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drug ; and complete stupefaction can be induced
by the drug alone, especially in the shape of
majum.
57. I don't know if ganja or charas is eaten or
drunk.
58. I never studied the question.
62, The plant is not cultivated in this district,
bat grows wild and abundantly.
63. 1 did not study the matter enough to reply
to this question.
68. There are no such licensed houses or shops
in this district.
209. Evidence of T. SHIB SINGH, Kshattrya, Zamindar, Bodhouli, Bareilly District.
1. I have often come across men who are habi-
tuated to the use of bhang, charas, and ganja,
and sometimes have visited their smoking assem-
blies.
2. Besides the names given in the question,
bhang is also known by the names of buti, bijia
and kuralapati, and charas by the name of sulfa.
The definitions in this number are generally
accepted.
3. In the districts of Kherf, Pilibhit, Bareilly,
Terai, Bijnor, Moradabad, Saharanpore, Ram-
pur and Bharatpur States.
4. The well-known names are bhangs bijia,
sabji, siddhi, buti, kamlapati.
5. Hemp grows abundantly in moist places.
The presence of moisture in soil is essential to
its gowth, and it is also found in low places on
the banks of sandy rivers near the mountain.
6. Wild hemp is found to have thick growth,
7. Hemp is not cultivated in this province.
11. Yes.
14. Bhang and ganja are prepared at the
places of its growth in such districts as Bijnor,
Moradabad, Shahjehanpur, Bareilly, Pilibhit.
16, Bhang is not commonly prepared in bouses,
but it is prepared from hemp at the place where
it grows.
17. No particular caste prepares these things.
18. Bhaog and ganja can be kept good for one
year, and charas for two years, They should be
kept away from clamp,
19, Charas is smoked through tobacco-pipe or
chillum, and in some places it is smoked through
negali.
20. The use of ganja and charas is not confined
to any particular class. Among all castes, with-
out exception, ignorants generally and the edu-
cated rarely use them, and the number of con-
sumers would be 10 per cent. of the whole. The
places where ganja and charas are smoked are
villages, towns, and cities.
21. In this province flat ganja is regarded more
agreeable and preferable—patharn is second in
degree, morra of third-class, and chur of fourth
class.
22. The charas used is foreign, and it is called
Bokhara, Yarkandi and itar.
23, It is not customary in this province to
smoke bhang through chillum ; it is taken some-
times-dry.
24. Bhang consumers are not confined to any
particular caste ; the majority of them drink it,
and they are mostly Hindus and partly Muham-
madans.
25. In this province the use of ganja, charas,
and bhang is increasing every day, and the cause
of this is the presence of drug shops everywhere,
and the easy means of providing ourselves with
such things at low price,
28, Among the men who use ganja, charas,
and bhang, 75 per cent. are those who smoke
charas and ganja, and 25 per cent. those who use
bhang.
Percentage of consumers.
(a) .
(b) .
(c) .
(d) .
Bhang.
.
. 10
. 7
.
.
5
.
3
Charas,
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15
20
5
27. Most of the fakirs are found to be smokers
of charas and ganja, many of them being Hindus
and some Muhammadans.
Among the rest,
Hindus and Muhammadans often and Christians
seldom smoke charas and ganja, and of those who
drink bhang, many are Hindus and few are
Muhammadans, and the number of Christians is
a very limited one,
28. The average allowance of charas to be used
by a habitual moderate consumer is two tolas,
and that used by a habitual excessive consumer
is two chittacks.
The habitual moderate bhang drinker takes one
chittack, and habitual excessive drinker takes two
chittacks at a time.
29. The ingredients mixed with bhang are
these—(a) Common use—kali mirch or black
pepper. (b) Rare use—cardamoms, almonds,
sonf, kasni, rose flower, sugar. (c) Special use—
dhatura.
Majun is prepared from bhang. Bhang is
mixed in the hot season together with tukhm
khiaran, khirfa, kasni, etc., which are called
collectively by the name of bhang massala.
Charas and ganja are used with tobacco,
80, All these three are much used in assemblies
and less in solitude, Among those who make
use of such things, 25 per cent. are those who
use them in solitude, and 75 per cent. are those
who use them in assemblies. It is not confined
to men only, hut women too use it, and sons
generally contract the habit of these intoxicating
drugs from their fathers,
31. People become accustomed easily to the
use of bhang, charas, and ganja, but can leave
that habit only gradually.
By keeping the
society of men fond of intoxication, they are
given to much use of them.
32. Neither any religion nor custom require
men to use charas, ganja, and bhang, but it is
habit which makes them use the drugs in excess,
and such a habit is not good.
33. The use of charas, bhang, and ganja is
not considered to be good by people in general.
There is no particular caste or community which
holds a good opinion of the use of charas and
ganja, except the few who use them. Bhang is
not regarded as bad by Chaubes, but others do
not think it as good.
There is no custom or rite to worship the
hemp plant,