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10. I cannot say. I believe the same as other
cultivators.
11. I cannot say. I should think not.
12. Exceptional cases of illicit cultivation have
come to my notice from time to time, but I
cannot now say where exactly.
13. To Rajshahi and other neighbouring dis-
tricts. I think that ganja might probably be
cultivated anywhere, and have met isolated
instances of illicit cultivation in many districts.
14. Ganja is prepared under official control in
Rajshahi and the neighbouring districts. I have
never seen charas, and know nothing of it.
Bhang, meaning hemp tea, is prepared in Orissa.
I cannot give figures showing how much is pre-
pared of each.
16. I think that bhang is generally prepared
by the people in their houses. I think it is
generally prepared from the male hemp plant. A
sort of ganja is prepared from the wild plant
wherever grown, but except when prepared from
female hemp it is very weak.
18. Ganja, I know, deteriorates by keeping,
but I cannot answer the other questions.
19. So far as I know, ganja is only used for
smoking. I know nothing of charas, but am told
that it is eaten.
20. No general answer can be given to this
question.
21. I am told that round ganja is the strongest
and is therefore preferred by regular smokers. I
am also told that it is too strong, and so other
people prefer 'chur' which is weaker. 'Flat'
contains too many sticks to be popular.
23. In this connection I take bhang to mean
the same as siddhi. It is used for smoking, but
I cannot give figures.
24. So far as I know, bhang is always used as
a drink, but I cannot give figures. I think it is
not eaten. I have not heard of its use as a drink
except in Orissa.
25. I have not been in any one place long
enough to reply to this question.
26. This would require special observation which
cannot, I should think, be applied.
27. I think that no answer can be given to this
question.
28. This cannot be answered because (1) no
one will give correct information; (2) in no in-
toxicant can an average be laid down—what is
habitually moderate for one person would be
habitually excessive for another.
29. Ganja, so far as I know, is usually taken
pure or mixed with tobacco, more commonly the
latter. The object of this is to improve the
flavour, I think. I have not heard of dhatura
being so used.
My Uriya servant who may be an expert tells
me that bhang massala is made of elaichi, kabab-
chini and laong. He also says that sugar and milk
are mixed with bhang; elaichi, etc., are all un-
known to me.
30. I think it is generally practised in solitude,
chiefly by males and not by children. I have
seen ganja-smokers of any age from 20 upwards.
33. Nearly everywhere if you ask a man if he
smokes ganja, he will say no, whether he does or
not. This shows that there is some public
opinion against the practice. But it is impossible
to say whether this is due to an idea that we
Europeans disapprove of such a practice or to a real
feeling of shame. When a man who has denied
smoking has the practice brought home to him,
he does not seem to mind much and generally
admits being a moderate consumer, and I have
known people admit without any shame at all.
I know of no worship of the hemp plant. There
may be some in Rajshahi.
34. I should think that it would be a serious
privation to any one to forego his favourite stim-
ulant.
35. I think that if the use of these drugs were
prohibited, the drug would be sure to be consumed
illicitly. It is rather hard to prophesy more than
this.
36. No; I do not think that any one who has
been in the habit of taking ganja ever takes alco-
hol instead. Ganja intoxication is much cheaper
and any one accustomed to one form of intoxica-
tion is not likely to change it for another.
38. Round ganja is said to be stronger. In its
effects chur ganja would be the same as flat. As
a fact there is more fermentation in round ganja
than in the other sorts.
39. It is certain, I think, that the least injuri-
ous way of taking hemp is in the drink which
I have called 'bhang.' I have never seen any
one eating the drug, and do not know what effect
that would have. Smoking seems to have more
effect than drinking as in bhang; but what is
meant by the words 'injurious form of consump-
tion' I do not know. They seem to me to be a
petitio principii.
42. Yes, I think it is harmless. I have not
answered the last two questions because they are
of a medical sort. But I have known people take
ganja moderately without any harm. I remember
meeting a barber once, about 9 A.M., having some
ganja, and asked him 'but does not this make
your hand shake?' and he replied 'but does it
shake?' and then he said that he had taken so
much ganja—not much—for many years, and
found that it did him good.
43. I believe so.
44. I have been unable to find an admitted
habitual consumer who can give me materials for
answering all these questions. But the drug
certainly produces exhilaration at the time.
45. This appears to be a medical question.
51. For some reason or other habitual criminals
are either really addicted to or are stated by the
police to cause prejudice to be addicted to some
form of intoxication, more commonly liquor in
Behar, and more commonly ganja in Orissa; else-
where in about equal proportions. Perhaps the
criminal classes require more 'keeping up' or the
taste which is an expensive one urges to crime.
Yesterday I. was talking to a confessed ganja
smoker, and asked how much he smoked, and he
said 1/4th tola a day; and I said 'was that enough?'
and he told me that this was all he could afford
and that if he took more than that he must steal.
53. This is a medical question. It is impossible
to tell how any form of intoxication will act on
any particular brain.
54. I do not remember such a case, though I
have often heard of alcohol being so used.
55. Yes. I cannot answer the latter part of the
question.
57. I have not heard of ganja being eaten.
Bhang may be prepared from ganja (meaning the
female hemp plant), but I do not know if this is