It's not just a 'joint'- Ganja Business in India
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Mumbai, September 12: With many revelations coming out through the Sushant Singh Rajput death case, the drugs scandal has taken the limelight now. Due to this, it is longer the case of the late actor but the drug business widely spread in our country raising many questions.
Where does the ganja come from in metropolitan cities? Where it is sold at extensively profitable prices? What is the main motto behind this drug smuggling? How it is affecting our economy? Does it have a connection with Naxliest or JNU? Does narcotic syndicates and terrorism have any connection?
This is for those who are trivializing the ongoing drug cartel expose in the Bollywood-politician-police-underworld network and for those who think "It's just one joint".
There has been many ganja seizures stats in India which shows that most ganja originates in the Andhra-Orissa border. It is dominated by the Naxalites and surprisingly, Naxalites force the farmers to take ganja crops because it becomes the most primary source of income for the Maoists. However, these farmers do not even know that it is illegal.
People should have a look at the Ganja seizures stats in India. Most Ganja originates in the Andhra-Orissa border, dominated by the Naxalites, grown by forced labour.
— Dr Kiran Kumar Karlapu (@scarysouthpaw) September 8, 2020
A prime source of income for the Maoist crooks.
The economics is just not as simple as getting high on a joint.
Various central agencies (led by DRI) have had huge hauls of Ganja in recent years. This has broken the economic spine of Naxalism. Noone wants revolution on an empty stomach. If one gets the information for Ganja seizures in India you will see raids that Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh often have a connection leading back to the agency area of Andhra Pradesh or Koraput district in Odisha. It definitely leads us to the Maoists.
For the urban college folk or twitter warriors, it can be just a single joint or maybe just weed. However, in reality, it isn't just a single joint or just weed. It is more than "just weed". It's the way that India has been battling and has been quite successful as has been the greatest internal security threat - the threat of Left Wing Extremism in the East of the country.
The police paramilitary actions we see in the front are just a part of the overt war. But in reality, this is the other covert war, economic warfare where you starve your opponent to smoke them out and ganja raids are a big part of it.
Recently, the DRI has seized 550 kilos of Ganja enroute while it was being illegally transported to Bihar from Andhra Pradesh on 8 September. On Thursday, Bengaluru police busted a major drug racket, seizing 1.3 tonnes of ganja in Kalaburagi. The first raid was carried out at a village in Kamalapura Hubli near National Highway 50, while the second raid was held at a sheep farm Laccha Nayaka Tanda (hamlet) in Kalagi taluk. The police seized 150 kgs and 1,200 kgs respectively.