Reports sent by the governor to the Colonial Office, from the protector of immigrants, the inspector of police and the medical officers, contained a single reference to violence and cannabis. A former medical officer had never heard of a crime traceable to it, and the chief medical officer, after nearly thirty years, had never met a case of lunacy caused by it; asylum figures, he noted, usually rested on a police statement that a man was addicted. The Colonial Office nonetheless minuted that Mauritius should prohibit cannabis absolutely.[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. 69–70 · ISBN 9780262366137
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