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Charas (other)
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Charas is a form of cannabis. Charas may also refer to: * ''Charas'' (1976 film), a 1976 Bollywood film starring Dharmendra and Hema Malini * ''Charas'' (2004 film), a 2004 Bollywood film starring Uday Chopra, Jimmy Sheirgill, Irrfan Khan and Hrishitaa Bhatt * Charas/El Bohio, a former community center in New York City * Macabeo also known as ''Charas Blanc'' See also * Chara (other) *Charls Charls is a given name and a surname. Notable people known by this name include the following: Given name *Charls Walker (1923 – 2015), American political official Surname * Rick Charls, American high diver See also *Charas (other) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charas
Charas is a cannabis concentrate made from the resin of a live cannabis plant (''Cannabis sativa'' either '' ''Indica'''' subspecies or ''Sativa'' subspecies) and is handmade in the Indian subcontinent and Jamaica. The plant grows wild throughout Northern India along the stretch of the Himalayas (its putative origin) and is an important cash crop for the local people. The difference between charas and hashish is that hashish is made from a dead cannabis plant and charas is made from a live one. History Indian subcontinent Charas has been used across the Indian subcontinent for medicinal and religious purposes for thousands of years, and was sold in government shops (along with opium) during the times of the British India'' Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1893–94''. Simla, India: Government Central Printing House, 1894, 7 vols.Chapter XIV. The Policy of Hemp Drug Administration/ref> and in independent India until the 1980s when sale and consumption of Cannabis w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charas (1976 Film)
Charas is a cannabis concentrate made from the resin of a live cannabis plant (''Cannabis sativa'' either '' ''Indica'''' subspecies or ''Sativa'' subspecies) and is handmade in the Indian subcontinent and Jamaica. The plant grows wild throughout Northern India along the stretch of the Himalayas (its putative origin) and is an important cash crop for the local people. The difference between charas and hashish is that hashish is made from a dead cannabis plant and charas is made from a live one. History Indian subcontinent Charas has been used across the Indian subcontinent The Indian subcontinent is a list of the physiographic regions of the world, physiographical region in United Nations geoscheme for Asia#Southern Asia, Southern Asia. It is situated on the Indian Plate, projecting southwards into the Indian O ... for medicinal and religious purposes for thousands of years, and was sold in government shops (along with opium) during the times of the British India''Ind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charas (2004 Film)
''Charas'' is a 2004 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia. Set in Kasol, a village near Manikaran in Kullu, Himachal Pradesh, the film deals with illegal drug trade. It stars Jimmy Sheirgill, Uday Chopra and Irrfan Khan with Kabir Sadanand, Namrata Shirodkar, and Hrishita Bhatt playing supporting roles. Cast * Jimmy Sheirgill as Dev Anand * Uday Chopra as ACP Ashraf A. Khan * Irrfan Khan as Policeman/DCP Randhir Singh Rathore * Namrata Shirodkar as Piya Goswami * Hrishita Bhatt as Naina Thakur * Anup Soni as ACP Yashpal Chaturvedi * Varun Badola as Amin Mohammed * Kabir Sadanand ACP Siddharth Negi * Sanjay Mishra as the blind man * Deepak Dobriyal as Afghan militant * Adam Bedi as Sam Higgins * Rajiv Gupta Music The soundtrack of Charas was composed by Raju Singh with the lyrics being written by Javed Akhtar and Tigmanshu Dhulia. Critical reception The film received mixed reviews. Taran Adarsh from Bollywood Hungama rated 1 out of 5, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charas/El Bohio
CHARAS/El Bohio Community Center was a neighborhood organization and squatted community center in New York's East Village between 1979 and 2001. Background Public School 64, the 130,000-square-foot building in Manhattan's East Village that would become the CHARAS/El Bohio Community Center, was active between its completion in 1906 and its closure in 1977. It was designed in the French Renaissance Revival style by C.B.J. Snyder during a time when a population boom required schools. During New York's 1970s fiscal crisis, the surrounding neighborhood fell into disrepair. The building itself had become a drug house. Local residents, many Latino immigrants, reclaimed these buildings. CHARAS was an organization that emerged from the Real Great Society, a self-organized, education-focused group of young organizers who had grown up in the neighborhood of Loisaida. Unlike the Real Great Society, CHARAS was a holistic, multi-issue organization that addressed issues as wide-ranging ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macabeo
Macabeo, also called Viura or Macabeu (, ), is a white variety of wine grape. It is widely grown in the Rioja region of northeastern Spain, the Cava producing areas south of Barcelona, and the Languedoc-Roussillon region of France. Spanish plantations stood at nearly in 2015, making it the second most grown white grape variety in Spain. In France, plantations accounted for in 2007. Since 2009, some Macabeo is grown in Israel. Styles and winemaking 
The grape is mostly used to make mildly acidic and young white wines mostly suitable for early co ...
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Chara (other)
Chara may refer to: Places *Chara (rural locality), a rural locality (a ''selo'') in Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia *Chara Airport, an airport in Russia near the rural locality *Chara (river), a river in Russia *Chara Sands, a sanded area in Siberia, Russia Science * ''Chara'' (alga), a genus of algae in the family Characeae * ''Chara'' (moth), a genus of moths in the family Noctuidae *CHARA array, a telescope *Beta Canum Venaticorum or Chara, a star *Chara or Southern dogs, a constellation including Beta Canum Venaticorum and Cor Caroli Other uses *Chara (surname) * Chara, a character in the video game ''Undertale'' *Chara (singer), Japanese singer *Chara people, ethnic group in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia *Chara language, the language of the Chara people * USS ''Chara'' (AKA-58), a 1944 Achernar class attack cargo ship * ''Chara'' (magazine), a Japanese Yaoi/Shōjo magazine See also *''Shugo Chara!'', a 2008 manga series *Novaya Chara, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
