Gujarat, a state with alcohol prohibition, removed bhang from the intoxicating drugs covered by its Prohibition Act. The minister of state for home said bhang is consumed only as an offering of Lord Shiva, and that the government had decided to exempt it in view of public sentiment.[1]
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