{"id":246358,"date":"2026-10-05T00:30:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T22:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-drug-control-legislation-under-review\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T00:30:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T22:30:24","slug":"mozambique-drug-control-legislation-under-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-drug-control-legislation-under-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Drug Control Legislation Under Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Maputo \u2014 Mozambique&#8217;s Central Office for Drug Prevention and Control (GCPCD) has announced the revision of the country&#8217;s drug control legislation, 29 years after its adoption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The measure is aimed at addressing the emergence of new psychoactive substances and synthetic drugs, as well as changing patterns of drug trafficking and organized crime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">According to Jos\u00e9 Bambo, GCPCD representative, speaking on Wednesday, in Maputo, at the community consultation forum on drug prevention and control, the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610010234.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maputo \u2014 Mozambique&#8217;s Central Office for Drug Prevention and Control (GCPCD) has announced the revision of the country&#8217;s drug control legislation, 29 years after its adoption. The measure is aimed at addressing the emergence of new psychoactive substances and synthetic drugs, as well as changing patterns of drug trafficking and organized crime. According to Jos\u00e9 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":246359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,6877,6949,10831,4704,682,257,6399,254],"class_list":["post-246358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-control","tag-drug","tag-legislation","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-review","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}