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On special occasions like the Hindu festival of Holi, fresh marigold flowers frame the hand-drawn menus in blood red lettering, cashew and almond milkshakes are mixed with bhang and served endlessly, and foreign tourists sporting psychedelic tattoos of mandalas and tridents stand in the same queue as local Indian families eager for their stash of bhang. Ravi Jaiswal, the year-old manager of the shop, joined the business when he was 15, taking over the reins from his father. For Jaiswal, even as a child, the sheer buzzing energy of the shop and its customers was contagious. In India, the cannabis plant has a long and complicated legal and social history. The law itself is often attributed to the conservatism of the Reagan-era drug policies and the pressures that came with India and other countries adopting the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of that carted cannabis with hard drugs. This is where bhang comes into the picture. His company is the first and largest marketplace in India where you can purchase medical and sustainable cannabis products. It works closely with many licensed cannabis manufacturers who cultivate and collect cannabis from Uttarakhand. In , Uttarakhand became the first state to issue a licence for the industrial cultivation of cannabis to the Indian Industrial Hemp Association IIHA — a non-profit organisation that promotes the industrial use of hemp — to grow the fibre over a plot of 1, hectares, on a pilot basis. Sharma is one of its members. This is made by boiling a mixture of milk, sugar, poppy seeds, pepper, ginger, cloves, cardamom, almonds, pistachios, nutmeg, and rosebuds with bhang. When made right, the drink is delicious and cooling, which is a major relief in sultry months. On Holi — the Hindu festival heralding spring — bhang shops get peak demand for various products, from bhang golis digestive pills to the famous thandai. Shiva , one of three principal deities of Hinduism, is said to have sought refuge under a cannabis plant after a heated argument with his family, only to be taken by its cooling properties when he consumed it. He is said to have later used cannabis as a relaxant during meditation. Another legend mentions Shiva consuming cannabis to cool himself off after he drank the poison that emerged from the great churning of the ocean, known as the Samudra Manthan, by the gods and demons. Many folk songs across the country, particularly in north India, refer to the cannabis plant, and bhang in particular, as the nectar of the gods. For the government-licensed bhang shops, obtaining the raw material in the form of crushed leaves and stems is a rather straightforward process. Sukhpal Singh, who runs his legal bhang shop in Noida on the outskirts of the capital Delhi, told VICE that the raw material has to come solely from government godowns. Where does the cannabis come from before landing in the godowns, though? Sharma of itshemp, the online cannabis marketplace, said there are usually three sources: from the busts and seizures made by the narcotics department, the farmers who legally cultivate it, and from forests where cannabis grows in the wild. Ankush Khurrana is a part-time cannabis cultivator from Uttarakhand who also acts as the middleman between the government godowns and the farmers. The farmers sell their raw material to the government in the form of coarsely crushed leaves and stems that must have a certain amount of moisture, colour and richness. Khurrana added that while hashish and marijuana derivatives of the plant can usually be lab tested for their potency, there is no established way to ascertain this for the raw materials that go into bhang. The cultivation-distribution-sale chain is also not uniform in all the states. The NDPS Act, Sharma said, allows states to formulate their own policies on distribution and cultivation, while steering clear of what is explicitly prohibited by the law. Sachin Awasthi, a farmer from Uttarakhand who has the licence to both cultivate and collect cannabis from the forests, told VICE that there is a downside to the states having different policies on distribution and cultivation. So, we end up importing the seeds from other countries under special licences. However, no THC limit applies to cannabis that grows in the wild. So, Awasthi and other farmers often gather their raw materials from wild cannabis under the collection licence. India already seems to be making conscious efforts for the wider adoption and cultivation of cannabis. In December , the country joined the majority that voted to remove cannabis and cannabis resin from Schedule IV drugs prone to abuse and not offset even by therapeutic advantages of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs — the same convention that had led to the NDPS Act. In the non-festive months when the business is slow, they stock up on the raw material for the festive months when the demand is high — the government quota is the same every month. Follow Arman Khan on Instagram. By Arman Khan. By John Buckley. By Katie Way. By Prachi Sibal. Share: X Facebook Share Copied to clipboard. Videos by VICE. Read Next. How Will Weed Couriers Adapt?