"Why don't they want Charas to have the same lease?"

In southern India there are also several places where charas is manufactured.

Charas was no longer willing to attribute this to insanity.

Even those well past drunk on bhaang or charas managed to settle down to listen.

Like threading a needle through a haystack, Charas thought, having strapped herself into the chair.

Charas officials have been mulling legal options to avoid eviction when the sale becomes final.

Ms. Howard said that the graffiti had not been written by people associated with Charas.

Besides, she said, Charas's supporters are not rich.

Charas has occupied the building since 1979.

Even at the peak of the crackdown, charas was still popular and remains so today, especially amongst Indian sadhus.

Use of the more potent preparations (ganja, charas) is not condoned for this group.

These laws have now been somewhat relaxed; however, charas has remained a popular medium for police to extort money from consumers of the drug.

The term gardaa is also some times used to describe the greenish powder-form of charas.

Charas has had some controversial allies.

Mr. Perez spent the last months of his life fighting the city's plan to auction off the building housing Charas.

Charas denies that it was in arrears.

Charas has been resisting eviction ever since.

The day after Helene's one and only fit, Commissaire Charas came to see me.

Usually preferred by the poor sadhus and rickshaw pullers, it is used primarily to smoke charas.

The cigarette is emptied on the palm, the crushed charas mixed with it and filled back into the cigarette.

But the locals are said to be making money by growing charas instead of vegetables and are assisted by the foreigners.

Ganja and charas are regarded more ambivalently as poisons or semipoisons.

But the mood that night in March, which came on the heels of what proved to be a temporary court victory for Charas, was optimistic.

Gary S. Greenstein, a lawyer for Charas, said the group would again consider legal action to prevent a sale.

The word tola is also the slang term for a measure of charas (Indian hashish)