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3. Wild hemp grows abundantly at Bhimbhar,
in the territory of His Highness the Maharaja of
Jammu and Kashmir, and to a small extent in the
Rawalpindi district. Bhang is generally exported
for sale into other districts from Bhimbhar.
4. It is known by the following names : bhang,
sabzi, sukha, buti, kunb, and bijya.
6. The wild hemp plant grows dense.
7. (c) Produced for use as bhang.
19. (Charas is used for the purposes of smoking
only). It is, however, occasionally used in
medicines for retarding the discharge of semen.
20. Shiahs, jogi and bairagi fakirs often use
the drugs. Some Brahmans and Khatris also use
thorn. It is used everywhere, and is not confined
to any particular locality.
22. Foreign charas imported from Bokhara and
Yarkand is consumed here.
24. Fakirs and Brahmans use bhang. The
number of habitual consumers is unlimited.
25. The use of bhang and charas is daily on the
increase, and this is due to the practice of using
the drugs in company. The use of the drugs is
first made for the sake of sexual pleasures.
33. Indeed, according to their religion the
Muhammadans look upon the use of intoxicants
with contempt, and so do the Arya Samajists of
the present day. The Hindus use it (bhang) with
pride, particularly on the occasion of Shivratri
festival.
43. Indeed the moderate consumers are inoffen-
sive to their neighbours.
51. The sect of suthras, who are generally bad
characters, one and all, use these drugs.
54. The intoxication of charas can indeed fortify
(the consumer to commit crime). Excessive bhang
and charas can stupefy a person who is not used to
take these drugs.
68. As far as I know, these drugs are not con-
sumed in the houses or shops where they are sold.
50. Evidence of PANDIT MAHADEO, Brahmin, Hakim, Amritsar.
19. Charas and ganja are only used in smoking.
Some people use ganja like bhang, but this fact
should be enquired into in Bengal and Allahabad,
where ganja is produced.
23. Bhang is never used in smoking.
29. In general charas is smoked with tobacco.
The following ingredients are used in a simple
manner with bhang :—(1) kalimirch, (2) badam,
(3) khaskhash, (4) tukham kharbuza, (5) ilachi.
If dhatura, opium, nux vomica, etc., be mixed
with bhang, the persons who drink this become
senseless. The mixing of the above drugs with
bhang is often done by dacoits, who, finding small
numbers of travellers, give them the mixture, and
making them senseless take away their luggage,
etc.
30. Charas is used in solitude from 4 to 60
grains, but double in company. Its use does not
depend on any special stage of life, but company
has more effect on it.
Bhang is used from one dram to one ounce; and
by the company of such men using it, the women
and children are often affected to use it; but the
children do not use these drugs generally.
31. The habit of using these drugs is often
contracted, and after a long time it is difficult to
leave it off. Except bhang, both ganja and
charas have a tendency to increase. When the
effect of these drugs is decreased, the man feels
himself weak, and when he mingles in society, and
seeing these drugs used by others, he cannot
control himself and is driven to excess.
32. Several sects of Hindu fakirs, for instance
sanyasis, jogis, nihangs, etc., use bhang daily.
And after using it they pray and worship their
God, so that before drinking it they do not eat
anything, and think it a sin or breach of faith to
do so. It is religiously used by them, and some
of the Muhammadan fakirs use bhang as above.
But the use of ganja and charas is not a religious
one. The long use of these drugs obliges the man
to use them at the appointed time, and if he does
not get them at the time, he becomes restless and
seems sick; but on getting them he becomes him-
self again without any other medicine.
36. Certain persons in this province use these
drugs as excessively as wine is used in
England. Such men cannot even perform their
ordinary duties unless supplied with the drugs,
and the wine can in no way serve their purposes,
and they can never be satisfied with any other
drug than that to which they are habituated.
Bhang can in certain cases be used instead of wine.
Moreover, the wine being prohibited in the Hindu
and Muhammadan religions, and being more expen-
sive, it is not so freely used as the other drugs,
and, speaking medically, alcohol is more injurious
to health than these drugs. Many persons smoke
charas after drinking wine and it is always smoked
with tobacco. Some persons also use a mixture of
bhang and wine.
37. The difference between bhang and charas is
this, that the formor affects one at least 40 minutes
after it is drunk and lasts nearly for 12 hours, and
the latter affects at once and after short time
begins to decrease. Some men use it two or three
times a day.
40. Several native hakims use charas as a medi-
cine in cholera, dysentery, dyspepsia, etc., and
these diseases are often cured by its use. Bhang
is used to increase the appetite and takes away the
man's restlessness, and is used as a sedative for
sleep, and is very useful in killing insects. It is
often given to the cattle when they do not eat
their provender. It is sometimes given to the
cattle to lull their faculties when they loose their
calves, in order to milk them.
41. When a man becomes tired, either of excess
of work or from any other cause, and unable to
work any longer, then if he is supplied with any
of these three drugs to which he is accustomed,
he becomes quite healthy and perforins his work
satisfactorily. Therefore several poor men use
bhang and charas. Hundreds of beggars, poor
servants, labourers or saises, when going in cold
countries, are obliged to use charas twice or thrice
in a night, so that their blood circulates freely and
they spend their nights easily, because they have
nothing else to keep them warm during cold
nights, and charas produces the desired effect, that