Two-year-old ganja is almost inert, and the law requires it to be burnt in the presence of excise officers. It is exported from Bombay in wooden cases. The leaves are said to be picked off to form bhang, and the little shoots which follow these are used as above, and called ganja. It should be freed from resin by macerating in spirit and then soaking in water. It is rough, brittle, dull-green in colour and almost tasteless, with a peculiar, slightly narcotic odour. It is imported in parcels of small masses, with flowers, smaller leaves and a few ripe fruits pressed together by sticky, resinous matter.
The drug that is official in Europe comes from Bogra and Rajshabi, north of Calcutta, or sometimes from Guzerat and Madras. It is sometimes found as a weed in England, probably due to seeds from birdcages, as they are much used in feeding tame birds. It is largely cultivated in Central and Southern Russia. Hemp grows naturally in Persia, Northern India and Southern Siberia, and probably in China. The fruit is small, smooth, light brownish-grey in colour, and completely filled by the seed. The ovary is smooth, one-celled, with one hanging ovule and two long, hairy thread-like stigmas extending beyond the flower for more than its own length. The small flowers are unisexual, the male having five almost separate, downy, pale yellowish segments, and the female a single, hairy, glandular, five-veined leaf enclosing the ovary in a sheath. The leaves are palmate, with five to seven leaflets (three on the upper leaves), numerous, on long thin petioles with acute stipules at the base, linear-lanceolate, tapering at both ends, the margins sharply serrate, smooth and dark green on the upper surface, lighter and downy on the under one. Description-The plant is an annual, the erect stems growing from 3 to 10 feet or more high, very slightly branched, having greyish-green hairs. In Britain, and formerly elsewhere, only Hemp grown in India was recognized as official, but the heavy tax has resulted in the admission by the United States of any active Cannabis sativa, whether grown in the States or in Africa, Turkey, Turkestan, Asia Minor, Italy, or Spain. Part Used-The dried, flowering tops of the female, or pistillate plants. I’ve attempted to keep the "electronic" version as faithful as possible to the original - Editor, ) This is the way it is listed in the original edition, published in 1931, by Mrs. ( Please DO NOT e-mail me about this being listed as a Poison.
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