Jammu to pioneer India’s first Cannabis Medicine Project

Jammu to pioneer India’s first Cannabis Medicine Project

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Category : National Published on: July 27 2023

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India’s first Cannabis Medicine Project is going to be set up in Jammu.
The project is under public-private partnership (PPP) with a Canadian firm.
The project has the potential to produce medicines that are currently imported from foreign countries, thereby promoting indigenous production and reducing dependency on external sources.
Cannabis is a generic term used to denote the several psychoactive preparations of the plant Cannabis sativa. The major psychoactive constituent in cannabis is delta 9 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).
The central law that deals with cannabis (weed or marijuana) in India is the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985.
For instance, Odisha is a state in which weed is legal in India and people commonly use ‘chillums’ to smoke weed within the state’s territory. Uttarakhand is the first state in India to allow commercial cultivation of Hemp.

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