The new Penal Code, Law 765, punished importing, transporting, selling, buying or holding cannabis for sale with at least six months in prison and a heavy fine. Using cannabis, or gathering to use it, carried two to six months and a smaller fine, and people described as addicted could be held in hospital until a doctor declared them cured. Supplying a person under 20 or using a forged prescription carried at least a year. The code came seven years before the 1933 narcotics law, which added the cultivation ban and a dedicated control regime.[1]
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References
- Türkiye — Penal Code No. 765, consolidated text (Mevzuat Bilgi Sistemi)Articles 403–406; adopted 1 March 1926, published in the Official Gazette on 13 March 1926archived
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