269
45. The use of these drugs is very debasing.
The Hindu baids consider bhang appetising.
Muhammadans do not consider so in any case.
The use of ganja and charas is injurious to the
lungs. They increase cough and dysentery. They
cause the intellect to suffer, and a continuous use
brings on insanity ; but for the proper treatment
the cases can be cured. Some baids think the per-
son remains somewhat insane or indifferent intellect
after the disuse of the drugs. Those whoever
have given up the use also mention to the state
of their minds being in a wandering state. This
is in some instances, and in others intellects are
brightened up.
46. The answer to this question has been given
in No. 45.
47. It does not follow that the children of the
habitual users should also take to the use of drugs.
Their using teaches a bad lesson, and tempts the
children to follow ; but this is not a rule.
48. The users keep increasing rather than de-
creasing the quantity of the drugs they use.
49. The moderate use of the drugs does not
tend to prolong the sexual act. It is not an
aphrodisiac. Prostitutes use the drugs to allay
their feelings for the satisfaction of sexual sections,
their object being not to get intoxicated only, but
to support their strength for incessant copulation.
50. Answer given in No. 49.
51. In this district several cases have happened
by this. It would seem the people here are fond
of the use of these drugs. This can bo ascertain-
ed from the excise registers of the district. There
is a great number of badmashes. I do not mean
people spoken of in sections 109, 110, Criminal
Procedure Code. People who use drugs are likely
to commit offences.
52. Answer given in No. 51.
53. Too much drinking is dangerous. The
habitues commit themselves to crime. They plead
intoxication as an excuse in examination of their
crimes.
54. People have resort to drinking for nothing
and in other purposes.
55. The effect of the drug is increased by the
mixture of other ingredients.
56. Hemp drug produces intoxication. When
moderately used is not hurtful. Moderate use is
hurtful when dhatura is mixed, or used with other
drugs. The stupor is intensified, and death is
likely to follow. Dhatura in itself is a poison.
57. As far as I have been able to ascertain and
get information regarding ganja and charas, I
learn that each is smoked in the chillum. There
is no other way of using them.
199. Evidence of THAKUR LAKHUN SING, Kshatria, Zamindar, District Bareilly.
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. Beside the names given in the question,
bhang is also known by the names of buti, bijia,
and kamlapati, and charas by the name of sulfa.
The definitions mentioned in this number are ge-
nerally accepted.
3. In the districts Kheri, Pilibhit, Bareilly,
Terai, Bijnor, Moradabad, Saharanpur, Rampur
and Bhartpur States.
4. The well-known names are bhang, bijia,
subji, siddhi, buti, kamlapati.
5. Hemp grows abundantly in moist places.
The presence of moisture in soil is essential to its
growth ; and it is also found in low places on the
banks of the Sarda river near the mountains.
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 their growth in such districts at Bijnor, Morad-
abad, Shajahanpur, Bareilly, Pilibhit.
16. Bhang is not commonly prepared in houses ;
but it is prepared from hemp at the places where
it grows.
17. No particular caste prepares these things.
18. Bhang and ganja can keep good for one
year and charas for two years. They should be
kept away from damp. The cause of deteriora-
tion is contact with water or dampness.
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 classes. Among all castes,
without exception. The ignorant generally and
the educated rarely use them, and the number of
consumers would be 10 per cent. of the whole
population. Places where ganja and charas are
smoked are villages, towns, and cities.
21. In this province flat ganja is regarded more
agreeable and preferable. Pathura is second in
degree, murra of third class, and chura of fourth
class.
22. The charas used is foreign, and is called
bukhara, 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. 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 every where,
and the easy means of providing oneself with such
things at low price.
26. 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.
Habitual
moderate
consumers.
Bhang 10
Charas 35
Habitual
excessive
consumers.
7
15
Occasional
moderate
consumers.
5
20
Occasional
excessive
consumers.
3
5
27. Most of the fakirs are found to be the
smokers of charas and ganja, many of them be-
ing 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 Chris-
tians is a very limited one.