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Indian hemp is about the name "Indian hemp" and its Russian equivalent индийская конопля: what each meant in botany, pharmacy, drug-control treaties and national law, and in the press. The plant Cannabis indica and its taxonomy are on Cannabis indica. The North American fibre plant Apocynum cannabinum, also called Indian hemp in English, is outside the page and is named only in the hatnote.
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- Botany: Rumphius's Herbarium Amboinense (vol. V, 1747), Lamarck's Encyclopédie méthodique, Botanique (vol. 1, p. 695), Christison's paper of 1851 and Watt's Dictionary of the Economic Products of India (vol. II, 1889, p. 103).
- Pharmacy: O'Shaughnessy's pamphlet of 1839, the British Pharmacopoeia of 1864 (p. 37), the Pharmacopoeia of the United States of the 1870 revision (printed 1873), Hager's commentary on the German pharmacopoeia (vol. 2, 1884, p. 51) and Grimaux's thesis of 1865.
- Treaties and statutes: the final protocol of the Hague conference of 1912 (in the unofficial English translation printed in Foreign Relations of the United States), the Geneva convention of 1925 in the League of Nations Treaty Series (vol. 81, English and French texts), the British Dangerous Drugs Acts of 1925 and 1964, the German Opium Law of 1929 (Reichsgesetzblatt 1929 I, p. 215), the UN note E/CN.7/276 of 22 March 1954, the Single Convention of 1961 and the Nigerian Indian Hemp Decree of 1966 and Act.
- Russian: Dal's dictionary (2nd edition, vol. 2, 1881), the Brockhaus and Efron encyclopaedia (vol. XVI, 1895), the first and third editions of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, the RSFSR decree of 1 December 1934, the RSFSR criminal code of 1960 in its first wording and in the wording of 1987, the RSFSR decree of 3 July 1965, and E. A. Babayan's article in the Bulletin on Narcotics (1990). The Russian texts are cited from transcriptions on Wikisource and, for the third edition of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, from booksite.ru; the volume and page of the two Soviet encyclopaedia articles are not given there.
- Kazakhstan: Lada.kz (17 October 2015), Tengrinews.kz (24 May 2018) and Kazinform (29 August 2023).
Dates and texts of the Soviet law
- The all-Union decree of 27 October 1934 (Собрание законов СССР 1934, No. 56, art. 422) is not available online in its own wording. Its title and its citation are quoted in the RSFSR decree of 1 December 1934. The exception for crops grown for medical and scientific needs is given by Babayan (1990), in English.
- The RSFSR amendment that brought the list to five names is dated differently in the sources. The consolidated text of the criminal code cites a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR of 29 June 1987 (Ведомости Верховного Совета РСФСР 1987, No. 27, art. 961). Babayan dates the USSR decree with the same list to 22 June 1987 (No. 7226-XI). The article gives the year only.
- Babayan's English text quotes article 225 before 1987 with Indian, South Manchurian and South Chuya hemp. The RSFSR code had the two southern names from the decree of 3 July 1965; its first wording of 1960 names Indian hemp alone.
Names and translations
- Dal's dictionary has the adjective индейская (indeyskaya); later Russian texts have индийская (indiyskaya).
- Babayan's English text translates индийская конопля as "Indian cannabis", where the Russian texts of the Brockhaus and Efron encyclopaedia and of the law would give "Indian hemp" in a word-for-word English rendering. The article uses "Indian hemp" for the Russian term and keeps "Indian cannabis" in quotation.
- The Kazakh sources use the Russian name in two senses. Lada.kz (2015) and Tengrinews.kz (2018) set cultivated индийская конопля against the wild hemp of the Chu Valley. Kazinform (2023) puts «индийской» in quotation marks for the wild hemp of the valley itself.
- Press accounts of the story that Gerasim Kolpakovsky sowed hemp in the valley give it different dates; the article Chu Valley sets them out.
Nigerian Act
- The compendium of the Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004 prints the Indian Hemp Act as Cap. I23; the presidential letter of October 2026 on the bill to repeal it calls it Cap. I16.