Mode of Use & Preparation - Cannabis
Cannabis is the most widely used illicit drug in the world and is usually used in a cigarette commonly known as a ‘joint’. It is also widely used by mixing in foodstuffs, especially in tea.
There are many different ways that marihuana is used.
- Certain users make it as tea or mix it with food.
- Others smoke it using hollowed out (emptied of the tobacco) cigars, called blunts, filled with the drug.
- The most common method of usage is smoking loose marijuana rolled into a cigarette called a Joint or Nail.
- Sometimes marijuana is smoked through a water pipe called a bong, hookah, or submarine.
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Some of the common preparations of Cannabis in India are:
- Hashish/Charas: Prepared from the resinous exudates from the flowering tops of the cultivated plants
- Ganja: Prepared from the small leaves and stems of the highly cultivated non-flowering plants
- Bhang: Prepared from the dried leaves, flowering shoots, and tops of the uncultivated plants
- Hash Oil: Prepared from the fat-soluble plant extract
