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22. All charas is foreign and called dasauri.
Most comes from Amritsar.
23. The very poor, if they cannot afford ganja,
mix bhang with tobacco and smoke it, but they do
not get the same intoxicating effect as with ganja.
24. All classes both eat and drink bhang and in
all places. Muhammadans do not use bhang to
the same extent as Hindus.
About 10 per cent. of population like bhang.
25. Ganja and charas consumption remains
steady. Bhang is increasing every year. Is used
because a good digestive and appetiser. Much used
by old men on this account.
26. (a) 5 per cent. of men.
(b) 10 per cent.
do.
(c) 2 per cent.
do.
(d) 4 per cent.
do.
27. Principally from the classes called 'fakirs.'
28. (a) 3 pie to 12 pie per diem.
(b) 3 pie to 2 annas per diem.
29. (a) Smoking and chewing tobaccos are
mixed with charas and ganja generally. Bhang—
See question 15. (b) Dhatura—Added to give
excessive intoxicant action. Mixtures mentioned
in 15 added to give pleasant taste and to lessen
the intoxicating action. Mixture called ' thandai.'
30. All three are generally consumed in company.
Very seldom that a man smokes by himself. Un-
usual for any one under 20 to consume drugs.
Women do not use drugs.
31. Habit easily formed and difficult to break.
Moderate use generally develops into excessive.
32. No such customs.
33. Habit is considered bad, because the intoxi-
cation prevents a man from doing his work. No
custom of worshipping hemp is known.
34. It would be a privation, but no injury would
result to health or working capacity.
35. If ganja and charas were suddenly stopped
there would be no mental distress, but there would
be bodily distress. If bhang were suddenly stopped
injury would result to the old men who use it. No
recourse would be had to alcohol or other drugs.
There would be no discontent, except in respect to
bhang. Bhang would be illicitly consumed, but
ganja could not be, as the odour given off in its
preparation would cause it to be detected.
36. No.
37. Charas is much stronger in its effects than
ganja.
38. Baluchar gives the cleanest (saf) intoxica-
tion and chur the worst (gandha).
39. Bhang, when smoked, is less effective.
Ganja and charas only smoked.
40. Ganja and charas not used medicinally.
Bhang is sometimes used for cattle.
41. (a) Charas and ganja are not food acces-
sories or digestives, but bhang is.
(b) Bhang gives staying-power and alleviates
fatigues, but others do not.
(c) Not used for these purposes.
42. Charas and ganja not beneficial, but bhang
in moderation is beneficial. Charas and ganja are
harmful in any case.
43. Totally inoffensive, as they are senseless.
49. Ganja and charas used moderately to pro-
duce impotence. Bhang in moderation is an
aphrodisiac, but is not used by prostitutes.
50. See 49.
51. No connection with crime at all. Criminals
do not use drugs, as they do not increase their
daring (jura' at).
53. Not excited to violence. Effect is quite the
opposite.
54. Not used, because the intelligence is dimi-
nished by the use.
55. Criminals cause their victims to become
senseless by giving them charas or ganja to smoke.
Bhang is not used for this purpose, as it does not
result in such insensibility.
56. Bhang is rendered less operative if mixed
with other substances, except in this case of dhatura,
when the power is greatly increased. Charas and
ganja are never mixed, except with dhatura.
57. Ganja and charas are only smoked.
58. Present system is sufficient and satisfactory.
62. No use to control wild hemp. This is only
cut and used by the contractor.
63. No objections.
64. No objections or suggestions.
65. No necessity for an alteration of existing
state of affairs.
61. Evidence of JAIDEO SAHAY, Agarwal, Officiating Tahsildar, Natoabganj,
District Bara Banki.
1. Having been in charge of excise works both at
the head-quarters of the district and at mufassal
for more than a dozen of years, I have had many
opportunities of obtaining information on this point
from farmers and consumers of these drugs.
2. The above definitions of bhang, ganja, and
charas may fairly be accepted for this province of
Oudh.
3. The hemp plant grows spontaneously in abun-
dance in the districts of Faizabad, Gonda, Babraich,
and Hardoi, and here and there in nearly all the
districts of Oudh.
4. It is commonly known as ganja ofabhang
plant, and they refer exactly to the same plant.
5. The plant needs much rain, and west wind is
specially useful for its growth; better soil and
higher elevation above the sea level largely tend to
increase its growth.
6. In the districts of Gonda and Bahraich it is
dense. At other places it is only scattered.
7. Nowhere. Some time ago the ganja plant
was cultivated by the Kabariyas at Lodhaisur,
tahsil Fatehpur, district Bara Banki; but the
district authorities having got information forbade
the practice. Its products used to be about a thou-
sand maunds.
8. None.
9. Its seed is sown with wheat or other crops,
and when its plant has attained a little height it has
to be made out whether it would produce ganja or