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and some for joke or for making senseless in order
to gratify their worldly avarice and sensual desire.
The above ingredients are mixed as a luxury, and
black pepper is always mixed.
30. Those who have got some regard for society
and caste rules use them privately ; others use them
in assemblies of 10 to 15 persons more or less.
Children do not use them.
31. They are habituated to them easily, and their
daily use increase their desire to take them in large
quantities. Afterwards it develops into a habit,
which is difficult to give up.
36. No liquor is used instead of them.
38. None.
41. (a) Their consumers consider them as an
aid to digestion.
(b) They consider them invigorating after weari-
ness caused by hard labour and trouble.
(c) In the Terai or where there is a moist climate
their use is considered as a check to the unhealthi-
ness of the tract.
42. The use of the drugs, in whatever degree it
may be, is injurious. Each of these drugs con-
sumes blood, induces dullness, enervates the brain,
produces cough and asthma, a man cannot work
unless under its influence, loses reasoning power,
and becomes impolite and shameless.
43. The consumers of these drugs are always a
worry to their neighbours.
49. In reality it does not increase sperma genitale
viri aut mulceris (human seed), but when it is used
in youth it prolongs sensual pleasure. Prostitutes
sometimes use these drugs as an aphrodisiac.
51. Generally rogues and vagrants use them in
assemblies. Such bad characters often plan crimi-
nal designs in such a condition.
54. Criminals use them to acquire temporary
courage to commit a premeditated act of violence or
other crime.
55. Criminals, in order to further their designs,
induce their victims to partake of these drugs and
so stupefy themselves.
64. The existing rules and regulations for the
export and import of these drugs are satisfactory.
65. The taxation is reasonable.
66. I do not think it necessary to charge differ-
ent taxation for different kinds of ganja.
68. No.
69. The wishes of none except those of the ven-
dors are ever consulted.
70. I know of none.
59. Evidence of MOHAMED SALAMATULLAH, Tahsildar, Lakhimpur, District Kheri.
1. I have been in different districts on the posts
of Sarbarahkar, Naib Tahsildar, Tahsildar and
Supervisor Kanungo, and have also been in various
capacities in the Settlement Department wherein
I had occasion to be on tour, whereby I have learnt
the characteristics of ganja, etc., and their uses.
2. As far as my experience goes on, I concur
with Dr. Plain's opinion.
3. It grows wild, abundantly in the districts of
Gonda, Bahtaich and Kheri.
4. They are called by the names of ganja, charas
and bhang. These names refer to exactly the same
plant.
5. It grows in Terai abundantly.
6. It is dense.
7. There is no cultivation of hemp plant here, but
grows wild.
14. Charas and ganja is not at all prepared here.
It is imported from other places. Only bhang is
prepared here, as it is only a kind of leaf of a plant
which grows wild in the northern portion of this
district.
15. Ganja is smoked with tobacco, and it is
imported from other places. Bhang is drunk after
grinding and mixing with sugar and black pepper.
Charas is smoked with tobacco.
16. Bhang is prepared, but ganja and charas
are not.
17. The preparations of hemp drugs are not
made here. They are imported from other places.
18. They deteriorate on account of wet or by
keeping carelessly. The effects of the three drugs
deteriorate by keeping for a long time. Bhang
keeps good by ordinary care for two years. So is
nearly the case with ganja and charas. When
deteriorated, nothing can make them good. They
are thrown away.
19. Ganja and charas are used only for smok-
ing.
20. Ganja and charas are smoked only by
kahars, garias, workers in wells, fakirs, gosains,
sanyasis and some thakurs.
21. Flat ganja which is called baluchur is pre-
ferred to all other kinds of ganja. Though chur
grows here in abundance, but it being less intoxi-
cant, baluchur is sold in great quantities, which is
imported from Gwallor, Jhansi, and other districts
of Bengal.
22. The charas which is used here is imported
from Gwalior.
23. Bhang is not used for smoking. It is used
in eating, drinking and rubbing.
24. Often Brahmins, Thakurs, Khatris use
bhang. Bhang is used abundantly in the sacred
places of Hindus, such as Muthra, Benares, and
Gola Gokarannath, etc. They eat and drink it for
the satisfaction of their animal passion, and also it
is considered buti of Mahadeo. In festivals of Holi
and Devali bhang is mixed with sweetmeat, and
is drunk, which causes intoxication. Bhang is
altogether unlawful among Muhammadans.
25. As the three drugs, ganja, bhang and charas,
are cheaper than wine, their use is on the increase.
Poor men satisfy themselves with it in place of
wine.
26. No correct proportion of consumers can be
given, but the estimated proportion of the consumers
of these drugs is as follows :—
(a) Habitual moderate consumers, 25 per cent.
(b) Habitual excessive consumers, 15 per cent.
(c) Occasional moderate consumers, 5 per cent.
(d) Occasional excessive consumers, 4 per cent.
27. Gorias, dhanuks, kahars smoke ganja and
charas in great quantity, and gosains, sanyasis and
men of these classes of fakirs, and Hindus drink
bhang. Charas is often used by thakurs.
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