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     150. Evidence of KALLI BAIDJI, Brahmin, Native Baid, Lucknow.

1.   My information is based partly on the
written authoritien in Bhara Prakash and Gurra-
tanmala, and partly on the experiences of persons
using these drugs.

2.  Besides the different names given in ques-
tion 2, bhang is also called buti, bijya, juni, etc.
In Bhara Prakash the terms bhang, ganja, matu-
lani, madni, jara, are given. Flat ganja is called
pathar. Round ganja is called baluchar, and the
broken ganja is called maludeva.

19. Ganja and charas are mostly used for smok-
ing. Oil extracted from ganja is also used for
external application on the part affected as a pain
killer,

23. Yes ; in rare cases when ganja and charas
are not obtainable. This practice is resorted to in
a different climate by way of an antidote to keep
off the effects of the climate.

28.   (a) Six mashas, cost about half a pice
worth.

(b) Two tolas, cost half an anna.
Towards the Mathura district persons consume
half a pound of bhang at a time.

29.  The poor classes generally use black
pepper only throughout the year. The more well-
to-do persons mix in cold weather almond, saffron,
musk, pepper with bhang. In hot weather seeds
of kaddu, mun melon seeds, rose leaves, etc., are
substituted. Milk and sugar are also added to
the above mixtures to make the thing more deli-
cious. Dhatura, nux vomica, and betel-nut are
also used, but in rare cases, with a view to in-
crease the intoxicating effect of bhang. Can-
tharides being foreign to the country is not used
here. The ingredients have been defined above
already.

30.  No precise extent of consumption practised
in solitude and company can be given.

The consumption of bhang varies from 2 rattis
to half a pound. It is mainly confined to the
male sex, but instances of females using these
drugs are not uncommon.

31.  Yes. Not difficult except in rare cases.
Yes ; like all other intoxications.

32.  None that I know of.

36. Alcohol being religiously forbidden is not
generally used ; but a general idea remains as to
the stronger effects of alcohol than bhang and
ganja. The tendency of development therefore
often leads men to use alcohol.

37. The intoxication of charas is of a more per-
manent nature than ganja, the latter being
drier in effects than the former. Bhang, however,
takes more time to bring about the intoxication
and keeps longer than either of these.

40.  Bhang is not unfrequently medicinally used.
The following recipe is given in Bhara Prakash
as increasing hunger, helping digestion, stopping
diarrhoea, decreases phlegm and heaviness in the
stomach. A masha each of bhang, saffron, musk,
cardamom, almond and pepper.

Bhang is generally used in the cattle disease.

41.   (a) A moderate use of bhang is digestive.

(b) Charas and bhang operate as a stimulus for
severe physical exertion and for undergoing ex-
posure. But bhang is often taken to keep down
the sense of fatigue.

(c) Ganja is used in malarial districts as a safe-
guard against the effects of the climate.

42.  The moderate use of bhang is harmless,
while it does not impair the brain functions, but
keeps down the sense of fatigue.

44.  In labouring classes the use of ganja is
a sort of stimulant. If taken in large quantities,
the hemp drugs do produce intoxication. Bhang
increases appetite. The effects of ganja and charas
are transitory, while that of bhang lost in three
hours. Irregularities in the use of the drugs to a
habitual consumer cause uneasiness.

45.  Nil. Ganja generally causes asthma ;
bhang causes laziness.

47. The children are apt to catch the contagion
from their guardian, but the use of the drugs
does not necessarily induce a hereditary tendency
for its consumption.

57. Generally in this part of the country are
not used for edibles.

In conclusion, it will be better if our benevo-
lent Government will pass a law against bhang,
ganja and charas, for, as far as my experience is
concerned, they are very injurious.

     151. Evidence of CHANDI DIN, Brahmin, Hindu Physician, Pihani, District Hardoi

1.  Reading bonks and observing cultivation. I
have also attended drug consumers, and know
their symptoms.

2.  Ganja, charas and bhang are different plants.
"Hemp" (translated "patsan") is the tree from
which ropes are made, not that from which in-
toxicants are produced.

3.   Bhang near the Ganges in Katiari. Ganja
to the north of the Kheri District.

4.  Only ganja, bhang and charas (three separate
plants).

6.   Scattered.

7.   (a) In Katiari pargana to a great extent.

9.  Sown by itself in Katik.

10.  No special class.

14. No.

16. No, not prepared in houses.

19.  Yes.

20.  Low castes everywhere.

22.   Foreign,

23.   Never.

24.  Every Hindu everywhere drinks bhang.

25.  On the increase. Society uses them.

28.   (a) Very little ganja or charas. From 6
mashas to 1 tola of bhang.

(b) 2 or 3 tolas to ¼ seer of bhang.

29.   (a) With bhang, pepper, cucumber seeds,
cardamoms, til and sugar.

(b) (As a great intoxicant) also dhatura. There
is no bhang massala.