CBD

In Kerala ( India) the £63m K-Rail project, a high-speed rail linking the state end to end.

A four feet tall marijuana  ( Cannabis) plant was found growing on government land near Palarivatton next to a pillar supporting the elevated rail of Kochi Metro, which was duly chopped down.

Cannabis has been used in the sub-continent and other Asian regions like China for thousands of years, and comes from the dried flowering tops, leaves, stems, and seeds of the cannabis Sativa hemp plant. After the British took control of India, they criminalised the use of the plant from 1833 and did not succeed as the product’s link to indigenous medicine and religious festivals. The criminalisation of cannabis started when the United States established the Federal Bureau of Narcotics in 1930, and in 1960 the United Nations made Washington’s policy a global directive, classifying the plant derivatives as hard drugs. In 1985, India passed the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS) Act, which imposed a total ban on Marijuana. Most Indian states cracked down hard, with Kerala putting an end to large-scale farming of the plant. With the times changing some plant components are useful for medical science, like in palliative care and as a stress buster, chronic pain, anxiety, inflammation, and insomnia, leading to several states in the US and countries like Britain, Denmark, and Israel, decriminalising the use of marijuana, regulating and some places sold only to those who get a prescription for it. But Canada and Uruguay have allowed it to be used for recreational purposes, which led to a boom in the sale of marijuana, and global investors sniffing the niche are backing farms and research in the field that are mushrooming. Thailand, whose strictest anti-drug laws, has actively encouraged the cultivation of marijuana as they are slated to distribute one million plants in June to the public to grow around their homes in Cambodia Marijuana is often used in local cuisine with Malaysia and Singapore are in the early stages of debating whether to legalise medical marijuana. Research by the National Centre for Biotechnology Information of the US has revealed that the “high” that a user gets from marijuana comes from Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), and Cannabinoid (CBD) is non-psychoactive and can be used in a range of products from medicine to skin cream.

Many medical experts, however, warn against allowing the widespread use of marijuana, as they claim to have found proof of it leading to severe health problems like respiratory and psychotic problems and even cancer.