In a letter of 1862, a local magistrate gave the first account found of the drug plant on Jamaica: Hindoo immigrants on a plantation carefully cultivating Indian hemp for gunjah, whose visions he knew from Johnston's Chemistry of Common Life — while "Congo Africans use [cannabis] in preference to tobacco", known to them as fuomo, "though the use of it is hitherto unnoticed by travellers as an African indulgence".[1] Duvall counts the passage the best evidence anywhere for seed transport by Indian labour migrants, noting the magistrate overlooked Johnston's own sentence on the plant as "almost everywhere known" in central and tropical Africa.[1]
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References
- The African Roots of MarijuanaChris S. Duvall · Duke University Press · 2019 · ch. 7, printed pp. 148–149; 1862 magistrate letter on gunjah cultivation and Congo Africans' fuomo, Indian seed-transport evidence · ISBN 9781478004530
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