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Bengal's ganja harvesters bow to the crop before trampling it

In the Ganja Mahal the "ganja-doctor" (poddar) arrived in late November to find and snap the male plants, since only unfertilised females made potent ganja.[1] Flowering heads were trampled under mats for four days into flat ganja, or rolled into round ganja, with broken fragments sold as stronger chir ganja.[1] Workers bowed to the ganja before placing their feet on it, timed weddings to the months after the drug was sold and the rent paid, and scheduled cutting and sowing by Hindu and Muslim lucky days.[1]

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References

  1. Cannabis Britannica: Empire, Trade, and Prohibition, 1800–1928James H. Mills · Oxford University Press · 2003 · Chapter 3, printed pp. 54–57; the poddar, flat, round and chir ganja, the bow to the crop, wedding timing and auspicious days · ISBN 9780199249381

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