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42.  The moderate use of ganja is hurtful,
producing cough, etc.

43.  No; they consume it at home (ganja and
bhang).

44.  Ganja at once induces intoxication lasting
about an hour.

Bhang produces intoxication after half an hour,
lasting 3 hours about. It induces appetite.

45.  (a) Ganja—

(b)   The body shrivels up.

(c)   Causes loss of appetite.

(d)   Asthma is caused.

(e)  Induces laziness and immorality.

(f) Impairs intellect and makes a man
partially insane, but only temporarily. The
symptoms may be re-induced by its use,

46.  From excessive use all the foregoing symp-
toms are exaggerated.

47.   No.

48.   It has the effect of making the children
also consumers.

51. Low castes are the usual consumers, and as
they are often thieves, it follows that bad charac-
ters are the usual consumers.

53 and 54. No.

55. Criminals sometimes give travellers ganja
mixed with dhatura to smoke, and this induces
complete stupefaction.

69. The wishes of consumers are respected, but
distance is the principal thing taken into con-
sideration.

217. Evidence of RAGGHA, Brahman, Cultivator, Chochpur, Hardoi.

1. Bhang is cultivated in my village.

3. Bhang does not grow spontaneously.

7.   (c) In Katiari, for bhang.

8.  Great decrease. The cultivation has been to
a great extent given up.

9.  Bhang is sown in the " rabi" in wheat fields
or barley fields.

10.  Ordinary Kachhis (vegetable growers), etc.

218. Evidence of GOPAL, Cultivator, Sandi, Hardoi.

1. I have never smoked charas, and I know nothing about ganja, charas or bhang.

219. Evidence of PANDIT BADRI PERSHAD, Brahmin, Zamindar's service, Farukha-
                                                                      bad.

1.  I have been fifty-six years among the people
of all classes, and have had ample opportunity to
study their habits, customs and ways.

2.  Charas, bhang and ganja.

3.  The hemp plant is grown in this district and
in all other districts along the margin of cotton
fields and sugarcane fields, but it is not used as an
intoxicant. Rope is made from its fibres.

4 and 5. It is only known as patsan.

6.  Dense.

7.  It is cultivated only for its fibre, but to no
great extent.

14. No.

18.  It does certainly deteriorate by keeping, and
it in time loses its effect. With ordinary care it
keeps good for one year. Damp is injurious to it.
Nothing will, in my opinion, prevent it in time
deteriorating.

19.  Yes; only for smoking.

20.  Fakirs invariably smoke ganja and charas;
so also do the lower classes everywhere.

21.  Flat ganja.

22. Foreign, Yarkand and Samarkand.

23.  No.

24.  The Muttra Chaubes and the fakirs as well
as many respectable persons use bhang. When
used, it is used indifferently for eating or drinking.

25.  It is on the increase.

29. Charas and ganja are mixed with tobacco.
Dhatura is mixed with bhang in order to pro-
mote greater intoxication. Bhang massala is
composed of pepper (black), ginger, cucumber seeds,
melon seeds, cardamoms, almonds, sugar, milk.

30.  These drugs are used equally in company or
in solitude. The consumption is confined solely to
the male sex. Children never use them.

31.  Charas and ganja take time to establish a
liking for them. They are similar to tobacco-
smoking. The habit of consuming bhang, how-
ever, is easily acquired. It is of course difficult to
break off the habit, and once a person becomes
habituated to the practice, he increases the quan-
tities.

32.  No.

33.  They are condemned. The practice is looked
at askance by the respectable, but there is no public
opinion on the point. It is tolerated as a weakness.
The hemp plant is never worshipped.

34.  It would be a serious privation to millions
of persons if they would forego the habit, as they
could not eat or sleep without it.

35.  No. If it were stopped, people would be
driven to use them illicitly, and considerable dis-
content would ensue among a large class of people,
notably the fakirs, who would murmur at the
restriction. It would not be advisable for Govern-
ment to put down these practices.

36.  No.

40.   Bhang alone is used in medicine for man
and beast.

41.   (a) Bhang is.

(b) Ditto.

(c) Charas and ganja.

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