Alex Tanti, a British subject who ran a café in Cairo where hashish was smoked, had twice blocked Egyptian attempts to close it, declaring that the place was his and that as a British subject he opposed the order. The Egyptian authorities finally reported him to the British, and the Consular Court sentenced him to a year's hard labour for living off prostitution and three months for the drugs offence. He was sent to serve the sentence in the prison on Malta.[1]
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References
- Cannabis Britannica: Empire, Trade, and Prohibition, 1800–1928James H. Mills · Oxford University Press · 2003 · p. 193 · ISBN 0-19-924938-5
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