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Tightening 🇮🇳 India

British India passes its first act restricting hemp drugs

Until then cannabis was grown for household use or gathered wild without restriction. Act XXII of 1881 restricted the use of the drugs; twelve years later the government appointed the Hemp Drugs Commission to examine the whole question.[1]

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References

  1. 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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