Negative Space: United Kingdom
- Cannabis Britannica
- Subtitled “Empire, Trade, and Prohibition”, this is an in-depth history of how prohibition came about in Britain, and ends up describing how marijuana prohibition came to the forefront of international attempts to ban opium.
- From Symbolic Exchange to Commodity Consumption: Anthropological Notes on Drinking as a Symbolic Practice
- Marianna Adler’s portion “draws on historical accounts of drinking in British society in an effort to shed light on the symbolic nature of drinking in modern Western societies.”
- The Indian Hemp Drug Debate
- One of the earliest examples of a commission to determine the ill effects of a drug. The commission was called because of the dire warnings of the governor of India and decided that the governor was overstating the issue. But the real issue, as usual, was not the drug but the people who used it: the real issue was rising Indian nationalism.
- Inebriate Reformatories in Scotland: An Institutional History
- Patrick M. McLaughlin’s study did not provide anything for my cartoon history, so all I am left with is this tantalizing quote.
More Information
- Yes Minister: The Complete Collection• (DVD)
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A British television show about one Member of Parliament who moves into the Prime Minister’s cabinet on an “open government” platform. He quickly runs heads-up against the entrenched civil service.
- Cannabis Britannica•
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“Cannabis Britannica explores the historical origins of the UK’s legislation and regulations on cannabis preparations. From the earliest publications on cannabis in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the substance and its various preparations have been the subject of myths and misunderstandings.”
- The Royal Commission on Opium, 1893-95
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“Much to the dismay of anti-opium activists, many of whom were interviewed for the report, the Commission not only determined that the opium trade should continue, but also declared that ‘the temperate use of opium in India should be viewed in the same light as the temperate use of alcohol in England’.”
