Doctors in the sugar districts told the Indian Immigrant (Wragg) Commission of 1885–1887 that cannabis endangered life, health, sanity and social order among indentured workers, and that it incapacitated them for work. The commission gave the subject a section of its report, but no control beyond the 1870 law was introduced; workers judged to be suffering from overuse were treated in hospital.[1]
Listed for context. No score change is recorded for South Africa here.
References
- Dagga: How South Africa Made a Dangerous Drug, 1902–1928Thembisa Waetjen · In Cannabis: Global Histories, edited by Lucas Richert, James H. Mills · MIT Press · 2021 · pp. 86 · ISBN 9780262366137
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