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rather high lands where rain water would not
lodge for any length of time is necessary.
6. The produce of scattered wild hemp is the
best.
7. No hemp (patsan) is cultivated in this
district.
8. Since there is no hemp cultivation in this
district no reply to this question is necessary.
9. I can give none as none is sown in this
district.
10. No particulars can be given as there are no
such cultivators either in this or the adjoining
district.
11. As there is no patsan sown in this district,
1 have therefore no knowledge of the plantings
from the seed of wild hemp.
12. Such is not the case in this district, and I
have no information of any other district. All 1
know of the wild hemp is that where it grows.
Some plants naturally produce ganja and others
bhang. There is no one. that can make a male
from a female plant.
13. Patsan is not cultivated in this district.
Having no knowledge in its cultivation, I can give
no particulars regarding other districts.
14. No.
15. I can give none.
16. Ganja, bhang and charas can be prepared
from the wild plant : it is however owing to the
law not prepared openly.
17. None in this district.
18. I can give no special reasons, but I think
if kept free from damp it will not deteriorate for
some time, will probably not lose its powers for 2
years.
19. In this district ganja and charas are used
only for smoking.
20. The fakir (beggar) class generally and some
of the menial population smoke ganja and charas.
Can give no particulars as to proportion.
21. The flat ganja is preferred for smoking in
this district. Can give no further particulars.
22. Not known.
23. Very sparingly by menials in all parts.
Extent not known.
24. All classes more or less both eat and drink
bhang. Can give no particulars as to proportion.
25. No apparent increase or decrease.
26. (a) Half.
(b) One-fourth.
(c) One-eighth.
(d) One-eighth.
27. From all classes of fakirs. Idle habits,
Keeping of health and its digestive powers lead to
the practice.
28. (a) One anna.
(b) four annas.
29. In ganja dry tobacco; in charas smoking
tobacco, and in bhang sugar and pepper are mixed :
these admixtures are all necessary. Sometimes in
the way of a luxury some perfume is added. In
bhang sonf, rose water, cardamom, kahu-kulfa,
kakari seed, kasni, gulkhiro, etc., etc., and at times
to increase the intoxicating powers dhatura seed
is also mixed.
3d. All three drugs used in company, and con-
fined chiefly to the male sex, not confined to any
time of life ; not consumed by children.
31. Yes in all three cases.
32. None.
33. Their use is considered bad and injurious
No public opinion as regards to practice, social or
religious. The moderate consumer generally
becomes an excessive one and so is considered a
drunkard and unable to attend to his duties in life.
Hindus at times offer bhang to the god Mahadeo.
34. Would certainly be a privation. Can give
no particulars.
35. (a) Not feasible to prohibit any.
(b) Would be consumed illicitly.
(d) to (f) The prohibition would be a cause of
great discontentment among the consumers and
would to a certain extent be a political danger, as
in Muttra it is used by a large body. The prohi-
bition would tend to have recourse to other drugs.
36. None up to date.
37. Both the same, but charas relished the
more.
38. All ganjas are more or less intoxicating.
The flat ganja the most. The other two create
phlegm.
39. The preparations from the hemp plant are
consumed as above described. As no other form
of consumption prevails, I am unable to note
reasons.
40. Bhang is prescribed by hakims (native
doctors), and is used also in the treatment of cattle
disease.
41. Moderate use of bhang only beneficial.
(a) Digestive.
(b) Yes.
Confined to no particular class. All classes
make both moderate habitual use and moderate
occasional use of the drug for the above purpose.
42. My experience is that the moderate use of
ganja and charas is injurious; it creates phlegm,
and their consumers are reduced to skeletons.
43. They are not offensive to their neighbours.
44. Of these drugs ganja alone has an imme-
diate effect, it is intoxicating, it does not allay
hunger, nor does it create an appetite. Its effect
lasts for about two hours, its after-effects are
a cough and pains all over. The want of subse-
quent gratification does produce longing and
uneasiness.
45. (a) Ganja and charas do produce physical
noxious effects.
(b) It produces cough and phlegm.
(c) It does not injure digestion nor does it
cause loss of appetite.
(d) It causes bronchitis and asthma.
(e) No.
(f) It does not deaden the intellect nor does
it produce insanity.
46. The habitual excessive use of ganja pro-
duces laziness, affects the intellect, and the phy-
sique of the consumers decreases gradually.
47. The moderate use of ganja and bhang
appears to be hereditary and does affect the chil-
dren of the consumers.
48. The habitual excessive use will add mate-
rially to the above-mentioned effects.
49. The moderate use of bhang is aphrodisiacal.
I cannot say anything of its use by prostitutes.
Being narcotic, its use is not injurious. Hemp
does not produce impotence.