The Governor-General's Narcotics Control Decree (조선마약취체령) and its enforcement rules took effect in 1935; the rules were published on 14 August and applied from 1 September, licensing and policing morphine, cocaine, codeine and related drugs. The decree's 1935 definition of narcotics did not include cannabis; hemp fibre and seed stayed outside the narcotics regime. The colonial system nevertheless set the administrative model that later Korean drug laws reused.[1][2]
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References
- 국가법령정보센터 — 조선마약취체령시행규칙 (조선총독부령 제99호, 1935. 8. 14., 시행 1935. 9. 1.)제정·시행일
- 한국민족문화대백과사전 — 마약법변천사항: 1935년 조선마약취체령archived
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