The Chhattisgarh High Court on Monday dismissed a public interest litigation (PIL), in which the state government asked to allow ganja cultivation for industrial and medical objectives, called it “disaster in future”.
A bench of Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Bibhu Dutta stated that the petitioner, “below the garment of a gene,” was asking him to allow him (petitioner) to develop the ecosystem of industrial ganja/cannabis, in the interest of the state of Chhattisgarh ”
In his petition, the petitioner – a Dr. Sachin Kail – asked the government to “define” industrial hemp and authorize “industrial ganja growing and maintaining, industrial and medical ganja cultivation, processing and use to benefit the local people through its commercial use and also benefit its medicinal properties”.
The petitioner underlined several benefits of drug, economic, social environmental purposes to ganja, in which the reaction was not received on 22 February, 2024 after its representation to the Chhattisgarh government on February 22, 2024, citing a report of a British era in holy books and Indian culture to connect the plant.
Calling Ganja as “Golden Plant” and “new generation gold mines” for farmers of Chhattisgarh, he said that the drugs and psychotropic substances (NDPs) Act states that there is a large scale farming of ganja for horticultural and industrial use under Indian law, and the power to fix boundaries within the state government.
Despite this, he argued that no regulation has been done by the government to facilitate the medical use of the plant or industrial use. To make his case, he cited examples of Uttarakhand of the states, which in 2018, became the first state in India to legalize industrial ganja cultivation for commercial use, and Himachal Pradesh.
“Uttarakhand has issued detailed guidelines on industrial ganja cultivation and Himachal Pradesh has formed a committee for investigation and possibility of industrial ganja cultivation,” he said.
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The bench, however, did not buy the argument. Describing the petition as misuse of the judicial process, the bench said that the courts cannot instruct the government to take policy decisions – especially sensitive subjects such as intoxicating control.
Cainbis consumption is a matter of severe concern, saying, “The consumption of intoxicating and psychological substances in the state of Chhattisgarh has increased manifold in recent years and not only has bad effects on the body and mind of the person consuming it, but it also ruins the whole family and society”.
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