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Tightening 🇸🇿 Eswatini

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 £500 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.[1]

Listed for context. No score change is recorded for Eswatini here.

References

  1. United Nations — Survey of the cannabis situation in Swaziland, E/CN.7/286/Add.3 (1955)archived

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