Items tagged with india and cannabis
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Himachal eyes pot of gold under grass [01.10.2023] | For almost 40 years now, cannabis cultivation has been a crime in India. But that has never stopped farmers in parts of Himachal’s Kullu, Chamba, Sir ... |
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 ... |
No complete ban on cannabis, medical use allowed: Centre to Delhi High Court [10.01.2022] | The use of cannabis is not completely banned in India as its medical and scientific use is allowed under the law, the Centre has told the Delhi High ... |
‘We will give up ganja cultivation if MSP is guaranteed for agriculture produce,’ say Odisha villagers [23.11.2021] | Despite knowing that they could be penalised under provisions of the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, for growing cannabis, vil ... |
Is it time to decriminalise Cannabis use in India? [23.10.2021] | The consumption of Cannabis (Ganja) and its resin (Charas) has been a punishable offence in India since 1985 after the enactment of the Narcotic Drug ... |
Grow landrace cannabis strains with ‘fair trade’ seeds from the source [26.04.2021] | Throughout India and Southeast Asia, indigenous farmers grow cannabis and make hashish using methods passed down for untold generations. Despite a gl ... |
Mood of the Nation poll: Despite clamour for making cannabis legal, 55% against it [22.01.2021] | Despite a growing clamour by some sections and NGOs in India to legalise the recreational use of cannabis, more than half of the respondents (55 per ... |
Legalise marijuana: Government’s contradictions on cannabis use must be ironed out [06.12.2020] | India has voted in favour in the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs to remove cannabis from Schedule IV of the 1961 Convention. It was only under Americ ... |
UN reclassification of cannabis could give India’s legalisation movement a boost [04.12.2020] | In a highly-anticipated vote held on December 2, the United Nations Commission for Narcotic Drugs reclassified cannabis as a less dangerous drug. The ... |
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 ... |
In 2017-18, 97% drugs cases in Mumbai courts over possession: study [09.09.2020] | Over 97 per cent of drug-related cases decided by Mumbai courts in 2017 and 2018 involved possession for personal consumption, according to a study b ... |
Case for decriminalising cannabis use in India [20.08.2020] | Criminalising cannabis use in India has been a much-debated topic. Vidhi’s new research study shows that it has had little impact on reduction of dru ... |
Delhi HC seeks Centre's stand on use of cannabis [07.11.2019] | The Delhi High Court has sought Centre's response over a plea filed by Great Legalisation Movement India Trust (GLMIT) challenging certain provisions ... |
Delhi HC issues notice in plea challenging prohibition and criminalization of Cannabis use in India [06.11.2019] | The Delhi High Court issued notice in a plea challenging the prohibition and criminalization of the use of cannabis in India. Notice was issued to th ... |
Not Malana cream; Nepalese charas sells in Himachal [23.09.2019] | The increase in cases of charas seizure in Himachal, especially in Kullu, despite police and state government running several programmes to destroy t ... |
Govt. has ignored benefits of cannabis, claims plea in HC [19.07.2019] | There is not a single document which shows that cannabis is lethal to human, a social cause litigation has claimed before the Delhi High Court in its ... |
Legalising cannabis could be one solution to India’s agrarian distress [31.05.2019] | In the past decade, there’s been a sea change with respect to the global attitude to cannabis. India, however, is completely out of step with this gl ... |
These are the countries most likely to legalize weed next [17.04.2019] | In October 2018, Canada became the second country after Uruguay—and the first G7 nation—to legalize the recreational use of cannabis. Led by Prime Mi ... |
Boheco: This cannabis startup is weeding out the high notes for a hemp economy [16.04.2019] | Bombay Hemp Company (BOHECO), is a first mover in the industrial hemp and medicinal cannabis’ space in India. Boheco slowly started making inroads in ... |
Fair(er) Trade Options for the Cannabis Market [21.03.2019] | Policy changes over the past five years or so have dramatically reshaped the global cannabis market. Not only has there been an unprecedented boom in ... |
Drug policy in India: Key developments since the UNGASS 2016 [20.02.2019] | This paper outlines the key drug policy developments in India since the UNGASS Outcome Document was adopted in 2016, which highlights health and huma ... |
Legalising cannabis cultivation — the dilemma remains [17.11.2018] | Faced with a surge to remove medicinal marijuana from the list of banned drugs and permit cannabis cultivation has the Himachal Government in a catch ... |
Green gold rush: Thailand, Malaysia race to legalise medical marijuana [12.11.2018] | Asia has the toughest penalties against drug use and trafficking but the legal landscape is shifting in several countries where cannabis once deemed ... |
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 ... |
Seek drug reform within international law: Tom Blickman [01.10.2018] | Dating back to the latter part of 1800s, precisely in 1894-95, the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission consisting of medical experts of Indian and British o ... |
Andhra Pradesh's north eastern hilly belt fast becoming cannabis capital of India [02.09.2018] | Paderu is the main town in the area and the cannabis produced in the entire belt is popularly called Paderu ganja. This region is quickly becoming th ... |
Gandhi’s plea to legalise soft drugs gains support [30.08.2018] | MP Dr Dharamvira Gandhi’s demand for legalising soft drugs, including poppy husk, opium and marijuana, is gaining ground. Earlier, the idea was endor ... |
Biplab Deb’s push for cannabis-free Tripura triggers exodus of farmers, they call for legalisation [24.08.2018] | Over the years, better processing systems, well-planned smuggling routes and a bigger corridor from Assam to Bangladesh helped fuel a parallel cannab ... |
Cannabis to give a ‘high’ to Himachal textiles [11.08.2018] | The Himachal Pradesh government has decided to explore the industrial possibilities with hemp, a variety of cannabis, to produce yarn for making clot ... |
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 ... |
When will weed be legalised in India? [20.04.2018] | The Great Legalisation Movement - India (GLM) was founded in Bengaluru in 2014, with the aim of legalising cannabis and hemp production. The movement ... |
CAG raps Odisha govt. for weak enforcement in drug trafficking [27.03.2018] | Though illegal cultivation of hemp over 9,548 acres were destroyed during the past three years in Odisha, the enforcement agencies managed to arrest ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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) ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
The development of international drug control [01.02.2011] | The emergence of more pragmatic and less punitive approaches to the drugs issue may represent the beginning of change in the current global drug cont ... |
European Cannabis Policies Under Attack [01.04.2002] | A strong attack against the European practice of 'leniency' regarding cannabis use and possession took place at the United Nations Commission on Narc ... |
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