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8 and 9. Requires no answer, as there is no
cultivation of the hemp plant.
10. Persons who cultivate hemp do not form
a special class; but they are of the same class as
other agricultural cultivators.
11 and 12. Cannot say.
13. The cultivation of the hemp plant for ganja
is not restricted in my district; but it is not culti
-vated, as the cultivators in these parts are igno
-rant as to the mode of its cultivation. I am unable
to furnish information about special conditions,
etc.
14. No; but ganja is imported from Satara and
Ahmednagar.
15. Preparations for ganja are made thus
—
(A) For smoking ganja is first cleaned out of
sticks and seeds and then rubbed on the
palm of the hand by a finger with some
water to make it glutinous. A little tobacco
is mixed with it. The mixture is put into
an earthen pipe and then smoked. Rich
people mix cardamom, nutmeg, mace, etc.,
with the mixture.
(B) Ganja is eaten in the form of majum cake,
described in No. 19
.
(C) It is drunk mixed with the juice of poppy
and sugar.
16. Bhang is not used in the Dharwar dis
-trict. I am unable to answer the remaining part
of the question.
17. None of the preparations are made here.
18. Bhang and charas are not sold in this dis
-trict. Ganja deteriorates by keeping and loses
its effect in time. With ordinary care it keeps
good for six months if it is kept in a dry state;
and after six months it gradually deteriorates
until a year, when it becomes quite useless owing
to the drying up of the oily substance of the drug.
No special measures will prevent deterioration
— a t l e a s t n o s u c h m e a s u r e i s k n o w n .
19. The answers deal only with ganja. Ganja
is used in this district for smoking only. The
broken or chur ganja is also called bhang in this
district. It is used for eating and drinking.
It is mixed with milk and sugar or jaggery and
then drunk. It is also eaten by a very few of the
labouring classes, that is about one in a thousand,
in the form of small cakes called majum, which is
thus prepared: Chur is well-mixed with milk,
syrup of sugar, cardamom and nutmeg and
saffron. The whole is made into a thick paste
and cut into pieces of cakes. A little ganja is
given to cattle in order that they may be able
to digest fodder.
20. Almost all classes of people, except Brah
-mans and Lingayets, generally smoke
g a n j a , t h o u g h i t c a n n o t b e d e n i e d t h a t s o m e e x c e p t i o n a l
cases may be met with in the latter two com
- m u n i t i e s . A b o u t o n e p e r c e n t . o f t h e p o p u l a t i o n
smoke ganja. Ganja smoking is widely practised
in hot localities.
21. Flat ganja is preferred for smoking in this
district. It is considered a great luxury. When
this kind of ganja is not procurable, chur
g a n j a i s s m o k e d . B u t t h e g e n e r a l p r a c t i c e i s t o s m o k e
flat ganja.
22. Charas is not used in this district. A few
charas pills were imported last year for sale from
the village of Lengre, taluka khanapur, district
Satara; but there has yet been no sale for them.
23. Bhang is not sold in this district. The
chur ganja is here called bhang and is smoked
when flat ganja is not procurable.
24. Bhang is not used in this district.
25. The use of ganja is on the increase. About
twenty-five years ago its consumption was limited
to a few, because the use of the drug was con
- s i d e r e d d e r o g a t o r y f r o m a s o c i a l p o i n t o f v i e w ,
whereas now consumers of ganja may be found
in almost all classes of the people on whom the
hold of society is not so great as before.
26. The proportion of ganja consumers will
be—
( a ) Habitual moderate consumers, 65 per
cent.
(b) Habitual excessive consumers, 10 per
cent.
(c) Occasional moderate consumers are 20
per cent .
(d) Occasional excessive consumers are 5 per
cent.
27. Manual labourers make use of ganja to
alleviate their fatigue, and this resort to ganja
for the sake of rest grows upon them into a
regular habit. The classes to which ganja con
-suming persons belong cannot be decidedly deter
-mined. Persons using ganja for the sake of
pleasure may be found in almost all classes of the
people. Bairagis and gosains consume the drug
for concentrating their attention on a single
object.
28. The average allowance and cost of each
of these drugs per diem will be to
—
(a) One tola, at a cost of half an anna.
(b) Two tolas, at a cost of one anna.
29. Dried tobacco is ordinarily mixed with
ganja so as to render it less strong and most
suitable to drink. And cardamom, nutmeg, mace,
frankincense, and such other fragrant things are
exceptionally mixed with ganja for minimising
its bad smell. Seeds of dhatura are sometimes
mixed with chur ganja with the object of increas
-ing the intoxicating power of the drug. Nothing
like bhang massala is prepared and sold for being
mixed with any of these drugs.
30. Ganja is mostly consumed in company,
and only the high caste classes consume it in
solitude for avoiding public censure. The con
-sumption of ganja is mostly confined to the male
sex, and in a few cases women too consume it.
Children, on the contrary, never consume ganja.
There is no restriction of age observed in the con
-sumption of ganja
.
31. The habit of consuming these drugs is easily
contracted by keeping company with the consumers
of ganja, and it is very difficult to break off the
habit when it is once formed. There is a ten
-dency in the case of ganja for the moderate
habit to develope into the excessive, because the
intoxication brought on by the drug is so exhi
-larating that the smoker yearns for more, and
thus goes on increasing his allowance.
32. There are no social or religious
c u s t o m s i n r e g a r d t o t h e c o n s u m p t i o n o f a n y o f t h e s e
drugs. But chur ganja is drunk for the sake
o f p l e a s u r e b y a v e r y f e w p e o p l e o n t h e H i n d u
Shivaratri and Holi holidays, and on the new year's
day in the form of ghota, which is an admixture
of ganja, sugar, and poppy juice. The drinking
of ghota on these days is not a custom. The use
of the drug is not regarded as essential. It is