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two at most. It goes bad in the rains ; damp
affects it.
19. They are used solely for smoking save in
medicines.
20. It is not confined to any particular class ;
though mendicants (fakirs) and the lower classes
use them more freely.
21. The flat sort.
22. Foreign, Bokhara.
23. No.
24. Bhang is used largely by the wealthier
classes, e.g., Brahmins and the Muttra Chaubes.
It is eaten and also drunk by people. It is used
everywhere in the province.
25. On the increase. The reason is due to the
price of spirituous liquors rising.
30. Ganja and charas are used in company.
Bhang in solitude, Only the male sex use them.
There is no particular age for their use. Children
never use them.
31. The habit is easily acquired, but like all
habits difficult to break with. Once acquired, it
has a tendency to develop into the excessive.
32. There is no order or rule requiring the use
of these drugs.
33. The practice of using charas and ganja is
held in disrepute ; not so with bhang. The reason
why the former is so held is solely because the
manner in which it is used is not clean. It
dirties the hands. No one worships the hemp
plant.
34. It certainly would to a large number of
people.
35. It would be impossible to stop the use of
these drugs. If they were prohibited by law, the
people would be driven to use them illicitly. Any
legislating in this direction would be unadvisable,
as the mass of people would misconstrue the ben-
evolent intentions of the Legislature, and think
that it was only another step in the direction of
interfering in their social habits.
40. They are used in the treatment of cattle
disease.
41. Beneficial. (b) Alleviates fatigue.
42. Harmless in moderation.
43. No.
41. Charas and ganja produce intoxication
immediately. It increases the appetite. Its effects
last five or six hours. Its after-effects arc nil.
45. (a) None.
(b) No.
(c) No.
(d) Ganja and charas produce asthma and
bronchitis.
(e) No.
47. Not hereditary, nor does it in any way
affect the children of moderate consumers.
49. It is aphrodisiac ; charas and ganja-smoking
causes impotency.
51. Bad characters as a rule use these drugs.
58. The system of excise administration is
working well and needs no improvement.
OS. None.
186. Evidence of MUNSHI NARAIN SAHAI, Kayasth, Landholder, Tilhar, Shahja-
hanpur.
2. Ganja, bhang, and charas.
3. In Kheri and Hardoi (Oudh), in Pilibhit and
in the northern part of this district, ganja and
bhang grow spontaneously in prolusion.
4. Bhang, sabzi, bijya, siddhi, and tusai, and
sukha are all used for bhang.
5. No special conditions of climate arc requisite
certainly. In the damp humid Terai it grows
luxuriantly.
6. Dense.
7. Bhang and ganja are not cultivated in this
district.
12. I do not think so.
13. I do not think it is cultivated anywhere in
the province. It could grow anywhere.
14. It grows spontaneously.
15. Ganja leaves are rubbed on the palm of the
baud into dust, which is mixed with tobacco and
smoked in a chillum. Bhang leaves are ground
and mixed with water and taken as a beverage.
It is also eaten dry ; also is mixed in sweet meats,
when it is called majum.
16. People do not prepare bhang. It can be
made wherever it grows ; so also can ganja.
Charas is never made here.
17. No class in particular.
18. They do deteriorate by keeping. With
ordinary care they can be kept one year. In the
rains they lose their effect. If sunned and kept
carefully, they may probably last longer.
19. They are only smoked in a chillum.
20. Mendicants as a rule use them mostly.
No locality is famed for it.
21. Ganja of any kind is only smoked in a
chillum.
22. Yarkand charas is chiefly preferred for the
reason that it is the most intoxicating. Bokhara
charas is most in use, as it is more largely
imported.
23. Bhang is not smoked.
24. All classes of people use bhang. They eat
and drink it. Mostly in Muttra and in the
Punjab.
25. The use of ganja and charas is on the
increase. Bhang does not seem to be on the
increase.
26. (a) 5 per cent.
(b) 10 per cent.
(c) 2 per cent.
(d) 4 per cent.
27. They are taken from the mendicants
(fakirs), musicians, and those persons who arc
obliged to work in water.
29. Black pepper is mixed with bhang usually
and drunk. Occasionally ginger, kasni, kahu
seed, khurfa seed, melon seeds, cucumber seeds,
cardamoms, white and red almonds, rose water
cactus water, sugar and milk are mixed with it.