Wednesday 19 April 2017 at 18:57
Cataleptic trances, enormous appetites, and giggling fits aside, W. B. O'Shaughnessy's investigations at a Calcutta hospital into the potential of medical marijuana — the first such trials in modern medicine — were largely positive. Sujaan Mukherjee explores the intricacies of this pioneering research and what it can tell us more generally about the production of knowledge in colonial science.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/04/19/w-b-oshaughnessy-and-the-introduction-of-cannabis-to-modern-western-medicine/