Items tagged with bhang
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| Explained: Bhang, ganja, and criminality in the NDPS Act [01.09.2022] | While granting bail to a man arrested on June 1 for possessing 29 kg of bhang and 400 g of ganja, Karnataka High Court recently observed that nowhere ... |
| Bhang not a prohibited drink or drug: Karnataka HC [20.08.2022] | Citing that bhang is not a prohibited drink under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, the Karnataka high court has granted bai ... |
| Where do Indian bhang shops get their legal cannabis from? [17.03.2022] | Shops selling bhang, have to obtain and frequently renew their licence from the local excise department before selling it in various forms, the most ... |
| Should India make cannabis legal? [19.09.2020] | According to former Narcotics Commissioner Romesh Bhattacharjee cannabis is cultivated in nearly 60 per cent, or 400, of India’s 670 districts. “Sinc ... |
| Cannabis in India: A rather long story, with its highs and lows [12.09.2020] | Cannabis is illegal in India. But still its prevalence is remarkable across the social and spiritual landscape of India. It is in fact particularly p ... |
| Is India losing out on a ready-to-boom cannabis market by not legalising its use? [06.10.2018] | Just about everybody smokes cannabis in India. Hush, not a word to anybody. We will all be arrested. It’s a democratic, egalitarian weed loved by cop ... |
| Legalising marijuana: An intoxicating affair [17.06.2018] | Cannabis, hemp, pot, ganja, bhang – call it what you wish, but there’s no denying that the venerable, yet also reviled, plant has been endemic to the ... |
| Hemp without the high: Legal side still smoky, but cannabis startups eye areas from fabric to medicine [20.02.2018] | In April 2017, when the Central government and the Ministry of Health and Welfare issued the first-ever research licence to grow cannabis to the Coun ... |
| The intoxicating drug of an Indian god [17.03.2017] | Although the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act of 1985 prohibits the production, sale and consumption of certain parts of the cannabis p ... |
| Make cannabis consumption legal; ban is turning people alcoholic [10.12.2015] | Tathagata Satpathy, the BJD’s chief whip in the Lok Sabha, called for legalisation of cannabis consumption. It was not the first time the four-time M ... |
| Is it legal to get high on bhang in India? [05.03.2015] | For centuries bhang – which is a paste created by grinding cannabis leaves – has been mixed in milk, laddoos or pakoras as a special treat with a kic ... |
| The Rise and Decline of Cannabis Prohibition [10.03.2014] | The cannabis plant has been used for spiritual, medicinal and recreational purposes since the early days of civilization. In this report the Transnat ... |
| Illegal cannabis and opium cultivation ride high in Parvati Valley in HP [29.03.2013] | "You want to buy charas? Hashish? Top quality," are invariably the first words you will hear in Malana. Tucked safely away on the highest mountains f ... |
| A more enlightened approach to intoxicants should legalise marijuana [12.11.2012] | With two US states - Washington and Colorado - voting to legalise the recreational use of marijuana, a similar liberal approach towards mild intoxica ... |
| The joint campaign: Should we not legalize recreational use of cannabis? [09.11.2012] | What two American states, Washington and Colorado, have decided to do - legalize recreational use of marijuana - was the norm in India until 1985. Al ... |
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