Shops and sales
Coffeeshops, dispensaries, licensed sales and their rules.
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🇺🇸 United States · Nebraska Medical ✓ Article
Nebraska's medical cannabis growers face an unfinished route to patient sales
Nebraska Public Media reports that commissioners advised licensed growers to prepare for one to two years of storage while manufacturing, distribution and testing arrangements are developed. Manufacturers and dispensaries were still unlicensed. The discussion establishes an implementation bottleneck, not a newly enacted waiting period or a guaranteed sales date.
🇺🇸 United States · Kentucky Medical ✓
Kentucky's medical dispensaries reach all eleven licensing regions
Sunnyside Dispensary opened in Prestonsburg on 12 October, becoming the first dispensary in the Mountain Region. The governor's 16 October announcement counted 26 operating dispensaries across all eleven licensing regions. This is a geographic rollout milestone within the existing medical programme, not a new adult-use law.
🇨🇦 Canada · Manitoba Debate ✓
Manitoba proposes visibility and staffing changes for cannabis stores
Bill 56 would remove the provincial requirement that outsiders cannot see inside age-restricted cannabis stores and authorise regulations setting minimum staffing levels, including during specified hours. It does not remove the separate federal restriction on displaying cannabis products to people outside. The bill reached second reading on 6 October and committee hearings on 8 October; the reviewed legislature catalogue listed no enacted version. No operative staffing number or new consumer possession limit was established.
🇻🇮 US Virgin Islands Other law ✓
US Virgin Islands report their first approved commercial cannabis grow
Regulator Joanne Moorehead reported a certificate to operate for a Tier 1 commercial cannabis grower on St. Croix, saying official cultivation had begun. She also said the testing laboratory was operational and awaiting plants, a change from the laboratory bottleneck described in August. An October market update still reported no dispensary open for sales.
🇺🇸 United States · Virginia Debate ✓
Virginia releases its initial retail cannabis regulation draft
The Cannabis Control Authority's implementation timeline records release of an initial regulation draft in September. It schedules final rules for December, their effectiveness for January 2027, and retail sales for 1 July 2027. The draft and timetable do not establish that adult-use shops were already operating.
🇸🇽 Sint Maarten Debate ✓
Sint Maarten’s prime minister warns against rushing cannabis sales
Prime minister Luc Mercelina told parliament that cannabis legislation should follow a settled policy choice and the capacity to supervise it, rather than a deadline within his government’s term. He distinguished legalisation from a commercial market and called for health services, youth safeguards, legal and treaty review, and coordination across the island’s French border. He left options ranging from continued prohibition to medical or broader regulated models open.
🇻🇮 US Virgin Islands Debate ✓ Article
US Virgin Islands say cannabis sales must wait for a testing laboratory
Cannabis regulator Joanne Moorehead told lawmakers that commercial sales needed a working product-testing laboratory, with stakeholders targeting October readiness. Her office had conditionally approved growers, manufacturers and dispensaries, and hoped at least two dispensaries could open before year-end. By September, she reported that the laboratory was operational and the first St. Croix commercial grow had a certificate to operate.
🇨🇴 Colombia Debate ✓
A Colombian bill would put adult-use cannabis in the constitution
On 20 July members of the House filed Proyecto de Acto Legislativo 017/2026, a constitutional amendment to Article 49. It would let adults use cannabis and put production, processing, distribution and sale under public licences, health controls and local taxes. The Chamber lists it as still in committee. The Supreme Court's July digest of congressional gazettes records it as Gazette 863 of 2026. It is a proposal.
🇧🇸 Bahamas Medical ✓ Article
The Bahamas still has not opened cannabis licensing
Two years after the cannabis legislation passed, the chairman of the Bahamas Cannabis Authority said the licence application portal had not opened; an earlier target of late June or early July had slipped. Applications will go through compliance checks and police vetting before the board decides, and every dispensary will need a registered pharmacist.
🇺🇸 United States · Georgia Medical ✓
Georgia lets registered patients buy cannabis flower for vaporization
Georgia widened its medical programme beyond low-THC oil to tinctures, patches, capsules and other approved products, including flower for vaporization. Registered patients and caregivers may possess up to 12,000 mg THC in labelled pharmaceutical packaging, with a 1,200 mg limit per package; smoking remains prohibited. The law took effect on 1 July after the governor signed it on 12 May. Vaporization remains prohibited for patients aged 21 or younger.
🇬🇺 Guam Other law ✓ Article
Guam clears its first commercial cannabis grower to operate
The Cannabis Control Board unanimously approved an operating permit for Deep Green Guam after inspections and agency clearances. The grower had received conditional licence approval in February, seven years after adult use became legal. The tax department said further steps were required before production and sales could begin, while home cultivation continued to supply residents.
🇺🇸 United States · Alabama Medical ✓
Alabama opens its first medical cannabis dispensary
Registered Alabama patients could buy licensed medical cannabis when Callie’s Apothecary opened in Montgomery on 4 June. Patients need Alabama residency, a qualifying condition, a certified physician’s recommendation and a registry card; the approved products exclude raw plant material and products that can be smoked or vaped. The commission later listed openings in Talladega on 28 August and Athens on 14 September.
🇬🇷 Greece Tightening ✓ Article
Greece bans retail sale of hemp flower
Article 43 of Law 5302/2026 raised the THC limit for hemp from 0.2% to 0.3%, but at the same time banned selling dried hemp flower to consumers, and consumers buying or using it. Import and wholesale for industrial processing, such as cosmetics, stay legal. The medicines agency said the ban applied at once and announced shop inspections.
🇨🇴 Colombia Debate ✓ Article
A Colombian House committee backs a legal cannabis market
The First Committee of the House of Representatives approved in first debate a bill to regulate adult use: sales to adults through dispensaries, clubs of 10 to 350 members, up to 20 plants per adult at home, a 20% tax, and most cultivation licences reserved for peasant and ethnic growers. It was the ninth such bill since 2020; the earlier ones were all shelved. It still needed the full House and the Senate.
🇬🇺 Guam Easing ✓
Guam extends its cannabis testing exemption from two years to five
Guam extended the temporary cannabis laboratory-testing exemption from two years to five years after enactment of the original law. Governor Lou Leon Guerrero said no licensed laboratory had opened and the exemption was otherwise due to expire that July. Lawmakers also cited problems obtaining agency clearances; Deep Green Guam received the first cultivation operating permit in June.
🇧🇴 Bolivia Debate ✓ Article
Bolivia considers medical cannabis prescriptions and licensed supply
A bill from deputy Sandra Hinojosa Núñez would let registered patients obtain prescribed cannabis derivatives through authorised pharmacies, supplied by licensed growers and manufacturers. It also proposes closing prosecutions for proven medicinal cannabis-oil possession where there is no indication of illicit selling. Parliament received the proposal in April and still listed it among pending bills in October 2026; recreational use would remain prohibited.
🇻🇮 US Virgin Islands Easing ✓
US Virgin Islands replace a hemp inventory freeze with a sales window
Governor Albert Bryan Jr. approved a replacement rule telling retailers to report their intoxicating-cannabinoid inventory within 60 days and sell or otherwise dispose of it within 75 days of the act’s effective date. The cannabis regulator was then to plan the lawful disposal of remaining stock. This replaced the January law’s ban on selling or distributing existing inventory until regulations and retail licences were in place.
🇸🇽 Sint Maarten Debate ✓
Sint Maarten’s MPs hear a proposal for a regulated cannabis industry
Native Nations SXM presented its proposed cannabis framework to a parliamentary committee, including an independent oversight commission, licensing and product-safety controls. Its promoters argued that regulation would support local economic development and protect health and young people. Parliament later announced a continuation of the meeting after the March hearing was adjourned.
🇻🇮 US Virgin Islands Tightening ✓ Article
US Virgin Islands require cannabis licences for intoxicating hemp products
Governor Albert Bryan Jr. approved a law requiring cannabis-regulator licences or permits for selling, possessing or manufacturing intoxicating hemp and artificially derived cannabinoids. It covered THCA products and specified altered or intoxicating cannabinoids, set civil fines starting at $2,500, and required age checks, independent testing and child-resistant packaging for licensed retail. Its original inventory freeze was replaced by reporting and sell-or-dispose deadlines in March.
🇻🇮 US Virgin Islands Other law ✓
US Virgin Islands publish conditional cannabis dispensary approvals
The Office of Cannabis Regulation published applicants approved for conditional dispensary licences as of 15 January. The rules describe conditional licences as contingent awards that reserve a place while applicants meet requirements, with buying and selling dependent on further authorisation. Later that year, regulators identified product testing as a condition for commercial sales.
🇹🇭 Thailand Tightening ✓ Article
Thailand goes prescription-only
Three years after removing cannabis from its narcotics list, Thailand reclassified the flower as a controlled herb. Buying or possessing it now requires a prescription, and thousands of dispensaries have closed rather than convert to medical premises.
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🇧🇧 Barbados Medical ✓
Barbados opens its first medicinal dispensary
Island Therapeutics became the first, and so far only, licensed medicinal cannabis dispensary, more than five years after the industry law was passed.
🇮🇹 Italy Tightening ✓
Italy bans the hemp flower trade
A security decree prohibited selling hemp flowers whatever their THC content, closing the "cannabis light" shops that had spread since 2017.
🇳🇱 Netherlands Legalisation ✓ Article
Dutch coffeeshops enter the regulated-supply phase
On 7 April 2025, the experiment entered its experimental phase in ten municipalities, with regulated growers intended to become the exclusive source. Enforcement against unregulated hashish was temporarily deferred because of supply concerns. The preceding transition phase had allowed regulated and tolerated products side by side.
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🇱🇺 Luxembourg Debate ✓
Luxembourg sketches a state-controlled cannabis supply
The government presented plans for two domestic production licences and a supply chain ending in fourteen dispensaries, and said the draft would not be finished before the October elections. Only the home-growing part became law that summer.
🇩🇪 Germany Debate ✓
Germany drops its plan for licensed cannabis shops
The coalition had promised a nationwide regulated market. After talks with the European Commission, ministers announced a narrower plan: home growing and non-profit associations first, with shops only as regional trials later.
🇸🇲 San Marino Medical ✓
San Marino sets the licensing rules for medical cannabis businesses
Delegated Decree No. 53 of 21 March 2023 ratified, with amendments voted by the Great and General Council on 15 and 16 March, the decree of 30 December 2022 on authorisations to cultivate, process and trade cannabis, semi-finished products, flowers and cannabis- derived medicines under the 2021 medical cannabis law. Companies apply to the San Marino Cannabis Control Agency (ASCC) with the cadastral details of the site, a cultivation manual following EU good agricultural practice, staff lists and a security plan approved by the Gendarmerie command.
🇻🇮 US Virgin Islands Other law ✓
US Virgin Islands tell cannabis users to wait for implementing rules
Government House said cannabis use and sales remained prohibited while officials prepared the regulations for the January law. It reiterated a $100 fine for possession up to an ounce and said that public use, federal facilities and personal transport between islands would remain restricted after implementation. The signed law had already set out adult possession limits and the licensing system.
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🇬🇺 Guam Other law ✓
Guam brings in licensing rules for cannabis businesses
Guam’s commercial-cannabis rules took effect by operation of law, setting separate stages for a business licence, inspection and an operating permit. The rules required cannabis to be tested for potency and safety before consumer sales and required recognised laboratory accreditation or certification. They followed the 2019 adult-use law; the absence of a qualifying laboratory later led lawmakers to create a temporary testing exemption.
🇻🇨 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Medical ✓
A cannabis consumption lounge opens in Saint Vincent
The Greenhouse Café opened at a beach club with a doctor on site. Visitors get a prescription there and a one-year cannabis card from the Medicinal Cannabis Authority, then may buy from the dispensary and consume on the premises.
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe Medical ✓ Article
Zimbabwe opens applications for hemp-based CBD medicines
The medicines regulator began accepting applications to register hemp-based CBD products as complementary medicines in the second quarter of 2022. A July circular explained the requirements to licensed producers, manufacturers, traders and retail pharmacists. The regulator’s annual report records two manufacturing applications and one manufacturer licensed after inspections in early 2023.
🇨🇿 Czechia Debate ✓
Czechia's drug coordinator plans a licensed cannabis market
The national drug coordinator Jindřich Vobořil said he was preparing a law to regulate the sale and growing of cannabis: licensed growers, possibly licensed shops, caps on purchases and perhaps registration of buyers. In April 2023 the government approved an addiction plan that included a regulated market. In May Vobořil said he wanted shops for adults, clubs and licensed growing by 2024, and admitted that another EU member state might challenge the plan at the European Court of Justice.
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🇦🇼 Aruba Medical ✓ Article
Aruba recognises CBD medicines and exempts low-THC CBD from narcotics rules
Aruba designated cannabidiol and its preparations as medicines and excluded CBD preparations with no more than 0.2% THC from a narcotics designation. The minister cited growing use of cannabis preparations for health reasons and the need to protect consumers. A companion rule exempted specified external-use products, supplements, herbs and foods from medicinal classification, but was withdrawn the following month.
🇧🇲 Bermuda Debate ✓
Bermuda proposes locally grown cannabis for medical inhalation
Attorney-General Kathy Lynn Simmons opened consultation on a scheme for prescribed cannabis to be smoked or vaped, with a new authority licensing local cultivation and manufacturing. The proposal followed the 2014 pharmaceutical law and 2019 hemp exemption. After public feedback questioned the narrow scope and regulatory cost, the government shifted towards a wider adult-use licensing plan in 2020.
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🇬🇹 Guatemala Debate ✓ Article
Guatemala’s health committee rejects a medical cannabis bill
Fourteen of the eighteen members of Congress’s Health Committee signed an adverse opinion on a bill for medicinal, therapeutic and scientific cannabis production and supply, Prensa Libre reported in October. Committee member Marvin Orellana argued that medicine-testing laboratories needed modernising before such a system could be considered. The setback followed the committee opposition to a broader adult and medical cannabis bill in 2016.
🇺🇾 Uruguay Legalisation ✓ Article
Uruguay's pharmacies start selling cannabis
Three and a half years after the law passed, registered residents could buy state-licensed cannabis in pharmacies. Home growing and clubs had opened in 2014; this was the route the law had promised to most people. Banks threatened the pharmacies' accounts, and only a few took part.
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🇵🇷 Puerto Rico Medical ✓ Article
Puerto Rico gives its medical cannabis programme a statutory base
Patients using cannabis within the regulated programme gained statutory protection from Puerto Rico criminal and municipal sanctions. The law created a regulatory board, required medical recommendations and patient identification, prohibited smoking and public consumption, and kept sales within authorised dispensaries. It followed the 2015 executive order and dispensary openings in 2016, with transitional licences for businesses adjusting to the new rules.
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🇮🇹 Italy Hemp ✓ Article
Italy's hemp law opens the door to 'cannabis light'
Law 242 of 2016, in force from 2017, let farmers sow certified hemp seed with less than 0.2% THC without authorisation and tolerated crops testing up to 0.6%. Shops began selling the flowers. In September 2018 the interior minister, Matteo Salvini, ordered zero tolerance towards them, and in May 2019 the Court of Cassation ruled the sale of buds, oils and resins illegal unless they have no narcotic effect.
🇬🇹 Guatemala Debate ✓ Article
Guatemala’s congressional committee opposes adult cannabis regulation
Congress’s legislation and constitutional committee opposed a bill that would permit private adult cannabis use, five home plants and licensed sales, Prensa Libre reported in November 2016. The committee cited constitutional health duties and treaty obligations; sponsor Álvaro Velásquez criticised its legal approach and said he would keep seeking support. The bill’s proposed permissions remained part of the political debate.
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🇫🇴 Faroe Islands Tightening ✓ Article
The Faroe Islands toughen sentencing for drug sales at youth events
Courts in the Faroe Islands must treat drug sales, or free transfers intended for later sale, at clubs, concerts, festivals and other youth events as a significant aggravating factor. The update also requires sentences and fines to reflect the harmfulness of the drug and allows controls over groups of substances. Faroese police and customs had sought an update because newer drugs were falling outside the islands’ rules. The order took effect on 20 December 2014.
🇺🇸 United States · Colorado Other law ✓
The first licensed cannabis shops open in Colorado
Thirteen months after the vote, Colorado's first stores for adults opened. Sales exceeded 996 million dollars in 2015 and brought in 135 million in taxes. By April 2017, 176 of the state's 272 municipalities had chosen to prohibit retail cannabis.
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🇲🇷 Mauritania Debate ✓
Mauritania's deputies back prescription controls on narcotic medicines
Deputies approved a bill requiring strict control of the manufacture, import, export and distribution of narcotic medicines, with prescribing doctors and dispensing pharmacists overseeing medical use. Health Minister Mohamed Lemine Ould Raghani said the government would enforce the controls rigorously. After the Senate's January vote, deputies stressed the need to curb uncontrolled medicines while protecting pharmacy outlets.
🇲🇷 Mauritania Debate ✓ Article
Mauritania's senators back drug controls despite fears about cultivation
Senators voted 23 to five for a bill controlling the legal market in narcotics and psychotropic drugs, including their medical and scientific uses. Some opposition senators feared it would authorise cultivation and drug imports and exports, and asked for a delay. Health Minister Mohamed Lemine Ould Raghani said failure to implement UN drug treaties had nearly caused a rupture with the international drug-control board.
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🇳🇱 Netherlands Medical ✓
Dutch pharmacies start dispensing medical cannabis
The Netherlands became the first country where pharmacies supplied cannabis flower on prescription, grown under contract for a government office.
🇨🇭 Switzerland Tightening ✓ Article
Swiss police end the hemp-shop boom in Ticino
Swiss law then banned hemp only when it was meant for use as a narcotic, so from 1996 shops in Ticino, following other cantons, sold it as scented sachets for wardrobes, dried flowers and bath additives. Visitors filled hotels and campsites and the press called the canton the new Amsterdam. Operation Indoor, begun in March 2003, seized 198,000 plants, four tonnes of marijuana and four million francs in cash within six months; shops were closed and 130 people jailed. That October thieves broke into a military depot and drove off with three vans of the confiscated hemp.
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🇲🇱 Mali Other law ✓
Mali limits controlled-drug prescriptions to seven days
Mali required special prescription forms for narcotics on its controlled list, including cannabis and resin, and limited each prescription to seven days of treatment, with a fresh prescription needed to continue. Pharmacists had to keep stocks locked up and report theft or diversion, while imports needed a special ministerial certificate. These handling rules operated under the earlier criminal drug law and its scheduled list of narcotics.
🇳🇪 Niger Other law ✓ Article
Niger keeps narcotic medicines behind prescriptions in its pharmacy law
Medicines on Niger's narcotics list could be dispensed only on prescription under the new pharmacy law. It carried forward the 1977 schedules, adopted the controlled-drug lists of ratified international conventions and required marketing authorisation before medicines could be supplied free or sold. Two years later, the separate drug ordinance rewrote the controls on illicit possession, supply and personal growing.
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🇺🇸 United States · California Medical ✓ Article
California legalises medical cannabis
Proposition 215 let patients with a doctor's recommendation possess and grow cannabis, the first state medical law. Dozens of states followed, and dispensaries became the first legal shops in the country.
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🇳🇱 Netherlands Tightening ✓
The Netherlands cuts the tolerated amount to 5 g
New rules for coffeeshops cut the amount they may sell to one person in a day, and the amount a person may carry without being prosecuted, from 30 g to 5 g, and capped a shop's stock at 500 g.
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🇳🇱 Netherlands Easing ✓
The Netherlands announces it will not prosecute coffeeshops
The government made public the guidelines under which shops selling small amounts of cannabis would be left alone, as long as they kept to set conditions.
🇰🇮 Kiribati Other law ✓ Article
Kiribati regulates prescription supply of cannabis extracts and tinctures
Registered pharmacists could prepare cannabis extracts and tinctures at their shops under regulations effective from 21 February 1980. Lawfully prescribed preparations could be possessed by patients, while dispensers had to check prescriptions, keep drugs locked and record supplies. This regulated the preparations already listed separately in the dangerous-drug schedule, alongside the continuing ban on ordinary cannabis possession and cultivation.
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🇲🇲 Myanmar Legalisation ?
Burma permits licensed ganja sales to Indians only
Burma's ganja rules permitted licensed sales to Indians only. A later official report recorded that the rules remained in force in 1946, although the government made no sales that year and issued no cultivation licences to supply its ganja trade.
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🇮🇳 India Tightening ✓ Article
The United Provinces raise the duty on charas and cut hemp shops
In 1939 the United Provinces raised the duty on charas by 20 rupees a seer and cut the number of opium and hemp-drug shops by about a fifth. The province took over the management of all opium and hemp-drug shops in selected areas of Garhwal, Saharanpur, Muzaffarnagar, Bulandshahr, Cawnpore, Moradabad, Aligarh, Agra, Jhansi, Gorakhpur and Basti.
🇮🇳 India Tightening ✓ Article
Bihar bans ganja and bhang where prohibition was extended
In 1939 Bihar prohibited the transport and possession of ganja and bhang in the Hajipur subdivision and in parts of Ranchi, Hazaribagh and Manbhum, where a prohibition scheme was extended. The duty on a seer of ganja rose from 35 to 50 rupees, and on a seer of bhang from 3 to 4 rupees.
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🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Debate ✓
Ceylon proposes allowing licensed medicinal cannabis sales
Ceylon published a proposal to let licensed dealers in poisons import, possess and sell cannabis under the rules governing their trade. Acting Attorney-General J. H. Templer explained that the 1905 ban had omitted permission for chemists to handle cannabis even though its medicinal usefulness was acknowledged. The draft would keep the prohibition on growing it.
🇿🇦 South Africa Debate ✓
Cape dagga farmers petition against chemists controlling their market
A petition from 170 Middelburg farmers and supporters asked the Cape Legislative Council to reverse the cannabis poison listing. Growers complained that chemists, now the permitted sellers, could dictate purchase prices and resell the crop at large profits. Their representative challenged the medical evidence behind the restriction; a repeal was promised in 1907 while officials considered stronger controls over both sales and possession.
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🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Tightening ✓ Article
Ceylon limits opium and bhang retail licences in designated towns
Ordinance No. 2 of 1893 allowed the Governor to extend a municipal licensing system beyond Colombo by proclamation. Designated municipal councils could grant at most five retail licences per year and local boards at most three; annual numbers had to be advertised. Published proclamations confirm commencement on 7 November and application to named towns from 17 November. The ordinance did not automatically cover every town on assent.
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Culture & science ✓ Article
Colombo advertises four opium and bhang retail licences
A municipal notice dated 6 September, published on 15 September 1893, announced four retail licences for opium and bhang for the year beginning 1 January 1894. Auction was scheduled for 14 October. Conditions required inspections, opening only between 6 a.m. and 9 p.m., registration of agents and servants, and wholesale licences only for retail dealers. This documents a local licensed market, not island-wide unrestricted sale.
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🇸🇬 Singapore Tightening ✓ Article
The Straits Settlements regulate bhang through a licensed monopoly
The Excise Ordinance dated 15 July 1870 provided for exclusive licensed rights over bhang preparation and sale. Its text, read in the 1886 consolidated edition, permits licensed retail shops and penalizes imports, dealings and knowing possession outside the authorized supply system. It therefore supports restrictive excise control rather than a blanket cannabis ban. The compilation incorporates later amendments; the original session-law version and separate commencement notice were not inspected.
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🇲🇾 Malaysia Tightening ✓ Article
Penang and Malacca come under the Straits bhang monopoly law
The Straits Settlements Excise Ordinance provided for a licensed monopoly in bhang preparation and sale, with licensed shops and penalties for unauthorized supplies and possession. The 1886 consolidated text contradicts describing the arrangement simply as a blanket cannabis ban. This entry concerns Penang and Malacca within the colony; it does not establish the law of every Malay state. The date is the ordinance date, not a separately verified commencement date.
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