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Hopar Valley General Population 2022
Hopar Valley General Population 2022 is a landrace cannabis accession from the Hopar Valley, Pakistan, listed as Hopar Valley in the seed catalogue of The Real Seed Company (RSC). RSC classifies it as a Karakoram landrace and describes it as Indica-type.
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Cannabis in Cooch Behar State
The history of cannabis in Cooch Behar State covers the cultivation, consumption, trade and regulation of cannabis in the princely state of Cooch Behar, a feudatory state of British India in the north Bengal sub-Himalaya, from the later nineteenth century until the state's merger into West Bengal in 1950. The state ran its own excise administration and kept its stocks of ganja in warehouses, the golahs.{{Rp|Council's report, pp. 9, 12}}
Cannabis grew wild across the territory as a weed of the sub-Himalayan belt, and ganja and bhang were in customary use among the Rajbanshi cultivating community and the Bengali Muslim settlers of the southern parganas. Commercial cultivation was prohibited within the state, which procured its ganja by import from the Bengal Presidency Ganja Mahal in neighbouring Rajshahi and issued it for retail from the sub-divisional golahs. The system tracked the Bengal Presidency on rates and procedure, returned a steady minor revenue and operated for some seven decades without significant public-order disturbance.
Cooch Behar acceded to the Indian Union in 1949 and merged into West Bengal as Cooch Behar district in 1950, when its excise law was assimilated to the Bengal-derived Indian framework and the 1878 Act was superseded. The simple homestead agronomy of the state's cultivator population is the substrate from which the surviving landrace cannabis populations of the present Cooch Behar district descend. read more →
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