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Uttar Khairbari General Population 2024
Uttar Khairbari General Population 2025 is a domesticate landrace cannabis accession collected by Isabella and Éloïse of the Zomia Collective in West Bengal, India.
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Cannabis in colonial Burma
Cannabis in colonial Burma covers how the British administration of Burma dealt with the hemp drugs, ganja, bhang and charas, from licensed sale before 1872 to a prohibition still in force in 1936. Ganja was sold under licence until 1872. The Government of India's Resolution No. 3773 of 17 December 1873 recorded that cultivation and consumption had been prohibited "from the beginning of the year 1873–74". The ban passed into the Excise Act of 1881. The Indian Hemp Drugs Commission called Burma the one case in British India where control by taxation had been "definitely abandoned".
Officials explained the ban by a line between "natives of India", who used the drug, and Burmans, who were to be kept from it. In 1894 the Commission found that the prohibition "has not been effectual" and recommended licensed sale to Indians; the Government of India referred the question to the Chief Commissioner of Burma in 1895. The province kept the ban. The provincial government dropped a proposal to legalise possession and sale in 1919–20. The Legislative Council rejected another in 1933–34. Licences were issued only to possess ganja for treating elephants and, from 1930–31, to sell pharmacists' preparations of Indian hemp.
Two former officials of the last Burmese government described the royal rule to the Commission in 1894. The Kinwun Mingyi, once Prime Minister, said the drug was forbidden because Buddhism forbids it. A first offender was warned and bound over; a second went to prison. The ban reached use and not cultivation. He added that natives of India living in Mandalay answered to the British Resident, so the rule did not apply to them. Myowun U Pe Si, Town Magistrate of Mandalay for seventeen years, said liquor, opium and ganja were all prohibited and ganja smokers were punished least. The rule, in his words, "originates in religion, but the king sanctioned it". …
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