Cocaine and the British Empire: The Drug and the Diplomats at the Hague Opium Conference, 1911–12.
This article will consider the reasons for the inclusion of cocaine in the Hague Opium Convention of 1912. This was the first time that the emerging international drugs regulatory system considered substances other than opiates and it was British delegates who took the initiative to include cocaine...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History Vol. 42; no. 3; pp. 400 - 420 |
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Sep2014
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