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 …

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 …

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 It draws on published and unpublished sources from …

Looking primarily at the social and political trends in South Africa over the course of the last
century and a half, this thesis explores how these trends have contributed to the …

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 article examines the market for cocaine in India during the early twentieth century and
the efforts of the colonial state to control it. The British authorities issued regulations to …

Along with other drugs and intoxicants, global trade in and consumption of tobacco were a
result of the rise of European maritime empires (Mills and Barton 2007). This chapter …

58 Jamie Banks insane asylum would in turn suggest that “one third” of patients “had been
rendered insane by the pernicious use of ganja.” 7 While the cases observed above were …

84 Thembisa Waetjen to becoming a means (along with liquor and tobacco) of their
subjugation and exploitation under Cape Dutch and, later, British authority. 5 Cannabis had …

This chapter examines an 1870 dispute about opium smuggling that unfolded in the British
Indian colony of Burma. It traces how a small intra-bureaucratic disagreement escalated into …