The League of Nations and the Debate over Cannabis Prohibition

Liat Kozma

doi:10.1111/j.1478-0542.2010.00740.x

The League of Nations and the Debate over Cannabis Prohibition

Liat Kozma

Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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In the years 1934–1939, a League of Nations’ sub-committee was founded to review the international prohibition on traffic in cannabis. Most of the experts invited to testify were medical officers stationed in the Middle East and North Africa. This article examines the deliberations of this sub-committee in light of recent scholarship on drugs, empire, colonial medicine and the League of Nations, and argues that international discussions of the cannabis prohibition were informed by colonial assumptions about Arabs and/or Muslims.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	61-70
Number of pages	10
Journal	History Compass
Volume	9
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1478-0542.2010.00740.x
State	Published - Jan 2011

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