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48. I believe the evil effects to be proportion-
ate to the use of the drug.
49. See answer against question No. 45. I do
not know about prostitutes using this drug.
50. See against question 45.
51 to 54. See answer against question No. 45.
55. I do not know.
56. No information.
58 to 61. Unacquainted.
62. Yes, it could and should be controlled, and
I believe it feasible. The best way is prohibi-
tive, except for medicinal purposes.
63. The same objection as to the sale of opium,
liquor, and any other poison. Government license
first, then prohibition.
61. I know of no regulations.
156. Evidence of the REV. I. C. ARCHIBALD, * Missionary Chicacole .
Although I have had some nine years of resi-
dence in the country, the bulk of the questions I
am unable to answer.
I have known several cases of persons who have
gone crazy through the use of ganja and bhang.
A few days ago a young man was brought
before P. A. Collector Partridge in a demented
state. He believed fully the statement of the
mother to the effect that her son had lost his mind
through the use of bhang.
When in Tekkali, a town about 33 miles dis-
tant, in July I saw a man made crazy in the same
way. He had been a fine-looking fellow, of
considerable property.
Last month, when in Calingapatam, I learned
on the best of authority of a case of a man who
had gone mad through the same cause, but after
keeping the stuff from him for a few months he
had to a large extent recovered.
I know personally of two cases in this town of
persons effected by these drugs in the same way.
One was, years ago, a peon of our Mission School ;
the other is an old pensioned sepoy.
I deprecate the use of these drugs because of
their injurious effects upon mind and body. I
think their sale and use should be prohibited.
In these parts their consumption is not very
extensive as yet, but it is on the increase.
157. Evidence of the REV. S. C. SCHAIBLE, Missionary, Moolky, South Canara.
1. The informations given below I partly ac-
quired directly as an itinerating missionary during
the visits I made now and then from house to
house in the villages in the neighbourhood of
Karkul and Moolky, and partly indirectly through
some of our Christians who were once or are still
accustomed to the use of bhang, and further on
through the teachers of the Middle School. I am
the manager of it. I beg leave to pass by some
subjects which may be better explained by others.
2. Bhang is the vernacular name known to and
used by all people here for Cannabis sativa ; and
it is the only narcotic plant of the kind grown
here. The name is applied even to the gluten got
by washing and squeezing the anthers of it.
Ganja is the name used for the same plant, chiefly
by Hindustani-speaking people. Siddia pattre is
the third name applied to the same plant, but
known only to the educated classes and bhangi
users.
'Bhangi unde' is the name given to small round
cakes prepared from a mixture of gluten of
bhangi and other condiments.
Majun is the name given to small flat cakes
prepared from a mixture of bhangi and some other
things.
Subji is a kind of drink made from bhangi and
other accompaniments.
Charas is, as a few say, used to denote small
pills of yellowish gluten got from the plant while
growing. It is, however, not prepared in this
part of the district, nor is it used by many.
The Natives enumerate three sorts of bhang
grown here. The first has a reddish stern, large
and plenty of seeds, but has only a little of
anthers and filaments. The second has a blackish
stem, small, but only a few seeds and anthers and
filament more than the first. By this they mean,
it appears, the female plant. The third is the
male plant differing from the first and the second
only in having flowers and is consequently de-
stroyed. There is also foreign bhangi used, of
which they name three different sorts as : ( a ) having
a very small anther, ( b) having big round anthers,
and is said to be worse and more dangerous than
the first; (c) Churki (machine) of bhangi or
Wynaad bhangi.
3, 7, 14. It does not grow wild here and it is
grown only to a very limited extent. As much as
has come to my knowledge, some four or five people
in every village will grow from 25 to 500 plants.
From these plants they prepare the above men-
tioned four different sorts, viz.,
subji,
majun and charas. The plant is never grown to
the sole end for obtaining fibre and seed. (See,
however, No. 40).
16. After the plant is cut, it must not be kept
in the sun but under shade, i.e ., under the
roof.
19. Charas is said to be used for smoking
purposes. It, however, cannot be smoked, but
with a mixture of tobacco and bhangi. Charas
is brought here by some for private use from
Bombay.
20. It appears that a small proportion of every
class and caste, from the Brahmin down to the
Pariah, is using ganja for smoking.
* Invited to attend at a sitting of the Commission for oral examination but failed to appear.