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Tightening 🇸🇸 South Sudan

Sudan extends its cannabis contraband controls to local manufacture

The revision extended Sudan’s contraband penalties to making or manufacturing listed goods within the country, including cannabis. It retained the medical and specially permitted exceptions, with unlawful manufacture subject to forfeiture and up to seven years in prison, a fine of up to 500 Egyptian pounds, or both.[1]

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

References

  1. Contraband Goods Ordinance 1901, as amended by the Revision Ordinance 1906Government of the Sudan · In Ordinances promulgated by the Governor General of the Sudan, revised edition · 1907 · Printed pp. 62–63, section 1 italic additions and amendment note, Sudan Gazette 92 of 1 April 1906; table item 6

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