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know. No special condition of soil is required.
Rainy season is said to be the proper season for the
sowing of its seeds. Fall of dew over these plants
is considered very favourable for their growth and
the growth of resinous principle in them.
14. Yes. (a) Ganja is common. (b) Charas is
hardly known in this part of the country. (c)
Bhang is also common, but to a less extent than
ganja.
Ganja and bhang are universally known in the
districts I travelled—Ganjam, Vizagapatam, Goda-
vary, Kistna, Nellore, Kurnool and Anantapur.
1.5. Ganja.—The tops are soaked in water, and
then pressed against in the hands, so that no water
might remain in them, and equal quantity of to-
bacco is added, and smoked. This can be prepared
both from wild and cultivated plants.
Charas.—I don't know.
Bhang.—The tops one part ; pepper, half; ani-
seed one part ; poppy seeds two parts. These arti-
cles are to be well ground into paste ; and this
paste is mixed in milk and water in certain pro-
portion, sugars and spices having been previously
mixed in the milk. Bhang can be prepared both
f r o m w i l d a n d c u l t i v a t e d p l a n t s .
16. Bhang is prepared generally by people in
their houses. It can be prepared both from wild
and cultivated plants, so is also ganja.
17. Bhang, better known by the name of
rama-rasam in the Telugu-speaking country, is used but
rarely almost by every class of people, from the
highest Brahman to the lowest Pariah. Muham-
madans, especially fakirs, use this. Generally
this preparation is made use of by people clustering
themselves into pleasure parties, in which will be
found also refined Hindus who loathe the name of
intoxicating liquors. I came across such parties
in Uriya country, Ganjam district. Rajputs and
Mahrattas use the drug in this form very largely,
and, it is said, specially during the Kama feast.
Ganja is prepared by fakirs and gosains.
1S. I don't know.
19. Ganja is, as far as I know, used for smok-
i n g - i n g . T h e v e r y w o r d g a n j a m e a n s p r e p a r a t i o n f o r
smoking.
N.B.—The flowering tops are also made use of
along with mutton for the express object of in-
toxication.
20. As above said, fakirs, ascetics, gosains
generally smoke ganja. The proportion of smok-
ing people in Muhammadans is 5 per cent., while
it is 25 in Hindus. The class of people that
smoke ganja, of Hindus, forms mostly those that
abandon the cares of the world in favour of
philosophical discussions of divine existence; the
same case is with many of the Muhammadans.
Ganja is generally smoked in muttams, makkams,
and also in houses.
21. The kind of ganja used here is flat one—flat-
tened in bundles under weight.
22. I don't know anything of charas.
23. No ; bhang, as understood here, is prepared
by making dried flowering tops into a paste and
mixing it in certain proportion in milk along with
spices and sugar. So bhang is in liquid form for
drink.
24. Bhang is used by Muhammadans, especially
fakirs, and also by Hindus. The proportion of
bhang-drinking people, both Hindus and
M u h a m - m a d a n s , i s m u c h l e s s t h a n t h a t o f g a n j a - s m o k i n g
section. Bhang is not daily used, but occasionally.
25. It is as it was ever before.
26. Ganja smoking—
Hindus. Muhammadans.
(a)
(b)
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27. (a) The first class of people —habitual
moderate consumers—is formed chiefly of ascetics
and such spiritual thinkers (save a few instances)
both in Hinduism and Muhammadanism.
(b) The second class of habitual excessive
consumers comprises those that use the drug for
the very sake of intoxication.
(c) This class forms those that are initiated
recently into the practice.
(d) Occasional excessive consumers are only
those that are to qualify in future for habitual
excessive consumers. An occasional moderate
consumer would be soon a habitual moderate con-
sumer, who will, if imprudent without self-control,
turn an occasional excessive consumer to eventually
grow a habitual excessive consumer.
28. (a) A tola for two doses—morning and
evening—for habitual moderate consumer. It is
generally purchased for half anna at the most.
(b) With this class, the quantity varies from
two to six to las a day.
29. s(a) Ordinarily along with fl oweri ng t ops (ganj a) i s added t obacco i n equal part s.
(b) Dhatura is seldom used. However, there
are instances of the drug being smoked with
dhatura. Dhatura is used to heighten the intoxica-
ting quality. Tobacco is said to modify intoxica-
tion of the bare drug.
Bhang is, as it is made, but a component of
dried flower-tops with sweetened sugar and spices.
I don't know anything of bhang massala.
30. Ordinarily ganja is smoked by people in
company. Yes, it is mainly used by males; there
are rare instances of females using ganja. As for
bhang it cannot be said so, for males, females and
children are found using it (bhang) under the
popular name of ramarasam.
31.
(a) to (c) Yes.
32. Bhang is made use of by Rajputs and also
Mahratta people during the days of Kama (Cupid)
feast in some parts of this country ; yet this is not
general. The quantity so used is moderate. It
may lead to the formation of habit.
33. The consumption of each of these drugs is not
at all countenanced by society, whether Hindu or
Muhammadan. The ganja-smoker is shunned out
as abhorred, mean and irresponsible in society.
He is hissed out in secret as one unworthy of
association. He does not hold any social status
save in the society of consumers of the drug. Any
statement from his lips, even if true and grave, is
put down for one coming from a mad fellow.
Brahmans and Vaisyas are excommunicated from
caste, if found addicted to this vice. This is not
the case with those that, as I have above said, use
bhang occasionally as a matter of pleasure. For I
found Brahmans, Rajputs, Vaisya and Sudras
among bhang drinkers.
No custom is obtained here to worship the hemp
plant.
34. An occasional moderate consumer can fore
-go the consumption of the drug to any length of
I time ; so is also, though in less proportionate num-
ber of cases, with the habitual moderate consumer.
But it would be a serious privation to habitual ex-