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- Britain places cannabis under its first general-public sales controls 1925-04-03
- A mistaken London hashish prosecution ends in acquittal 1923-08-21
- Britain's Army Council restricts cannabis sales to service members 1916-05-11
- British chemists isolate and name cannabinol 1897
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Cannabis enters international drug control
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Egypt puts cannabis on the Geneva agenda
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South Africa asks the League of Nations to control cannabis
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The Hague Opium Convention
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The first international drug treaty covered opium, morphine and cocaine. Italy and the United States asked forraised cannabis to be included;shortly before the conference onlybut offered no specific proposal. Delegates lacked statistics and instructions, and agreed toonly that governments should study the questionwhether control was needed. ItThe signed convention did not mention cannabis; it was added thirteen years later.
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The Indian Hemp Drugs Commission reports
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The government of India concludes that cannabis causes insanity
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A doctor in Calcutta introduces cannabis to Western medicine
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Britain brought cannabis into its dangerous-drugs system in September 1928. The change followed the 1925 Geneva convention and passed through Parliament with little debate, despite Britain having no comparable domesticafter cannabis problemsales had already entered the separate Poisons Schedule in 1925.
## A treaty-driven bill
The Dangerous Drugs Act 1925 was designed principally to let B … arply even though the treaty behind the law required a narrower system of trade controls.
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