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The page covers cannabis in the Republic of India as a whole: the three preparations and their names, the growing regions, the texts and travellers' accounts before 1790, licence and excise under the East India Company and the Crown, the national law since 1985 and the state rules under it, enforcement, religious and social use, medicine and the herbarium and seed collections. Each part is a summary of a fuller page: the preparations on Bhang, Ganja and Charas; the regions on their own pages, from Western Himalayas to Western Ghats; the colonial period on Cannabis in colonial India and Indian Hemp Drugs Commission; the statute on Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985; worship on Cannabis in Hinduism; medicine on Ayurveda and Cannabis in Ayurveda; and the state of West Bengal on Cannabis in West Bengal. The licensed tract of colonial Bengal, now in Bangladesh, is covered on Cannabis in Bangladesh and Ganja Mahal.
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- Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, vol. I (1894) is the main witness for cultivation, trade, use and administration in the 1890s; vols. III and IV supply the provincial memoranda and witness evidence cited for Kashmir, Madras and Assam.
- Chattopadhyaya (2026), Ganja Matters, is a history of the excise regime and of the 1985 Act; the readings attributed to him are his.
- The National Policy on Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Department of Revenue) is the government's own statement of how the 1985 Act treats bhang, cultivation and wild growth.
- Chopra and Chopra (1957), in the Bulletin on Narcotics, is the survey of the cannabis drugs in India in the 1950s.
- Figures for eradication since 2014 come from the Narcotics Control Bureau's annual report and from press reports of police and state statements; each is given with its year and its area.
The Kullu Valley acreage
- The IANS report of January 2021 states that "Police records show that there are 50,000 acres of land under cannabis cultivation in the Kullu Valley alone". The sentence is not attributed to a named officer in the report; the only statement it attributes to the Director General of Police concerns the seizure it reports.