Drug policy of Ambemarivo

The Opium Law of 1962 defines the legality of (the, and  of) non-medicinal  in Ambemarivo. Historically, and  were made into drugs in colonial Ambemarivo, and forcibly administered to unruly. and had afflicted some 23% of the population before the Dead Road Uprising, and the subsequent socialist administration sought to outlaw such drugs altogether. Drugs were first vaguely described as zava-mahadomelina (roughly "things that cause dazedness") regardless of their inherent intensity. Their source plants and were strictly prohibited, and until 1969 the law had also banned  and. The Federal Department for Drug Consumption was founded in 1967, marking the government's first on producing its own. A delegation sent to socialist Mennefer in 1971 for returned with insights on  (such as ) and a pack of, out of which scientist Randriamitandrina Henintsoa was able to invent  (麥角酸二乙酰胺) in 1974. The invention of LSD coincided with a domestic against the Workers' Party, and a  soon formed with the illegal consumption of makeshift LSD and other drugs as well as with the playing of  as its manifestation; it was then declared a fikorosy ("") by the socialist state. Prohibitions and crackdowns persisted until 1981, when the brutal of pop artist Randriamoeliarivony Mahefa incited nationwide revolts.