Sagaing
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| Sagaing | |
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| HistoricalGrown here in the past | |
| Hierarchy | |
| Growing Region | Dry Zone |
| Geography | |
| Country | Myanmar |
| Province/State | Sagaing Region |
| District | Sagaing District |
| Coordinates | 21.88, 95.98 |
| Landscape | |
| Area | 1,700 km² |
| Terrain | Plains of the Dry Zone across the Ayeyarwady from Mandalay; approximately Sagaing and Myaung townships |
| Growing history | |
| Documentation | |
| Appellations | 0 |
| Accessions | 0 |
| Conservation | |
| Populations | none documented yet |
Sagaing is a historical cannabis growing area in Sagaing District, Sagaing Region, Myanmar, in the Dry Zone. The district's police superintendent and its Deputy Commissioner told the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission of 1893–94 that Burmans there had grown ganja on a small scale to sell to Indians, after the British had prohibited it.[1][2]
Cultivation under the prohibition
British Burma prohibited the sale and cultivation of ganja in 1873. After the annexation of Upper Burma the excise law was extended there in 1888.[3][4]
C. M. Prendergast, District Superintendent of Police at Sagaing, wrote that ganja had been grown "to a small extent" in the district by Burmans who did not know that it was prohibited. It was grown, he wrote, "for sale to natives, and not for their own consumption". He knew of no Burmans in the district who used the drug; old Burmans told him that a few "bad characters" had used it in the king's time.[1]
Major G. S. Eyre, the Deputy Commissioner, reported a case of Burmans growing ganja for sale to natives of India: they were detected and the plants destroyed at once. Indians who grew a few plants, he wrote, were generally detected and fined. He thought the use of the drug was falling. No case had come to court for some years, and illicit use, sale or possession was promptly reported for the sake of the reward.[2]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Indian Hemp Drugs Commission (1894). "Evidence of Mr. C. M. Prendergast, District Superintendent of Police, Sagaing". Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1893–94. Vol. VII: Evidence of Witnesses from Bombay, Sind, Berar, Ajmere, Coorg, Baluchistan, and Burma. Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India. Burma witness no. 28, p. 394 – via Internet Archive.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Indian Hemp Drugs Commission (1894). "Evidence of Major G. S. Eyre, Deputy Commissioner, Sagaing". Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1893–94. Vol. VII: Evidence of Witnesses from Bombay, Sind, Berar, Ajmere, Coorg, Baluchistan, and Burma. Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India. Burma witness no. 12, pp. 385–386 – via Internet Archive.
- ↑ Indian Hemp Drugs Commission (1894). Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1893–94. Vol. I: Report. Simla: Government Central Printing Office. ch. XVI, "Provincial systems examined", paras. 692–695, pp. 338–342 – via Internet Archive.
- ↑ Indian Hemp Drugs Commission (1894). "Evidence of Mr. K. G. Burne, Deputy Commissioner, Mandalay". Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1893–94. Vol. VII: Evidence of Witnesses from Bombay, Sind, Berar, Ajmere, Coorg, Baluchistan, and Burma. Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India. Burma witness no. 7, pp. 381–382 – via Internet Archive.