The Madras Abkari Act of 1886 was extended in 1889 to intoxicating drugs prepared from the hemp plant, after the governor-general ordered the province to begin taxing ganja. At first the authorities only auctioned licences for sellers; cultivation was not confined to specific tracts until 1898. By 1900 the province had 433 licensed shops selling cannabis drugs, nearly 60 per cent more than two years earlier, and revenue that had been nil before 1889 reached 172,766 rupees.[1]
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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. 44–45 · ISBN 9780262366137
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