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Page scope
The page treats halwa made with bhang or ganja, as the cited sources record it in India. It does not cover halwa in general, nor the Mediterranean helwa sweets that Bouquet (1950) says were sometimes laced with hashish.
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Sources
- Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, vol. I, ch. VIII, para. 429, p. 158, lists halwa "in general use" among the hemp sweetmeats. The word is read from the page image; the OCR text garbles it.
- McDonnell's Mysore memorandum (vol. III, pp. 144–145) is cited from its page images. It spells the word alwa and prints each recipe as a table of ingredients, quantities and prices. The article names the ingredients and does not reproduce the quantities.
- Chopra and Chopra (1957) is cited from the UNODC web edition, which carries no page numbers. Sharma (1977) repeats their description with a citation to them and is not cited as a separate witness.
Is it cannabis?
- The commission lists halwa among sweetmeats made with ganja, bhang or charas. McDonnell's recipes put ganja in it, and the Chopras use bhang or ganja.
- Ordinary halwa contains no cannabis. In McDonnell's account the ganja went into it only when a buyer asked for it and supplied it.
Title
- The page is titled by the sweet, the name the sources use, with McDonnell's alwa as a redirect.
Kind and plant part
- Sweet. Leaf and flower: bhang and ganja.
- Still made: not known from the sources cited.
Not used
- The quantities and prices of McDonnell's tables are not reproduced, except the ganja in each recipe and the price and weight of a ball.
- Alwa kamera-jafran, McDonnell's adults' recipe, is described in the Mysore section and is a redirect to it; it is not a separate page because it is one of three recipes for the same sweet. The name is not glossed: the recipe's table lists no saffron, and the memorandum does not explain the name.