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55. Criminals do sometimes induce their victims
to partake ganja or bhang to stupefy them, but
no complete stupefaction can be effected without
admixture of dhatura seeds.
56. When tobacco is mixed with ganja it modi-
fies the bad effects of the latter, and therefore ganja
is never smoked without the admixture of tobacco.
36. Evidence of KHAJA ABDUL BAKI, Money-lender, Mehkar, Buldana District.
3. Ganja is generally cultivated in the Akola
district.
4. Though it is known by different names, still
it is the produce of one plant.
5. Climate temperate, land well-prepared, rain
middling, is required. In other two seasons
sufficient well water is required.
6. Cannot give any information regarding
growth of wild hemp. As regards cultivated crop,
the thinner it is the better.
7. Ganja and bhang are produced in Sutala
tahsil, Khamgaon. Extent of cultivation cannot
be told, as it depends on the pleasure of the culti-
vator.
S. The area has decreased recently, because the
cultivator has to undergo considerable responsibility
regarding the crop.
9. It is sown dense in the month of Ashad.
When the plants grow bigger, a plant called
bhangra, which grows in the crop, is weeded out,
because it spoils the main crop.
10. There is no special class of persons who
cultivate hemp. They are of the same classes as
other agricultural cultivators.
11. The ganja grown this side is from the seed
of cultivated hemp.
12. The male plant, called bhangra, which grows
in the new crop, is extirpated.
13. There is no special restriction. Government
gives permission on payment of some fees. This
is the practice in all districts.
14. Ganja and bhang are prepared in this pro-
vince, not charas. Ganja and bhang are prepared
in almost all places.
15. Ganja means the bud of the hemp plant,
bhang the flower of the bud, and charas is the
resinous matter on the leaves of the plant. If
ganja is to be smoked, it is washed with water
and smoked after mixing it with tobacco. Some
eat ganja without mixing it with anything else.
F or drinking the leaves are pounded and mixed
with sugar, pepper, milk, etc.
16. Bhang is generally prepared by the people
in their houses. It can be prepared from the hemp
plant. The same is the case with ganja and
charas.
17. There is no restriction in any classes of the
the people. But generally the gosais and bairagis
make the intoxicating preparations.
18. The three drugs will remain in their origi-
nal state for considerable number of days. Pre-
parations thereof will not remain for many days.
If good care is taken the three drugs will remain
for two or three years. They lose their effects by
exposure. If care is taken on this point, they
may remain possibly for a longer time.
19. Ganja is used for smoking only. Charas is
used for smoking and eating also. Both these are
used as medicines also, so their use is general.
20. The practice of smoking ganja and charas
is in all classes of people. Proportion is not
known.
21. 21. Round ganja is more preferred for smoking.
22. Native charas is generally used. Foreign
charas is not imported.
23. Bhang is not used for smoking. •
24.. Poor people generally eat and drink bhang.
This practice is prevalent in the persons who live
in religious places.
25. The use of ganja, bhang and charas is on
the decrease. It is due to education that the people
are lately given.
29. Dhatura is mixed with this drug in order to
increase intoxication. The roots of jowari and
kuner are also mixed for the same reason.
30. The use of these drugs is practised more in
company. It is mainly confined to the male sex,
y oung and old. However, females of bairagis and
gosais also use them. Children never consume any
of these drugs.
31. Yes ; the habit is easily formed by company,
and once used to it cannot break it off without diffi-
culty.
Yes ; there is a tendency for the moderate habit
to develop into the excessive.
32. These drugs are used on Shivaratri day and
Shimga holidays.
33. The drugs being intoxicating, their use is
not considered respectable by the public.
34. If the use of these drugs is stopped it would
not do much harm.
39. Smoking ganja is more injurious than eating
or drinking, for by smoking the smoke enters in
the chest and its filth accumulates in the chest.
40. Native doctors use these drugs in medicines.
They are used in the treatment of cattle disease
also.
41. The use of the said three drugs would very
possibly give staying-power under severe exertion
or exposure or alleviate fatigue. If it is used in a
country which is cold or where the climate is bad,
it will not be possibly beneficial. These drugs will
not be beneficial in any other way.
42. Moderate use of these drugs also will not be
beneficial for ( i n c o m p l e t e ) .
43. Moderate consumers are inoffensive to their
neighbours.
44. It produces no immediate effect on habitual
consumers. If habitual consumers will not drink
they will feel tired, and they will not be able to do
their ordinary work without drinking. It has
some effect on the consumer. It allays hunger ;
does not create it. The effect lasts for three or
four hours. The after-effects are weakness and
laziness.
45. Moderate use of any of these drugs also pro-
duce bad effects. It is injurious in every way. It
produces bile and asthma ; it makes one lazy ; it
accustoms one to whoremongery for some time ;
retards intellect ; and brings on madness. But it
remains for some days, and the use does not deprive
the madness ; the consumer becomes actually mad.
46. Excessive use of the said drugs will lead to
worse effects.