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Mizo Hills is a Growing Area in the Indo-Burman Range growing region. It treats cannabis in the Mizo Hills of Mizoram, the Lushai country of the colonial sources, from the evidence given to the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission in 1893–94. The state as an administrative unit belongs at Mizoram.
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Why the area is on the map
- J. J. S. Driberg, Commissioner of Excise for Assam, to the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission (Vol. IV, Assam witness no. 2, answer 70, p. 533). He names the hills round the Surma valley: the Khasi and Jaintia Hills and Hill Tippera to Sylhet's north and south; North Cachar, Manipur and "the Lushai country, which we took over in 1891" round Cachar. He then says: "All these hill tracts are ganja-producing tracts, and the drug is brought down to the plains and secretly sold or bartered for other commodities."
- The Commission's summary of the wild growth (Vol. I, para. 84) runs along the frontier ranges "from Independent Tippera, through Lushailand, Manipur, and the country of the Kachins".
- This is a blanket statement. Driberg names no place inside the Lushai country, and does not say whether the plant there was sown, tended or wild. The Commission (Vol. I, para. 102) judged hill cultivation in the province to be "of a very inferior sort, if indeed the plant is tended at all".
- No report of cannabis grown in Mizoram since 2000 was found: the reports read are of seizures of dry ganja, and of seized drugs burnt on court orders.
How the border is drawn
- The border is a proxy: the state of Mizoram, the former Lushai Hills District, from its OpenStreetMap administrative relation (2029046). The outline measures about 21,100 km², the figure in the infobox; Encyclopædia Britannica gives 21,081 km².
- The 1893 evidence names the Lushai country as a whole, without places inside it.
Growing status
The status is Historical. The evidence is from 1893–94, and no source read reports cannabis growing in Mizoram since 2000 or says that it ended. The infobox gives no years grown: no source gives a year in which cannabis was grown there.
Where the sources disagree
- Driberg (1893) counts the Lushai country among the ganja-producing tracts. R. B. McCabe (p. 539), who had lived for years among the hill peoples, had never seen the people of the Lushai Hills smoke ganja. The two statements concern production and use, and the article gives both, attributed.
Sources not used
- No colonial account of the Lushai Hills beyond the evidence given to the Commission was read.