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- Book Title
- Cannabis Britannica : Empire, Trade, and Prohibition 1800-1928
- ISBN
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About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0199278814
ISBN-13
9780199278817
eBay Product ID (ePID)
43894106
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
260 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Cannabis Britannica : Empire, Trade, and Prohibition 1800-1928
Publication Year
2005
Subject
Psychiatry / Psychopharmacology, Pharmacology, Europe / Great Britain / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
History, Medical
Format
Perfect
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
10.6 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"This study is built upon a tremendous research effort, one which easily surpasses anything heretofore written on the subject. Indeed, this book should quickly become one of the standard historical references on cannabis."--Journal of Social History"Mills has made an important contribution in resurrecting the information in the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission Report and in bringing to light again the extensive nineteenth-century medical and scientific literature on cannabis....One would hope that future debates on the issue of cannabis will be informed by his research."--American Historical Review"James Mills' study of British attitudes and policies toward cannabis between 1800 and 1928 is a most welcome addition to the growing historiography of the social, economic and political significance of psychoactive substances."--Business History Review, 'Mills is even-handed in raising questions about the motives and methods of witnesses on all sides of the argument.'London Review of Books, 'Review from previous edition an amusing book to read, very well researched, and eminently readable.'Ann Widdecombe, Radio 4 Today programme'Mills is even-handed in raising questions about the motives and methods of witnesses on all sides of the argument.'London Review of Books'Mills's conclusions are salutary in the current cannabis debate.'London Review of Books'An excellent account of the changing perceptions of a substance that has once again become the focus of attention ... a judicious mix of serious analysis and interesting anecdotes that shed light on the ongoing colourful career of cannabis'Zaheer Baber, Times Literary Supplement, "This study is built upon a tremendous research effort, one which easily surpasses anything heretofore written on the subject. Indeed, this book should quickly become one of the standard historical references on cannabis."--Journal of Social History "Mills has made an important contribution in resurrecting the information in the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission Report and in bringing to light again the extensive nineteenth-century medical and scientific literature on cannabis....One would hope that future debates on the issue of cannabis will be informed by his research."--American Historical Review "James Mills' study of British attitudes and policies toward cannabis between 1800 and 1928 is a most welcome addition to the growing historiography of the social, economic and political significance of psychoactive substances."--Business History Review, 'An excellent account of the changing perceptions of a substance that has once again become the focus of attention ... a judicious mix of serious analysis and interesting anecdotes that shed light on the ongoing colourful career of cannabis'Zaheer Baber, Times Literary Supplement, 'Review from previous edition an amusing book to read, very well researched, and eminently readable.'Ann Widdecombe, Radio 4 Today programme, "This study is built upon a tremendous research effort, one which easily surpasses anything heretofore written on the subject. Indeed, this book should quickly become one of the standard historical references on cannabis."--Journal of Social History "Mills has made an important contribution in resurrecting the information in the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission Report and in bringing to light again the extensive nineteenth-century medical and scientific literature on cannabis.... One would hope that future debates on the issue of cannabis will be informed by his research."--American Historical Review
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
362.2/95/09171241
Table Of Content
1. Introduction2. 'Dr O'Shaughnessy appears to have made some experiments with charas': Imperial Merchants, Victorian Science, and Hemp to 18423. 'From the old records of the Ganja Supervisor's Office': Smuggling, Trade, and Taxation in Nineteenth-Century British India4. 'The Sikh who killed the Reverend was a known bhang drinker': Medicine, Murder, and Madness in Mid-century5. 'The Lunatic Asylums of India are filled with ganja smokers': Ganja in Parliament 1891-18946. 'A bow-legged boy running with a chest of tea between his legs': Reports, Experiments, and Hallucinations 1894-19127. 'An allusion was made to hemp in the notes appended to the Hague Opium Convention': The League of Nations and British Legislation 1912-19288. 'An outcome of cases that have come before the police courts of the use of hashish': DORA, the First World War, and the Domestic Drug Scares of the 1920s9. Conclusion: Cannabis and the British Government, 1800-1928BibliographyIndex
Synopsis
The role of government in the regulation of cannabis is as hotly debated now as it was a century ago. In this lively study James Mills explores the historical background of cannabis legislation, arguing that the drive towards prohibition grew out of the politics of empire rather than scientific or rational assessment of the drug's use and effects., Cannabis Britannica explores the historical origins of the UK's legislation and regulations on cannabis preparations before 1928. In 2003 the role of government in the regulation of cannabis is as hotly debated as it was a century ago. 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. In this lively study James Mills explores the historical background of cannabis legislation, arguing that the drive towards prohibition grew out of the politics of empire rather than scientific or rational assessment of the drug's use and effects. The book is the first full history of the origins of the moments when cannabis first became subjected to laws and regulations in Britain., 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 were drawn 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 cannabis trade 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 Poisons Schedule 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.
LC Classification Number
RC568.C2
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