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any cases brought to court for some years. Illicit
use, or sale, or possession is promptly reported for
sake of the reward.
33.Any Burman Buddhist consuming these
drugs would be regarded as utterly abandoned.
The Buddhist scriptures entirely forbid the use of
these drugs.
34.
No, none ; but natives of India use the drug.
Few respectable members of that community use it,
and the few who use it can get opium instead.
Of Burmans, one out of many thousands may
use the drug.
35.
Total prohibition has been in force for twenty
years past. The drug is consumed illicitly, but
practically by natives of India only, and to a very
limited extent. The total prohibition does not
cause discontent to the Burman population, and
few respectable persons amongst the native of India
c o m m u n i t y c o n s u m e t h e d r u g . T h e e x i s t i n g p r o h i -
b i t i o n i s e f f e c t i v e . H e a v y f i n e s h a v e s u f f i c e d t o
reduce the consumption to a minimum. Natives of
India who used ganja and bhang in India probably
use opium in Burma.
36.
Certainly not.
40. Not by Burman native doctors.
43. There are too few consumers for me to give
an opinion.
45. I have known natives of India go off their
heads from using bhang or ganja.
58. Working well. Not capable of further im-
provement. Very little of the drug is smuggled.
The majority of cases are detected and offenders
punished. It is impossible to prevent smuggling
altogether.
62. The total prohibition now in force is abso-
lutely necessary. Were the use of the drug to be
sanctioned, the spread of the habit would be great,
and the results lamentable.
64. Import and export totally prohibited in
Burma.
68. None.
13. Evidence of MR. W. N. PORTER, Deputy Commissioner, Upper Chindwin.
1.Twenty-three years' service in Burma. The
Police and Commission.
2.In this district and elsewhere, so far as my
experience extends, hemp of all kinds is known as
s è c h a u k . T h e r e a r e n o s e p a r a t e n a m e s f o r
separate forms of it.
3.Does not grow spontaneously, but very
luxuriantly, when planted, everywhere in Burma.
4.Only sé chauk. Yes.
7. No. Medicine men sometimes cultivate a plant
or two for medicinal purposes, but the fact is kept
very secret. Nearly all the different forms of hemp
are imported by natives of India for their own con-
sumption. Very little is cultivated, and that only
after precautions have been taken against detection.
17. Natives of India usually. Very few natives
of Burma indulge in ganja.
19.No. It is put in curry, the flavour of which
it is said to improve. The leaves of the hemp are
also occasionally smoked with tobacco in the form
of cigars by Burmans and Shans, but instances of
either use are very rare.
20.Shans in the Upper Chindwin used to do so
under the Burman regime. The practice, however,
was not very wide-spread nor general, and since the
British occupation and absolute prohibition, the use
of hemp has practically disappeared.
21.The leaves of the hemp plant.
22.Not used.
23.Principally by natives of India, but very
seldom by Burmans and Shans.
25. Rapid decrease among Burmans and Shans,
owing to the absolute prohibition of the drug and
measures adopted to enforce it. The use of the
various forms of the hemp plant is rather common
among natives of India.
27. I can't speak for natives of India. In case
of Burmans and Shans the practice of hemp con-
sumption is so very uncommon that information in
regard to questions Nos. 26 and 27 is not available.
In fact, among them there are no habitual consumers,
the young bloods only occasionally indulging.
31. Among Burmans and Shans it does not
amount to a habit. They have no difficulty in
refraining from its use, because they so seldom take
it.
33. Hemp consumption is regarded with strong
disapproval by Burmans and Shans.
40. Yes ; both by Burman and Shan medicine
men as a febrifuge and digestive and remedy for
rheumatism.
44.On Burmans and Shans its use leads to
temporary mental derangement or intoxication, as
it commonly happens that, when taken at all, which
is very seldom, it is taken in excess.
45.I can't say ; the hemp habit is so infrequent
in Burma.
49. Yes ; occasionally. I have heard of a few
instances.
51. No. None in the case of Burmans and Shans.
With regard to natives of India I can't say.
57. The leaves of the hemp plant are sometimes
eaten in curry. The effect is to intoxicate and
induce sexual desire.
14. Evidence of MR. S. H. T. DE LA COURNEUVE, Deputy Commissioner, Pakokku,
Upper Burma.
1.Twenty-one years' service in Burma : sixteen
in Lower Burma, and five in Upper Burma.
2.Ganja is known in this province under one
name only, viz., sè gyauk. This is the flowers and
leaves of the plant.
3.I have never seen it grown. I have served in
nine districts in Lower Burma and five in Upper
Burma, and have never seen the plant or heard of
it either as indigenous or cultivated.
4.Sè gyauk is the generic term for ganja.
6.Not indigenous.
7.No.
14. No.
19. Sè gyauk is not used for smoking by the