prohibited article

The temporary powers allow police officers to search those they believe to be under "reasonable suspicion" of committing a crime, planning to commit a crime or in possession of a "prohibited article".

From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2025

One of the inhabitants of Tattah, who was engaged in smuggling the prohibited article, was stopped about dusk by a serjeant, who happened to be going his rounds.

From Scenes and Adventures in Affghanistan by William Taylor

It being a prohibited article at Vienna, the merchant whom he applied to, observed that he did not sell it.

From The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2 by James Harrison

After receiving the sum agreed upon between the importer and themselves they frequently become the purchasers of the prohibited article.

From Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton by Sir John Barrow

Certainly the prohibited article is not in itself evil, for others but the inhibited individual may eat or do with it as they please. 

From Travels in West Africa by Mary H. Kingsley