substances as having a deleterious effect on health. A 1941 circular issued in connection with it lists Indian hemp among them.

    2. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States Debate โœ“

      The House passes the marijuana tax bill without a roll call

      When the bill was first raised on 10 June, one member objected to taking it so late in the day, and Congressman Rayburn explained only that it concerned something called marihuana, a narcotic of some kind. On 14 June members who asked what it did heard a repetition of the crimes Anslinger had attributed to users. After less than two pages of debate it passed without a recorded vote.

    1. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States Debate โœ“

      The doctors' lawyer tells Congress there is no evidence for the marijuana bill

      William C. Woodward, legislative counsel of the American Medical Association, was the last witness at the House hearings and the only one against the bill. No evidence had been produced from prisons or from the Children's Bureau to back the claims, he said, and a prohibitive tax would shut out medical uses still worth study. Weeks later a congressman told the House floor that the association supported the bill.

    1. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States Debate โœ“

      The Treasury unveils its marijuana tax bill

      Two weeks after the Supreme Court upheld the prohibitive tax in the National Firearms Act, the Treasury introduced H.R. 6385, prepared without publicity by its general counsel, Herman Oliphant. Dealers and practitioners would register and pay an occupational tax, and transfers would be taxed at $1 an ounce to registered persons and $100 to anyone else. At the hearings William Woodward of the American Medical Association stood alone in opposing it, warning that it would end medical use.

    2. ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช Ireland Ban โœ“ Article

      Ireland bans cannabis

      The Dangerous Drugs Act 1934, passed to carry out the Geneva convention, came into force and prohibited cannabis and cannabis resin.

      1009โˆ’91 points

    1. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States Culture & science โœ“

      A film takes its title from Anslinger's article

      Assassin of Youth, directed by Elmer Clifton for BCM Roadshow Productions, borrowed its title from Anslinger's magazine article of the same year. A reporter goes undercover among teenage marijuana smokers while a young heiress is framed by a rival for her inheritance. It is often called a copy of Reefer Madness and shares one of its actresses, Dorothy Short.

    2. ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ด Jordan Other law โœ“

      Transjordan has a Dangerous Drugs Law

      A 1947 amendment filed with the United Nations cites the Dangerous Drugs Law (No. 4 of 1937); a 1949 notice calls it the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance 1936. Neither filing says whether it covered cannabis.

    3. ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ณ Saint Kitts and Nevis Ban โœ“

      St Kitts and Nevis criminalises cannabis

      The Dangerous Drugs Ordinance made the cultivation, trade and possession of cannabis crimes, following the lead of Britain and the United States.

      10011โˆ’89 points

    4. ๐Ÿ‡ป๐Ÿ‡จ Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Ban โœ“

      Saint Vincent passes its Dangerous Drugs Ordinance

      The Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, 1937 (No. 21 of 1937) was the colony's narcotics law. A 1947 order under it added preparations made from extract or tincture of Indian hemp to the controlled drugs. The filing does not reproduce the law itself, so its exact treatment of cannabis is not confirmed here.

      10011โˆ’89 points

    5. ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฒ Dominica Ban โœ“

      The Leeward Islands' Dangerous Drugs Act covers Dominica

      Dominica's 1948 and 1951 Dangerous Drugs Orders were made under the Dangerous Drugs Act, 1937 (Leeward Islands No. 23 of 1937), passed while the island belonged to that federal colony. The filing does not reproduce the law itself, so its exact treatment of cannabis is not confirmed here.

      10011โˆ’89 points

    6. ๐Ÿ‡ป๐Ÿ‡ฌ British Virgin Islands Ban โœ“

      The Leeward Islands' Dangerous Drugs Act covers the British Virgin Islands

      The British Virgin Islands were part of the Leeward Islands federal colony, whose Dangerous Drugs Act of 1937 was still the law its government applied to new drugs in 1951, as in Antigua and St Kitts.

      10011โˆ’89 points

    7. ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฌ Antigua and Barbuda Ban โœ“

      The Leeward Islands' Dangerous Drugs Act covers Antigua

      The Dangerous Drugs Act, 1937 (No. 23 of 1937) of the Leeward Islands federal colony, which included Antigua, was still the law its government applied to new drugs in 1951. The filing does not reproduce the law itself, so its exact treatment of cannabis is not confirmed here.

      10011โˆ’89 points

    8. ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡บ Cuba Debate โœ“ Article

      A Cuban anti-drug book casts cannabis as a threat

      Antonio Gil Carballo publishes Expendedores y viciosos in Havana, attacking cannabis and other drugs through campaigning rhetoric. The 212-page book reproduces the 1931 Geneva convention as an appendix. Its surviving cover and museum record document anti-cannabis propaganda before the Revolution; publication is not evidence of a Cuban cannabis ban enacted in 1937.

    9. ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Canada Enforcement โœ“

      Canadian police make their first cannabis seizure

      Cannabis had been on Canada's schedule of prohibited drugs since 1923, but police made their first seizure of it only in 1937, and cultivation was banned the following year. The drug was almost unheard of in the country until the 1930s.

    10. ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡พ Guyana Other law โœ“

      British Guiana passes its Dangerous Drugs Ordinance

      The Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, 1937 (No. 10 of 1937) was the colony's narcotics law. A 1948 order under it added preparations made from extract or tincture of Indian hemp to the controlled drugs.

19369 entries5 score changes

  1. June10
  2. February10
  3. January10
  4. Month unknown65

    1. ๐ŸŒ International International โœ“

      The League of Nations convention on illicit traffic

      The first treaty to ask countries to make drug trafficking a serious crime under their own law. The United States wanted it to cover cultivation and use as well and refused to sign when it did not.

    1. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States ยท Virginia Tightening โœ“

      Virginia passes a separate marijuana law after Roanoke rumours

      Virginia had adopted the Uniform Narcotic Drug Act in 1934 without its optional cannabis section. After rumours that Roanoke schoolchildren were using marijuana, a federal narcotics agent helped obtain a city ordinance and then a state bill banning sale, possession and cultivation, with one to ten years in the penitentiary. It passed both houses unanimously.

    1. ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ฐ Sri Lanka Other law โœ“

      Ceylon's consolidated drug ordinance comes into operation

      The reproduced 1956 statutory edition records 1 January 1936 for the Poisons, Opium and Dangerous Drugs Ordinance; the NDDCB chronology confirms operation in 1936 after the 1935 amendment. This documents the later operational milestone without backdating every provision of the subsequently amended statutory edition to that day.

    1. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States Culture & science โœ“

      Dwain Esper's Marihuana sells "the weed with roots in hell"

      The exploitation producer Dwain Esper made Marihuana from a script by his wife, Hildagarde Stadie: a young woman's slide from a beach party to the drug trade. Esper later bought Tell Your Children and reissued it as Reefer Madness.

    2. ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ Palestine Tightening โœ“

      British Palestine tightens its drug ordinance against hashish smoking

      The Dangerous Drugs Ordinance of 1936, the latest version of the 1925 law, raised penalties for traffickers, made carrying drugs through Palestine in transit an offence, and for the first time punished keeping premises for preparing or smoking hashish and possessing pipes or other utensils for smoking it.

      98โˆ’1 point

    3. ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ผ Malawi Ban โœ“ Article

      Nyasaland outlaws growing cannabis

      The Noxious Weeds Act made cultivating cannabis illegal. Together with the Dangerous Drugs Act of 1956 it remained Malawi's cannabis law until 2020.

      10011โˆ’89 points

    4. ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Israel Tightening โœ“

      British Palestine tightens its drug ordinance against hashish smoking

      The Dangerous Drugs Ordinance of 1936, the latest version of the 1925 law, raised penalties for traffickers, made carrying drugs through Palestine in transit an offence, and for the first time punished keeping premises for preparing or smoking hashish and possessing pipes or other utensils for smoking it. Israel kept it after independence and re-enacted it in 1973.

      1211โˆ’1 point

    5. ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Chile Ban โœ“ Article

      Chile's Narcotics Regulation requires a prescription

      The Reglamento de Estupefacientes formalised state control of the sale, import and manufacture of drugs such as coca, opium and Indian hemp, through pharmacy inspections by the health directorate and a prescription requirement.

      10011โˆ’89 points

    6. ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ง Barbados Ban โœ“

      Barbados passes its Dangerous Drugs Act

      The Dangerous Drugs Act, 1936 was the colony's narcotics law. A 1951 order under it added preparations made from extract or tincture of Indian hemp to the controlled drugs. The filing does not reproduce the law itself, so its exact treatment of cannabis is not confirmed here.

      10011โˆ’89 points

193511 entries4 score changes

  1. May11
  2. Month unknown103

    1. ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ญ Thailand Ban โœ“ Article

      Siam publishes its Cannabis Act

      The Cannabis Act, B.E. 2477, was published on 5 May 1935. Section 2 delayed operation until ninety days had elapsed after publication, and section 3 permitted temporary provincial exemptions by royal decree. The act restricted cultivation, seeds, imports, possession, trade and consumption, with specified permissions and one-year transitional arrangements. This entry uses publication, not the later commencement; its retained score step still requires a timing review.

      10019โˆ’81 points

    1. ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ฟ Tanzania Other law โœ“

      Tanganyika passes its Dangerous Drugs Ordinance

      A later government notice under the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, 1935 added preparations made from extract or tincture of Indian hemp to the controlled drugs. The notice does not reproduce the ordinance, and earlier restrictions may exist.

    2. ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ฏ Tajikistan Ban โœ“ Article

      Tajikistan comes under Soviet restrictions on growing Indian hemp

      A Soviet decree restricted Indian-hemp sowing from 1935, allowing crops intended exclusively for medical and scientific needs. Unauthorised sowing was to bring criminal responsibility and compulsory confiscation of the crop, and republics were directed to amend their criminal codes. The decree had been signed on 27 October 1934.

      1003โˆ’97 points

    3. ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ฐ Sri Lanka Tightening โœ“

      Ceylon amends its uncommenced Poisons, Opium and Dangerous Drugs Ordinance

      Ordinance No. 43 amended the Poisons, Opium and Dangerous Drugs Ordinance enacted as No. 17 of 1929. The NDDCB historical handbook says the earlier measure had not been proclaimed because of anticipated implementation difficulties, and that the amended framework took effect in 1936. Cannabis controls already existed under earlier ordinances, so 1935 was not the beginning of cannabis prohibition in Ceylon.

    4. ๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฒ Zambia Other law โœ“

      Northern Rhodesia amends its Dangerous Drugs Ordinance

      Two ordinances of 1935 amended the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance of 1926, which had already been amended in 1929. A United Nations survey of 1955 lists them among the texts then in force, together with government notices of 1937, 1938, 1941, 1947 and 1950; it does not say what each changed.

    5. ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฌ Nigeria Other law โœ“

      Nigeria passes the Dangerous Drugs Act

      The colonial government replaced its 1927 Dangerous Drugs Ordinance with a slightly amended law. The earlier ordinance had already restricted cannabis use and trade to medical and scientific purposes; the 1935 version remained in force until the late 1980s.

    6. ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Morocco Other law โœ“

      Spain limits kif growing to the original Rif villages

      A decree in the Spanish zone restricted cultivation to the villages of Ketama, Beni Seddat and Beni Khaled, the area the sultan had authorised around 1890. Rif villagers still point to this dahir as their permission to grow.

    7. ๐ŸŒ International International ?

      The League's cannabis sub-committee reaches no conclusion

      The League's cannabis sub-committee left questions about the drug's effects unresolved during its work in the 1930s. The cited histories do not establish a specific 1935 decision; the precise year assigned to this summary remains unverified.

    8. ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ฌ Kyrgyzstan Ban โœ“

      Kyrgyzstan comes under the Soviet ban on growing Indian hemp

      A Soviet decree began restricting Indian-hemp sowing in 1935, allowing only crops intended exclusively for medical and scientific needs. Unauthorised sowing was to bring criminal responsibility and compulsory confiscation of the crop, with republics directed to amend their criminal codes. The decree had been signed in October 1934; a later decision specifically targeted southern Chuy hemp from 1965.

      10018โˆ’82 points

    9. ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ญ Ghana Ban โœ“ Article

      The Gold Coast replaces its Dangerous Drugs Ordinance

      The colonial annual report identifies Dangerous Drugs Ordinance No. 29 of 1935 as implementing the 1931 international convention, replacing existing drug laws and applying across the Gold Coast. Later scholarship associates the 1935 measure with cannabis-possession prohibition. The original ordinance has not been inspected here, so this is not presented as proof of the territory's first cannabis restriction or of an exact commencement day.

      1009โˆ’91 points

    10. ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ฒ Gambia Other law โœ“

      The Gambia passes its Dangerous Drugs Ordinance

      A 1948 order filed with the United Nations was made under the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, 1935. The order does not reproduce the ordinance, so its treatment of cannabis is not confirmed.

193425 entries13 score changes

  1. December10
  2. July10
  3. May10
  4. March10
  5. February10
  6. Month unknown2013

    1. ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Russia Tightening โœ“

      Soviet Russia adds a criminal penalty for unauthorised Indian-hemp sowing

      An RSFSR decree implementing the Soviet Union's October measure inserted Article 179-a into the Criminal Code. Sowing opium poppy or Indian hemp without the appropriate permission carried up to two years' imprisonment or up to one year of corrective labour, with mandatory confiscation of the crops. The provision concerns sowing, not every act of possession or consumption. This entry uses the amendment's issue date; separate commencement was not verified.

    1. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States Culture & science โœ“

      Hollywood's censorship code keeps drugs off studio screens

      The studios' Production Code, written in 1930, began to be strictly enforced in July 1934 under a new Production Code Administration. One of its rules was that "illegal drug traffic must never be presented". Drug films left the studios to small independent producers, who toured them from town to town as warnings to parents: the exploitation cycle that produced Reefer Madness.

    1. ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ท Puerto Rico Other law โœ“

      Puerto Rico re-enacts its cannabis ban with six months to two years in jail

      Growing, importing, possessing, giving away or using cannabis was punishable by six months to two years in jail under the re-enacted cannabis law. The Supreme Court later quoted this rule while explaining that the 1934 statute re-enacted the original 1932 cannabis law. The 1959 narcotics law then replaced the misdemeanor regime with much heavier felony penalties.

    1. ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Russia Hemp โœ“

      The Soviet Union rewards fibre-hemp production

      A decree of the Council of People's Commissars and Communist Party Central Committee encouraged hemp production through conditional relief from agricultural delivery obligations, increased access to grain, oil and oilcake, and enhanced workday credits for processing. Benefits depended on specified cultivation and state-delivery conditions. This industrial policy should be distinguished from the later restriction on unauthorised sowing of Indian hemp. The date is the decree's issue date; its increased grain-sale rates applied from 15 March.

    1. ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Italy Tightening โœ“ Article

      Italy's new drug law lets users be forcibly confined for treatment

      A 1934 decree replaced the 1923 drug law. It named Indian hemp among the drugs whose secret or fraudulent trade was punished, made drug-taking gatherings a crime, and punished anyone found seriously disturbed by drugs in a public place or private club. It also allowed users to be confined against their will for detoxification. The decree took effect on 19 February, and parliament confirmed it as law in June.

    1. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Uzbekistan Ban โœ“

      The Soviet ban on growing cannabis covers Uzbekistan

      The Soviet Union prohibited the unauthorised cultivation of Indian hemp and the opium poppy. Uzbekistan was a Soviet republic.

      1006โˆ’94 points

    2. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States Culture & science โœ“

      The Road to Ruin warns parents about drink, marijuana and sex

      Dorothy Davenport, who signed as Mrs. Wallace Reid, co-directed and co-wrote this exploitation film about a schoolgirl drawn into drink, marijuana and sex. It was billed for adults only, and censors in Virginia demanded a record number of cuts before it could be shown. It is now in the public domain.

    3. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Ukraine Ban โœ“

      The Soviet ban on growing cannabis covers Ukraine

      The Soviet Union prohibited the unauthorised cultivation of Indian hemp and the opium poppy. Ukraine was a Soviet republic.

      10022โˆ’78 points

    4. ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ฒ Turkmenistan Ban โœ“

      The Soviet ban on growing cannabis covers Turkmenistan

      The Soviet Union prohibited the unauthorised cultivation of Indian hemp and the opium poppy. Turkmenistan was a Soviet republic.

      1002โˆ’98 points

    5. ๐Ÿณ๏ธ Transnistria Ban โœ“

      The Soviet ban on growing cannabis covers Transnistria

      The Soviet Union prohibited growing Indian hemp and the opium poppy without permission. The land east of the Dniester was then part of the Moldavian autonomous republic inside Soviet Ukraine.

      1008โˆ’92 points

    6. ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Saudi Arabia Ban โœ“ Article

      Saudi Arabia enacts its first anti-drug law

      King Abdulaziz issued the Prevention of Narcotic Drug Trafficking and Use Law, the kingdom's first national prohibition statute. The 2005 law eventually repealed and replaced it.

      1002โˆ’98 points

    7. ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Russia Ban โœ“ Article

      The Soviet Union bans growing cannabis

      The Soviet Union prohibited the unauthorised cultivation of Indian hemp and the opium poppy.

      10019โˆ’81 points

    8. ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฐ North Macedonia Enforcement โœ“

      A Skopje hashish seller walks free because use is not punishable

      Police raided the flat of Ja'far Ismailoviฤ‡ in Skopje and found him and several young people smoking nefes, a cannabis powder, in a pipe. He had sold hashish and nefes for decades. Because enjoyment of the drug was not punishable under the laws of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the court gave him a symbolic suspended sentence and costs, which he had already served in custody. A history of the period records Indian hemp grown in walled gardens of the old town, hashish brought from Thessaloniki, and sales moving into private houses as police raids became more frequent.

    9. ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฉ Moldova Ban โœ“

      The Soviet ban on growing cannabis covers Moldova

      The Soviet Union prohibited the unauthorised cultivation of Indian hemp and the opium poppy. Moldova was a Soviet republic from 1940.

      10011โˆ’89 points

    10. ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡บ Mauritius Other law โœ“

      Mauritius passes a Dangerous Drugs Ordinance

      Ordinance No. 5 of 1934, the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, was the colony's narcotics law until 1950, supplemented by the Dangerous Drugs (Control of Stocks) Ordinance of 1938 and an amending ordinance of 1946. All three were repealed by section 47 of the 1950 Ordinance, which is how they are known here; the United Nations filing does not reproduce their text, so their treatment of gandia is not confirmed.

    11. ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง Lebanon Tightening โœ“

      France tightens narcotics rules in Lebanon and Syria under League pressure

      After Russell Pasha complained to the League of Nations that Lebanon was producing fifty to sixty tonnes of Egypt-bound hashish a year, the French authorities issued a new decree on narcotics regulations for Syria and Lebanon, closer to the 1925 Geneva convention, created an anti-drug squad in the Sรปretรฉ Gรฉnรฉrale and stepped up the destruction of fields. Egypt reported fewer Syrian arrivals, but by 1939 Russell was again complaining that Lebanon's governing classes were planting vast areas of hemp.

    12. ๐ŸŒ International International โœ“ Article

      A League of Nations report estimates 200 million cannabis users

      At the nineteenth session of the League's Advisory Committee a report was tabled estimating no fewer than 200 million cannabis users worldwide, without showing how the figure was reached. The Egyptian delegation demanded that the plant be outlawed across the world. Other delegations were unimpressed by the poorly supported statements, and the question was referred to a sub-committee.

    13. ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Kazakhstan Ban โœ“

      The Soviet ban on growing cannabis covers Kazakhstan

      The Soviet Union prohibited the unauthorised cultivation of Indian hemp and the opium poppy. Kazakhstan was a Soviet republic.

      1009โˆ’91 points

    14. ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ฒ Jamaica Enforcement โœ“

      Leonard Howell is imprisoned for sedition

      Leonard Howell receives a two-year sentence for sedition arising from his early Rastafari preaching. This concerns colonial suppression of religious and anti-colonial speech, rather than a cannabis-possession conviction.

    15. ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ช Georgia Ban โœ“

      The Soviet ban on growing cannabis covers Georgia

      The Soviet Union prohibited the unauthorised cultivation of Indian hemp and the opium poppy. Georgia was a Soviet republic.

      1009โˆ’91 points

    16. ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ China Tightening โœ“ Article

      China ends the legal hashish trade from Xinjiang

      Hashish had been exported legally from Xinjiang to British India under a tariff. Chinese authorities ended the trade in 1934, though smuggling continued.

    17. ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡พ Belarus Ban โœ“

      The Soviet ban on growing cannabis covers Belarus

      The Soviet Union prohibited the unauthorised cultivation of Indian hemp and the opium poppy. Belarus was a Soviet republic.

      10019โˆ’81 points

    18. ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Azerbaijan Ban โœ“

      The Soviet ban on growing cannabis covers Azerbaijan

      The Soviet Union prohibited the unauthorised cultivation of Indian hemp and the opium poppy. Azerbaijan was a Soviet republic.

      1009โˆ’91 points

    19. ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฒ Armenia Ban โœ“

      The Soviet ban on growing cannabis covers Armenia

      The Soviet Union prohibited the unauthorised cultivation of Indian hemp and the opium poppy. Armenia was a Soviet republic.

      10020โˆ’80 points

    20. ๐Ÿณ๏ธ Abkhazia Ban โœ“

      The Soviet ban on growing cannabis covers Abkhazia

      The Soviet Union prohibited growing Indian hemp and the opium poppy without permission. Abkhazia was then an autonomous republic inside Soviet Georgia.

      10010โˆ’90 points

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    1. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States ยท Florida Debate โœ“

      An axe murder in Tampa becomes the campaign's favourite story

      Victor Licata, 21, killed his parents and three siblings with an axe in Ybor City, Tampa. The press blamed marijuana, and Harry Anslinger later made the case the centrepiece of his warnings, describing a sane young man undone by the drug. Licata had been diagnosed with dementia praecox, an old name for schizophrenia; marijuana appears nowhere in his psychiatric reports. He was committed to the state mental hospital.

    1. ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ท Tรผrkiye Ban โœ“ Article

      Turkey passes its narcotics control law

      Law 2313 put cannabis under state control: growing it needs a permit and is allowed only in designated provinces, and possession for use is a crime.

      1009โˆ’91 points

    1. ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ถ Iraq Ban โœ“

      Iraq bans cannabis growing and orders crops uprooted

      Iraq prohibited growing cannabis and required authorities to uproot plants under agricultural supervision, charging the grower for the work. A first offence carried a fine of up to ten dinars; repeat offences could bring up to three months in prison, a fine of up to twenty dinars, or both, and people who knew of crops had to report them. The ban took effect on publication, and a new drug law replaced it in 1965 with an exception for licensed fibre-and-seed crops.

      1000โˆ’100 points

    1. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States Debate โœ“ Article

      Army cannabis report recommends no further Canal Zone legislation

      Published in The Military Surgeon in 1933, the Siler committee report described observations of 34 soldiers and recommended no further legislation against sale or use in the Canal Zone. It also recommended retaining military restrictions on cannabis. Its recommendations concerned US-administered territory and military reservations, not cannabis freedom throughout the Republic of Panama.

    2. ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช Sweden Tightening โœ“

      Sweden introduces prison for aggravated drug offences

      Sweden introduced imprisonment for aggravated offences under its narcotics rules, which had included cannabis since 1930. The earlier rules had punished unauthorised possession with fines. The new rules also penalised doctors, dentists and veterinarians who exceeded their authority to prescribe narcotics.

    3. ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Sierra Leone Culture & science โœ“ Article

      Sierra Leone identifies diamba as cannabis in its official drug report

      Sierra Leone's official drug report identified the locally named diamba as cannabis and described it as the only dangerous drug known to be used illegally in the colony. The recognition followed a colonial law using the name Indian hemp, although local cultivation and smoking had been described in 1851. Historian Chris Duvall uses the episode to show how official drug-control vocabulary could obscure an established local practice.

    4. ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ช Kenya Tightening โœ“

      Kenya's Dangerous Drugs Ordinance

      The colonial ordinance was Kenya's main cannabis law for sixty years, until the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) Act replaced it on 26 August 1994.

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    1. ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ Poland Other law โœ“

      Poland's penal code punishes giving "intoxicating poison"

      Article 244 of the new penal code made it an offence to give another person an intoxicating poison without authorisation, with up to five years in prison. Having a drug was not an offence under the code.

    1. ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฏ Djibouti Other law โœ“ Article

      Djibouti's colonial rules put cannabis behind permits and prescriptions

      Cannabis, resin, resin preparations, extract and tincture were listed among drugs whose possession and trade required authorisation in the French Somali Coast. People without a permit could obtain them only on a therapeutic prescription, while imports and exports needed permission for each shipment. The local governor promulgated the revised rules on 16 June, replacing the controlled-drug chapter of the 1923 regulations.

    1. ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ท Puerto Rico Ban โœ“

      Puerto Rico approves a law banning cannabis growing and trade

      Puerto Rico adopted a law to punish cannabis planting, importation, purchase and sale. The Supreme Court later identified it as the original cannabis statute and explained that a separate law in May 1934 re-enacted it. Cannabis remained criminalised through the harsher narcotics law introduced in 1959.

      10011โˆ’89 points

    1. ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Algeria Other law โœ“

      France names cannabis and its extracts in Algeriaโ€™s drug controls

      The colonial decree applied Franceโ€™s updated narcotics controls to Algeria and required special authorisation for industrial and commercial drug operations. It replaced the disputed word โ€œhashishโ€ with cannabis, resin, preparations, extracts and tinctures. The League Secretariat questioned whether the French text expressly covered cultivation, despite the colonial administrationโ€™s claims that enforcement had reduced growing and use.

    2. ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท Brazil Ban โœ“ Article

      Brazil bans cannabis nationwide

      A federal decree added cannabis to the list of prohibited substances. Local bans went back as far as an 1830 Rio de Janeiro ordinance aimed at enslaved Africans, who had brought the plant with them. Decree 20.930, issued at the League of Nations' request, listed Cannabis indica as the twelfth narcotic; holding it above the therapeutic dose without a prescription, or contributing to its use, carried three to nine months in prison and a fine.

      10011โˆ’89 points

    1. ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ธ Serbia Tightening โœ“

      Yugoslavia prohibits growing cannabis for resin

      Cannabis growing for hashish was introduced to Yugoslavia about 1927 by traffickers displaced from Greece, and prohibited in 1932, according to the UN's 1951 survey of cannabis.

    2. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States Tightening โœ“ Article

      A model state narcotics law is drafted for all American states

      The draft Uniform State Narcotic Drug Act was submitted to the American Bar Association in 1932, approved and sent to the states the following year. It was meant to give states police powers the federal Harrison Act lacked and to make their laws alike. Only nine states adopted it at first. Harry Anslinger of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics campaigned for it with the Hearst newspapers as an ally, President Roosevelt backed it in a radio message in March 1935, and by the mid-1930s cannabis was regulated as a drug in every state, 35 of them under the uniform act. The commissioners adopted the final draft on 8 October 1932 by 26 votes to 3, with cannabis left optional after the Federal Bureau of Narcotics gave up its push for a mandatory total ban; a state could cover it simply by adding it to the definition of narcotic drugs.

    3. ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Morocco Tightening โœ“

      France bans kif growing in its Moroccan zone, except for the monopoly

      Citing its obligations under the 1925 Geneva convention, France prohibited cannabis cultivation in its zone, apart from crops grown for the Rรฉgie around Kenitra and Marrakech. Licensed growing continued in the Spanish zone, which became the monopoly's main source.

    4. ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡น Guatemala Ban โœ“

      Guatemala restricts Indian hemp and marihuana

      Decree 1331 added Indian hemp and marihuana to the plants it classed as lethal and restricted.

      1009โˆ’91 points

    5. ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ท Greece Tightening โœ“

      Greece passes a harsher law and orders hashish stocks destroyed

      Because large hidden stocks of resin had survived the 1920 ban, the government promulgated a new law, more drastic than the first, that provided for the destruction of stocks.

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    1. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States Debate โœ“

      Anslinger publicly links marijuana to crime

      After the commissioners drafting a uniform state law rejected his call for a total ban, Harry Anslinger went to the press, saying that criminals using the drug for courage were commonly known to his bureau. Bonnie and Whitebread believe it was his first public endorsement of the crime claim. He also said only California and Texas had restrictive laws, when at least twenty- five states had prohibitions.

    1. ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ Pakistan Tightening โœ“ Article

      Pakistan keeps licensed ganja and requires a licence for hemp extract

      From 1 February 1931 no one could bring hemp into British India or send it out, or make an extract or tincture of it, without a licence. Making that extract without a licence could mean up to two years in prison, a fine, or both. The Act rewrote the Punjab excise law so that bhang, siddhi, ganja and charas stayed intoxicating drugs under it. In Baluchistan it left the 1915 rule that a hemp plant could be grown only under licence, and kept bhang, ganja and charas in the definition of an intoxicating drug.

    2. ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฒ Myanmar Tightening โœ“ Article

      Burma requires a licence to make hemp extract or to import it

      From 1 February 1931 no one could make an extract or tincture of hemp, or bring it in or send it out, without a licence. Making the extract without a licence, or importing or exporting hemp without one, could mean up to two years in prison, a fine, or both. Hemp covered the leaves and flowering tops, including bhang, siddhi and ganja, and charas, the resin. The Burma code prints this as the Indian Act of 1930, in force on that date.

    3. ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฉ Bangladesh Tightening โœ“ Article

      Bengal ganja stays under excise as hemp extract needs a licence

      From 1 February 1931 no one could bring hemp into British India or send it out, or make an extract or tincture of it, without a licence. Making that extract without a licence could mean up to two years in prison, a fine, or both. The Act was passed to carry out the Geneva convention's measures on drugs made from opium, Indian hemp and coca, and it applied across British India. It rewrote the Bengal excise law so that bhang, siddhi, ganja and charas remained intoxicating drugs under that law, while extract and tincture were classed as manufactured drugs.

    1. ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฝ Mexico Tightening โœ“

      Mexico's Penal Code consolidates cannabis crimes

      The new federal code set prison sentences of up to five years for planting, cultivating, trading, possessing, buying, selling or supplying prohibited seeds and plants, and expressly listed marijuana. It consolidated criminalisation already established by the 1926 sanitary code and the 1929 penal code, so it does not create a separate index step.

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    1. ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช Belgium Other law โœ“ Article

      Belgium issues a narcotics order

      The Royal Order of 31 December 1930 supplied narcotics regulations under the 1921 law. The government text communicated to the UN in 1952, incorporating amendments through 20 September 1951, expressly covered Indian hemp, resin, resin-based preparations, extract and tincture, while exempting preparations containing hemp extract or tincture for external use. This consolidated edition is not an unamended 1930 text.

    1. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States Other law โœ“

      Harry Anslinger becomes the first US narcotics commissioner

      Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon appointed Anslinger to head the new Federal Bureau of Narcotics. Cannabis was not at first a concern of his; he came to treat it as a serious threat in 1934, and three years later his bureau drafted the Marihuana Tax Act.

    1. ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฎ Slovenia Ban โœ“

      Yugoslavia's criminal code covers Slovenia

      The criminal code of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia took effect and set prison sentences for drug offences. Yugoslavia had ratified the Geneva convention the year before. Slovenia was part of the kingdom.

      10024โˆ’76 points

    2. ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ธ Serbia Ban โœ“

      Yugoslavia's criminal code covers Serbia

      The criminal code of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia took effect and set prison sentences for drug offences. Yugoslavia had ratified the Geneva convention the year before. Serbia was part of the kingdom.

      10014โˆ’86 points

    3. ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฐ North Macedonia Ban โœ“

      Yugoslavia's criminal code covers North Macedonia

      The criminal code of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia took effect and set prison sentences for drug offences. Yugoslavia had ratified the Geneva convention the year before. North Macedonia was part of the kingdom.

      10014โˆ’86 points

    4. ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ช Montenegro Ban โœ“

      Yugoslavia's criminal code covers Montenegro

      The criminal code of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia took effect and set prison sentences for drug offences. Yugoslavia had ratified the Geneva convention the year before. Montenegro was part of the kingdom.

      10021โˆ’79 points

    5. ๐Ÿ‡ฝ๐Ÿ‡ฐ Kosovo Ban โœ“

      Yugoslavia's criminal code covers Kosovo

      The criminal code of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia took effect and set prison sentences for drug offences. Yugoslavia had ratified the Geneva convention the year before. Kosovo was part of the kingdom.

      10014โˆ’86 points

    6. ๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ท Croatia Ban โœ“

      Yugoslavia's criminal code covers Croatia

      The criminal code of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia took effect and set prison sentences for drug offences. Yugoslavia had ratified the Geneva convention the year before. Croatia was part of the kingdom.

      10022โˆ’78 points

    7. ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina Ban โœ“

      Yugoslavia's criminal code covers Bosnia and Herzegovina

      The criminal code of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia took effect and set prison sentences for drug offences. Yugoslavia had ratified the Geneva convention the year before. Bosnia and Herzegovina was part of the kingdom.

      10014โˆ’86 points

    1. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States Enforcement โœ“

      Louis Armstrong is jailed for marijuana

      The trumpeter Louis Armstrong, a heavy marijuana smoker for much of his life, was arrested outside a club for drug possession and spent nine days in jail. He was convicted of marijuana possession and received a suspended sentence. He described marijuana as a thousand times better than whiskey.

    2. ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช Sweden Tightening โœ“ Article

      Sweden punishes unauthorised cannabis possession and bans hashish

      Sweden made unauthorised cannabis possession punishable by a fine and prohibited importing, exporting, making, possessing or offering hashish for sale. The government brought cannabis under its narcotics rules after the 1925 Geneva convention expanded international controls. Earlier poison laws had already restricted unauthorised cannabis sales; prison for aggravated drug offences followed in 1933.

      10011โˆ’89 points

    3. ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India Other law โœ“

      India's Dangerous Drugs Act leaves cannabis to the provinces

      The Dangerous Drugs Act 1930 became the national law for narcotics, but it contained no national rule on growing, selling, possessing or consuming hemp; those remained matters for provincial, later state, excise laws. Making cannabis extract and tincture was prohibited except under licence.

    4. ๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡บ Hungary Ban โœ“

      Hungary passes its first drug law

      Act XXXVII of 1930 introduced Hungary's first rules on narcotics. A Hungarian law paper says that until then drug use and trade had not shown up in legislation, and that Hungary limited itself to putting international conventions into law.

      1008โˆ’92 points

    5. ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ Egypt Debate โœ“ Article

      Cairo's police chief tells the League that hashish does little harm

      Thomas Russell, known as Russell Pasha, head of Cairo's police and of Egypt's Central Narcotics Intelligence Bureau, reported to the League of Nations that hashish was the vice of the city slums and did comparatively little harm, and that the few smokers in the villages were regarded as a joke, like the village drunk in England. Egypt's own delegate had told the League six years earlier that it caused most of the country's insanity.

    6. ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฒ Armenia Hemp โœ“

      A Soviet botanist finds Armenians grow little hemp for fibre

      A survey by Stoletova reported that hemp was rarely used for fibre in Armenia, where wool was the common material; Russian settlements were the exception. Stems served as supports for vines. She recorded cultivated hemp, the wild ruderalis form and hybrids between them. Under Soviet rule botanists had very restricted access to wild cannabis, which is why it is scarce in the herbaria.

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