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of the country. The flower top of cultivated plant
after being squeezed is smoked with tobacco.
Majum is made from the flower top. This is
eaten. Panakum is made for drinking. This is
rather expensive and rarely made.
16. Bhang is generally prepared by people in
their houses and very rarely in shops.
17. No particular classes. Generally by the
lower classes of Hindus and Musalmans.
18. Ganja keeps well for one year. It becomes
useless after two years.
20. Charas not known here. Bairagis smoke
very largely. Boyas, Kurubhas, Musalmans, and
some other lower orders make ganja. Brahmins
and other higher classes rarely smoke ganja in
this district.
21. Round ganja is used in this part of the
country.
22. Charas not known, not used.
23. Bhang is not used for smoking. There is
very little intoxication, if any. It is imported
here from Gujrat and other places.
25. There appears to be a larger sale, and there-
fore the use is on the increase.
26. Ganja is smoked very often in the day in
the same way as snuff is used.
27. Lower orders of Hindus generally and all
classes of Musalmans. Higher orders of Hindus
also sometimes use it. It is sometimes used in
the beginning as medicine to facilitate digestion,
to check diarrhœa, dysentery, etc.
28. One-fourth of a seer (a seer = 21 tolas in
weight) is the quantity used a day by excessive
consumers. One or two tolas by moderate con-
sumers.
29. Tobacco is mixed in using the drug for
smoking very often. Dhatura is very rarely used.
It is considered to be very strong.
30. Majum is consumed in solitude. Panakum
is taken in company. Females also use the drug,
but very rarely. Children under twelve years do
not use it. Old people ordinarily take three times
a day. People in manhood take more often.
31. ( a ) Easily formed.
(b) Rarely broken off.
(c) Yes. There is a tendency.
32. Panakum is an expensive liquid preparation.
It costs about a rupee for ten people at a time.
Very many costly ingredients are used in its pre-
paration. Some of the ingredients are—(1) milk
of cow or buffalo, (2) sugar, (3) cloves, (4) cocoa-
nut juice, (5) cardamom.
33. ( b) No. There is no disrepute among the
class of people that ordinarily use it. The pana-
kum is generally offered to Eswara deity before
consumption by people.
( c) Panakum is also worshipped among some
classes of people.
34. Some classes of people may grumble. The
discontinuance of its use may be considered a
serious privation by habitual consumers. It will
affect digestion in them.
35. (a) May be feasible, but will be very diffi-
cult.
(b ) Would be consumed illicitly.
(c) The regular cultivation of the drug may be
prohibited ; but that would not completely stop
consumption. Complete stoppage is almost im-
possible.
( d) May cause discontent.
( f ) In this part of the country such discontent
will not be strong enough to amount to a political
danger. The prohibition will increase consump-
tion of alcoholic stimulants or other drugs. There
will be a larger consumption of tobacco.
38. Chur takes effect more speedily than round
or flat ganja.
39. Smoking is considered to be more injurious
than drinking or eating the same drug.
40. Native doctors use the moggu or the flower
top for various purposes. Ganja leaves are used
in the treatment of cattle disease.
41. Ganja is used or taken for purposes
specified in (a), ( b ,) and (c).
No particular classes. In this part of the
country generally the lower orders use the drug,
not largely. Even among them the proportion is
not large. I refer to moderate habitual use.
42. Moderate use is harmless. Moderate con-
sumers enjoy as good health as other people, and
attend to their ordinary avocations.
43. Yes. They are quite inoffensive. They
avoid quarrels and disturbances.
44. The effect of smoking ganja continues for
about an hour. It is not refreshing. It pro-
duces intoxication. Panakum both allays hunger
and creates appetite, according to circumstances.
Smoking produces weakness. Consuming majum
and panakum is refreshing. Effect of majum
and panakum continues for about twelve hours.
No injurious after-effects in panakum and majum.
45. (a) No. Not majum and panakum.
(b) No. Not majum and panakum.
(c) No. Not majum and panakum.
(d) Ganja smoking produces dysentery and is
injurious. It affects the eyes.
( f ) Ganja smoking does produce insanity.
Only temporary.
47. Not known to be a hereditary habit. Does
not affect children.
48. Excessive use of any of these drugs in any
form is injurious.
49.
Ganja smoking slightly produces impotence.
Bhang does not produce that effect.
51. I do not think that moderate consumers of
certain preparations of ganja are more prone to
commit crimes or offences than others.
53. No.
54.
No; it is said to have the opposite effect.
55 Complete stupefaction is produced by the
preparation called "majum."
Criminals do induce their victims to partake of
ganja to stupefy themselves.
56. Dhatura is mixed by sanyasis and bairagis.
Ordinary people do not use it.
60 The cultivation and the process of prepara-
tion should be brought more under control than
it is now.
68. Yes.
69. In this district the wishes of the people are
consulted by enquiry in the neighbourhood of the
place where a shop is intended to be opened. I
think local public opinion ought to be considered.