The Excise Act of 19 March 1896 came into force at once in the North-Western Provinces and Oudh, the Punjab, the Central Provinces, Burma, Coorg, and Ajmere and Merwara. Intoxicating drugs under the act include ganja, bhang, charas and every preparation or admixture of them. The Burma reprint gives the retail-sale quantities as one ser of bhang and five tolas of ganja or charas. Bengal continued under its own excise law.[1][2]
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References
- Excise Act, 1896 (Act XII), Burma code reprintSection 1(2) and 1(3); definition of intoxicating drugs; retail-sale quantities. Later Burma footnotes mean this reprint is not the 19 March 1896 gazette.archived
- I. C. Chopra and R. N. Chopra — The use of the cannabis drugs in India, UN Bulletin on Narcotics, 1957, issue 1archived
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