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tains its effect for one year, after which it deterio-
rates.
19. Ganja, besides being smoked, is also eaten
and drunk, as answered in 15 (B) and (C)
20. In southern districts, about 5 per cent. of
the population are addicted to the use of ganja,
chiefly wandering mendicants and bairagis.
21. Flat ganja is the only kind which is sold in
these parts.
25. The use of ganja is apparently not on the
increase. This may be owing to the increasing
use of Europe and country liquors.
26. Of the 5 per cent. addicted to the use of
ganja, as stated in answer 20, the proportion of
consumers under heads ( a ), ( b ), (c ) and (d ) seems
to be equally distributed.
27. This practice seems to be chiefly addicted to
wandering mendicants owing to the fatigue and
other hardships to which their wandering life ex
- p o s e s t h e m . T h e p r a c t i c e s e e m s t o b e m o r e
common in these parts among the Muhammadans
than among Tamilians.
29. Tobacco is generally mixed with ganja and
smoked, the object of admixture being pungent
taste given by the tobacco. Dhatura is not so
used in these parts.
I have not heard of the preparation called
bhang massala.
31. The habit is easily formed, as smoking and
drinking are, and also, like those practices, diffi
- c u l t t o b r e a k o f f a f t e r u s i n g s o m e t i m e . T h e
moderate use generally develops into the excessive.
32. To the best of my knowledge, the use of
ganja is not connected with any customs, social
or religious ; but I believe the plant is looked upon
with some reverence by a few Hindu priests.
33. ( a ) Those addicted to the practice of con-
suming ganja in any of its forms are generally
looked down upon by respectable people.
(c) The hemp plant is not generally wor-
shipped.
34. Naturally it must be felt as a privatio
to all those who resort to the use of these nar-
cotics.
35. If this practice be prohibited by law, it
would probably result in illicit consumption. The
prohibition would certainly cause dissatisfaction ;
but, if proper precautionary means are taken, no
danger may be apprehended. The prohibition
would, as a matter of course, be followed by
recourse to some other form of stimulants.
36. Those, who can afford it, might prefer alco-
holic stimulant to the use of ganja. As the latter
is cheaper than the former, there is no reason to
think that the use of ganja would become entirely
superseded by the use of alcoholic stimulants.
39. The effects of smoking ganja are worn out
sooner than effects produced by its absorption in
any other form.
40. Ganja seems to be prescribed as a medicine,
but apparently not to a great extent. I have
not known of its being administered to cattle.
41. The use of ganja is popularly supposed to
assist digestion, and it is also for its power to
alleviate fatigue by mendicants, who are always
travelling from one place to another.
43. Moderate consumers are not offensive to
their neighbours.
44. Immediate effect is intoxication, and it
probably stimulates hunger.
45. The moderate use of ganja, if not produc-
tive of any good, does not produce much ill
effects.
47. The habitual moderate use of ganja does
not appear to be a hereditary habit.
49. The moderate use of ganja is popularly
believed to be aphrodisiacal. Prostitutes use it
f o r t h i s p u r p o s e . A n a r t i f i c i a l e x c i t e m e n t o f p a s - s i o n m u s t b e p r o d u c t i v e o f i n j u r i o u s e f f e c t s .
Some preparations of ganja are used for pro--
ducing impotence.
53. I am not aware of any such instance.
54. Ganja is used for this purpose.
55. Ganja is sometimes made into a kind of
sweetmeat for kidnapping children.
188. Evidence of MULAGULA KONDIAH, Goldsmith, Rajahmundry.
3. It is not cultivated much in this part of the I
country. It is only grown here and there in com-
pounds.
4. In this country it is known by the only name
of ganja.
5. In cold climates it grows luxuriantly. Dur
-ing winter it is grown.
6. Growth of wild hemp would not be ordi
- n a r i l y d e n s e . I t w o u l d b e s c a t t e r e d . O n l y i n
places frequented by gosains this is found.
7. No ; except in compounds, only ganja is
grown.
14. Only ganja is prepared of plants grown in
compounds.
18. It deteriorates when it gets wet, and, if
kept more than a year, it loses its power gradually
by time. Loses its properties after one year. If
charas is mixed and kept, it keeps for two or
three years.
19. Ganja is used much for smoking.
Juice of ganja mixed with sugar, milk, with
addition of spices, is used as beverage for cooling
the system—used by Marwaris and other northern
country men, even in this country.
20. All classes of people use ganja for smoking.
21. Flat ganja is preferred for smoking.
25. Almost every man uses this now ; formerly
only devotees used to use it.
26. One-fourth of the population use it.
Habitual excessive consumers are devotees.
28. Daily six tolas is smoked by habitual con
-sumers.
29. Tobacco is generally mixed with this. No
dhatura is used. If used, it would prove poison
- o u s .
30. (a ) Some use it in solitude, some in com
- p a n y . S o m e w h o d o n o t c a r e f o r t h e p u b l i c , u s e
it openly.
(b) Males only use it.
( c) Children do not generally smoke ganja.
31. For four or five days, difficulty is experi
-enced in practising it. There would be a tendency