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110. Evidence of Hospital Assistant M . V. RAMANUGULU NAIDU, Peddapur,
Godavari District.
1. Being aware that the drugs used by men
professing to practise Yogam, I had to make
enquiries regarding its quality and vitality.
2. As far as I have known, and from what I
have heard, there does not seem to be difference in
the shape.
3. I have seen ganja not anywhere grown
spontaneously, and it is, as a rule, reared in gardens,
specially of Muhammadan community. It is
reared in the districts of Madura, Kurnool, and
Cuddapah, where there are Muhammadans to a
great extent; and I have heard of its being grown
in the presidency of Bengal.
4. It is grown in the rainy and dewy seasons.
It is specially seen flowering from the latter part of
December up to March or April. Red soil is the
best field for its growth.
6 . S c a t t e r e d .
7 . A c u l t i v a t i o n t o s o m e e x t e n t f o r(
a )
a n d
( d ) .
10. No; they are as other cultivators.
11. It is.
12. I have seen nowhere hemp cultivation spe
- c i a l l y f o r g a n j a i n p l a c e s
I h a v e h a d o c c a s i o n
to go. People used to rear them generally in
small quantity in their gardens.
1 3 . N o .
14. Ganja to some extent and bhang to a
little are made.
15. For drinking, they mix plantains, sugar,
milk, and juice of the flowering tops of the ganja.
For smoking the simple drug is used, and the
people eat for intoxication.
16. (a) Not i n houses general l y.
(b) Yes.
17. The Rajputs, the Muhammadans, and the
Bengalis, and some other lower orders of people
in the south.
18. Yes, they deteriorate by keeping. Yes;
they lose their effects in one week. If kept air-
- t i g h t , d e t e r i o r a t i o n m a y b e p r e v e n t e d .
19. For smoking.
20. Generally by lower orders, and specially
by those who profess to practise Yogam.
23 and 24. By Muhammadans.
27. It is not used by men in high society,
except in rare cases. It is practised more by
labouring classes.
29. Dhatura is never used.
30. As a rule, mothers give ganja to children
as a medicine to cure indigestion. Bhang and
g a n j a a r e u s e d m o r e i n c o m p a n y o f t w o o r t h r e e
t h a n i n s o l i t u d e .
31. When once taken into practice, it is diffi
- c u l t t o d i s c o n t i n u e . N o ; t h e r e i s n o s u c h t e n d e n c y .
33. Ganja smokers in certain cases worship
the plant.
35. It is never consumed illicitly. It can be
easily prohibited.
41. A moderate use of it is beneficial as a foo
accessory or digestive.
47. It is not hereditary.
41( c). It is more injurious.
6 8 . N o .
69. Yes.
70. No.
111. Evidence of Hospital Assistant CHINNY SREENIVASA RAU, Prapanna Komity,
L. F. Hospital, Bobbili Vizagapatam District.
1. My father was a native doctor. I have learnt
native Pharmacopœia to some extent from him. I
have been a medical man for the last twenty-two
years. I have treated many bad cases of ganja
consumers. I have obtained some information
from the habitual consumers. Some of them were
under my daily observation.
2. The ganja is prepared here as follows :–
The flowering tops, when matured with some black
furrowed seeds, are cut from the tree, exposed to
night dew, and pressed between wooden planks
lined with a gunny piece, with a weight over them.
This process is repeated for six or seven days. It
is known by the names of ganja, ganja-kali, gyn-
- n a p a t r i , b a s a v a p a t r i , a n d m a d h u r a k a v i . T h e l a t t e r
names are applied by the religious men.
7. Yes.
(a) Yes.
(b) No.
(c) To some extent.
(d) N o.
A class of men called Kurakula, people who
cultivate vegetable curries, cultivate the plant to
some extent in their farms. It is also cultivated
by some of the Muhammadans and habitual con-
sumers to a small extent, i.e., 1 to 40 plants.
8. No separate land is set aside for cultivating
ganja.
9. The plants are watered till they grow a foot
long, and afterwards no water is given to them,
except once or twice if the season is dry. When
they grow older and older, manure with fowls'
excretion is added to the soil. Certain consumers
slit open the main stem, insert a small stick of
pure opium in the centre of the pith, apply broken
pieces of pot on either side of the tree, and tie it
tightly with an old rag plastered with mud. The
insertion of opium in this way is believed to
increase the intoxicating power of the drug with
production of much resinous matter on the flower-
ing tops. Certain men daily twist the twigs and
the tops with a view of producing good ganja.
When the tree is grown old they remove the male
trees.
10. It is not cultivated by agricultural culti
- v a t o r s b u t b y t h e f o l l o w i n g :(
1 )
H i l l p e o p l e ,
( 2 )
Musalmans, (3) Brahmins, (4) Telagas, (5)
Kurakuli people, The cultivation is common in
almost all the villages.