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21. All kinds of ganja and charas are used for
smoking.
22. The Yarkand charas imported from Amritsar,
etc., is chiefly used in this country.
23. Bhang is not used for smoking.
24. The Brahmans mostly drink bhang. The
other classes of people also use it, but to a less
extent.
25. The use of ganja, bhang and charas is on
the increase since the still-head duty was imposed
on the liquor, which is consequently sold dearer.
26. I do not know the number of the consumers.
27 and 28. I do not know.
29. Dhatura is not ordinarily mixed with ganja,
but the tobacco is so used. Any excessive smoker
of ganja may be addicted to dhatura-smoking at
times for want of ganja. Pepper, cardamom and
sugar are mixed with bhang by those who can
afford them. Others only powder bhang with
water and drink it.
30. All three drugs are used in excess in company
and less in solitude. Generally their use is confined
to the male sex. Women do not use them. Very
few children use them.
31. The habit of using these drugs is formed in
company. To break off suddenly will cause un-
easiness. It can be given up by gradual and
steady decrease in the quantity, and similarly by in-
creasing the quantity. The moderate habit devel-
ops into the excessive.
32. No social or religious custom in regard to the
consumption of any of these drugs. The use is
mainly due to the habit contracted.
33. No social or religious opinion exists in regard
to the practice. I do not think the use of any form
of the narcotic is generally in disrepute. Hemp
plant is not worshipped.
34. The number of any class of consumer is not
known to me, nor does the use appertain to any
particular class. Owing to the habit contracted, it
would be a privation to forego the use of the drug
to the consumer.
35. The prohibition to use these drugs would
cause a little discontent among the consumers, but
not to such an extent as to amount to a political
danger. The consumer may probably use any other
narcotic in lieu, of which I am not aware at present.
36. I do not know if any alcohol is now being
substituted for any of these drugs.
37. As compared with ganja, the effect produced
by smoking charas is pure and moderate.
38. The effect of smoking balucher ganja is high
in degree, of broken ganja moderate, and of round
ganja comparatively low.
39. I am unable to give an opinion on this point.
40. Bhang is generally used for medicinal pur-
poses for men and cattle, but not ganja or charas.
The oil of ganja seeds is also used and the stuff is
thrown away.
41. The moderate use of any of these drugs is
beneficial and the excessive use injurious. Bhang
is digestive, and all the three drugs alleviate fatigue.
Bhang is mostly used by the Brahmans, and the
ganja and charas by Thakurs and low castes.
42. The moderate use of any of these drugs is
not injurious, but the excessive.
43. They are inoffensive to their neighbour.
44. The moderate use of any of these drugs
creates appetite for food. The effect of ganja or
charas lasts for about an hour, and that of bhang
for about three or four hours.
45. The habitual moderate use of any of these
drugs does not produce any noxious effects—
physical, mental or moral. It does not injure the
digestion, but is digestive. For a short time, when
the consumer is under the full effect of any of these
drugs, he will lose his proper senses.
46. The habitual excessive use of any of these
drugs is injurious.
47. The habit is not hereditary, nor does it affect
the children of the consumer.
48. The habitual excessive use of any of these
drugs is injurious.
49. None of these drugs are aphrodisiac (mubahi),
nor do they tend to produce impotence. The
prostitutes may be using them. These are all the
effects of drinking liquor.
50. The excessive use of any of these drugs is
injurious.
51. Not specially the bad characters, but all
classes use them. No perpetration of offence due
to their influence, but to that of liquor.
52. The excessive use of any of these drugs is
injurious.
53. Under the effect of excessive use of any of
these drugs the consumer loses his proper senses for
about an hour, but does not commit any serious
crime.
54. The use is due to habit only and nothing
else. On the other hand, it affects their proper
senses.
55. No complete stupefaction can be brought
on without the admixture of other substances.
Thieves and thugs generally mix poisonous sub-
stances with the drugs and administer them to
travellers on the road, and on their becoming in-
sensible take away the property in their possession.
56. When administered with the admixture of
dhatura, etc., they in all probability cause uneasi-
ness of body and mind.
57. Ganja and charas are used for smoking.
They are not eaten.
58. I cannot fully describe the system of excise
administration.
59. Not capable of improvement.
60. No modification is required. Ganja is not
produced in these districts.
61. No modification is required. Charas is not
produced in these districts.
62. If it is intended to levy a duty, measures
should be adopted to control the cultivation. Bhang
is not produced in these districts.
63 and 64. No.
65. If the measures, as in the case of liquor, are
adopted in regard to these drugs, the poorer classes
will not be able, as they are at present, to alleviate
their fatigues with a little expense.
66. Depends on the opinion of Government.
67. No method recently adopted, nor have I any
objection to raise.
68. The wholesale and retail vendors keep the
shops in their houses. There are no separate houses
for this purpose.
69. No new system nor any wishes appear to be
to which objections may be raised.
70. This can be ascertained hereafter. I hear
that a duty of Rs. 5½ a seer is levied on the ba-
luchar ganja.