שאלה | Question: How did Egypt’s emerging middle class perceive hashish from the late 19th century onward?

Question: How did Egypt’s emerging middle class perceive hashish from the late 19th century onward?

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		A) As a medicinal substance that encouraged spirituality.
		B) As a “dirty” substance associated with the lower classes, which had to be fought at all costs.
		C) As an “inflated” substance because it was cheap and offered a big “return.”
		D) A and C are correct.

Explanation: In the readings/lectures, hashish becomes part of a “civilizing” discourse: middle class and elite voices frame it as a marker of disorder and backwardness linked to the lower orders, and treat restricting it as a requirement for progress and public order. (Reading: Kozma, Cannabis Prohibition in Egypt, 1880–1939). Quote: “hashish was no more than a ‘pet failing of many members of the poorer classes’.”