A system of restricted cultivation comparable to Bengal's Ganja Mahal was introduced in the Central Provinces, the only province to follow Bengal before the Hemp Drugs Commission. Officials there had argued that rising liquor taxes were pushing drinkers towards ganja, which was largely untaxed, and that restriction was practicable because hemp was not grown there for fibre.[1]
Listed for context. No score change is recorded for India here.
References
- Ganja and the Government of India: Cannabis, Excise, and Colonial Administration in the Late Nineteenth CenturyPeter Hynd · In Cannabis: Global Histories, edited by Lucas Richert, James H. Mills · MIT Press · 2021 · pp. 43–44 · ISBN 9780262366137
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