Interesting info

[luciddreaming]

I believe this may be one of the first recording of the prohibition of Cannabis.

It's quite interesting and funny (in a sad, sad way).

http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/histor.../willoughby.htm

You can see the pattern coming up already in the statistics they have, although I wouldn't regard much of it as true, take a look.

The following quantities were seized by the Customs Administration:

Kg. of Hashish

In 1919 2,709,535

1920 1,869,199

1921 621,822

1922 173,468

1923 2,128,864

1924 3,262,227

 

The following quantities were seized by the Coastguards Administration:

Kg. of Hashish

In 1920 3,697,648

1921 1,775,235

1922 1,223,842

1923 2,708,169

1924 2,262,350

 

Use (or seizing, but probably use) goes down for the first 4 years and then swiftly goes back up again much quicker.

It is also interesting that they predicted that "one of the greatest difficulties with regard to control of its production arose out of the fact that the plant from which the drug is obtained grows wild and that the drug itself is derived from the plant by a very simple process" and "there is the doubt whether the total prohibition of drugs easily prepared from a wild-growing plant could in practice be made effective."

 

Yet they still don't understand that now....

[Koselitz]

I believe this may be one of the first recording of the prohibition of Cannabis.

It's quite interesting and funny (in a sad, sad way).

http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/histor.../willoughby.htm

You can see the pattern coming up already in the statistics they have, although I wouldn't regard much of it as true, take a look.

 

 

Use (or seizing, but probably use) goes down for the first 4 years and then swiftly goes back up again much quicker.

It is also interesting that they predicted that "one of the greatest difficulties with regard to control of its production arose out of the fact that the plant from which the drug is obtained grows wild and that the drug itself is derived from the plant by a very simple process" and "there is the doubt whether the total prohibition of drugs easily prepared from a wild-growing plant could in practice be made effective."

 

Yet they still don't understand that now....

 

Probabily, they not account what they smoke...

[MrMcDizzle]

Those seizure figures imply production on a scale of quite significant proportions.

From the data above, in 1924 there was seized 3,262,227kg and 2,262,350kg of Hashish by the Customs and the Coast Guard respectively.

So 5,524,577kg all up. That is alot, it really is. Over 5,524 metric tonnes, and that is not including everything that wasn't seized.

 

I have no expertise in economic history but this data seems quite implausible to me.