(h.) The want of subsequent gratification pro-
duces uneasiness of mind and the swelling of the
belly.
45. (a) No.
(b) Yes. It reduces the body and makes him
weak.
(c) It causes injury to the digestive powers of
some and loss of appetite to others.
(d) It causes asthma and bronchitis.
(e) It does not impair the moral sense, induces
laziness, and does not create habits of immorality
or debauchery.
(f) No.
(g) No.
None.
46. The excessive use of these drugs causes great
intoxication, and deprives him of any worldy know-
ledge.
47. It is not a hereditary habit among ordinary
people, but hereditary among the sanyasis and
fakirs. No ; it does not affect the children of the
moderate consumers.
48. The habitual excessive consumer has no
family or anything, and consequently no hereditary
habits.
49. (a) No.
(b) Yes ; it produces impotence.
50. The same as in No. 48.
51. He becomes a coward, and does not commit
crimes. He may go a-begging for the means to
get the gauja when in want of means.
52. No crimes are connected with the excessive
use of these drugs individually, but when they
assemble in large numbers, they fall upon each
other and thus commit crime.
53. Yes. A collection of the ganja consumers
put together may lead to temporary frenzy.
54. No.
55. Yes. They can induce them, giving them
the drugs mixed with other things. It completely
stupefies without any admixture whatever.
56. (b) The effects of hemp are increased by
admixing dhatura for personal consumption only,
and not for administration to others.
57. I have no experience of the effects produced
by eating or drinking charas and ganja.
58. The present system of excise administra-
tion in regard to hemp drugs is working well.
60. They are sufficiently controlled.
61. No charas is produced here.
62. No.
63. I have no objection to the present system of
wholesale vend of ganja. If retail vend is brought
to action, it increases the revenue.
64. No objections to the existing regulations. I
suggest that if licenses should be given for culti-
vating these plants, it is advantageous, both to the
improvement and downfall of the use of the drugs.
65. In my opinion a little increase in the tax-
ation of ganja, etc., would be reasonable and pro-
portionate.
66. No ; the rate of taxation should be the same
for all kinds of ganja, for, if it is different, people
will have greater recourse to the one taxed less.
67. No objection to the present method of taxing
ganja, etc.
68. There are shops licensed for the sale of these
drugs. It is better that licenses should be given
for shops for the preparation of the drugs where
they may be consumed on the premises.
69. The wishes of the people are consulted before
a shop is opened in any locality. The leading men
of the place are collected and their opinion taken
before it is opened. Yes ; public opinion should be
Considered.
70. No.
135. Evidence of SAGI RAMA SASTRY, Brahmin, Inamdar and Native Doctor,
Rajahmundry, Godavari District.
1. Being versed in native medicinal science and
being myself a native doctor, I have occasion to
know something about ganja.
3. I know only of the ganja that is sold in the
bazars here. I do not know in what districts the
drug is cultivated. It is sown only in back-yards
of this district.
4. I know of two names : (1) leaf ganja (daliga-
podum), used for preparing bhang, and (2) kalli,
flowering tops of ganja, used for smoking.
16, Bhang is prepared only in houses.
19. It is used also in medicines. It is used in pre-
paring halwas. It is used for curing diarrhæa
and dysentery. It is the complement of certain
native tonics used for stengthening the sexual
system.
20. I know only that gosains and bairagis
smoke the drug, and not respectable men.
24. Men of all castes drink bhang. The propor-
tion is 25 per cent.
25. The use of ganja has largely increased of
late, the reasons being (1) desire to get intoxicat-
ed, and (2) ignorance and foolishness.
28. Each man consumes from ¼ tola to 1 tola
in accordance with his bodily strength and habit.
Gosains smoke from 1 tola to 2 tolas in a day.
29. Dhatura is used to increase intoxication.
30. It is largely done in solitude in this part of
the country. Men not of a respectable character
use it in public company. Only males of all ages
use it. Children do not use it.
31. (a) and (b) Yes.
(c) Certainly.
32. Generally speaking this habit is fostered in
solitude, and continued in lonely paces, and not
publicly made use of. I do not know whether
gosains connect the use of this drug with any
religious principle.
33. It is very much despised. In these parts it
is held in very low estimation, both in a social and
religous point of view. I have never known of the
ganja plant being held in veneration.
34. Yes, beause they feel very uneasy without it.
35. (a) (b) . Yes.
(1) ,—(a) Yes.
39. Smoking is more injurious than either eat-
ing or drinking it, causing the disease named sper-
matorrhœa (loss of semen).