100
28. In the Kheri district, where ganja grows
wild, the average cost of it is as under :—
(a) Habitual moderate consumers, 1 pice per
man per diem.
(b) Habitual excessive consumers, 2 pice per
man per diem.
29. Bhang is used with sugar and black pepper,
or with salt and black pepper, but the rich use it
with currants, pistachio-nut, etc. No ingredients
are mixed with charas. Not generally, but seldom,
dhatura is mixed with ganja to make it more in-
toxicant.
30. It is equally used in solitude and in company
Males more frequently use them than females
Children do not usually consume any of these
drugs.
31. Yes.
32. Its use is not sanctioned religiously, but by
custom. Some use more, some less. By-and-by
its use increases. The consumers of ganja and
charas are laid up with asthma.
33. The consumption of these drugs is generally
regarded as bad. It is more prevalent among
fakirs. Those who take intoxicating drugs are
regarded as base owing to bad effects, and suffer
from many diseases and die an unnatural death.
No worship of the plant is in vogue.
34. The fakir class and those who consume the
drugs in excessive quantity will feel some difficulty,
but by-and-by when these intoxicants will vanish,
they will give up their habit.
35. The prohibition will not lead to political
danger. It is possible that it may be used illicitly.
It would not be stopped until legal measures
are taken. For some time after the prohibition,
some intoxicating liquors and other things will be
used in their places.
36. No.
37. The only difference is that the effects of
charas are visible very soon and last for a long time,
while, on the other hand, those of ganja are visible
after long and last for a short time.
38. The consumers like baluchur more.
39. Bhang is not used for smoking.
40. The use of bhang is prescribed.
41. The use of ganja and charas in any quan-
tities is not beneficial. Bhang is beneficial.
(a) Bhang is food accessory and digestive.
(b) The three drugs alleviate fatigue.
(c) Bhang.
(d) Bhang.
42. Bhang is not harmful. The use of ganja
and charas is harmful, for the latter produces heat.
43. The consumers of bhang are not offensive
to their neighbours, but those of ganja and charas
are.
44. The consumption of ganja and charas is in
every way harmful, but the moderate use of bhang
is refreshing and beneficial.
45. Ganja and charas are harmful to body.
Appetite and digestion are affected, and produce
cough and asthma. These two drugs deaden in-
tellect. Temporary insanity is caused. I have no
personal experience, but got information from
others.
47. The habit is not ancestral.
49. None of these drugs are aphrodisiac. They
are used by prostitutes to alienate fatigue, and
even by excessive labour they do not feel trouble
and uneasiness.
50. Prostitutes use them to alleviate fatigue.
They do not do so for intoxication.
51. Large proportion of bad characters are not
habitual moderate consumers.
52. Excessive use of any of these drugs is in-
jurious.
53. The excessive indulgence in all these drugs
incite unpremeditated crime, violence, etc.
54. These drugs are not used by criminals to
fortify themselves to commit a premeditated act of
violence or other crime.
55. Stupefaction cannot be caused without any
admixture.
57. Ganja and charas are not eaten and drunk,
but used only for smoking.
60. Evidence of CHUDHARI SITAL PERSHAD, Bania, Tahsildar, Gorakhpur.
2. Definition correct. Same names used in this
district.
3. Hemp grows spontaneously in Gorakhpur,
Bahraich, Basti, and Farukhabad.
4. Hemp is called bhang and not patsan in
Gorakhpur, Bahraich, and Basti.
5. ' Bhat' and ' kachar' soils are best. These
are near water, and so the air remains cool.
6. Almost always dense.
7. No cultivation of hemp in this district.
14. In this district only bhang is prepared, and
that from wild hemp.
15. Wild plant—(A) Smoking.—Dry ganja is
mixed with its half of dry tobacco. A little water
is added, and the mixture rubbed between the
hands for 10 or 20 minutes, until a ball is formed.
This is smoked by the aid of a fire made of cow-
dung. Charas.—Charas is mixed with prepared
smoking tobacco which has been slightly roasted
and is then smoked. (C) Bhang.—(i) After wash-
ing is pounded with black pepper and then mixed
with water and drank. This is the ordinary me-
thod. (ii) Mixed with ' gur ' and satu, followed
by a drink of water. (iii) Mixed with ' kahu,'
' kulfa,' water ' lily,' cucumber, and marrow seeds,
almonds, and black pepper, is pounded. Mixture is
then added to sugar and milk and then drunk.
(iv) Called ' majun.' Bhang is soaked for a day
and then boiled in ghi. The ghi is strained and is
used for making sweetmeats, such as ' barfi,' etc.
16. Bhang is cut and dried on threshing floor.
The dry leaves are separated and constitute bhang.
18. All these can be kept perfectly good with
care for twelve months. Damp causes deterioration.
Cannot be preserved, as they must be kept exposed
to the air, and so go bad in the rains.
19. No other uses.
20. Religious mendicants, fakirs, both Hindu
and Muhammadan, use all these drugs. In damp
climates the use is very prevalent. In other parts
about 10 per cent. of the population use drugs.
21. Baluchar is prepared, as it is less unpleasant
as an intoxicant.