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43. No.
44. The immediate effect of the use of round
ganja is that it produces a strong and violent in-
toxication. It lasts for five or six hours, and a
want of subsequent gratification is felt. Flat
ganja and charas produce immediate effects, but
the intoxication is not so violent. It is rather re-
freshing, These effects last for four hours, and a
subsequent gratification is felt. The effect of the
use of bhang commences after ten or fifteen mi-
nutes, and within half an hour it reaches its high-
est degree of intoxication. It lasts ordinarily for
six or seven hours, and even for a day or two, in
proportion to the excessive consumption. There
are after-effects—aching of joints, uneasiness, and
want of subsequent gratification.
45. The habitual moderate use of ganja and
charas produces noxious effects—physical, mental
or social.
It impairs the constitution if used for a long
time. It causes loss of appetite. The consumers
of ganja and charas are generally attacked with
asthma. The lungs are affected owing to exces-
sive heat and dryness. It causes also dysentery.
It impairs the moral sense, induces laziness, habits
of immorality and debauchery. It weakens the
intellect, and also deadens it if used continually
for a long time. It produces temporary insanity,
the symptoms of which are re-induced by use of
the drug after liberation from restraint, and it al-
ways tends to indulgence in the use of hemp
drugs. The greatest injury is caused to the
matter on which the births and generations
depend.
The habitual moderate use of bhang also impairs
the moral sense, and induces laziness, habits of
immorality and debauchery. It weakens the in-
tellect, and induces the habit of useless talk.
Owing to its effects as a food accessory, food is
taken in more than proper quantity, which causes
dyspepsia. The stomach is by and by spoilt.
46. It has often been noticed that the habitual
excessive consumers of any of the three drugs are
never found to be men of sound mind. Too many
injurious effects are noticed in them.
47. The habitual moderate use of the drugs is
not a hereditary habit. The use of these drugs
for along time impairs the matter of births and
generations. Children are born too weak But
such is not the case with bhang.
48. The habitual excessive use of the drugs is
not hereditary. It renders the semen unfit for
procreation.
49. The moderate use of drugs is not practised
as an aphrodisiac. It is not so used by prosti-
tutes. Use of ganja or charas for a long time
tends to produce impotence, but not the use of
bhang.
50. The excessive use of ganja and charas tends
to produce impotence. It is generally used by
sadhus and bairagis for the very purpose.
51. There are a large proportion of bad characters
habitual moderate consumers of ganja and charas,
with the exception of sadhus, bairagis, and persons
belonging to the labouring classes.
The moderate use has connection with crime in
general, and often with crime of any special cha-
racter. It has been noticed that these bad char-
acters administer drugs to travellers with the
pretext of its being tobacco, and when the travel-
lers become senseless the bad characters make away
with their property.
52. The more is the excessive use of the drugs,
the more is the number of crimes.
53. Premeditation is necessary for the committal
of heinous offences. Intoxication will nevertheless
incite to the committal of crime.
54. Yes.
55. Yes, they do so ; and it can be done with
any of these three drugs (ganja, bhang or charas).
Complete stupefaction can be induced by any of
these drugs without any admixture.
56. With reference to the note, the effects of
use have been stated in answering the different
questions. The admixture of dhatura produces
complete stupefaction in personal consumption
also. It deadens the intellect in the end. It is
purposely administered to others to stupefy them,
so that the crime may be easily committed.
57. Ganja and charas are used for smoking
only, as explained in answering the question
No. 15.
58. I consider the hemp drugs capable of im-
provement.
59. The sale of charas and its consumption is
on the increase. With a view to preserve general
health the decrease in consumption can be worked
out by a rise in price, and the price can be raised
by a rise in the rate of duty. The rate of duty
at Re. 1 per seer will be proper. The duty should
he realized on the frontier of the British territory
when it is imported from Ladakh.
A store
house should be established on the frontier,
and they should he established also in the district
where the trade of this drug is carried on, so that
the Government duty may not suffer.
The duty should be levied at an enhanced rate
on the "shaljahan charas." Round ganja is too
much injurious. With a view to preserve general
health, the Government duty should be excessive
in the districts it is produced. Store houses
should be established on the borders of the districts
in which round ganja is imported from foreign
States, and duty on it should also be excessive.
No duty is levied on bhang. It is excessively
used, because it sells very cheap. Godowns
should be established in the districts it grows,
and the Government duty charged thereon should
at first be Rs. 2 per maund.
60. Ganja is not produced in this province.
61. Charas is not produced in this province.
62. It grows only spontaneously. It is not
cultivated here. It should be controlled, and to
exercise such control the owners or possessors of
the produce should be ordered to deposit it with-
in a fixed period of time in the Government store
house for sale.
63. The present system of wholesale vend of
these drugs is often objectionable, because the
wholesale vendors have opportunities to carry on
illicit sale The wholesale vendors should there-
fore keep a detailed register, showing the daily
income and expenditure of each kind of the drugs.
They should also keep cheque hooks to be sup-
plied to the retail vendors. They should file a
statement at the end of each month, showing the
result of sale during the month.
64. The register of export and import of drugs
lately prescribed by the Commissioner of Excise,
North-Western Provinces and Oudh, has cleared
up the matter. But the rule as to the examina-
tion of these drugs, while in transit by the In-
spectors of Police and Tahsildars, should be extend-
ed to the Sub-inspectors of Police and Excise