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is used for drinking. The preparation is made
strong or mild as required.
17. There is no particular class of people to
whom the preparation of the hemp drug is re-
stricted.
18. They do deteriorate, but do not quite lose
their effects. They keep good for not more than
a year. Weather causes deterioration. I cannot
suggest any measures to prevent deterioration.
19. Ganja is used here only for smoking.
20. A small portion of the poorer classes smoke
ganja. There is no particular locality to which
the use is confined, but it is used more in places
where the climate is damp and malarious.
21. Ganja prepared for smoking is generally flat
and round.
22. Chains is not to be had here or used.
23. Bhang is not used for smoking in this dis-
trict.
24. Marwadi and pardesi classes more generally
eat and drink bhang, but even among them the
proportion is not large. The use is not restricted
to any particular locality or portion of the district.
25. I do not think the use of these drugs is on
the increase.
26. In this district among the consumers of
bhang and ganja the number of habitual moderate
consumers is pretty large; (c) the number of occa-
sional moderate consumers is not very large. ( d) Oc-
casional excessive consumers are also, I think, rare.
( b ) The number of habitual excessive consumers is
very small.
27. I cannot give definite information on the
point.
29. In the case of ganja tobacco is invariably
mixed, and that of bhang the mixture is usually
of pepper and some massala and sugar. Some-
times milk is also used to give flavour to the drink
by well-to-do persons accustomed to drink bhang.
Dhatura is very rarely used and only by exces-
sive smokers of ganja with the object of get-
ting more intoxicated. Yes, the bhang massala
is sold by grocers, The more usual ingredients
of bhang massala are as follows :—
(1) Badi shop (aniseed) ; (2) kasni ; (3) gulab
kali (rose buds) ; (4) miri, i.e., kali miri (pepper);
(5) badam (almond) ; (6) kakdi bij (cucumber
seeds) ; (7) khaskhas (poppy seed) ; (8) vilayachi
(cardamom) ; (9) sakar (sugar) ; (10) dudha
(milk) ; (11) dhane (coriander seed).
When this massala is mixed with sugar, milk
and bhang, it is called dudhiya.
30. The consumption of these drugs is prac-
tised more in company than in solitude. It is
mainly confined to the male sex above the age of
25 or 30. It is not at all usual for children on
this side of any classes to consume any of these
drugs.
31. Not, except in the case of reckless persons
when in the association of habitual consumers. It
is not difficult to break off the habit, if not of a long
standing, . Necessarily the drugs have no tendency
of increasing the habit, but is increased by the
association of people habituated to the excessive
use of the drugs,
32. The only custom known in this part of the
district is that worshippers of the god Mahadev
regard bhang as the favourite drug of that god
and some use it devotionally on the Shivaratra and
other Shiva fasting days. On the night of the
Shivaratra holiday the worshippers of the god
Mahadev, in worshipping the god, bathe the god
with bhang and then use the liquid as a sacred drink,
Yes ; the use is considered sacred and essential
by the devotees of Mahadev. To be temperate
or excessive depends on the habit of consumers.
If it is excessive, it would be injurious.
33. By the non-consumers it is not favourably
regarded. There is no public opinion worth men-
tioning, either religious or social, in this part of
the country in regard to the practice. I attribute
the sentiment to the intoxicating properties of
the drug. The worshipping of the hemp plant is
not known in this part of the country.
34. Yes; it would, I think, be a serious privation,
particularly in the case of ascetics, to forego the
consumption, as it is a sine qua non of their iti-
nerant life. The exact number of the class cannot
be given, but it is a pretty large one.
35. (a) I think it would not be feasible. ( b)
Yes ; it would be consumed illicitly. (c) By en-
acting a severe law prohibiting the cultivation,
importation and sale of these drugs. ( d ) Yes,
I think so. (e) Yes, not unlikely. (f) No, not
to a perceptible extent, great many people such
as bairagis and other ascetics, as well as men of
several classes who now use these drugs, will never
stoop to use alcoholic stimulants instead. Other
drugs such as dhatura, bachanaga, etc., as well as
opium will likely be resorted to.
36. No ; I do not think,
38. I can say nothing.
39. I think smoking must rather be injurious
than eating or drinking.
40. I do not think the native doctors pre-
scribe the use of these drugs as a medicine. But
the superior kind of bhang is used by native
doctors as an ingredient in medicine used for diar-
rhoea and other bowel complaints. Yes ; the drugs
are used in the treatment of certain cattle-diseases.
But bhang is often given in flour to fatigued
horses and bullocks to refresh them, and it is
given to cattle for increasing their appetite.
41. Yes. Bhang is considered to be so. Yes ;
according to native works on medicine bhang has
febrituge properties and is used in malarious and
unhealthy tracts with such object. It is used as
a sort of refresher which keeps spirit.
All classes use the drug, but their proportion
is small in this part of the country. I refer to
the moderate habitual use.
42. The moderate use of bhang is harmless.
But the smoking of ganja is rather injurious to
health.
43. Yes, they are inoffensive.
44. The effect of moderate use of these drugs
is refreshing. Yes, it produces intoxication. It
does not allay hunger. Yes, it creates appetite.
47. I don't think.
48. I don't think the excessive use of any of
these drugs leads to an hereditary habit or in any
way affects the children of the consumer.
53. I don't think and I am not aware of any
such case.
54. I don't think.
58. I am not acquainted with the system.
61. Charas is produced, I hear, in this dis-
trict.