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The page treats fakki or fanki, the name given in the Punjab, Berar and Bombay in the 1890s for eaten ganja or bhang. The small balls of bhang eaten with sweets, and the bhang balls sold in the Himalayas, are described on Bhang. The sources give them no name, and they are not treated as fakki.
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Sources
- Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, vol. I, ch. VIII, para. 428, p. 158, is cited from the page image. The OCR text garbles both names.
- The Bijapur deputy collector's letter of 30 August 1893, extracted in the Bombay memorandum (vol. III, p. 94), is cited from the text layer and checked against the page.
Where the sources disagree
- The commission's fakki is a paste swallowed as a bolus. The Bijapur letter's fakki is a parched, ground powder mixed with poppy seeds and sugar. The article gives both and does not reconcile them.
Is it cannabis?
- Both sources name ganja or bhang as the drug in it.
Kind and plant part
- Dish, as eaten bhang that is neither a drink nor a sweetmeat. Leaf and flower: ganja and bhang.
- Still made: not known from the sources cited.
Not used
- No derivation of the word is given: none of the sources cited offers one.