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use has any connection with crime in general, or
with crime of any special character.
58. It does : excessive consummers of charas,
when intoxicated, are violent, and frequently
assault each other.
55. They use charas in this way, frequently
adding dhatura, ah juice, and arsenic.
57. I have never heard of charas being eaten
or drunk.
170. Evidence of BHAWANIDIN, Brahmin, Chaube, Native Physician, Ganoura,
Bara Banki District.
1. I am acquainted with the Bara Banki
District.
2. Bhang is known here by the name of bhang,
siddhi, and sabzi. Do not know of charas. Ganja
is known by two names, e.g., baluchar, and the
other pattar (flat).
19. Ganja and charas are smoked in chillum.
20. Thakurs, gosains and fakirs smoke it. In
Baiswara, Thakurs ; and in Fattehpur Tahsil,
Kahavs smoke it abundantly. Cannot say their
numbers.
21. Baluchar ganja is considered the best.
23. Bhang is not smoked.
24. Bhang is used by Brahmans and Thakurs
and Hindu and Muhammadan fakirs in all places
in India.
25. The consumption of bhang is in large pro-
portion, as Brahmans do not use ganja.
27. Thaknrs, Brahmans, and gosains use bhang
abundantly.
29. (a) Pepper and saffron are mixed with
bhang.
(b). Some people mix pumpkin seed, almond,
milk, and sugar with bhang.
30. Bhang is used in solitude ; ganja and charas
in company.
31. The habit of consuming bhang is easily
formed, whereas it is difficult to break off the habit
of using ganja and charas, because the phlegm
which is produced from its use is stopped from its
non-use, and the consumers suffer in consequence.
32. The use is not due to society, religion, or
custom.
33. Generally all regard bhang, ganja and
charas with disrepute.
34. Those who habitually use will suffer from
foregoing the habit.
35. Ganja can be stopped, and there will be no
cause of discontent.
36. No.
40. Know of bhang only. According to Ved-
yak, bhang is given in singrahin and attisar. It
is given to oxen in order to rest.
41. Bhang, if moderately used, is digestive
and alleviates fatigue. It is given in cholera.
Kahars use bhang in order to increase their
appetite and to enable them to do hard labour.
The number of such men is 25 per cent.
43. Inoffensive.
44. Those who are habitual consumers feel its
effect after an hour and get intoxicated.
It
removes pain, and the effect lasts for 3 hours.
They feel no trouble when the intoxication is over.
But when the time of eating is passing over,
they feel some pain.
45. Habitual consumers do not feel any physi-
cal mental or moral injury. They neither feel pain
nor ever have cough. Bhang creates moral power
and leads to debauchery. It does not spoil the
intellect.
47. Is not hereditary, and does not affect the
children.
49. Creates lust. Have not heard prostitutes
using it.
53. No crime is committed by excessive con-
sumers.
54. Bhang is not used with an object to perpe-
trate crime.
55. Criminals do not use bhang to further their
design.
56. Bhang, if moderately used, is useful ; but
if used with any mixture, such as dhatura, etc., is
injurious.
58. So far as I know, the present arrangement
made by the Government of shops is good.
63. The arrangement of wholesale and retail
sale is good.
67. The present taxation is good.
171. Evidence of JANKI DAS, Brahmin, Baid, Muttra.
1. I have read about bhang in Hindu medical
books, and I have experience of thirty-five years in
medical practice, when I had opportunities to see
several people who use bhang, ganja and charas.
2. I know that bhang is the leaves of a tree.
I do not know how charas and ganja are prepared.
Local names of bhang.—Bhang, siddhi, bijaya,
sabji, hari, patti, buti, kamalapati.
19. I have seen in eastern districts, where
bhang is not available, ganja leaves are pasted
in a mortar and drunk as bhang. I myself also
used ganja for the same purpose, when bhang was
not available in the eastern districts.
23. Bhang is not used for smoking.
28. Average for—(a) habitual consumer of
bhang is from 2 rattis to 1 masha, that is to say,
from 4 grains to 16 grains ; (b) for habitual
excessive consumers from 1 chitak to 4 chitaks,
I cannot say exactly the quantity of ganja and
charas which a habitual moderate consumer and a
habitual excessive consumer will take.
29. Ingredients (a) ordinarily mixed with bhang
is black pepper ; (b) exceptionally mixed with are :
nuts, souf (aniseed), cardamom, khora seeds,
kharbuja seeds, ghia seeds, saffron, mace, ajwain.
Tobacco is mixed with ganja and charas. Dhatura
seeds are mixed with bhang to accelerate its in-
toxicating power during the Holi festival. There
is no such preparation as bhang massala sold here
or prepared.