Cannabis Indica in 19th-Century Psychiatry

ERIC T. CARLSONAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 131, Number 9

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.9.1004

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The author presents a stuck of the history and usage of cannabis indicus (the 19th-century pharmacological term referring to the plant we today call cannabis sativa indica). His review of the drug's physiological and psychological effects reveals that most of the effects reported in the 1960s were known to writers of the 19th century, when the drug was alternately considered a cure for and a cause of insanity.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 131 • Number 9 • September 1974

Pages: 1004 - 1007

PubMed: 4606306

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Published in print: September 1974

Published online: 12 February 2015

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ERIC T. CARLSON

Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Section on the History of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences, New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, 525 East 68th St., New York, N.Y. 10021

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Cannabis Indica in 19th-Century Psychiatry

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