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India's Dangerous Drugs Act leaves cannabis to the provinces

The Dangerous Drugs Act 1930 became the national law for narcotics, but it contained no national rule on growing, selling, possessing or consuming hemp; those remained matters for provincial, later state, excise laws. Making cannabis extract and tincture was prohibited except under licence.[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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