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However, the prevalence of drug addiction remained reportedly low as first claimed by Soviet authorities [5] [6] which later (under Mikhail Gorbachev) acknowledged a much larger problem; [7] [8] at least to drugs other than alcohol or tobacco; [4] [9] however, the rates of addiction increased in post-Soviet states.
On May 5, 1985, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union published in all newspapers in the Soviet Union the ruling named "On the measures to overcome drunkenness and alcoholism". On June 1, the sale of alcohol was restricted to 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. At the time of that prohibition, 140,000 hectares of vineyards were destroyed.
Entering the 20th century, use of cannabis (largely as hashish) was confined to Russia's colonial acquisitions in Central Asia. In 1909, I. S. Levitov produced a pamphlet based on his studies in that region, noting that locals had used cannabis for six centuries or more, and that Russian colonists and cossacks had acquired the habit from the locals.
1923: In Italy, the Mussolini-Oviglio Law 396/23 banned the use of both marijuana and hashish. [23] 1924: Sudan banned the cultivation and use of cannabis. [24] 1925: The League of Nations signs the 1925 Opium Convention, for the first time adding pure cannabis extract among drugs under international control. [25]
Lysenko speaking at the Kremlin in 1935. Behind him are (left to right) Stanislav Kosior, Anastas Mikoyan, Andrei Andreev and Joseph Stalin. Lysenkoism (Russian: лысенковщина, romanized: lysenkovshchina, IPA: [ɫɨˈsʲɛnkəfɕːɪnə]; Ukrainian: лисенківщина, romanized: lysenkivščyna, IPA: [lɪˈsɛnkiu̯ʃtʃɪnɐ]) was a political campaign led by Soviet biologist ...
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The Law of the Soviet Union was the law as it developed in the Soviet Union (USSR) following the October Revolution of 1917. Modified versions of the Soviet legal system operated in many Communist states following the Second World War—including Mongolia, the People's Republic of China, the Warsaw Pact countries of eastern Europe, Cuba and Vietnam.
Country/Territory Recreational Medical Notes Afghanistan Illegal Illegal Main article: Cannabis in Afghanistan Production banned by King Zahir Shah in 1973. Albania Illegal Legal Main article: Cannabis in Albania Prohibited but plants highly available throughout the country and law often unenforced. On 21 July 2023 the Albanian Parliament voted 69–23 to legalize medical cannabis. Algeria ...