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28. Nil.
Daily Allowance.
(a) Bhang, 80 grains to 8oz.
Ganja, 30 grains to 2oz.
Charas, 10 grains to 2oz.
(b) Bhang, 8 ounces and more.
Charas, 2
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Ganja, 2
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Bhang
Ganja
Charas
Charas
Ganja
Cost per diem.
3 pies to 2
annas.
3 pies to 1
rupee.
Some excessive consumers use the double quan-
tities of these drugs sometimes and on special
occasions.
29. The following ingredients are mixed with
bhang :—black pepper, aniseed, cardamom, rose
leaves, cucumber seeds, etc. Charas is used with
tobacco, pipal, churpuri, charchabela, but the
last three ingredients are burnt and then mixed
with charas for smoking purposes. Ordinarily
charas is used with admixture of tobacco.
Bhang also is mixed with almonds, curd, salt,
zira, milk, sugar, rose-water, etc., when used for
drinking. Dhatura and nux-vomica are seldom
used with charas to make the effect stronger.
Betelnut is burnt to ashes, and is then mixed
for smoking with ganja.
30. These drugs are generally used in company,
and seldom in solitude. The male sex do use these
drugs, not the female. None of these drugs is
usually given to children. People above the age
of 40 years are especially addicted to their use,
31. The habit is easily formed. It is difficult
to break off the habit for a habitual consumer of
these drugs.
32. Bhang is used by Hindus as a social custom
on the occasion of Holi festivity. It is not
essential to use this drug. Charas and ganja are
never used on this occasion ; their use is mainly
confined to the low classes and poor people.
36. Nil.
37. Charas is more effective than ganja. It is
also more injurious to health likewise. Bhang is
less effective and injurious than either of these ;
it produces hunger, and is a refreshing draught.
39. The effect of ganja when used mixed with
tobacco are less injurious. Excessive use of charas
and ganja produces insanity, and the consumers
are often attacked with cough, pain of chest,
dysentery, headache, bronchitis.
40. Ganja and bhang are used for medicinal
purposes by hakims and vaids ; their preparations
are used (for diseases of children) in spasm, etc.,
and as liniments for pain in joints, etc.
41. Bhang when used moderately is beneficial
in its effects to (a), (b), (c) and (d), and also to
piles, diarrhœa and affections of bilious matters,
etc. The excessive use of bhang and moderate
use of ganja and charas affects the constitutions.
Ganja and charas are not beneficial in their effects.
42. The moderate use of bhang is harmless, but
ganja and charas cannot be so recommended.
Ganja and charas produce insanity, cough, asthma,
diarrhœa ; the body becomes thin ; the consumer
also loses appetite.
44. Stimulation and intoxication.
Bhang
(drinking) is refreshing. They produce intoxica-
tion too. Some feel appetite. The effects of these
last from one to two hours. After-effects pro-
duces laziness, dullness, headache, and pain in the
body. The want of subsequent gratification
produces uneasiness. The effect of bhang is more
durable than ganja and charas, while the effects
of the latter are speedy, and that of the former
(bhang) slow.
45. Yes ; charas and ganja produce all these
noxious effects. They also produce insanity. The
effects are temporary, and, when the use is
given up, the consumers become sane by treat-
ment. Yes, insanes who have no recorded ganja
history confess to the use of the drugs.
46. The priests are generally the excessive
consumers of these drugs ; they are impotent, and
have no desire of sexual intercourse.
47. There are few cases where the use of these
drugs is known to be hereditary. The moderate
consumers of these drugs have children, but those
children are of weak constitution.
48. The excessive consumers of ganja and
charas have no children; and if there be any
children to such, they are of weak constitution,
and do not live long.
49. They are used as aphrodisiac when mixed in
small quantities with other drugs. The prosti-
tutes use them sometimes for intoxication as well
as to alleviate fatigue after sexual intercourse.
The use for this purpose is more injurious, or
rather dangerous. In some eases their use pro-
duces impotency also.
56. The moderate consumers feel intoxicated
immediately, and after that dullness and laziness
follow. Excessive consumers are intoxicated and
become senseless. Dhatura and nux-vomica are
sometimes used with bhang to make it move
effective, and in this case it produces more injuri-
ous consequences.
57. Ganja and charas are sometimes used in
watery form, i.e., dissolved in water. The use of
these drugs in this way is beneficial for asthma,
intoxication from liquor, pain of joints, and
impotency. It is also used in majum (confection)
form.
164, Evidence of ABDUL RAZAK, Hakim, Municipal Board, Hathras, Aligarh
District.
1. From books.
2. Yes ; they are known by these names in this
province also.
19. Yes.
23. No.
28. I cannot certainly say. The excessive con-
sumers can use charas and ganja up to 1 tola, i.e.,
nearly 8 drams.
29. The following ingredients are ordinarily
used with bhang :—black pepper, cardamom,
almonds, cucumber seeds, rose leaves ; these ingre-
dients are used to make it palatable, and it is then
called thandai, or a cooling draught. Dhatura,
nuxvomica, opium are sometimes so used.
30. Generally these drugs are used in company
and seldom in solitude. The use of these drugs
is mainly confined to the male sex among adults
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