Icacos
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| Icacos | |
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| HistoricalGrown here in the past | |
| Geography | |
| Country | Trinidad and Tobago |
| Coordinates | 10.0456, -61.9140 |
| Landscape | |
| Terrain | Coastal lowland at the end of the Cedros peninsula, the south-western tip of Trinidad |
| Growing history | |
| Documentation | |
| Appellations | 0 |
| Accessions | 0 |
| Conservation | |
| Populations | none documented yet |
Icacos is a historical cannabis growing area at the south-western tip of Trinidad, at the end of the Cedros peninsula. In his guide to Trinidad of 1888, J. H. Collens wrote that "a great deal" of ganja had been produced at Icacos before the colony taxed its cultivation.[1]: 210
Geography
Icacos is a village at the western end of the Cedros peninsula, the long arm of land that forms the south-western corner of Trinidad. Collens, describing the district in his chapter on Cedros, placed Icacos about four miles from the landing-place, with a beach twelve miles long.[1]: 210 Today the village lies in the municipality of Siparia.
History
Most historians hold that ganja reached the Caribbean with the indentured labourers from India brought to work the sugar plantations.[2]: 59 Before 1885 ganja had been grown "in large quantities", the colony's Protector of Immigrants reported.[3]: 271 Ordinance No. 13 of 1885 imposed a licence duty on the cultivation of ganja,[4] and a licence to grow it cost £100 an acre. According to the Protector, the duty "practically put a stop" to growing and use for several years.[3]: 271
Collens, writing three years after the duty was imposed, put the production at Icacos in the past: "Before the prohibitive but highly necessary tax was imposed upon the cultivation of Ganja, a great deal was produced in Icacos."[1]: 210 The words "prohibitive but highly necessary" are his own judgement of the tax. The historian Jamie Banks, citing the same page, writes that cannabis was "abundantly cultivated across Trinidad, particularly in Cedros".[2]: 66, 78
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Collens, J. H. (1888). A Guide to Trinidad: A Hand-book for the Use of Tourists and Visitors (2nd, revised and illustrated ed.). London: Elliot Stock. hdl:2027/uc1.31175000969660 – via HathiTrust.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Banks, Jamie (2021). "Ganja madness: cannabis, insanity, and indentured labor in British Guiana and Trinidad, 1881–1912". In Richert, Lucas; Mills, James H. (eds.). Cannabis: Global Histories. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. pp. 57–80. doi:10.7551/mitpress/12102.003.0006.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Indian Hemp Drugs Commission (1894). Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1893–94. Vol. I: Report. Simla: Government Central Printing Office. ch. XIV, "The policy of hemp drug administration", paras. 553–590, pp. 265–290 – via Internet Archive.
- ↑ "Submits ordinance No. 13 of 1885 'to impose a licence duty in respect of the cultivation of Ganja'". The National Archives catalogue. The National Archives, Kew. 2 October 1885. CO 295/308/20. Retrieved 2 November 2026.