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In respect of habitual consumers, no doubt,
longing and uneasiness is produced if they cannot
get it again.
45. (a) Moderate use does not produce any bad
effects, either physical, mental or moral, provided
the consumers eat nourishing food, such as curd,
milk, ghee, sugar, &c.
(e) It does not produce laziness or immoral
habits.
(f) If no nourishing food is taken, the vital
powers of a man are destroyed. If excessively
consumed, it no doubt affects the system and may
turn men lunatics or affect lungs.
47. The use of this drug can never produce
hereditary habits.
49. Moderate use of this drug may serve as
an aphrodisiac in case of men who eat rich and
nourishing food, because in such cases it does
not affect the vital powers.
51. Bad characters also consume this drug,
but I cannot give any further particulars.
53. Excessive indulgence in these drugs may
incite to unpremeditated crime or violence.
56. Even moderate use produces bad effects on
persons sitting in one place. It produces no bad
effect on persons who travel and frequent mala-
rious places.
192. Evidence of BALDEVDAS, Brahmin, Priest of Hanuman Math, Rajah-
mundry.
1. Being a bavajee I have been in the habit of
taking ganjayi for penitential purposes and am
therefore acquainted with its qualities.
3. It is extensively cultivated in the village of
Daggupadu, Kistna district. Neither of the
other two (charas and bhang) are to be found
there. I saw this growing in the forests of Par-
lakimedy.
4. All the varieties of ganja are one and the
same and belong to but one kind of plant. It
(the hemp plant) contains certain resinous matter.
That from which bhang is got simply flowers and
dies away, but does not form a resinous coating.
This is what is called the male hemp. Charas is
not to be found in these parts. It can be got in
Northern Hindustan. It (charas) is the name
given to the resinous coating of the hemp plant.
5. Its growth is spontaneous. Wherever it is
sown, or its seed happens to fall, it begins to
grow. It begins to grow during the middle part
of the rainy season and crops by the end of the
winter. In this country people grow some one or
two plants in their back-yards, and this, too, is
rare.
6. Even the wild hemp does not grow spontane-
ously unless the seed is sown.
7. In this country people cultivate the hemp
plant for the preparation of ganjayi. Charas and
bhang are not prepared in these parts. In North-
ern Hindustan it is extensively cultivated, and
charas and bhang are prepared to a large extent
by the people of those parts.
8. Formerly ganjayi was used by sanyasis and
hairagis alone, but now each and everybody who
has a liking for it is in the habit of using it.
Hence its cultivation also is comparatively en-
hanced.
10. No. Every one who wants it, to whichever
caste he may belong, cultivates it.
11. I have never seen the seeds of the wild
hemp sown in the plain parts. Those which
generally bear the flowered tops, i.e ., more appro-
priately the male plants, are taken off or extir-
pated. The wild hemp is extensively cultivated
in Daggupadu, Kistna district, and also in Cut-
tack and Juggernauth.
14. In these parts only ganja is procurable.
15. I do not know the mode of its (ganja) pre-
paration. I use this for smoking purposes and also
for the preparation of bhang.
16. Yes, bhang is generally prepared in our
houses.
vol. vi.
18. Yes. They do deteriorate. If they are of
the best quality, they keep good with ordinary
care for two years. They gradually lose their
effect by the lapse of time. If they contain the
resinous matter as well, they remain for a longer
period without losing their effect. Exposure to
air is one of the principal causes of deterioration.
19. People commonly use ganja for smoking
purposes and for the preparation of halvas. Charas
is not procurable in these parts. It can be got
in Northern Hindustan, where it, as well, is used
for smoking purposes.
20. Bairagis, sanyasis, fakirs, labourers and
men of loose character use this. Nearly a fourth
part of the population are in the habit of consum-
ing it. People of colder climes use it more freely
and to a greater extent.
21. Round ganjayi is preferred, and charas is
the best suited for smoking purposes. Chur is
not procurable in these parts.
24. Marwadis, Guzaratis, people of Malwa.
Kathiawar, etc., use bhang to a large extent.
They mix it with milk, sugar, and spices, etc.,
and consume it for intoxicating purposes.
25. Every man is at liberty to use it. For-
merly gentlemen were not in the habit of using
it. Now-a-days there is no restriction in its use
hence consumption has increased.
26. ( a ) Many.
( b ) N o t m a n y .
(c) Some.
27. Everyone who has a liking for it, irrespect-
ive of either class or caste, use it.
28. Habitual moderate consumer uses it at the
rate of one tola every week, which costs him 4
pies, whereas the ( b) class of people consume
some two or three tolas every week.
29. Tobacco is one of the ingredients. Ganja
alone, without the admixture of any ingredients,
is never used for smoking purposes, If so used,
it produces cough. People who use it with the
admixture of dhatura are very rare.
30. Bairagis, gosains, sanyasis, etc., use it
publicly and in company ; also ordinary gentle-
men consume it privately. It is confined to the
male sex only. The female sex use it very rarely.
31. (a) It can be very easily acquired.
(b) When once a person is habituated it is diffi-
cult for him to break it off.
(c) There is such a tendency.
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