Cannabis Britannica :
empire, trade and prohibition, 1800-1928 /James H. Mills
Oxford :; Oxford University Press, 2003
xi, 239 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 0199249385
A Note on Terms
List of Illustrations
1. Introduction
2. 'Dr O'Shaughnessy appears to have made some experiments
with charas': Imperial Merchants, Victorian Science,
and Hemp to 1842
3. 'From the old records of the Ganja Supervisor's Office':
Smuggling, Trade and Taxation in Nineteenth-Century
British India
4. 'The Sikh who killed the Reverend was a known bhang drinker':
Medicine, Murder, and Madness in Mid-century
5. 'The lunatic asylums of India are filled with ganja smokers':
Ganja in Parliament, 1891-1894
6. 'A bow-legged boy running with a chest of tea between his legs':
Reports, Experiments, and Hallucinations, 1894-1912
7. 'An allusion was made to hemp in the notes appended to the
Hague Opium Convention': The League of Nations and
British Legislation, 1912-1928
8. '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 1920s
9. Conclusion: Cannabis and British Government, 1800-1928
Bibliography
Index