In 1893 the Secretary of State for India revealed in the House of Commons that he had
ordered the Government of India to conduct a wide-ranging inquiry into the issue of …

The paper examines attitudes towards cannabis evident in the colonial archives of British
India. It identifies and historicizes both European and Asian perspectives on preparations of …

This chapter considers the ways in which missionaries in nineteenthcentury India forced the
issue of cannabis into the political arena of the House of Commons by the 1890s. By …

'Hootum'(meaning owl), a popular satirist in the second half of the nineteenth century in
Calcutta, became famous for his' sketches' illustrating'everyday life and everyday people'and …

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 It draws on published and unpublished sources from …

In the process of expanding their imperial interests throughout the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries, the British came into contact with existing and well-established …

Abstract In the years 1934–1939, a League of Nations' sub‐committee was founded to
review the international prohibition on traffic in cannabis. Most of the experts invited to testify …

Beginning in the early nineteenth century, the British Empire began extracting regular
revenues from the production and trade of cannabis goods in its South Asian territories. The …

This article examines Egypt's stance on cannabis prohibition, from the 1870s ban on
cultivation and consumption, to the role Egypt played in the international ban on traffic in …

Cannabis has never been a more controversial substance in Britain. Over the last decade it
has been reclassified twice, has been the subject of a range of official investigations and …