In a report to the foreign secretary, the British consul-general Lord Kitchener, repeating Lord Cromer's earlier observations, wrote that hashish was used in Egypt very generally as a domestic medicine and that its general use rendered prohibition impossible. Absolute prohibition, he argued, needed a large measure of general support, which did not exist.[1]
Listed for context. No score change is recorded for Egypt here.
References
- Intoxicating Zion: A Social History of Hashish in Mandatory Palestine and IsraelHaggai Ram · Stanford University Press · 2020 · Chapter 1, The Drug Trade in the Levant (section on British attitudes to the Egyptian ban) · ISBN 9781503613928
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