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in the back-yard of which such plants are raised
uses along with a few friends perhaps.
15. The cultivation is so very limited that there
is no special method of preparation at all. Ganja
is used only for smoking in this taluk.
16. Bhang is not used or prepared, in this taluk.
18. Yes. Ganja cannot be kept for more than
a year without deteriorating. Time lessens the
stupefying effects of the drug. It keeps better
if preserved in granaries inaccessible to molesta-
tion of rats.
19. Ganja is used only for smoking in this
taluk. Charas and bhang are not used here.
20. Fakirs, Madigas, mains and weavers gene-
rally use ganja. Fifty per cent. of the population
smoke ganja.
21. What they style " Mulki" ganja is used
in these parts. This appears to be more allied to
chur than to flat or round ganja. The flowering
tops are not subjected to any particular form of
pressure. They are allowed to dry and packed up
in packets or bundles.
22. Charas is unknown to men of these parts.
23. Bhang is not used for any purpose in this
taluk.
24. None.
25. The smoking of ganja is on the increase.
It is much cheaper than toddy or arrack, and is
therefore made to supersede the latter gradually.
26. The consumers are generally habitual mod-
erate consumers.
27. Vide remark against paragraph 20.
28. One tola, valued at 4 pies, is sufficient for a
habitual moderate consumer.
29. Tobacco is mixed with ganja for smoking
purposes. The object is to lessen the bilious
character of pure ganja. Dhatura is not used.
30. The consumers generally practise the drug
in company.
31. It is not difficult to break off the practice
in the case of moderate consumers. In the case
of those indulging in excesses it is very difficult.
33. The use of ganja is held in disrepute by
the public. It is perhaps owing to the injurious
results that would follow in the case of excesses.
No custom of worshipping the plant exists.
34. No serious privation to any class of con-
sumers if they are made to forego the consump-
tion, as there are hardly any who indulge in
excess smoking.
35. It is quite feasible in this taluk to prohibit
the use of all the three drugs by making the
cultivation of the plant and the possession of its
products penal. No political danger would ensue,
The consumers of ganja will take recourse to
drinking toddy or arrack.
36. Yes, due to the gradual increase of the cost
of liquor and toddy.
37. Charas is more intoxicating than ganja.
40. External application for scrotum mixed
with halva or leham.
41. (a ) Yes.
(b) Yes.
(c) Yes.
(d)Not known.
The moderate use of the drug will bring about
the above results.
42. Even the moderate use affects health unless
proper nourishment is taken.
43. Yes.
44. The immediate effect is that the body gets
hot and the man gets slightly intoxicated. It
creates appetite. Lasts for about four or five
hours. After a meal its effects cease, Want of
subsequent gratification unsettles the man by
making him bilious.
45. ( b) Man gets weak if he does not take good
nourishment.
(c) Eventually does so.
(d ) No.
(e) No.
(f) No, Moderate use does not produce any
of these results, It is only excess use that is likely
to produce such results.
46. By excess use men do not stand in need of
food. They keep up without nourishment. The
result is that physically and mentally the men
get impaired. So much so that some get insane.
The insanity is however temporary. In the case
of two of my peons they had become practically
insane owing to indiscriminate and excessive
smoking of ganja. They are both doing well
now. One has rejoined his appointment.
47 and 48. No.
49. No.
51. No. No connection whatever.
53. Yes, if sufficient nourishment is not taken.
No.
54. No, Men using these drugs become timid
rather than get bold.
55. No.
57. They are neither eaten nor drunk in this
taluk.
60. The cultivation is very limited and requires
no control.
61. Charas not produced.
63. None.
66. No such distinction appears to be desir-
able.
68. There is only one shop at Tadpatri, where
the preparations are not consumed, but only sold.
69. Wishes of the people are consulted by the
contractor. He selects a site which is least objec-
tionable by way of securing privacy. The police
and the Magistrate then give their opinion about
the site. It is necessary that public opinion
, should be consulted in the selection of the site.