India's cannabis policy reflects a reality that no longer exists. Millions of Indians consume cannabis, several states already regulate aspects of its cultivation and traditional use, and industrial hemp is emerging as a legitimate economic opportunity.
Acting on reliable intelligence, a special team was constituted under the direction of the DIG (Southern Range) and led by the Superintendent of Police, Koraput.
The Berhampur Government Railway Police, in coordination with the Railway Protection Force, nabbed two drug peddlers, who were natives of Murshidabad district in West Bengal.
On hot pursuit, cops of two police stations intercepted the vehicle loaded with psychotropic substances and booked a housewife and her 'business partner' on a state highway in Kalna on Saturday.
A huge cache of cannabis locally called ganja was seized by police in Odisha’s Koraput district, and five suspected drug peddlers were taken into custody under relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, police said on Wednesday.
Two suspected drug peddlers were arrested after a raid at a courier delivery unit, police said.
This seizure figure and the arrest of traffickers did not include the recovery and arrest made by the Odisha Excise Department.
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The Union minister called it a first of its kind research project in India which has a great potential to produce export quality medicine for neuropathies, cancer and epilepsy.
Police and SEB officials jointly destroyed 650 acres of cannabis cultivation in Munchingiputtu, Pedabayalu, G.Madugula, Annavaram and Seeleru.
