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worms by exposure to air and light after six
months.
20. The lower order of Mahrattas and Panda-
– r a m - P a r a t h a s u s s m o k e g a n j a o f e i t h e r s o r t ( a b o v e
given). The proportion of people using ganja is
very insignificant and may not exceed 1 in 5,000.
21. Chur is used for smoking mixed with equal
quantity of tobacco. Both are well washed and
then used for smoking.
22. Both native and foreign ganja. Ganja is
imported from Dharmapuri (Salem district) into
this district.
23. Yes; in fact both bhang and ganja are
used in smoking by the classes above named.
25. No increase or decrease to any appreciable
extent.
28. (a) Half an anna weight of ganja, worth
about six pies.
(b) One anna weight, and worth from 9 to
12 pies.
29. See under 15.
30. The purnathi above specified is consumed
in solitude. Ganja is smoked generally in com-
pany, and it is confined to the wale sex. Even
old people continue to use the drug. Children do
not consume the drug.
32. No such social or religious custom prevails
in this province.
33. The custom is regarded as degrading, and
the user of ganja is not respected. The use is in
disrepute, because the users lose their self-control,
and become offensive to neighbours. There is no
custom of worshipping the plant in this province.
35. The discontent cannot amount to a political
danger. The prohibition may lead to the use of
other intoxicating drugs or spirits.
38. Flat and chur only are used here, but no
difference in effect is ascribed to them.
40. Native doctors sometimes prescribe the use
of ganja preparation called purnathi-lakiam (see
query 15) for those suffering from dyspepsia,
dysentery, liver complaints, stomach ache and
general debility.
43. The uses of purnathi confection are not
offensive, but those using ganja always select
secluded places.
58. It is working well in this province.
60. The production and use is so very small
that it is better to leave matters as they are.
139. Evidence of BONDILI MOTIRAM, Cultivator, Cocanada, Godavari District.
1. I was formerly a medicine-maker, and so I
can give information about the ganja plant and
leaf.
2. Ganja does not grow spontaneously, except
in wild tracts to a very limited extent, and in
Kabul, Nepal and Punjab. It grows abun
– d a n t l y i n H y d e r a b a d .
14. Ganja is not prepared but is grown.
Bhang is prepared here and there to a limited
extent by those that desire to stimulate pleasure.
Charas is not known here; nor does anybody
know how to prepare it.
16. Bhang is prepared generally in houses and
monasteries. It is prepared from the ganja plant
wherever grown. The ganja plant grown on red
and hard soil and rigor clay, is used for smoking.
The plant grown here is not useful for making
charas, but that grown in cold countries is useful
for the same.
1 9 . G a n j a a n d c h a r a s a r e n o t o n l y u s e d f o r
smoking, but also mixed in medicines. They
eradicate vatam and phlegm, and cure dysentery.
It is generally mixed in medicines in all places.
20. Charas is not known here. All classes of
people smoke ganja ; and they form 1/16th of the
population. This is prevalent in all localities.
24. Bhang is drunk by all classes of people to
a very limited extent and in all localities.
25. The use of ganja and bhang is on the
decrease, since the price has risen on account of
taxation.
28. The average cost per diem for a habitual
consumer is from 1 to 3 pies.
32. The use of ganja is not prohibited by any
religious books ; nor are the consumers offensive
to their neighbours.
33. The use of ganja is not regarded by the
public as prohibited, and the plant is not wor-
shipped here.
39. Neither ganja nor its preparations are eaten
by all except habitual consumers . It causes
intoxication to those who are not habitual
consumers. Smoking does not produce as much
intoxication as eating.
40. Ganja leaf and its juice are used in medi-
cines. As it is a drug, it may be used for cattle
disease, but I cannot say for certain.
41. Ganja and bhang are used for bodily
disease by some, and for intoxication by others.
Certain diseases are being cured by their use.
43. Either moderate or excessive indulgence in
the same does not make a man offensive to his
neighbours ; but it makes him a little intoxicated
—not as much as arrack does.
44. It is used for dyspepsia, for soothing
fatigue, and for curing bodily ailments. By its
use the fatigue of journey will disappear ; and
though the excessive smoking does not make a
man senseless, it produces a little intoxication.
Its use, when hungry, allays hunger to a little
extent, Its creates appetite by curing dyspepsia.
Its effects will last for nearly three hours. Its
use will sharpen the intellect and makes the mind
steady. Want of subsequent gratification pro-
duces longing for the same and uneasiness.
45. No.
49. It increases semen if taken by youth-
ful persons and not by old - people.
53, The use of ganja, etc., does not make a
man senseless as arrack, etc., will do. So long as
a man is under its influence, he will be a conscious
speaker. I have not heard of anybody under its
influence committing suicide.
54. No.
55. Criminals do not induce their victims to
partake of any of these drugs, because it does not
stupefy them.