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- When the Hmong brought textile hemp.
- The article quotes Crévost and Lemarié's Catalogue des produits de l'Indochine, tome II (1919, pp. 117–119): imported from China "in the course of the last century".
- Martin (1975, p. 73), citing the same authors in the Bulletin économique de l'Indochine (1919–1921, p. 116), gives the seventeenth century: "According to the authors, the meo, from China, would have imported textile hemp north of the Annamese chain in the seventeenth century." Laos and Vietnam give Martin's date.
- The article gives both, each attributed. The catalogue's French text has not been compared with either.
- The title of the 1996 drug law. The Khmer text is titled ច្បាប់ស្តីពីការត្រួតពិនិត្យគ្រឿងញៀន. The translation by the Legal Assistance Unit of the Cambodia Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights renders it "Law on Control of Drugs"; the English text of the promulgating kram (NS/RKM/0197/01, 24 January 1997) held by Open Development Cambodia renders it "Law on Drug Control". The article earlier called it the "Law on Drug Management", with a French form Loi sur la gestion de la drogue; no source read gives either, apart from the file name of the Council for the Development of Cambodia's copy, and the Khmer title speaks of control, not management.
- The day the National Assembly adopted it. 9 December 1996 in the human-rights office translation and in the Phnom Penh Post of 13 December 1996; 6 December 1996 in the kram translation. The article gives 9 December.
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- Modern growing practices. Kirivong mountain cultivation (remote slopes, irrigation infrastructure, intercropping); the seasonal cycle and its timing against eradication campaigns; seed sourcing and selection; processing and drying; comparison with traditional lowland cultivation; how prohibition has changed selection pressures (concealment, speed, resilience).
- Known varieties. Whether Kirivong, Koh Kong, Cardamom and Battambang material is genetically the same or distinct; morphology in the field; aroma, effect and quality; comparison with Thai, Lao and Vietnamese landraces; any modern hybrid introduction or genetic contamination; chemotype data, if any exist.
- The current market. Its structure from farmgate to retail (domestic, export and tourist); the "happy pizza" restaurant trade in Phnom Penh, Siem Reap, Kampot and Sihanoukville; street availability and prices in the main towns; the cross-border trade with Vietnam from Kirivong and Takeo; the 2015 Laotian seizure that showed Cambodia as a transit point; packaging and presentation; seasonal price changes; change since the open trade of the 1990s.
Sources on the plant
Martin (1975) found no cannabis specimen from Cambodia in the herbarium of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris. GBIF now lists two MNHN sheets filed under Cambodia: one collected at Phnom Penh by M. Martin in 1973, and one from Phú Quốc in the Gulf of Thailand (1938). None of the page's sources is a botanical, genetic or chemical study of Cambodian cannabis, none describes Cambodian grading by harvest time of the kind Martin gives for Laos, and none names a cannabis law of the People's Republic of Kampuchea (1979–1989).