The Home Office tells Parliament that hashish needs no law

After a summer of newspaper stories about a "new dope peril", an MP asked whether hashish, which was on no list of dangerous drugs, was being used in seaport towns and whether it would be restricted. The under-secretary answered that the League of Nations had not yet considered the question, that other countries were more closely concerned, and that the department was watching. Its drugs official, Malcolm Delevingne, had noted that the situation did not call for hashish to be added to the Dangerous Drugs Act: use was probably confined to Arab, Greek and Lascar seamen, as a seizure at South Shields in 1922 suggested. The Cambridge pharmacologist W. E. Dixon agreed in print. Within six months the Pharmaceutical Society had moved to schedule it as a poison instead.^[1]