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Naga Hills is a Growing Area in the Indo-Burman Range growing region. It treats cannabis grown or found growing in Nagaland, and what the colonial sources said about it in the Naga Hills. The state as an administrative unit belongs at Nagaland. The Naga areas of Manipur are treated at Manipur Hills.
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Why the area is on the map
- Nagaland Post (19 August 2017): about 100 marijuana plants growing in Kipongya ward, Kiphire town, destroyed by residents.
- The Morung Express (21 April 2018): marijuana growing on the Dhansiri banks near Beisumpuikam, Peren District, found by the Assam Rifles on 8 April and destroyed on 11 April.
- The Morung Express (26 June 2017): the Inspector General of Police (Crime) said that local people were "slowly and discreetly turning to cultivation of especially cannabis". He named no place.
- Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1893–94: "In the Naga Hills ganja grows profusely" (Driberg); Nagas on the Sibsagar frontier cultivated it surreptitiously (Driberg); the plant was a "jungle product" there (the Commission; McCabe).
- Neither modern report says whether the plants were sown or self-sown.
How the border is drawn
- The border is a proxy: the state of Nagaland, from its OpenStreetMap administrative relation (about 16,600 km²). The two reported sites, in Kiphire and Peren districts, lie inside it.
- In the 1890s the Naga Hills district held only part of the Naga country, and Driberg called the remaining tribes "practically independent". The page is drawn on the present state only; the Naga areas of Manipur belong to Manipur Hills, and nothing is drawn beyond the Indian border.
Growing status
The status is Active, on the 2017 and 2018 reports and the 2017 police statement. A Morung Express editorial of December 2022 said that local cultivation had not been reported in Nagaland; both are given on the page.
Where the sources disagree
- Cultivation in the 1890s. Driberg said the Nagas of the Sibsagar frontier cultivated hemp; McCabe said the Nagas he spoke to had not planted it; the Statistical Account of Assam (1879) states that hemp was not cultivated in the Naga Hills district. The page gives all three.
- The Peren site. The Assam Rifles' statement of April 2018 answered a report of 18 April, carrying the Intangki National Park director's statement that no marijuana was cultivated inside the park. The page places the site as the Assam Rifles did, on the Dhansiri banks towards the reserve forest.
Other reports
- J. H. Hutton's tour diary for 17 February 1928 records ganja grown "in small quantities in their gardens, presumably for sale in the plains" at Yanha (Joboka), a village beyond the administered area, and says the administered villages further south traded more of it. Where Yanha lies today is not settled by the diary, so it is not used on the page.
- Nagaland Post and The Morung Express carry many seizures of ganja in transit (Peren, Kohima, Dimapur, Chümoukedima). They are not cultivation and are not used.
Sources not used
- Searches of Mills, The Lhota Nagas (1922), Hutton, The Sema Nagas (1921), Hodson, The Naga Tribes of Manipur (1911), and Johnstone, My Experiences in Manipur and the Naga Hills (1896), found no mention of hemp, cannabis or ganja.
- Hutton, The Angami Nagas (1921), Mills, The Ao Nagas (1926) and The Rengma Nagas (1937), and Allen's Naga Hills and Manipur gazetteer (1905) could not be searched.