A Case of Cannabis Indica Intoxication

Commemorating 85 years of publications on Cannabis by Archives of Toxicology

“…The case of intoxication that was reported had occurred in 1933 in Liverpool, having received previous notes in the Liverpool Echo (Fleming 1935 ), the Police Journal (Anonymous 1934 ) and the Lancet (Baker-Bates 1935 ); the circumstances of the case had made a popular appeal (Fleming 1935 ). The historical and very unusual report shall be quoted verbatim: “A young man having read about Indian hemp in the Chemistry of Common Life by JFW Johnston ( 1855 ), which describes it as “increaser of pleasure, the exciter of desire, the cementer of friendship, the laughter-mover and the causer of reeling gait”, separated the hemp seeds from the parrot food and planted them in his garden during June.…”