Paderu: Inside India's cannabis capital | Economic Times

Here’s the dope on a big business: Nearly 1,000 villages devote 10,000 acres to a plant used to make a product that commands a price of Rs 40,000 per kg in major urban markets. The plant is cannabis. The place is Paderu in Andhra Pradesh, the centre of eight mandals that cultivate the plant. Tune in as ET’s Shantanu Nandan Sharma takes you inside the cannabis capital of India.

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50 Comments

  1. Jitendra Singh on March 12, 2021 at 10:02 pm

    Legalize it. Weed is not the problem, it’s the SOLUTION!!!



  2. Wery on March 12, 2021 at 10:04 pm

    It’s good, the govt should legalize it so India can export and earn money. Let pharma companies also use it.



  3. Dr Dixit on March 12, 2021 at 10:04 pm

    Fuck you bitch
    Your news is itself illegal



  4. Rahul Dhande on March 12, 2021 at 10:05 pm

    Thank you @ The Economic Times



  5. mitul vashi on March 12, 2021 at 10:06 pm

    Reporter seems already high.



  6. Dvr Murthy on March 12, 2021 at 10:07 pm

    This is near my city, vizag



  7. Prasanjeet Haldar on March 12, 2021 at 10:07 pm

    Nature will illegal….how lol😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠



  8. Alex Gary on March 12, 2021 at 10:07 pm

    The whole lots of specail Green Grass that i want to dive in..



  9. sanjeevan singh on March 12, 2021 at 10:09 pm

    Make it legal



  10. Hridkamal Roy on March 12, 2021 at 10:12 pm

    All these lands are under dispute. Not government owned. A lot of tribes live in paderu and different people from different tribes have claimed the same pieces of land which makes those lands without any proper ownership. It is easy to grow ganja on these lands because there is no proof as who is growing it or whose land it is grown on.



  11. Sarthak Chakrabarti on March 12, 2021 at 10:12 pm

    Don’t you dare call it a fucking problem



  12. TOBO on March 12, 2021 at 10:14 pm

    Birtish banned marijuana(natural medecine) so they could sell their chemical medecine in india way back in the history……..but now time has changed but the rules aren’t ……so sad to say but we still follow their steps



  13. MItAkPA on March 12, 2021 at 10:15 pm

    At least they are not Robbing banks and murdering people for money. They are growing some plant to support there family’s. Besides it’s safer than tobacco and alcohol.



  14. anirudh reddy on March 12, 2021 at 10:15 pm

    legalize it



  15. santu .b on March 12, 2021 at 10:18 pm

    Just fxking legalizes it….. It’s been illegal after independence… bc….our ancestors might never dreamt of it being illegal for there childrens



  16. Ankur Singh on March 12, 2021 at 10:21 pm

    Its not a problem but a blessing. Rajiv Gandhi banned it due to US. They legalized it, the country is earning again. Modi doesnt gives a shit.



  17. Jeevan prakash on March 12, 2021 at 10:21 pm

    whats the songs name?



  18. Soumyajyoti Paul on March 12, 2021 at 10:23 pm

    Police will lose, anyone who goes against this holy plant will lose



  19. Aadhi on March 12, 2021 at 10:23 pm

    If you have half of a brain you would think about why there is such a high demand all across the country even among well educated circles. It’s not a matter of "if" ganja will get legalized it’s only a matter of when.



  20. arvind chahal on March 12, 2021 at 10:29 pm

    ye chutiya editor camera utha kar dikha raha hai bhaang ko. ise ne apne ko bada intelligent samjha hua hai. ye soch rha hai ke bada gyaan de rha hai jabki is chomu ko kuch nahi pata. isne kabhi gaanja sungha bhi nahi hoga gaandu ne peena to dur ki baat. aise chutiye hamesha nature ko bhi money economics ki roop main dekhta hai.



  21. Din Mad on March 12, 2021 at 10:30 pm

    kg



  22. Ally Soobratty on March 12, 2021 at 10:30 pm

    It’s better to smoke weed than taking drugs and btw it’s a source of income



  23. KM Joshy on March 12, 2021 at 10:31 pm

    @3:4. It’s not because of demand it’s because of the poverty and illiteracy of the people
    Then comes the demand.



  24. arvind chahal on March 12, 2021 at 10:33 pm

    decriminalize nature..plz..these economic editors and idiots see a drug in it. what have happened to their eyes? probably blinded by consumerism, materialism,



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  26. NoFaceKira. on March 12, 2021 at 10:34 pm

    Legalize it. Let your people eat. Foolish western cannabis policy is poison to your lands and to your people. Legalization will have a positive effect on every aspect of Indian life.



  27. Aadhi on March 12, 2021 at 10:39 pm

    free the plant



  28. PsychoNinJa on March 12, 2021 at 10:40 pm

    So there’s the heaven I’ve been looking for



  29. kunal darji on March 12, 2021 at 10:40 pm

    Dont think this plant can kill some lives but yeah some chemical based alcohol does takes somes lives.



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  31. Only Truth on March 12, 2021 at 10:41 pm

    It should not be banned , when it was not a banned plant , in my child hood when it was still not banned, no one cares about it , only sadhus and one or two people in my really big village smokes it. Only non availability made it a big issue. Our politicians and their bureaucrats are really dumbasses .



  32. Sonu Kumar on March 12, 2021 at 10:41 pm

    Why this people criticize it that it much. While having a bottle of alcohol with menial attitude, they find it as a high society status



  33. Merkabah Now on March 12, 2021 at 10:42 pm

    It’s such a shame that a Indian, spiritual plant is branded as narcotics and made illegal just because of the world wide scandalous war on human consciousness. At least learn something from Netherlands. There is a clear difference between narcotics and psychedelics. The whole idea of banning cannabis and flooding the market with tobacco was to kill maximum number of people while making billions through hospitals and pharmacies.



  34. Sree Vivin NR on March 12, 2021 at 10:43 pm

    "They don’t consume it at all" 😂😂 nice one



  35. Ganga Parasad on March 12, 2021 at 10:44 pm

    Gaanja lene ke liye sampark 9337035807



  36. Maheer Ahmed on March 12, 2021 at 10:44 pm

    The host smoked before doing the video



  37. Soumyadeep Pradhan on March 12, 2021 at 10:44 pm

    Why you don’t talk about drink?? Or u r also profiting like govt.



  38. KCL on March 12, 2021 at 10:45 pm

    all over the kantreeii…..



  39. Rohan Singh on March 12, 2021 at 10:45 pm

    How is growing plant is against the law…?



  40. Rayhan Kabir on March 12, 2021 at 10:47 pm

    Guess how great will it be for both farmers and us….2 lakhs for them, peace for us, and a slap in the face of corrupt ministers and officials <3



  41. Uttam Rao on March 12, 2021 at 10:50 pm

    Where is this place in Andhraa..?



  42. Muhammed Irshad on March 12, 2021 at 10:50 pm

    😮



  43. Ram Bhakt Rajputana on March 12, 2021 at 10:50 pm

    This anchor knows nothing about
    It, just a random guy getting pictures clicked,, what a waste of time



  44. RITESH SHINDE on March 12, 2021 at 10:51 pm

    God give us weed and take tobacco instead🙏



  45. teja sam on March 12, 2021 at 10:56 pm

    is the reporter high on weed or he talks like that normally?



  46. King Louis XVI on March 12, 2021 at 10:56 pm

    It’s ganja not gunja



  47. Himanshu Sekhar Tripathy on March 12, 2021 at 10:57 pm

    yeah it should be legalized in india now, it was because of us we signed the ban on weed, now us is on high openly lol.



  48. RealTalk on March 12, 2021 at 10:58 pm

    The whole time they didn’t show what the product actually looks like lol



  49. Din Mad on March 12, 2021 at 10:59 pm

    ash



  50. Chowdhry Corp. on March 12, 2021 at 11:00 pm

    Now I know where I get my weed here in bluru. Damn…. I have been till now spending 40k for 2k worth of pot? Shit… Hard realisation.