Instructions to the agents recruiting indentured labourers for the sugar colonies ordered that opium-eaters and ganja-smokers be excluded as undesirable emigrants, because users were thought unsuited to field work, not because the drug was linked to insanity. Practice on the ships varied: some surgeons handed out hemp and opium to those used to them, and in 1873 a passenger arriving in Trinidad was said to have been flogged for smoking cannabis.[1]
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References
- Ganja Madness: Cannabis, Insanity, and Indentured Labor in British Guiana and Trinidad, 1881–1912Jamie Banks · In Cannabis: Global Histories, edited by Lucas Richert, James H. Mills · MIT Press · 2021 · pp. 59–61 · ISBN 9780262366137
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