SOC130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Bhang, Charas
15 May 2020
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The commission had been warned that finding witnesses willing to come forward and telling them what they knew about the use and misuse of hemp drugs could be challenging. No challenge like that had been encountered. Civil servants, officers of the army, magistrates, physicians, lawyers and businessmen filled out the questionnaire that was circulated, and a gratifying number of them agreed to provide verbal proof in amplification services. Only one party, shocked to find the commission, seemed reluctant to offer its. Without their responses a large proportion of the missionaries who were given the. Their common reason was for not having adequate knowledge of the matter. This was in striking contrast to the missionaries" attitude towards opium, questionnaire returned it particularly in china, where they had been at the forefront of the agitation to suppress traffic. Why-the commissars wondered-would the indian missionary be so concerned. They picked up an early answer to that issue.
