it is considered to be cool which i completely disagree with there are quite a few of them who take drugs to be in the circuit and if you are called for a party and dont do drugs you are dropped from the guest list people want to take drugs because they want to belong to the elitist group said kunickain india cannabis is used as bhang which is legally available in many states ganja and charas are illegal as per the international drug conventions as well as the indian law the ndps act 1985 about 28 of indians aged 1075 years 31 crore individuals are current users of any cannabis product more people use bhang 2 as compared to charasganja 12 there is a preponderance of men as consumers of cannabis in the case of cannabis use too the variations across the states are visible states with a higherthannational prevalence of cannabis use are uttar pradesh punjab sikkim chhattisgarh and delhi interestingly there is not necessarily a consistent association between the prevalence figures for bhang and ganjacharas used across different states in general the trend in most of the states of the country is a higher prevalence of bhang as compared to ganja charas however the reverse trend is visible in some of the eastern and northeastern states like west bengala very small proportion of indians are estimated to be current users of cocaine males 018 females 001 this would mean about 107 lakh current users of cocaine in the country the proportion of people using cocaine in harmful and dependent patterns is also correspondingly small 003 or 32 lakh individuals states with sizable numbers of current cocaine users are maharashtra 90000 punjab 27000 and rajasthan 10000alcohol use 16 crcannabis use 31crbhang 40 lakhcharasganja 50 lakhopium 11 lakhheroin 63 lakhsource magnitude of substance abuse report 2019 ministry of social justice and empowerment national drug dependence treatment centre all india institute of medical sciences