SOC130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Assam Tea, Mania
15 May 2020
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The other charge remained to be deemed: that hemp drugs bred crime. Consumers of hemp products, some witnesses explained, inexorably moved from moderate to excess; excess made them too poor to earn a living; and when addicted, they had to cheat to sustain their supply. The data they had gathered had proven that only a tiny proportion of the large number of consumers of hemp drugs used them in an immoderate way. How, then, will the transition from moderation to addiction be described as inexorable. As for releasing criminal instincts, hemp drugs seemed to have the opposite effect precisely; they "tended to make a man timid and unlikely to commit a crime" But, based on common knowledge, the idea that the drugs could cause men to run amok was not so easy to dispose of. With over thirty years of varied experience as an official and as a magistrate in.
