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Other law 🇵🇪 Peru

Peru's first narcotics law leaves cannabis out

Law 4428 centralised imports and exports of opium, morphine, cocaine, heroin and their salts and derivatives through Callao, with health-authority supervision, registration and prescription controls. Its listed substances did not name cannabis. The original bears the executive date 26 November 1921, after congressional passage on 21 November.[1][2]

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References

  1. Ley No. 4428Congress of Peru · 1921 · Original scan, pp. 1–2; Articles 1–10 and legislative/executive datesarchived
  2. Víctor Prado Saldarriaga — Política criminal nacional, tráfico ilícito de drogas y tratamiento penal de los actos de cultivo de plantas fiscalizadasarchived

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