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Pillai legiyam
Preparation
KindSweet
Part of the plantFlower
Place and time
CountryIndia
Recorded inIndian Hemp Drugs Commission
First recorded1894[1]: 190
Still madeNot known
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Pillai legiyam is a preparation of ganja fried in ghee, strained and mixed with sugar, recorded in the Madras Presidency. L. C. Miller, the acting collector of Trichinopoly, listed it in 1893 among the ganja preparations eaten in his district, in his evidence to the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission.[1]: 190 In 1957 I. C. and R. N. Chopra gave the same description of it among the special ganja preparations of Madras, with purnadhi legiyam, majiyam and purnadhi.[2]

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Indian Hemp Drugs Commission (1894). "Evidence of Mr. L. C. Miller, Acting Collector of Trichinopoly". Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1893–94. Vol. VI: Evidence of Witnesses from Central Provinces and Madras. Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India. Madras witness no. 18, pp. 190–192 – via Internet Archive.
  2. ↑ Chopra, I. C.; Chopra, R. N. (1957). "The use of the cannabis drugs in India". Bulletin on Narcotics (1). United Nations: 4–29.