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Excessive drinkers use only black pepper.
30. Drugs are generally used in company.
Women in Sind used ganja, but not here. Child-
ren do not use them.
31. Easily formed and hard to break off. The
tendency is for a moderate habit to increase in
case of all three.
32. There is a custom in Holi and sometimes in
weddings of offering bhang. This is not essential
or injurious.
33. The use of these drugs is bad, as people
will sell their clothes to get them. Ganja and
charas dry up the brain. Bhang is not so bad.
It improves the appetite. They are a little bene-
ficial.
34. For 20 days consumers would not be able
to do any work if the consumption were stopped
suddenly. The consumption could be stopped
easily by degrees.
35. If it were stopped by degrees, there would
be no harm. There would be no political danger.
It has increased very much lately, and could be
decreased again. Opium would perhaps take their
place, but not till they had been left off alto-
gether.
36. No.
37. Ganja has stronger effects than charas.
38. Flat ganja is strongest.
40. Bhang is used for people who have lost their
appetite, and it is also good for dysentery, dys-
pepsia, and also as a soporific. Bhang is given
in cases of ague to keep off the fear patients have
of the fever.
41. (a) Not at all.
(b) Bhang is beneficial for this and refreshes ;
charas and ganja are not.
(c) Bhang removes the depression in fever, and
is beneficial for a short time.
(d) No other way.
42. Ganja and charas injure blood and heart,
and are always bad. Bhang is beneficial as a
medicine, but is injurious when taken habitually
even though moderately.
43. Not at all.
44. Ganja and charas.—In two minutes intoxi-
cation comes on, and people even become insensible.
The body is dried up and appetite is allayed. The
effects last 1½ or 2 hours. After-effects are water-
ing from eyes and pains in the limbs.
Bhang.—Intoxication comes on about half an
hour after. Hunger is caused before, and the
heart is cheered.
There is longing and uncasiness if these things
cannot be obtained.
45. Ganja and charas destroy the brain and
blood, and weaken the liver, cause dry stools,
destroy appetite, produce asthma, dry up lungs.
They induce laziness, and at first produce habits of
debauchery, but finally produce impotence. They
deaden intellect and cause insanity. I have known
a case of insanity in which the person had used
wine, charas and bhang. The symptoms are dry
skin, sinking of the eyes, and red and yellow dis-
coloration of them. The colour of the skin darkens.
Bhang has a moistening effect at first and then
dries up.
47. Not hereditary. Children of charas and
ganja smokers may be affected, Children of
bhang-drinkers not affected.
49. Charas and ganja are slightly used so.
They cause the scrotum to swell owing to the
quantity of water drunk to allay the thirst. They
produce impotence.
51. Bad characters use these things and commit
crimes, because their moral faculties are deadened
and they wish to obtain the drugs.
53. Unpremeditated crimes are not committed.
54. Bhang is no use for this ; but ganja and
charas would help those who are accustomed to
them.
55. No.
57. Charas is occasionally used with water for
diseases, especially for rheumatism.
58. Yes.
62. Control would be better. It might be
done by selling tracts to contractors.
65. Charas and ganja should be more heavily
taxed.
141. Evidence of RAM NARAIN , Baqual, Apothecary, Nawabganj, Bara Banki.
1. Through Vedyak (native medical science).
2. The very names ganja, charas, and bhang
so set forth in question are also known here.
19. Ganja and charas are smoked in chillum.
20. Kahars, Pasis, Chamars, sweepers, etc., as
well as Hindu and Muhammadan fakirs and
Thakurs, smoke ganja, and is usual in all places.
Charas is smoked by Khattris, Sarashat Brahmans,
and Muhammadans.
23. Bhang is never smoked.
24. Bhang is taken by Brahmans, Thakurs,
gosains, and Hindu and Muhammadan fakirs.
Generally bhang is reduced to powder, and, being
mixed with water, is taken. It is the custom at
every place.
25. Bhang is increasing and charas is decreasing.
The reason of the increase of bhang is firstly,
because it is cheap, and, secondly, because it is
digestive. It is useful for piles.
26. (a) 30 per cent.
(6) 30 per cent.
(c) 4 per cent.
(d) 2 per cent
27. Bhang is for the most part used by Brahmans,
fakirs.
Ganja is used by Thakurs, Kahars,
Chamars, Pasis, and sweepers, and mainly taken
by these castes.
28. (a) One chittak, price 3 pies.
(b) Two chittaks, price 6 pies.
29. (a) Ordinarily pepper and souf.
(b) Pumpkin seed, almond, milk, sugar, and
saffron are mixed with bhang.
Saffron is mixed in summer season. Dhatura
is mixed for excessive intoxication, No other in-
gredient is sold in the market. In ganja and
charas only smoking or eatable tobacco is mixed
and nothing else.
30. Bhang is used in solitude, and ganja and
charas in company.
31. The habit of drinking bhang is easily