Abstract
THE October issue of the British Journal of Inebriety contains an instructive article by Brevet-Colonel R. N. Chopra and Captain G. S. Chopra of the School of Tropical Medicine, Calcutta, on the present position of hemp drug addiction in India. Hemp drugs in India are at present used in three forms, namely, bhang, which is taken as a beverage, while ganja, which is nearly four or five times more potent, and charas, the effects of which are even stronger than those produced by ganja, are mostly smoked. The cultivation of the hemp plant which grows wild in Northern India along the southern slopes of the Himalayas is strictly controlled for narcotic purposes. The total consumption of hemp drugs in British India during 1934-35 amounted to 1,031,496 Ib.
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Hemp Drug Addiction in India. Nature 146, 487–488 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146487d0
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