Items tagged with india
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| Check benefits of cannabis, Prime Minister’s office tells health ministry [17.02.2018] | As demands for the legalisation of cannabis or hemp gather momentum, the Prime Minister’s Office asked the ministry of health and family welfare (MoH ... |
| How legalising cannabis can help India ease some of its economic burden [01.02.2018] | Two Indian cities – New Delhi and Mumbai – have emerged among the top 10 in the world with the highest consumption of cannabis/marijuana. According t ... |
| India’s cannabis hot-spot experiments with alternative livelihoods [31.01.2018] | According to the Institute for Narcotics Studies and Analysis (INSA), a Delhi-based think tank, Malana has 351 families involved in making hashish. T ... |
| Youngsters try to weed out taboo [22.01.2018] | Should marijuana be legalised? Medical experts may be divided in their opinion on the subject, but many youngsters are citing examples from abroad to ... |
| Mumbaiites fight to legalise marijuana [27.12.2017] | The Bangalore-based founder of the Great Legalisation Movement (GLM), Viki Vaurora, wrote to the Prime Minister asking him to legalise hemp — leaves ... |
| You want ganja to be legal in India? These MPs want it too [15.12.2017] | There are many issues Indian lawmakers need to discuss in the Winter Session of Parliament includes a private member’s bill to legalise cannabis. Dha ... |
| Organised cultivation of cannabis matter of concern: High court [06.12.2017] | Even as the Himachal Pradesh high court has expressed concern over organised cultivation of cannabis in the higher reaches of Kullu district, its wil ... |
| For want of other options, charas sustains this village in Kullu [31.10.2017] | From children as young as five to those in their sixties, Malana’s villagers are busy doing what they always do this time of the year: extracting cha ... |
| This Telangana village has been growing and selling ganja for decades, now busted by cops [28.09.2017] | For decades farmers in Lakshmipuram village in Telangana have been harvesting ganja as a cash crop and selling them in open bazaars, unperturbed that ... |
| Drones used to map ganja cultivation areas [19.09.2017] | A major offensive against ganja cultivation was launched jointly by the Police and the Prohibition and Excise Departments in the Agency areas of Visa ... |
| Sri Lanka to export cannabis from first plantation [13.09.2017] | Sri Lanka is to launch its first official cannabis plantation to supply the traditional medicine market and export to the United States, the health m ... |
| Should marijuana be legalised? [11.08.2017] | In the Indian context, marijuana is mostly considered as being of recreational use, but it is not just that. Recreational use is probably true for no ... |
| Marijuana on high ground [07.08.2017] | The demand for medical marijuana has been gaining ground in Himachal Pradesh's Kullu district, home to the world's best-quality "weed". Though illega ... |
| Union minister Maneka Gandhi suggests legalising marijuana for medical purposes [30.07.2017] | Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi has suggested legalising marijuana, a psychoactive drug, in India for medical purposes on the line ... |
| Odisha is ganja’s ground zero [30.05.2017] | Hemp grows illegally in vast stretches of Odisha’s inaccessible forested regions, making it one of the top cannabis-producing States in India. The pl ... |
| 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 ... |
| The village where cannabis is the only livelihood [03.12.2016] | For centuries, the villagers have been growing the plant that has made Malana one of the world's top stoner destinations, and a battleground – at lea ... |
| Why the Parliament must carefully consider a private members’ bill to decriminalise natural drugs [03.11.2016] | In the coming session of the Parliament of India, Dharam Vira Gandhi, a member of parliament from Patiala, will table a private member’s bill to amen ... |
| Bill for legalised supply of opium, marijuana cleared for Parliament [01.11.2016] | A proposed legislation to legalise and start regulated supply of traditional intoxicants such as opium and cannabis is likely to be placed in front o ... |
| NCB destroys 62 acres of cannabis crop, 'innocent' villagers seek compensation [26.09.2016] | In an indication of the extent of illegal cultivation of marijuana in the hills of Uttarakhand, sleuths from the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) have ... |
| Legalise soft drugs like marijuana, opium to wean away addicts: Punjab MP [17.08.2016] | Suspended Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP from Patiala Dr Dharamvira Gandhi wants the Centre to legalise the use of drugs like opium and marijuana to discou ... |
| Dr Gandhi to move Bill to legalise recreational drugs [12.07.2016] | Patiala MP Dr Dharamvira Gandhi said that he was working on an amendment to Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substance (NDPS) Act 1985 of India to leg ... |
| High hopes: Punjab's Swaraj Party wants to decriminalise opium & cannabis [01.07.2016] | The Swaraj Party has advocated decriminalisation of organic drugs, such as poppy husk, opium and cannabis, by bringing out a suitable amendment in th ... |
| Punjab’s war on drugs is more a war on drug addicts [08.06.2016] | In May 2014, stung by allegations of inaction over the rampant abuse and trafficking of drugs, the Punjab government launched an aggressive crackdown ... |
| Rajasthan: Opium husk ban from April 1 puts addicts, customs in a fix [01.04.2016] | A comprehensive ban on the sale of doda post, or poppy husk, from April 1 brings to a close an important chapter of Rajasthan’s social and political ... |
| The history of cannabis and international control [02.03.2016] | This timeline draws on The Rise and Decline of Cannabis Prohibition, a report that described the history of international control, how cannabis was i ... |
| Scholars, politicians kick off debate on legalising drug sale [05.02.2016] | With less than a year before the Assembly elections, several civil society activists, scholars and politicians — for the first time — have joined han ... |
| See inside the Himalayan villages that grow cannabis [31.01.2016] | Cannabis is illegal in India, but many villagers have turned to charas manufacturing out of financial necessity. “Nearly 400 of the 640 districts in ... |
| Hemp cultivation: Uttarakhand's plan to hand out licences to grow the plant is a welcome step for farmers' livelihood [20.12.2015] | Uttarakhand chief minister Harish Rawat’s has announced that the state would encourage hemp cultivation and hand out licences to farmers. However, sa ... |
| 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 ... |
| Multi-agency squad smashes illegal hemp cultivation in Odisha [30.10.2015] | With the help of multi-agency squad comprising excise, revenue and forest officials, the Odisha police have destroyed over 3600 acres of hemp cultiva ... |
| Cannabis cultivation to be legalised in Uttarakhand albeit for industry [12.10.2015] | Resident of the small mountain state Uttarakhand will now be able to take up cultivation of cannabis purely for industrial purposes. According to off ... |
| Legalizing cannabis in India: Is it time the Parliament starts talking about it? [24.08.2015] | There have been a lot of arguments for decriminalizing marijuana consumption from multiple reports in the Times of India to online petitions and Face ... |
| Cannabis ban is elitist. It should go: Tathagata Satpathy [28.03.2015] | BJD chief whip in Lok Sabha (India's lower house in parliament) Tathagata Satpathy recently admitted on social media that he smoked cannabis in his y ... |
| 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 ... |
| How do you treat pain when most of the world's population can't get opioids? [02.03.2015] | In the United States, where doctors write more than 250 million prescriptions for painkillers a year, the frequency of abuse and overdose represents ... |
| Drug policy in India [14.02.2015] | India’s response to drugs flows along an extraordinary spectrum – of tradition and modernity; of widespread availability and stringent enforcement; o ... |
| Too harsh to work [16.12.2014] | There is no appetite in India for a serious conversation on drugs. The prime minister’s recent radio talk on the subject confirms that. Yet, drugs an ... |
| Dynamics of ganja cultivation in Manipur [16.08.2014] | In the absence of alternative means of livelihood, ganja cultivation for decades has been the mainstay of livelihood for many families in the backwar ... |
| Bouncing Back [30.04.2014] | TNI's indepth examination of the illegal drug market in the Golden Triangle, which has witnessed a doubling of opium production, growing prison popul ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bom Bhole! [19.01.2014] | In India, from 1985 onwards, when cannabis cultivation and possession was criminalised under the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) ... |
| First Southeast Asia Opium Farmers Forum [16.12.2013] | In July 2013 TNI and Paung Ku organised the First Southeast Asia Opium Farmers Forum, bringing together some 30 representatives of local communities ... |
| 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 ... |
| Cannabis and the 1961 Convention [12.03.2013] | Over the past years, there have been some soft and hard defections on cannabis control. It is now time to discuss alternatives that are based on fact ... |
| How to do drugs right [24.12.2012] | Recently, two states in the US, Washington and Colorado, liberalised their narcotics laws and decriminalised recreational marijuana. India though, is ... |
| 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 ... |
| India [07.11.2011] | Trends Drug users in India have long been the target of systematic profiling, leading in turn to unwarranted detention and arrests. However, some pos ... |
| On the Frontline of Northeast India [01.03.2011] | Conflict and underdevelopment in the region have contributed to drug consumption and production, and are hampering access to treatment, care and supp ... |
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