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8. Wherever it grows, it increases and decreases.
9. Spontaneous.
10 and 11. Yes.
12. No.
13. It is not. It grows in Bijnor, Kheri,
Kashmir, Amritsar, and in the north beyond the
Sarda river.
14. No.
16. No.
18. If kept free from damp it may be kept three
years ; otherwise one year.
19. Ganja and charas are smoked in the
chillum.
20. Mendicants and bad characters mostly
smoke them.
21. Flat ganja is mostly used for smoking.
22. Foreign charas is used ; it comes from
Amritsar.
23. No.
24. The Muttra Chaubes mostly use bhang.
Many respectable persons use.
25. The use of ganja and charas is on the in-
crease.
28. Charas—
(a) Re. 0-1-6.
(b) Re. 0-0-6.
Ganja—
(a) Re. 0-0-3.
(b) Re. 0-0-6.
29. Is not mixed. It is mixed with tobacco ;
mendicants mix dhatura to cause intoxication.
30. In company. Children rarely use them.
31. It is difficult to break off the practice.
32. It is not incumbent on any class to use
them. They are baneful.
33. Charas and ganja are deemed. disreputable.
They produce asthma and weaken the consumers.
Bhang is harmless. No particular class or sect is
addicted to the use of them.
34. If given up, the consumer would suffer for
a short time.
35. To the Government everything is possible.
37. The effects of charas-smoking are agreeable.
Those of ganja are unpleasant.
38. Ganja is the same. The flat is best.
39. Smoking is the more injurious form.
40. No.
41. Bhang is beneficial. It is used in medi-
cines ; it benefits cattle, relieving fatigue.
42. Vide No. 41.
43. They are.
44. Ganja and charas produce immediate intoxi-
cation. The effects remain for three hours.
45. Vide No. 44. Asthma and bronchitis are
produced.
47. It does not gradually become hereditary.
49. Ganja and charas produce impotency.
Bhang promotes lust.
51. Bad characters use charas and ganja.
53. Excessive indulgence produces insanity.
55. Yes.
5S. The excise administration is not considered
satisfactory.
59. It cannot be improved.
60 and 61. Ganja is not produced here.
246. Evidence of LALA THAKUR PERSHAD, late Drug Contractor, Fatehpur City.
1 and 2. Vide replies against queries 3 and 4.
3 and 4. Baluchar or fiat ganja is produced in
Hat Naogaon in the Bengal Presidency, broken
ganja in the Indore State and Khandwa, and round
ganja in the Gwalior State. Ganja is sown and
does not grow spontaneously. Bhang grows
spontaneously in the district of Bahraich in Oudh
and other neighbouring districts, and also in Farukh-
abad, Saharanpur, and Thatia. It said that a
kind of bhang also grows spontaneously in Ujjain.
Charas is an admixture. It is of two kinds. The
mode of preparation is not known to me, and hence
no description of it can be given. Saljahan charas
is imported from Nepal, etc., in the north, and the
Yarkand charas from Ludhiana and Amritsar, etc.,
in the west.
5. Special conditions of soil are necessary.
Bhang, ganja, or charas docs not grow everywhere.
Suitable climate and rainfall are required.
6. I do not known.
7. "Patwa," probably called "patsan," is culti-
ated in these districts for its fibre and not for the
production of ganja, bhang or charas. No drugs
of the kind are produced here.
8. No such cultivation in these districts.
9. No such cultivation here, and hence no parti-
culars of the method of such cultivation can be
given.
vol. v.
10. Hemp is cultivated here by the same agri-
culturists who sow other sorts of grain, etc. It is
sown along with other crops for the purpose of its
fibre for making ropes for drawing water, etc., and
not for its narcotic properties. The cultivators of
hemp do not form a special class.
11 and 12. I do not know.
13. The cultivation requires special conditions of
soil and suitable climate and rainfall. It is not
restricted to any particular locality.
14. Fide replies to queries 1 to 4.
15. Ganja and charas are used for smoking.
Bhang is powdered with water and then eaten and
drunk.
16. Bhang cannot be prepared from the hemp
plant. People generally take bhang to their houses
and there powder it with water and thus make the
preparation.
17. Fibre is taken from the hemp by all classes
of the people for making ropes, etc.
This is not restricted to any particular class.
18. By keeping any of these drugs for a year or
two it will deteriorate and its effect will be les-
sened.
19. Ganja and charas are used for smoking only.
20. No special classes. All the three drugs are
used by all the classes.
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