Cannabis Britannica: The rise and demise of a Victorian wonder-drug

This is a good talk on cannabis and British colonialism, delivered at Gresham College by Professor James Mills based on his book Cannabis Britannica.

The image is a posed ‘ethnographic’ photograph of a group of men preparing and drinking bhang in India, in 1894. From the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, it’s entitled ‘Group of Marwadis, occasional moderate bhang drinkers, Khandesh’.