20. Low castes in general everywhere.
21. "Pathar" in this district, because no other
is imported.
22. Foreign ; from Samarkand ("Saljehan"
from Nepal).
28. Never.
24. Hindus in general everywhere drink and
sometimes, though not often, eat bhang.
25. Spreading ; they use ganja much more at
social meetings.
28. (a) One tola per diem of bhang or ganja ;
of charas two or three mashas.
29. (a) With bhang, sugar and milk (to render
it more palatable), and with ganja or charas
tobacco. I never heard of dhatura being so used.
There is no bhang massala.
30. In solitude and in company indifferently.
Children do not consume them. Consumption
confined to the male sex.
252. Evidence of SARUPCHAND, Khattri, Hemp Drug Contractor, Lucknow.
1. I have been a drug contractor for twenty
years.
2. Ganja, charas and bhang, are three separate
plants ; with this reservation, I accept this defini-
tion.
3. Bhang, in Nepal, Gonda, Bahraich, Saharan-
pur, Bareilly, Kheri, and generally near the hills.
In Nepal and Bahraich it is abundant.
4. Only bhang, ganja and charas, which are
three different plants.
5. None.
6. Dense.
7. (c) Only in Hardoi, formerly to a great ex-
tent, but now much less.
8. Decrease, because more is imported from
Bahraich.
9. With wheat and barley.
10. Ordinary cultivators.
14. (c) Majum (confection) is made from bhang
to a very small extent in the Holi.
15. Bhang mixed with ghee is put into water
boiled and made into a confection for eating.
Charas and ganja are smoked in the huka.
16. Yes ; as regards bhang.
17. No particular class.
18. They all deteriorate by keeping. They
lose nearly the whole of their effect, and become
but very slightly intoxicating. With ordinary
care they keep three or four years, but. lose more
and more of their intoxicating properties. Cold
injures them ; no special measures can be taken.
19. Only for smoking.
20. Low castes, everywhere, smoke both.
21. Flat is preferred.
22. Saljehani from Nepal is sold in Lucknow ;
that sold here comes from Yarkand.
23. Never.
24. Everybody drinks bhang, especially in
Muttra.
25. On the increase.
28. (c) Bhang 1 tola; ganja and charas, 3
mashas.
(b) Bhang, a quarter of a seer ; ganja and
charas, one tola.
29. (a) With bhang, cardamoms, roses, pepper,
kanair root, etc. Fakirs mix dhatura with it to
make it intoxicating.
There is no "bhang massala."
30. Ganja and charas mostly in company ;
bhang generally in solitude. Men, rarely women,
consume them. They are generally used by ado-
lescents ; never by children.
81. Very easily, in ten or fifteen days ; not
difficult to break off ; it does not tend so to de-
velop.
32. None.
36. On the contrary, I think drugs are displac-
ing alcohol, because they are cheaper, for the sale
of liquor is decreasing and that of drugs is increas-
ing.
253. Evidence of M. MAHOMEND HASSEIN, Drug Contractor, Lucknow.
1. Ganja is grown in Gwalior State, Pargana
Gurd, Tahsil Atri, Hanmatgarh, Kalaras, Ean-
war, in the neighbourhood of Khandwa, Dis-
trict Nimar, as well as in the neighbourhood of
Patna, whence baluchar variety is obtained. The
growth of bhang is spontaneous. It is found in
the Districts of Gonda, Basti, Bahraich, Nepal-
gunj, Rajpurdan in Nepal State, Pilibhit, Saha-
ranpur, etc. Round ganja, which is also known
by the name of Mahadeva, grows of itself in
places near Ghogra, and also in the strip of land
lying between the district of Nawabgunj and
Bahraich.
2. The account given by Dr. Prain as to the
mode of production of ganja is correct. In the
places named in reply to question No. 1, as well as
in all other places where ganja is cultivated, it is
customary with the cultivators to destroy all the
male plants after they reach a certain height, so
as to retain the female ones only. Their object in
doing this is simply to root out the seed-yielding
plants, because the seed is not liked by the ganja
consumers.
3. Ganja is cultivated in the places enumerated
in answer No. 1, but bhang grows spontaneously
in the districts of Gonda, Basti, Bahraich, Saha-
ranpur and Ujjain.
4. Patsan plant cultivated in Gwalior, District
Nimar, is called ganja pathar, and broken ganja
is called chur. Baluchar is cultivated in Patna,
while round ganja or Mahadeva is obtained from
the land on either side of the river Ghogra. Bhang
grows of itself.
5. Suitability of climate as well as height above
surface are both necessary ; neither ganja nor
bhang grows anywhere except in the places named