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ResearchBook chapter3 August 2021

Dagga: How South Africa Made a Dangerous Drug, 1902–1928

Thembisa Waetjen

Cannabis: Global Histories (MIT Press)

Argues how South Africa constructed dagga as a dangerous drug between 1902 and 1928, covering the administrative steps toward national prohibition. A chapter in the edited volume catalogued on-wiki as Cannabis: Global Histories (2021).

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DOI10.7551/mitpress/12102.003.0008

CountrySouth Africa

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2021-08-03 2026-07-03 Dagga: How South Africa Made a Dangerous Drug, 1902–1928 Book chapter History Thembisa Waetjen Cannabis: Global Histories (MIT Press) 2021 10.7551/mitpress/12102.003.0008 https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/12102.003.0008 [[Has research summary::Argues how South Africa constructed dagga as a dangerous drug between 1902 and 1928, covering the administrative steps toward national prohibition. A chapter in the edited volume catalogued on-wiki as Cannabis: Global Histories (2021).]] South Africa