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The British start commercial ganja growing at Naogaon

Ganja had long been grown around Naogaon, in northern Bengal; legend has the first seed brought from Jessore. In 1906 the colonial government began commercial cultivation there and appointed a registrar to collect the revenue.[1]

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References

  1. Wikipedia — Ganja Societyarchived

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