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the drug for the above purposes in a moderate
dose.
42. No; moderate use of these drugs is said to
be conducive to health in certain circumstances.
But generally the use is injurious.
43. Certainly they are.
44. Moderate use of these drugs is refreshing.
It does not allay hunger but alleviates fatigue.
It certainly creates appetite. The after-effects
are not so telling as the use of liquor. One who
is habituated to use these drugs feels uneasiness,
when in want of them.
45. (a) Yes.
(b) Yes.
(c) Yes.
(d) Cannot say.
(e) Cannot say.
(f) It is refreshing, and makes the consumer
all life and vigour for the moment. Cannot say is
it produces insanity.
Moderate use of these drugs never makes the
consumer insane unless excessive use is resorted
to.
46. Habitual excessive use of ganja or bhang is
a fruitful source of brain disease. It brings on
torpor, and insanity is its inevitable result.
47. Habitual moderate use of the drugs, is not
a hereditary habit.
It does not affect in any
way the children of the moderate consumer.
48. Nil.
51. Yes; there does not seem to be any connec-
tion.
52. Excessive use of these drugs may give rise
to offences less heinous than those committed
under the influence of liquor.
53. No.
54. No.
55. (a) No.
(b) Cannot say.
56. The effects of hemp do not seem to be
particularly modified by the admixture of other
substances.
No such information could be given.
57. These cases are rare, and call for no remarks.
63. There can be no objection to the system of
vend of preparations of ganja, charas, or bhang
if the system of vending is at all to be retained.
But, as a rule, the system in injurious.
64. Cannot answer.
65. These drugs have been already too highly
taxed.
66. Certainly. The existing rates are generally
approved.
There is scarcely any ground for the rates being
different.
67. Certainly not.
69. Wishes of the people are never consulted or
considered. Local public opinion ought to be con-
sulted and considered.
70. Cannot say.
250. Evidence of the DISTRICT BOARD, Monghyr
(Sub-Committee).
2. These definitions may generally be accepted
for this province. Ganja is not cultivated in this
district. Bhang grows wild here, and both male
and female plants are collected for the preparation
of bhang. Siddhi is locally known as bhang.
3. Bhang grows wild in this district, and plants
are scattered.
4. Not known by any other name in this
district.
5. Climate temperate, elevation low.
6. Ordinarily scattered, grows ordinarily in
low ground, such as ditches and in uncultivated
lands.
14. (a) Not prepared.
(b) Ditto.
(c) Prepared from wild plant in this district. In
the northern parts of this district, about 200 to 300
maunds annually.
15. None prepared from cultivated plant, as
plant is not cultivated. Wild plant collected and
dried for some days in the sun. Leaves then
shaken off (seeds separated as far as possible) and
sold for eating and drinking.
(A) Charas is smoked. Prepared tobacco is
mixed with it. A small quantity is put into the
centre of a small ball of tobacco, which is then
heated on a fire till it cracks. The two are then
rubbed together and are ready for use (smoking).
(B) Eating.—Dried leaves are soaked in water
and then smashed in a stone mortar with spices
(bhang massala, pepper, aniseed, etc.). This is made
into pills and eaten.
(C) The pills above described are rubbed up
with sugar and water and sometimes with milk
and rosewater for drinking.
16. Yes, and it can be prepared from the plant
wherever grown. Ganja and charas are not
ordinarily made from the wild plant wherever
grown, but may be so prepared by those who
understand special points in the cultivation of the
plant.
17. No particular class make them—generally
Babhans and Rajputs and some low class people
also. Also by wholesale dealers in the drug as
well as by the consumers.
18. All deteriorate by keeping. Bhang quite
loses its effect in five years; three years old is very
mild. Ganja keeps less, loses power in two years.
Damp hastens deterioration, Keeping off damp
does not wholly preserve these drugs.
19. Yes; ganja is very rarely eaten; when so
used it is mixed with bhang and then eaten.
This practice is very rare. Mostly in the North-
-estern Provinces.
20. Almost all classes smoke ganja. Use of
charas is very rare in Monghyr District. Propor-
tion of population cannot be given definitely
Fakirs prefer ganja-smoking to the use of bhang.
21. Chur ganja is preferred for smoking. But
all kinds are used in most parts of the district.
Localities, etc., cannot be particularized.
22. Charas is rarely used; those who smoke
it get it from Calcutta or Benares.
23. Is very rarely used by ganja-smokers as a