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22. Charas is not used here, but is said to be
used in Madras and Hyderabad.
23. Bhang is never used for smoking.
24. Bhang is drunk generally by all classes of
people, except higher classes, and by monks and
fakirs particularly. In almost all countries one-
fortieth of the population drinks bhang as a beve-
rage. Three pie worth bhang is sufficient to in-
toxicate 10 people if administered equally.
25. The use of ganja and bhang is on the
decrease, as it has been experienced to be injurious
to health by those who use them excessively.
26. ( a ) One-fortieth of population habitual moder-
erate consumers.
(b) About 1 per cent. habitual excessive con-
sumers.
(c) About 1 per every 200 occasional moderate
consumers.
(d) About 1 per every 1,000 occasional excessive
consumers.
27. Generally from all classes. People that suffer
from spleen or dropsy use it as a remedy and get
themselves accustomed to it. Fakirs, monks and
ascetics consume it in order that their minds may
be concentrated with more or less forgetfulness of
worldly cares in offering their prayers to the Al-
mighty.
28. (a) One pie worth ganja and ½ pie worth
bhang.
( b ) ½ anna worth ganja. 1 ½ pie worth bhang.
29. Tobacco is mixed with ganja and resin. Rich
people mix with it sweet plantains, milk and sugar
and take the mixture as a cool refreshment. But
the poor purify the ganja, then make powder of it,
and make a mixture of the same with water and
jaggery and drink the mixture. Dhatura is not
mixed with ganja.
30. The consumption is practised in company.
A few females also use bhang and ganja. Children
do not generally use it.
31. Habit is easily formed. It is difficult to
break it off. There is a tendency for the moderate
habit to develop into the excessive.
32. No custom, either religious or social, obtains
here.
33. The consumption of these drugs is not regard-
ed as good, and the consumer a good man. He
becomes excited and loses temper. As the consump-
tion affects manhood, it is in disrepute. The wor-
shipping of ganja does not obtain here.
34. Yes ; the person accustomed to it cannot
give it up, as without it he cannot generally digest
his food. Medicine will not act properly on those
who use the drug.
35. It is feasible to prohibit the use of ganja.
The drug is consumed illicitly. The prohibition
may be enforced by an act declaring that the culti-
vation of the drug is illegal and criminal. But
this gives rise to discontent among consumers,
although there is no apprehension of political dan-
ger. The prohibition would be followed by recourse
to alcoholic stimulants and other drugs, such as
the seeds of mushtikaya (nux vomica), which is
used as follows : the seeds are separated from the
fruit. Each seed is of the size of 1 pie, and. is cut
into two parts. Each part is sufficient to intoxi-
cate a person accustomed to eat it raw. If eaten by
those unaccustomed to it, they will be subject to
the symptom of aconitic poisoning. Those who
are well accustomed to it can eat one seed. Some
peel off the skin of the seed and powder it with
dried betel leaves and smoke the mixture to get
intoxication.
36. No ; alcohol is not substituted for drugs.
37. There is no charas here.
38. There is only one kind of flat ganja here.
39. No ; smoking affects the breast ; eating it
raw will tend to madness. Bhang drinking is not
bad. It is believed that those who practise ganja
keep their health properly, i.e., can bear the climate
of any place they go to and digest their food pro-
perly, and that if they give up smoking indigestion
comes on.
40. Native doctors prescribe majum for dysen-
tery.
41. (a ) Moderate use of ganja or bhang is bene-
ficial as a food accessory or digestive.
(b) Yes.
(c) Yes.
(d) It is used as medicine for dropsy and spleen.
Ordinary classes. Working people.
It is the moderate habitual use.
42. I consider the moderate use of any of these
drugs to be somewhat harmful on the whole,
the reason being that it gradually affects chest
and manhood to some extent.
43. Yes.
44. Immediate effect is intoxication. It is
refreshing. It produces intoxication. It creates
appetite. Its effects last for 6 hours. The after-
effect is a longing for it again. The want of
subsequent gratification produces longing and
uneasiness. If the person does not get the drug he
will at last eat opium.
45. Yes ; it impairs the constitution. Gradually
destroys the digestive powers. It causes asthma.
It does not impair the moral sense or induce
laziness or habits of immorality or debauchery.
It deadens the intellect or produces insanity
if excessively used. The insanity is temporary.
The symptoms may be re-induced by the use of the
drug after liberation from restraint.
46. The effects of excessive use are :—(1) The
person is always under the power of intoxication ;
(2) he does not like to work ; (3) lie is disposed to
commit theft. His chest is affected. He loses
manhood.
47. No.
48. No.
49 and 50. The use of the drug tends to pro-
duce impotence.
51. No.
52. Excessive consumers are generally bad char-
acters.
53. The effect of excessive use is to make the
person timid, and hence the excessive indulgence in
it does not incite to unpremeditated crime or
violence.
54. No.
55. Complete stupefaction can be induced by the
drug without admixture.
57. Ganja, if eaten, creates biliousness and tends
the person to insanity. Bhang, if drunk, cools the
system.
59. If the cultivation of ganja is managed de-
partmentally, as is the case in the manufacture of
salt, the revenue from this source will steadily
increase, and ganja of better sort will be produced.
60. No ; the system requires modification. If
the cultivation of ganja is left to the people they
will be using it freely. As every one can with
impunity raise the crop, people will be induced to