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no alteration of the cause in the asylum register,
which, by established practice, is derived from the
certificate, Form C, which comes with the patient,
and is written up by the Hospital Assistant as
described above. The entry in annual statement
VII is founded on the entries in the General Re-
gister, and may therefore be said to be based on
the Magistrate's enquiries. I do not consider my-
self responsible for it. Whatever my opinion may
be, I am not entitled to alter a statement based on
fact with which I am not acquainted.
92. Evidence of SURGEON-MAJOR K. C. SANJANA, Parsi, District Surgeon,
Tinnevelly.
1. I have not had many opportunities of obtain-
ing information regarding the matters connected
with hemp drugs. The answers are framed from
information derived from medical subordinates and
a native harm.
2. Yes. These products are respectively known
by the names of bhang, chains, and ganja.
3. The hemp plant is grown by some people of
this district in their gardens with chillies and brin-
jals.
10. They are of the same classes as other agri-
cultural cultivators.
19. In this district ganja is chiefly used for
smoking.
20. Pilgrims and bairagis who come to this
district on pilgrimage, smoke ganja mixed with
tobacco.
21. Flat ganja is used.
24. Some Muhammadans eat and drink bhang
in the district.
25. The use of ganja has been on the decrease
in this district, since the introduction of the license
system which has kept up the price of the drugs.
30. Male and female both take it.
31. (a) Habit is easily formed.
(b) It is difficult to break off.
(c) No.
40. Ganja is prescribed by native doctors in the
form of halwa as an aphrodisiac and for insomnia,
pain, tetanus, hydrophobia, cholera, diarrhœa and
dysentery.
41. In moderate doses, it is supposed by native
doctors to increase appetite, improve digestion, and
give staying-power under severe exertion or ex-
posure. Pullers and Pariahs use these drugs occa-
sionally to enable them to undergo excessive labour.
43. No.
44. It is refreshing and exhilarating, but does
not produce intoxication. It creates appetite.
The effect lasts for about three hours. A state of
depression follows when the effect passes away.
Want of subsequent gratification does produce
longing or uneasiness.
46. Habitual excessive use produces general
debility and impairs digestion and moral sense. I
have seen one case of temporary mania as a result
of habitual excessive use. There were no typical
symptoms.
49. Yes. It is used by prostitutes.
53. Yes. No.
54. Yes.
93. Evidence of SURGEON-MAJOR W. O ' HARA, District Medical and Sanitary Officer
and Superintendent of Jail, Bellary.
1. Hospital and private practice ; and jail ex-
perience for nineteen years.
2. Products of Indian hemp as commonly recog-
nised in these parts :
(a) Bhang, broken and partially pulverised dry
leaves, and the dust from ganja.
(b) Ganja, the agglutinated flowering tops
usually rolled.
(c) Charas; not generally known.
" Cowri ha nisha, "—name applied to the
products of Indian hemp with reference to the
intoxicating effects obtainable at small cost—frac-
tion of one pie.
Charas will not be considered for reasons stated
above in these answers.
19. Ganja may be said to be used entirely for
smoking ; but very occasionally a confirmed smoker
drinks a mixture of ganja and water to produce
prolonged inebriation. Only one such case is
known to me.
23. It is not known that bhang is ever used for
smoking.
2S. (a) One pie worth, tola 1/8 or 20 grains.*
(b)
Three „
„
½ or 1 drachm*
- to
Six .,
..
1 or 2 drachms.*
29. 0rdinarily , only tobacco dust. Excep-
tionally, not known.
* A p o t h e c a r y ' s w e i g h t .
Composition of bhang massala—Dry ginger,
pepper black, cubebs, cloves, cinnamon, carda-
mons, poppy seeds, Bengal gram, tippli or pippili,
Mahratha moga, sugar, cocoanut, milk and ganja.
Instead of milk in the above mixture, the
juice of the water-melon is used ; or sometimes
merely black pepper and water.
30. Bhang is usually drunk in company .; ganja
is smoked alone or in company ; its use is restricted
to the male sex; children are not known to indulge
in hemp preparations.
31. No definite information.
32, 36, 37 and 39. Unknown.
40. "Purnathe Lahium," a sweet preparation
of bhang, is used as an alterative ; and may be
purchased from most native doctors.
41. (a) Arrests metamorphosis of tissue, as is
seen in its staving off hunger.
(b) Commonly used as an exhilarant by
cart-drivers and foot-travellers, such as pilgrims.
42. Moderate use may be presumed to be harmless,
as those who indulge in the moderate use cannot be
distinguished from ordinary good citizens.
44. Moderate use in habitual consumers.—It is
soothing, with perhaps a very transient cloudiness
of perception. Yes, it is refreshing. Does not
intoxicate in the sense of obliterating mental
faculties and those of sensation. A larger meal