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ingredients : poppy seeds, dry ginger, pepper,
milk, rose buds, cucumber seeds.
Dhatura unknown. The above ingredients are
used to make the drink palatable. Some of the
ingredients possess medicinal properties.
30. Ganja is smoked largely, and there are
ganja smoking dens in different parts of the town,
where the smokers meet and smoke in company.
Male sex, middle and old aged people. No ; children
do not consume any of these drugs.
31. Yes, by association. Not easily. Yes ;
there is such a tendency.
32. Religion prohibits the use of such drugs.
33. With disgust and contempt. None. It is
in disrepute. It demoralizes poople and under-
mines their health. Do not know.
34. Yes, because these people are so devoted,
and the habit becomes a second nature. They
almost go mad and become helpless if they are
deprived of it. It is difficult to give even an ap-
proximate proportion, but the Muhammadan class
predominates. By Muhammadans I mean the
poverty-stricken people.
35. (a) Not easily.
(b) Yes.
(c) I am unable to suggest any method.
(d)
(d) Yes.
(e) No.
(f) The people who use these drugs are, as a
rule, the poorest classes of people. They would
have recouse to alcohol but for its costliness.
They are sure to indulge in other drugs if within
their means to purchase.
36. There is reason to suppose that alcohol is
substituted for the drugs by those who can afford
t o buy i t . Per haps t he bet t er wages whi ch i s
now earned is the cause, and the enormous in-
crease in the importation of alcoholic stimulants,
which, I think, is a proof.
Note.—My answers to the questions in this
chapter refer to drugs produced from the parti-
cular plant called ganja, and not hemp drugs.
58. The hemp drug is not known in these parts,
and I am therefore unable to answer the questions
on this matter.
60. No knowledge.
68. There are shops licensed to prepare and sell
these drugs ; but I do not think the vendors can
allow people to consume them in their shops.
69. No; the wishes of the people are not con
-
sulted. Yes; public opinion ought to be con
-
sidered.
133. Evidence of P. SESHACHALLAM NAIDOO, Balija, Landlord, Merchant, and Chair
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man, Vetapollem, Kistna District.
1. The information that I have bad is only
second-hand, obtained from ganja-smokers.
3. None. It is raised as a crop in Vankazala-
pad, Noothelapad, Duggupad, Goosapad, and Ban-
patta Taluka, Kishna District.
14. Ganja is prepared in this district through-
out, but bhang is prepared to a very limited. ex-
tent.
16. Bhang is prepared by the people in their
houses. It can be prepared from the hemp plant
wherever grown.
19. Ganja is used generally for smoking, and
also as bhang.
20. Gushais (bairagis) and a very small portion
of low caste smoke ganja throughout the district.
24. Bhang is not used in this district to any ap-
preciable extent.
25. The use of ganja is on the increase.
Various are the virtues attributed to it.
28. The average allowance per diem is 3 or 4
tolas a day per man. The cost is about one anna
per day.
33. The use of the drug is not in disrepute.
There is no custom of worshipping the plant.
41. Yes, as it relieves pain and cheers sinking
spirit.
42. Harmless.
43. Yes.
44. It is refreshing, slightly intoxicating. It
does not allay hunger. It creates appetite. The
effect lasts about three hours. After-effects none,
The want of subsequent gratification produces
much longing and uneasiness.
45. None.
49. The use of ganja is practised as an aphro-
disiac.
53. None.
54. No.
134. Evidence of AZIZ-UD-DIN ALI KHAN, SAHIB BAHADUR, Jagirdar, Cherlopalle,
Gurramkanda, District Cuddapah.
1. By making enquiries from people who are in
the habit of using ganja.
2. These definitions may be accepted.
3. Punjab, Hindustan, and other parts of the
Bengal Presidency.
4. There is only one name to the plant—ganja
plant.
5. The climate should be temperate ( i.e., neither
too cold nor too hot). The soil should be loamy,
red. sand, ash-grey, The land may be a little
elevated.
6. 6. The growth of the wild hemp is scattered.
7.
Hemp plant is cultivated among other
vegetable plants only for the production of ganja
to a small extent. It is not separately cultivated.
It is planted in the yards of the houses and
gardens.
8. There has been a decrease in the cultivation
of the hemp plant owing to the fact that license
should be obtained for sale of the same.
9. 1st—Red mud and manure are mixed, and
ground prepared, and in it seeds are sown or
plants planted.