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Cannabis Britannica

Cannabis Britannica

Empire, Trade, and Prohibition 1800-1928

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Cannabis Britannica explores the historical origins of the UKs legislation and regulations on cannabis preparations before 1928. It draws on published and unpublished sources from the seventeenth century onwards from archives in the UK and India to show how the history of cannabis and the British before the twentieth century was bound up with imperialism. James Mills argues that until the 1900s, most of the information and experience gathered by British sources weredrawn from colonial contexts as imperial administrators governed and observed populations where use of cannabis was extensive and established. This is most obvious in the 1890s when British anti-opium campaigners in the House of Commons seized on the issue of Government of India excise duties on the cannabistrade in Asia in order to open up another front in their attacks on imperial administration. The result was that cannabis preparations became a matter of concern in Parliament which accordingly established the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission. The story in the twentieth century is of the momentum behind moves to include cannabis substances in domestic law and in international treaties. The latter was a matter of the diplomatic politics of imperialism, as Britain sought to defend its cannabis revenues in India against American and Egyptian interests. The domestic story focuses on the coming together of the police, the media, and the pharmaceutical industry to form misunderstandings of cannabis that forced it onto the PoisonsSchedule despite the misgivings of the Home Office and of key medical professionals. The book is the first full history of the origins of the moments when cannabis first became subjected to laws and regulations in Britain.
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OUP Oxford
82993
9780199249381
9780199249381

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Publication date
2003
Issue number
1
Cover
hard cover
Pages count
260
Dimensions (mm)
165 x 242
Weight (g)
531
  • Introduction; Dr OShaughnessy appears to have made some experiments with charas: Imperial Merchants, Victorian Science, and Hemp to 1842; From the old records of the Ganja Supervisors Office: Smuggling, Trade, and Taxation in Nineteenth- Century British India; The Sikh who killed the Reverend was a known bhang drinker: Medicine, Murder, and Madness in Mid-century; The Lunatic Asylums of India are filled with ganja smokers: Ganja in Parliament 1891-1894; A bow-legged boy running with a chest of tea between his legs: Reports, Experiments, and Hallucinations, 1894-1912; An allusion was made to hemp in the notes appended to the Hague Opium Convention: The League of Nations and British Legislation 1912-1928; An outcome of cases that have come before the police courts of the use of hashish: DORA, the First World War, and the DomesticDrug Scares of the 1920s; Conclusion: Cannabis and the British Government, 1800-1928; Bibliography; Index;
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