Thoughts on Draft Legal Cannabis Policy for India

Legalize ganja aka marijuana aka cannabis aka bhang aka hashish in India. Make it legal for 21 years and above if you're really concerned about the youth who will probably be better off with ganja than with tobacco or alcohol or pharmaceutical drugs including the banned ones.

Allow an individual to grow around 6 plants for personal use and a household to grow up to 15 plants. Allow commercial cultivation just like any other crop or produce without differentiation. Set up systems to procure additional produce and make it available in the open market at market rates. Make the ganja available to the common man like me through the same channels that vegetables and fruits are currently available i.e. HOPCOMs, pushcart vendors, etc. just like the various kinds of leafy green vegetables and herbs.

Edibles, confectioneries, beverages, etc can be produced by creative entrepreneurs in our thriving food startup communities. Make smoking cannabis legal in cafes following a license based approach if required. It will go very well with our growing food and beverage industries. Use of hemp and hemp based products should be revived and promoted. All this will give a good organic boost to Startup India. Doing this will also provide food for creativity to other startup ventures and good organic mental fertilizers for Indian companies in their midlife and dying stages. Researchers and pharma companies, please research the topic, it should open out a lot of new opportunities. This can be used to boost affordable healthcare for all. Free availability of the herb will also aid arts and craftsmanship. This should go a significant way in taking people's minds off creating products and services that are destructive in nature and to nature.

Taxation on revenues earned can give our governments significant funding so that it doesn't need to resort to any sort of coercive tactics towards society.

Ingesting some of the herb will help give clearer vision (20/20 by 2020?) to our society, its leaders, authorities, public servants, basically anyone who has the desire to think bigger, wiser, smarter, more peacefully, more in line with nature and more long term.


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