Cannabis in India is regulated by the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act of 1985. The law imposes a ban on extracting the resin and flowers from the plant, while permitting cannabis use for medicinal and scientific purposes.

The land that first made the world consider cannabis to be a dangerous substance – in the 1930s, films like Reefer Madness even demonised the recreational use of ganja as leading to crime, madness an…