History
1950s
World average score and entries per decade
13.2 today, from 99.1 in 1860
World average score, every country counted the same Entries that moved a score Context only
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๐ฎ๐ท Iran Ban โ Article
Iran declares cannabis illegal
In May 1959, the government added cannabis and its derivatives to the list of illegal drugs and applied the same sanctions used for opium. The Senate passed the law, the first to make cannabis illegal, on 22 June 1959; opium had been prohibited outright in 1955. Iran signed the Single Convention two years later.
1008โ92 points
๐จ๐ฌ Congo Culture & science โ
Cannabis is noted growing across the French Congo
A year before independence from France, cannabis was recorded growing throughout the Congo, particularly in the Pool region. The market appeared to be growing, and farmers were planting cannabis in their cassava plots.
๐ง๐ท Brazil Debate โ
An anthropologist calls the maconha scare a police myth
In Medicina rรบstica Alceu Maynard Araรบjo argued that the intoxicating effect of maconha was almost non-existent and that its supposed links to violence, crime and insanity were a myth that had not died because the police had the greatest interest in it. His was an isolated voice for decades.
๐ธ๐น Sรฃo Tomรฉ and Prรญncipe Ban โ Article
Sรฃo Tomรฉ and Prรญncipe targets medical cannabis with a colonial ban
Governor Manuel Marques de Abrantes Amaral issued an order targeting cannabis products used as medicine, following a recommendation by the UN Economic and Social Council. Its preamble called for ending medical use, and its operative wording prohibited import, consumption and sale for medical purposes; breaches brought fines of 1,000โ5,000 escudos. Portugal later extended a much broader drug law to the colony in 1970.
๐ฒ๐ฌ Madagascar Tightening ?
Madagascar adds penalties for growing and possessing rongony
The colonial administration made an assembly decision against cannabis cultivation and possession enforceable, adding those offences to the older ban on preparing, peddling, selling and consuming rongony. A later government memorandum records eleven days to one month in prison and a fine, with higher penalties for repeat offences. Two years later Madagascar replaced these rules with sentences reaching five years.
5510โ45 points
๐ฏ๐ด Jordan International โ
Jordan joins the 1925 Opium Convention
Jordan acceded to the International Opium Convention of 1925, as amended by the Protocol of 1946, on 7 May 1958. The convention, signed at Geneva, was the first treaty to put Indian hemp under international control.
๐ช๐น Ethiopia Other law โ Article
Ethiopia's new penal code punishes drug supply and hosting drug use
Ethiopia's new penal code punished unauthorised production, acquisition, transport, storage and supply of narcotic drugs with at least three months in prison and a fine. People who knowingly made premises available for drug use could receive the same punishment, even when the gathering was private. Organised or professional trafficking and certain cases involving young or dependent users could bring up to five years of rigorous imprisonment.
๐ฌ๐ญ Ghana International โ
Ghana joins the 1925 Opium Convention
Ghana deposited its succession to the International Opium Convention of 1925, as amended by the Protocol of 1946, on 7 April 1958. The convention, signed at Geneva, was the first treaty to put Indian hemp under international control.
๐ฎ๐ฉ Indonesia International โ
Indonesia joins the 1925 Opium Convention
Indonesia acceded to the International Opium Convention of 1925, as amended by the Protocol of 1946, on 3 April 1958. The convention, signed at Geneva, was the first treaty to put Indian hemp under international control.
๐ฏ๐ฒ Jamaica Tightening โ
Monty Howell recalls the final dispersal of Pinnacle
In testimony recorded by Michael Barnett in June 2020, Monty Howell dates a final eviction and destruction of remaining homes to 1958. This timeline entry identifies the retrospective account; it does not present a newly examined contemporary police record.
๐ฎ๐ณ India Ban โ
Assam prohibits ganja and bhang
The Assam Ganja and Bhang Prohibition Act prohibited the sale, purchase, possession and consumption of ganja and bhang in the state, going further than national law, which then still allowed licensed sale and to this day leaves bhang alone. The ban has not ended use: thousands consume cannabis each year at the Ambubachi Mela, a festival held in Assam.
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๐ฐ๐ท South Korea Ban โ
South Korea's Narcotics Act names Indian marijuana
The Act listed imported "Indian marijuana" as a forbidden narcotic. It left alone the hemp that Koreans had always grown for cloth, which was only banned in 1976.
๐ฆ๐ซ Afghanistan Ban โ
Afghanistan adopts another nominal cannabis ban
A 1957 measure, reportedly adopted under American pressure, was not enforced, and hashish stayed openly available until the crackdown of 1973. It was not the country's first legal restriction: the 1924โ1925 penal code had already forbidden domestic production and use.
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๐ฒ๐ฆ Morocco Culture & science โ
France reports to the United Nations on kif in Morocco
A study sent by the French delegation described the situation two years after the dahir of 24 April 1954 had banned all dealings in cannabis in the French zone, where kif had until then been sold by the Tobacco Monopoly. Even medical use was now prohibited, with an exception only for science by permission of the health minister. Seizures reached 30,723 kg in 1955. Almost all smuggled kif came from the Spanish zone, mainly the Ketama region of the Rif, while hemp for fibre was still grown legally on about 143 hectares.
๐ฟ๐ผ Zimbabwe Other law โ
Southern Rhodesia's Dangerous Drugs Act takes effect
Act 28 of 1955 came into force as the colony's consolidated drug law. It remains on Zimbabwe's statute book as the Dangerous Drugs Act and is the law under which cannabis is prohibited.
๐ฆ๐ด Angola Culture & science โ
A United Nations survey describes cannabis in Angola
The survey, compiled from information supplied by Portugal, reported that non-medical use of cannabis was illegal in Angola, that no licence to grow or produce it had been issued, and that a European firm's request to cultivate the plant had been refused in 1952. Severe fines were levied on people found with cannabis plants. The only seizure mentioned was 44 grams at Lobito in 1952, with one person prosecuted.
๐ธ๐ฒ San Marino Other law โ
San Marino's narcotics law does not name cannabis
A 1973 United States government report noted that the 1956 law does not specifically include cannabis in its list of narcotic drugs, which is based on the 1931 convention, though it refers to other decrees that probably do.
๐ฒ๐ฆ Morocco Ban โ Article
Independent Morocco bans kif
Under the protectorates kif had been sold legally through a state tobacco and kif monopoly. France ended this in its zone in 1954, while the Spanish zone still licensed growing. When Morocco became independent in 1956 and joined the existing drug conventions, the ban was extended to both former zones. After putting down an uprising in the Rif, provoked partly by the ban on growing, King Mohammed V condoned cultivation in the five historical villages around Ketama, where it has gone on since.
5712โ45 points
195518 entries2 score changes
๐จ๐ฒ Cameroon Other law ?
French Cameroon extends drug penalties and compulsory treatment
French-administered Cameroon promulgated the extension of France's pharmacy-code drug rules, including doubled penalties for illicit drug cultivation or manufacture and powers to order people charged with specified narcotics offences into detoxification. The French law also doubled penalties for supplying minors or helping them use drugs. The local order cited the earlier 1926 poisonous-substances rules, which already controlled hashish and punished group use.
๐ง๐ท Brazil Culture & science โ
A United Nations survey describes maconha in Brazil
The survey reported that under the narcotics decree of 1938 and the Penal Code of 1940, illegally selling, supplying, carrying or possessing cannabis carried one to five years in prison and a fine, and illegal cultivation five years. The federal capital recorded 53 seizures of cannabis in 1951, 49 in 1952 and 93 in 1953, twelve for every seizure of another narcotic. Clandestine growing was centred on Sergipe, Alagoas and Pernambuco in the north-east and Piauรญ, Maranhรฃo and Parรก in the north, especially along the Sรฃo Francisco river, and smoking had spread from there to Rio de Janeiro and Sรฃo Paulo.
๐ง๐ญ Bahrain Other law โ Article
Bahrain extends cannabis controls to people under British jurisdiction
A British regulation applied Bahrainโs existing dangerous-drug rules to people subject to the Bahrain Orders, except the medical services of Britainโs armed forces. The rules named Indian hemp and its resin, prohibited unauthorised possession and supply, and allowed up to three years in prison, a fine up to 5,000 rupees, or both. It replaced a British drug regulation dating from 1931; new local and British rules followed in 1959.
๐ฟ๐ผ Zimbabwe Enforcement โ Article
Southern Rhodesia reports 285 cannabis prosecutions for 1952
A UN survey recorded 285 cannabis prosecutions in Southern Rhodesia in 1952, including 282 Africans in the colonial racial classifications. It described police destroying plants in small gardens and near homesteads, where cannabis was usually grown for the growerโs own use. Courts generally imprisoned traffickers and gave smokers the option of a fine, under a law allowing up to ten years in prison, a ยฃ1,000 fine, or both.
๐ฟ๐ฒ Zambia Culture & science โ
A United Nations survey describes cannabis in Northern Rhodesia
The survey reported that the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance of 1926 set a fine of up to ยฃ200 or up to six months in prison for any narcotics offence, and that no licence to grow or produce cannabis had been issued in recent years. Between 165 and 216 people were prosecuted in each of the years 1946, 1949, 1951 and 1952, all of them Africans, and more than nine in ten were convicted. Cultivation was described as widespread in certain localities but small in scale and for local smoking.
๐บ๐ธ United States Debate โ
The Senate orders a full inquiry into narcotics
The Senate authorised its Judiciary Committee to study the narcotics problem, including marijuana. Chaired by Price Daniel of Texas, the subcommittee held hearings across the country and in 1956 proposed even higher penalties, an end to talk of opiate clinics and the removal of addicts from society. Its work led to the Narcotic Control Act of 1956.
๐ International International โ
A WHO study calls cannabis dangerous from every point of view
Pablo Osvaldo Wolff's report for the World Health Organization declared cannabis a dangerous drug physically, mentally, socially and criminologically. It relied in part on newspaper clippings of a sensational character, and it shaped the drafting of the 1961 Single Convention.
๐ธ๐ฟ Eswatini Culture & science โ
A United Nations survey describes cannabis in Swaziland
The survey, compiled with the Swaziland government, reported 11,051 kg of cannabis seized in 1948 and 2,970 kg in 1952, and 1,065 people prosecuted in the five years to 1949. The crop was grown in the western highlands and on the Lubombo range, mainly for export to South Africa; the red dagga of the mist belt was in demand for its quality. Smokers had recently been fined ten shillings to ยฃ20, and traffickers given up to 24 months with hard labour.
๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa Tightening โ
South African police destroy more than a thousand tonnes of dagga in a year
The police confiscated and destroyed 2,515,563 pounds of dagga in 1954 and 2,757,965 pounds in 1955. By the end of the decade newspapers were warning that the habit, long regarded as confined to Africans and Coloured people, was spreading among young white people in Johannesburg.
๐ธ๐ฆ Saudi Arabia Tightening โ
Saudi Arabia sets penalties for drug offences
A Council of Ministers resolution established penalties for smugglers, their assistants, dealers and users, building a national enforcement regime on top of the 1934 prohibition.
๐ฉ๐ฐ Denmark Ban โ Article
Denmark passes the Euphoriant Substances Act
The Act is still the basis of Danish drug law. It prohibited possessing cannabis without authorisation.
10011โ89 points
๐ง๐ผ Botswana Culture & science โ
A United Nations survey describes cannabis in Bechuanaland
The survey, compiled with the protectorate's government, found cannabis a minor matter: seizures of 276 pounds and 58 prosecutions in 1953, under 2% of all prosecutions. The 1922 proclamation set a fine of up to ยฃ100 or up to two years in prison. The plant did not grow wild in the dry climate and was cultivated in small hidden patches; the territory was not a real source of supply for South Africa.
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๐ International International โ
The UN urges countries to end medical use of cannabis
The WHO's expert committee had said in 1952 that cannabis preparations were practically obsolete and that there was no justification for their medical use. In 1954 the UN Economic and Social Council asked governments still using them to stop as quickly as possible. The view shaped the 1961 treaty, and the WHO only reversed it in 2019.
๐บ๐ธ United States Culture & science โ Article
A hashish fudge recipe is cut from the American edition of Alice B. Toklas's cookbook
The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book, first published in 1954, included a recipe for "Haschich Fudge", made of spices, nuts, fruit and cannabis, which Toklas said her friend Brion Gysin had given her and which she called easy to whip up on a rainy day. It was removed from the first American edition and restored in later ones. The recipe became famous in its own right in the 1960s counterculture and gave its name to a 1968 film.
๐ฒ๐ฆ Morocco Other law โ
The Spanish zone of Morocco keeps kif licensed, with a five-kilogram limit
In the year the French protectorate prohibited all cultivation, a dahir in the Spanish zone still authorised growing, production and distribution under licence of the monopoly. It set a possession threshold of five kilograms, above which administrative sanctions applied, and allowed cultivation in municipalities it did not name, with the permission of local authorities and the monopoly.
๐ฒ๐ฆ Morocco Ban โ
The French protectorate bans all kif cultivation
France ended the licensed growing it had allowed for the kif and tobacco monopoly and prohibited all cultivation in its zone. In the Spanish zone a dahir of the same year still authorised it.
๐ฏ๐ฒ Jamaica Tightening โ
A major raid devastates Pinnacle
A police raid destroys homes and cannabis crops and displaces residents of Howellโs community. Some subsequently return. The event records enforcement against the settlement, rather than a new national cannabis law.
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel Culture & science โ
Cannabis is found growing in Israel's immigrant transit camps
Cannabis was discovered growing in gardens in transit camps across Israel, reportedly for home use by new immigrants from Iran, Turkey, Iraq and Morocco. The discovery fed the stereotype of immigrants from Muslim countries as hashish users.
๐จ๐ฆ Canada Tightening โ
Canada separates trafficking from possession
The 1954 amendments to the Opium and Narcotic Drug Act created the offence of possession for the purpose of trafficking, punishable on indictment by up to 14 years in prison and, at the court's discretion, whipping. They also set the burden of proof on the accused in such cases. Possession remained punishable by at least six months in prison, up to seven years on indictment.
๐ง๐ญ Bahrain Other law โ
Bahrain restricts Indian hemp under its dangerous-drug rules
Bahrainโs regulations labelled 1374 (1954) prohibited possessing, obtaining or supplying dangerous drugs, with exceptions for named hospitals, licensed handlers and genuine medical prescriptions. Their schedule expressly named Indian hemp, its resin and resin-based preparations; offences carried up to three years in prison, a fine up to 5,000 rupees, or both. Britain extended these rules to people under its Bahrain jurisdiction in April 1955.
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๐บ๐ธ United States Tightening โ
American states pass their own little Boggs acts
Urged on by the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, seventeen states and the territory of Alaska copied the federal Boggs Act penalties by 1953, and eleven more states raised theirs by 1956. Ohio set twenty to forty years for selling narcotics in 1955, and Louisiana in 1956 five to ninety-nine years without parole, probation or suspension for selling, possessing or administering a narcotic drug.
๐ณ๐ฌ Nigeria Tightening โ Article
Nigeria's police set up a squad against cannabis
After years of police warnings about cannabis use and cultivation, an anti-narcotics squad was established for the cannabis trade in the Western Region. It recorded ninety-seven cases of possession and cultivation in its first five months. The colonial government still chose not to investigate: its reports to international drug bodies went on stating that Indian hemp was neither grown nor cultivated in Nigeria.
๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands Ban โ Article
The Netherlands bans possession of cannabis
Import and export had been restricted since 1928. An amendment to the Opium Act now made possessing, producing, selling and using cannabis offences too, with a maximum four-year prison term, just over twenty years before the country became known for tolerating it.
9812โ86 points
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel Enforcement โ
Israel's police train a dog to find hashish
The police set up a canine unit trained to track down hashish by smell; Israel was apparently the first country to use sniffer dogs to find drugs. For its first years the unit had one dog, Lassie, and a second was trained by 1960.
๐ซ๐ท France Tightening โ
France bans cannabis as a medicine
Cannabis was removed from medical use in France in 1953.
1817โ1 point
๐ง๐ท Brazil Debate โ Article
The narcotics commission publishes Brazil's case against maconha
With the health ministry's sanitary education service, the national narcotics commission republished 31 Brazilian studies of diamba written since 1915 as Maconha: coletรขnea de trabalhos brasileiros. Its editors credited the education campaign with keeping use confined to the poorest classes. Franรงa describes the essays as impressionistic, built on few cases and foreign literature, yet shaping how Brazilians saw cannabis until the 1980s.
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๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel International โ
Israel joins the 1925 Opium Convention
Israel acceded to the International Opium Convention of 1925, as amended by the Protocol of 1946, on 16 May 1952. The convention, signed at Geneva, was the first treaty to put Indian hemp under international control.
๐ฆ๐น Austria Other law โ
Austria's Narcotic Drugs Order lists Indian hemp
An order under the Narcotics Act 1951 rewrote the definition of narcotic drugs in the Narcotic Drugs Order of 20 December 1946 and included Indian hemp. The filing does not show whether the 1946 text already did.
๐ธ๐ฟ Eswatini Tightening โ
Swaziland's drug proclamation is amended
The Swaziland Opium and Habit-forming Drugs Regulation (Amendment) Proclamation of 1952 amended the 1922 law. As amended, section 8 made any narcotics offence punishable by a fine of up to ยฃ500 or, in default, up to three years in prison with or without hard labour, or by prison without the option of a fine, or by both.
๐ฟ๐ผ Zimbabwe Other law โ
Southern Rhodesia's 1952 Act limits who may hold cannabis
Under the Pharmacy, Poisons and Dangerous Drugs Act, 1952 only authorised persons such as sellers of poisons, medical practitioners, dentists and veterinary surgeons could possess the cannabis plant and its products. A 1955 United Nations survey lists it as the colony's cannabis law.
๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa Debate โ
A South African committee reports on the abuse of dagga
The Interdepartmental Committee on the Abuse of Dagga published convictions for possession, which in 1948 fell almost entirely on Africans and Coloured people, and concluded that smoking dagga does not in general act as an aphrodisiac but has a sedative effect. A pharmacologist who reviewed the subject in 1961 held that the plant is not native to southern Africa and is always cultivated, usually in secret.
๐ณ๐ท Nauru Other law โ
Nauru controls imports of Indian-hemp medicines
Importing Indian-hemp extracts, tinctures and preparations required a licence for medicinal purposes, while making or exporting dangerous drugs was prohibited. Import licences lasted one year and required records of quantities and recipients. The ordinance replaced the 1922 import law covering opium, morphine, cocaine and heroin.
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel Debate โ
Knesset debate on a drug law turns to hashish and immigrants
The Knesset passed an amendment to the Mandate's Dangerous Drugs Ordinance that removed clauses barring the cultivation and preparation of the opium poppy, to end dependence on imported medicinal narcotics. It had nothing to do with hashish, but opponents argued against it by pointing to immigrants from Arab and Muslim countries and their supposed disposition to hashish smoking.
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๐ฌ๐ฎ Gibraltar Ban โ Article
Gibraltar makes cannabis possession punishable by a fine or a month in jail
Rules made on 18 October 1951 made possessing Indian hemp an offence punishable by up to a ยฃ150 fine or one month in prison. Possession included cannabis held by another person under the defendantโs control or on their behalf. The Governor in Council used powers granted earlier that year to regulate cannabis production, possession, sale and distribution.
๐ฐ๐ญ Cambodia International โ
Cambodia joins the 1925 Opium Convention
Cambodia deposited its succession to the International Opium Convention of 1925, as amended by the Protocol of 1946, on 3 October 1951. The convention, signed at Geneva, was the first treaty to put Indian hemp under international control.
๐ International International โ
The United Nations publishes a world survey of cannabis
The second part of a study by Dr J. Bouquet in the UN Bulletin on Narcotics went round the world country by country. It cited a figure of 200 million people using hemp as an intoxicant. All the American states, it said, prohibited keeping and consuming it; the Balkan countries that had grown it for resin had passed prohibitions; Algeria and Egypt had prohibition, while Tunisia and French Morocco sold it under state control; most of the rest of Africa prohibited its use; Iran had not yet adopted any measure; and in Oceania it did not appear to be used as a drug at all.
๐ต๐ฑ Poland Tightening โ Article
Poland lists cannabis herb as a narcotic
The Act on pharmaceutical and narcotic agents listed the herb of Indian hemp and its preparations, and hashish, among narcotics. Making, processing, importing, storing or trading them without a permit carried up to five years in prison. Using a narcotic without a doctor's advice in the company of another person carried up to a year of detention. The act said nothing about growing the plant, and poppy and hemp could still be grown legally.
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๐บ๐ธ United States Debate โ
A federal researcher tells Congress marijuana is not addictive
Harris Isbell, research director at the Public Health Service hospital in Lexington, told the Kefauver committee that marijuana smokers were usually mildly intoxicated, bothered no one and developed no dependence, and that a link to violent or sexual crime was unproven. Harry Anslinger replied that over half of young heroin addicts had started on marijuana. He had rejected this stepping-stone claim in 1937; from 1951 it became the official reason to punish marijuana like heroin.
๐ธ๐ฌ Singapore Other law โ
Singapore codifies cannabis control in the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance
Ordinance No. 7 of 1951 restricted importing, exporting and possessing "Indian hemp" to people with official authorisation. Unauthorised possession could bring a $10,000 fine, five years in prison or both.
๐ฑ๐ธ Lesotho Tightening โ
Basutoland's drug proclamation is amended
Proclamation No. 58 of 1951 amended the Basutoland Opium and Habit-forming Drugs Regulation Proclamation of 1922. As amended, section 7 made any narcotics offence punishable by a fine of up to ยฃ500 or, in default, up to three years in prison with or without hard labour, or by prison without the option of a fine, or by both. Seized plants and drugs were forfeited on conviction.
1311โ2 points
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๐บ๐ธ United States Other law โ
The US Supreme Court upholds the marihuana tax
In United States v. Sanchez the court held that the tax of $100 an ounce on transfers to unregistered persons was a valid use of the taxing power even though its purpose was to regulate. It quoted the Senate report's aim of making cannabis extremely difficult to acquire for illicit uses.
๐ฒ๐บ Mauritius Ban โ Article
Mauritius prohibits cannabis again
Ordinance No. 55 prohibited buying, selling, supplying, procuring, distributing or possessing gandia, hashish and charras, and separately prohibited planting, growing or cultivating Cannabis sativa. This ended the legal regime created in 1883.
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๐ต๐ญ Philippines International โ
The Philippines carries the 1925 Opium Convention over to the United Nations
The Philippines became a party on 17 May 1950 to the Protocol of 11 December 1946, which transferred to the United Nations the League of Nations' functions under the earlier drug treaties. It thereby remained bound by the International Opium Convention signed at Geneva in 1925, the first treaty to put Indian hemp under international control.
๐ฆ๐น Austria International โ
Austria carries the 1925 Opium Convention over to the United Nations
Austria became a party on 17 May 1950 to the Protocol of 11 December 1946, which transferred to the United Nations the League of Nations' functions under the earlier drug treaties. It thereby remained bound by the International Opium Convention signed at Geneva in 1925, the first treaty to put Indian hemp under international control.
๐ฝ๐ฐ Kosovo Tightening โ
Yugoslavia's Narcotic Drugs Act bans growing Indian hemp
The federal Act on Narcotic Drugs, which applied in Kosovo, put narcotics under state control, listed Indian hemp and its preparations among them and prohibited its cultivation except by scientific institutions.
1411โ3 points
๐ธ๐ฎ Slovenia Tightening โ
Yugoslavia's Narcotic Drugs Act bans growing Indian hemp
The federal Act on Narcotic Drugs, which applied in Slovenia, put narcotics under state control, listed Indian hemp and its preparations among them and prohibited its cultivation except by scientific institutions.
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๐ท๐ธ Serbia Tightening โ
Yugoslavia's Narcotic Drugs Act bans growing Indian hemp
The federal Act on Narcotic Drugs, which applied in Serbia, put narcotics under state control, listed Indian hemp and its preparations among them and prohibited its cultivation except by scientific institutions.
1411โ3 points
๐ฒ๐ฐ North Macedonia Tightening โ
Yugoslavia's Narcotic Drugs Act bans growing Indian hemp
The federal Act on Narcotic Drugs, which applied in North Macedonia, put narcotics under state control, listed Indian hemp and its preparations among them and prohibited its cultivation except by scientific institutions.
1411โ3 points
๐ฒ๐ช Montenegro Tightening โ
Yugoslavia's Narcotic Drugs Act bans growing Indian hemp
The federal Act on Narcotic Drugs, which applied in Montenegro, put narcotics under state control, listed Indian hemp and its preparations among them and prohibited its cultivation except by scientific institutions.
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๐ญ๐ท Croatia Tightening โ
Yugoslavia's Narcotic Drugs Act bans growing Indian hemp
The federal Act on Narcotic Drugs, which applied in Croatia, put narcotics under state control, listed Indian hemp and its preparations among them and prohibited its cultivation except by scientific institutions.
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๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina Tightening โ
Yugoslavia's Narcotic Drugs Act bans growing Indian hemp
The federal Act on Narcotic Drugs, which applied in Bosnia and Herzegovina, put narcotics under state control, listed Indian hemp and its preparations among them and prohibited its cultivation except by scientific institutions.
1411โ3 points
๐ฏ๐ต Japan Hemp โ
Japan still has 25,000 hemp farms
Two years after the Cannabis Control Act put growing under licence, some 25,000 farms raised hemp, a crop taxed by the court as early as 645 and used in Shinto ritual. By 2016 there were 37 licensed farms.
๐ฏ๐ฒ Jamaica Debate โ
Jamaica's police chief links ganja to crime
In his report for 1949โ50 the Commissioner of Police, T. Calver, claimed an affinity between ganja smoking and the rise and fall of crime, citing a gang rape by youths said to have been smoking. His tenure, until 1953, saw intense police and newspaper campaigns against ganja, with cash rewards for informers, though the public gave the police little support.
๐ซ๐ท France Enforcement โ
Clandestine hashish plots are found on the edge of Paris
A United Nations survey published in January 1951 noted that in recent years clandestine cultivation of cannabis for hashish had been discovered near Paris, at Orly, Aubervilliers and Le Bourget. It judged that cannabis was otherwise not a problem of outstanding importance for Europe.
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