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time considerably enhancing its efficacy as an ap-
petizer, narcotic, aphrodisiac, and general excit-
ant of spirits. In this district dhatura is never
known to be mixed with ganja or bhang before
consumption.
57. Only an inveterate habitual smoker here
and there is said to eat sometimes the ganja pure,
after washing and grinding it fine so as to obtain
the full intoxicating effect, and the effect is said to
be the production of profound intoxication, last-
ing for two, three or four days, during which
period hardly any food is taken.
108. Evidence of Hospital Assistant T. RANGANAYA KULU NAID00, Rajahmundry,
Godavari District.
3. The wild hemp plant grows spontaneously
in the Nellore District, and grows abundantly in
the village of Kudithipallam of that district. In
this district the wild hemp is not grown.
4. Cheelavathy, Balucharan, hill ganja, and
Thaggupadu ganja are the different names used
here for the Indian hemp plant according to its
quality and the place in which it is cultivated.
All these names refer to the female plant—one
with less seeds, another has more seeds.
5. Cold climate, black soil, moderate rains, and
ordinary elevated soil favour its cultivation.
6 . S c a t t e r e d .
7. Almost in every district, but mostly in the
Thaggupadu in the Kistna district, which is
superior in quality to this district.
In Godavery district
—
Vadapally, 1 acre of land cultivated.
Thaneeku taluka, 2 acres of land cultivated.
Rajahmundry, 1½ acres of land cultivated.
Hill Tracts, about 2 acres of scattered pieces of
land.
For ganja and bhang.
8. It is on the increase, because it is fetching
high price on account of the excise system.
9. The seeds are sown in a small piece of dry
cultivated land previously prepared for it towards
the end of the rainy weather, and when the plants
a r e s u f f i c i e n t l y g r o w n t h e y a r e t r a n s p l a n t e d i n a
separate ground after ploughing and manured.
10. Same as other agricultural cultivators.
There is no special class for this cultivation.
11 and 12. No.
13. Thaggupadu in the Kistna district, because
it is a fertile soil for the cultivation of ganja. In
this district the cultivation is moderate on account
of the bad soil.
14. Ganja and bhang :—Nellore, Kistna, and
Vizagapatam to a large extent. Other districts
in the Northern Circars moderate.
15. Wild plant is not cultivated in this district.
The cultivated full grown hemp plant is cut and
exposed day and night for a week till it is com--
pletely dried. Then the branches are broken and
t i e d i n b u n d l e s . O v e r t h e s e b u n d l e s a h e a v y
weight is placed for a week to make the flowering
tops fiat, and then these flowering tops collected
and stored up for use. The mode of preparing
it is the same as for smoking, eating and
drinking.
16. Bhang is generally prepared by the people
in their houses. It cannot be prepared from the
hemp plant wherever grown. Ganja or charas
cannot be prepared from the wild plant wherever it
is grown.
17. There is no particular classes of people who
make the preparation of the hemp drug.
18. Yes ; it loses its effect entirely in course of
time. It keeps it for about a year with ordinary
care. Time and exposure are the causes of its
deterioration. Any special care will not check
its deterioration.
19. Ganja is used in this district for smoking,
eating and drinking. Charas is not used in this
district, as it is not imported. Ganja also is used
in the form of halwa, pannia and bhang-dally,
according to their whims and pleasure. Mostly
prevalent in towns and slightly in villages.
20. Bairagis, ascetics, and the poor of labouring;
classes smoking ganja largely in mattams and
choultries. Hindus, Muhammadans, and Rajputs
smoke moderately and privately. Ganja is used in
almost every town, and it is not confined to one
particular locality. About 5 per cent.
21. Round ganja is used here for smoking,
because the other kinds are not procurable in this
district.
22. Charas is never used here, as it is not im-
ported to this district.
23. Bhang is never used for smoking in this
district.
24. There is no particular class who eat bhang.
Even those that eat are very rare. Rajputs,
Marvadis, and poor of all classes drink bhang
moderately : about 5 per cent. ; Muhammadans
drink bhang largely at Ellore : 25 per cent. ;
Hindus moderately : 10 per cent.
25. The use of ganja is on the increase, because
the hill ganja is imported stealthily in large
quantities and sold cheap.
26. (a) 10 per cent.
(b) 2 per cent.
(c) 5 per cent.
(d) 2 per cent.
27. Ascetics from all classes of wandering habits.
Muhammadans, Rajputs, and Hindus of military
life. A few of lower labouring classes.
28. ( a ) 3 pies worth per day.
( b) One anna worth per day.
29. (a) Tobacco is mixed ordinarily.
( b) Opium by fakirs to increase the intoxicating
effect of the drug.
Aconite in cold weather, when fogs are heavy,
and when suffering from fever. Dhatura when
suffering from severe cold, bronchitis and asthma
by ascetics of excessive consumers on rare occa-
sions.
Bhang massala contains poppies, liquorice,
cucumber seeds, cinnamon, cardamons, aniseed,
coriander, mace, nutmeg, pepper, ginger, and
dried rose buds.
Halwa—Hemp leaves, sugar, poppy, nutmeg,
cloves, cardamons, aniseed, mace, almonds, honey,
asparagus racemosus, asteracantha lon gi f ol i a,
curculigo orchidioides.