When the Yemen Arab Republic and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen united on 22 May 1990, the south's Law No. 38 of 1976 was repealed and qat cultivation, trade and consumption were liberalised across the former south. Qat became a legal, taxed crop nationwide, while cannabis stayed on the prohibited-plant list. The unified state's drug law followed in 1993 and named cannabis, the opium poppy and coca in its schedule of banned plants, but not qat.[1][2][3]
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References
- Yemen Times — Revolutionary Yemen and the Issue of Qat (book extract)Qat supplement, part 1: Law No. 38 repealed at unification, May 1990archived
- Yemen — Law 3 of 1993 with schedules, Arabic text held by the House of RepresentativesSchedule 5: Indian hemp, poppy and coca; qat absentarchived
- World Bank — Yemen: Towards Qat Demand Reduction (Report No. 39738-YE)Para 11 p. 4: production legal and sales taxed; imports bannedarchived
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