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47. The habitual moderate use of ganja appears
to be a hereditary habit.
49. Yes.
50. The excessive use of ganja or bhang leads
to an untimely grave.
51. Yes. Ganja smokers are gamblers and
thieves.
52. The excessive use of ganja or bhang makes
a man loose in morals.
53. Yes. Excessive use incites to unpremedi-
tated crime. I know of no case of temporary
homicidal frenzy.
54. Yes.
55. Yes. Dhatura seeds are mixed with ganja
leaf.
56. The admixture of tobacco with hemp does
not increase the effects of hemp. Dhatura is ad-
mixtured for being administered to others.
57. Ganja, when drunk in the shape of rama-
rasam, is more intoxicating than liquors.
58. It is capable of improvement.
59. The cultivation of the hemp plant should
be attended with the same restrictions as the culti-
vation of poppy plants.
60. The system requires modification in respect
of laying restrictions on the cultivation of the
hemp plant.
61. Charas is not produced in this province.
62. Yes. Village karnams may be asked to
enter in the monthly cultivation account the area
of ganja cultivation.
63 and 64. No.
65. Reasonable.
66. Not necessary.
67. No.
68. No. The brothels should be stifled.
69. The magistracy and the police are consulted.
The local public opinion may be considered.
70. There are no facts regarding importation or
smuggling of hemp drugs from Native States.
Yes, duty is really paid. There is no general use
of untaxed drugs.
55. Evidence of G. JAGANNAYAKULU, Acting Tahsildar, Gooty.
1 . O n e n q u i r i e s m a d e a t G o o t y .
2. These definitions are quite acceptable. Per-
sons who use ganja are not able to distinguish
between male and female plants. Bhang, charas,
and ganja are known here by the same names.
3. I have no knowledge of other districts, ex-
cept this district. It grows spontaneously here
and there in parts of the country.
4. It is known as ganja and bhang. These
refer to the same plant.
5. No special conditions appear to be necessary
for its growth but that it requires watering often.
6. Scattered ordinarily.
7. There is cultivation only in back-yards of the
hemp plant for purposes given in ( a) and (c ).
8 . N o i n c r e a s e .
9. Seeds are first sown and then covered with
a layer of earth and watered. The seeds sprout
in a week and are transplanted.
10. Sanyasis, fakirs, and jogis generally culti-
vate the plant. They are quite different from the
agricultural class.
11. Yes.
12. Nil.
13. No.
14. (a) and (c) are prepared to a small extent
in the back-yards of houses.
15. No difference between the wild plant and
the cultivated one.
16. Not prepared in houses. Can be prepared
from hemp plant wherever grown, as also ganja.
Charas is not prepared in these parts.
17. Mostly Musalmans.
18. These three products deteriorate if kept
over for two years, and the efficacy is lost entirely
after a lapse of four years. No special measures
are known to prevent deterioration, except by
keeping it from being meddled with by rats and
insects, and from exposure.
19. Charas is not to be had here, and nothing
can be said here regarding it. Ganja is used for
smoking and also for manufacturing a legam called
purnathilagam. Ganja is grown here and there in
this taluk.
20. Sanyasis, jogis, and fakirs use ganja for
smoking wherever they are, and in all parts.
Twenty per cent, of the population may be con-
sidered to be using ganja.
21. I think round. The smokers of gauja are
not able to say decisively about it. The flowering
parts of the plant are not given any pressure to
assume a certain form. The dried ones are used
as they are.
22. Charas is not used.
23. Bhang is not used for smoking.
24. Sanyasis, bairagis, jogis, and fakirs eat and
drink bhang wherever they are found in this
taluk.
25. It is on the decrease, as it is sold at a
higher rate than before.
26. Not able to give.
27. It is only among fakirs mostly that the
above classes are taken from, who go a-begging.
28. (a) Quarter of an anna in weight, worth
the same price.
( b ) One anna in weight, worth the same
value.
29. (a) Tobacco.
( b ) Dried ginger and jaggery. Dhatura not
used. These admixtures are used to add to the
taste and to lessen the intoxication. Bhang mas-
sala is not known here.
30. Ganja and bhang are more used in company
than in solitude. It is confined to the male sex.
It is not given to children at all.
31. The habit is easily formed and can easily
be broken off. There is no tendency, it is stated,
to develop from moderate into excessive habit.
32. There are no customs, social or religious,
regarding the use of these drugs.
33. There is no public opinion prohibiting the
use of these narcotics, at least among the lower
orders of the population. No custom of wor-
shipping the plant exists.