Indian Hemp Drugs Commission

Several influential reports have appeared on the use of marijuana and its effects, including the 1894 Indian Hemp Drugs Commission Report and the 1944 LaGuardia Commission Report. Such reports have tended to find that marijuana use overall is not particularly harmful to society at large. 

At the turn of the twentieth century, the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, which had been summoned in the 1890s to investigate the use of cannabis in India, concluded that the plant was so much an integral part of the culture and religion of that country that to curtail its usage would certainly lead to unhappiness, resentment, and suffering. Their conclusions ... 

Campbell, J. M. On the religion ofhemp. In Indian Hemp Drugs Commission Report. Simla, India 1893-1894, vol.2, pp.250-252. 

Indian Hemp Drugs Commission Report (7 vols.). Simla, India 1893-1894. 

Kalant, O. J. Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1893-1894 A critical review. International Journal of the Addictions, 1972, 7, 77-96. 

Mikuriya, T. H. Physical, mental, and moral effects of marihuana The Indian Hemp Drugs Commission. International Journal of the Addictions, 1968, 3, 253-270. 

Most descriptions of the preparation of Cannabis products are second-hand repeats of nineteenth century accounts—none too accurate to begin with. The accounts generally derive from India and adjacent areas and use the native terms for the products. Since the procedures they describe are the world s oldest for the preparation of Cannabis products, it is appropriate to recount a few of them here. Most are from the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission Report (1893-1894). 

Chopra and R.N. Chopra, The Use of Cannabis Drugs in India, Bulletin on Narcotics 9 (1957) 4 Indian Hemp Drugs Commission Report 1893-1894, (7 vols), U.S. Government Printing Office. 

Widely used in India and the Middle East, marijuana was viewed as an innocuous social drug by many British and other foreign observers. In 1894, the Indian Hemp Commission issued a voluminous report that concluded ... 

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