Cannabis Britannica Empire, Trade, and Prohibition 1800-1928

Name: Cannabis Britannica Empire, Trade, and Prohibition 1800-1928
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ISBN: 9780199278817

ISBN-10: 0199278814

ISBN-13: 9780199278817

Edition: 2005

Authors: James H. Mills

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Cannabis Britannica explores the historical origins of the UK's 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 It draws on published and unpublished sources from the seventeenth century onwards, from archives in the UK and India, to show how the history of cannabis and the British before the twentieth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…

Book details

Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/2/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 260
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English




Introduction



'Dr O'Shaughnessy appears to have made some experiments with charas': Ancient Knowledge and Victorian Science



'From the old records of the Ganja Supervisor's Office': Smuggling, Trade, and Taxation in the Ganja Mahal of the 1860s



'The Sikh who killed the Reverend was a known bhang drinker': Murder, Madness, and Drugs in the Empire in the 1870s



'The Lunatic Asylums of India are filled with ganja smokers': Ganja in Parliament 1891-1894



'The inferior ganja of Western India has found its way to the London market': International Trade and Imperial Experiences 1894-1925



'An allusion was made to hemp in the notes appended to the Hague Opium Convention': the League of Nations and British Legislation 1925-1928



Conclusion: Government Scares, Shaky Science, and the Imperial History of Cannabis


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