Guwahati: In a major breakthrough, Government Railway Police (GRP) seized around 30 kg of Ganja from platform no 3 at Guwahati Railway Station during a patrolling duty in the early hours today.
The GRP team also arrested one Md Rupan Miya (19) son of Md Abdul Basar of Khairabari village of Sonamora Police Station in West Tripura District in connection to the incident.
Speaking to the media, the GRP officials informed that the accused was arrested while he was about to board a train from platform no 3.
The recovered ganja has been seized as per provision of NDPS Act. A case is being registered in this connection.
Further investigation is on.
It is to be noted that Ganja is a Hindi and Nepali name for hemp, derived from the word Ganja referring to a "powerful preparation of Cannabis Sativa". The term ganja, one of the oldest and most commonly-used synonyms for marijuana in the English language, dates to before 1689.
The word was used in Europe as early as 1856 when the British enacted a tax on the "ganja" trade.
One academic source places the date of introduction of ganja in Jamaica in 1845. The term came with 19th-century workers whose descendants are now known as Indo-Jamaicans.
Cannabis, also known as marijuana among other names, is a psychoactive drug from the Cannabis plant used for medical or recreational purposes. The main psychoactive part of cannabis is tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), one of the 483 known compounds in the plant,[20] including at least 65 other cannabinoids. Cannabis can be used by smoking, vaporizing, within the food, or as an extract.
Cannabis is mostly used for recreation or as a medicinal drug, although it may also be used for spiritual purposes. In 2013, between 128 and 232 million people used cannabis (2.7% to 4.9% of the global population between the ages of 15 and 65).
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