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Other law 🇰🇷 South Korea

South Korea folds the Cannabis Control Act into a single narcotics law

The Cannabis Control Act of 1976 was merged with the laws on narcotics and psychotropic drugs into the Narcotics Control Act. Its definition excluded seeds, roots and mature stalks; it also recognised licensed cultivation for fibre or seed.[1][2]

Listed for context. No score change is recorded for South Korea here.

References

  1. Wikipedia — Cannabis in South Koreaarchived
  2. Constitutional Court of Korea — 2005Hun-Ba46, reproduced original decisionQuoted original Act 6146/2000, Article 2(5)–(6)archived

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